Soul isn’t a feeling, a sound or a movement. It’s a connection, a current in the air — the spark of recognition, emotions leaping across live wires. It’s the way a sinewy bassline steers your hips and eyes to the stranger across the club. It’s how a handful of humble words can give millions the inspiration to overcome. It’s the genius of a simple chorus that can explain the hard truths you couldn’t last time you saw her.

LISTEN TO “KEEP ON SHINING”

Curtis Harding says that soul music, and his music, speak for themselves. It’s self-evident on the Atlanta artist’s debut, Soul Power, out 4/22 on Burger Records. The driving sound of his electrified Stratocaster, the foot-stomping backbeat and the lyrics swimming in reverb — with something this flourishing, it’s almost reductive to just dig around the roots.

 

Harding’s style was born in Michigan and bred on the road, a restless childhood spent singing gospel alongside an evangelizing mother, then cultivated in Atlanta, where he sang backup forCeeLo Green and befriended the Black Lips (he plays with Cole Alexander in Night Sun).

 

There’s a foundation to the stirring soul Harding has created. “Gospel is inspiring,” says Harding. “From hardship and trials, you make something beautiful. It’s the history of black people in America, what happened to us during slavery, it’s the foundation of blues, R&B, soul, country, rock.” But he’s not just preaching to the choir — Harding’s out there on the road, singing alongside everyone else looking for something real. Look for the first real taste off Soul Power today on The FADERwho premiered the song “Keep on Shining.”

 

LISTEN TO “KEEP ON SHINING” HERE: http://bit.ly/1eDyX1D

Watch the Saint Laurent Music Project video ft. Curtis Harding (NSFW):http://youtu.be/IPLRO3uXsp4

 

SOUL POWER TRACKLISTING:

1. Next Time

2. Castaway

3. Keep On Shining

4. Freedom

5. Surf

6. I Don’t Wanna Go Home

7. Beautiful People

8. The Drive

9. Heaven’s On The Other Side

10. Drive My Car

11. I Need A Friend

12. Cruel World

 

Curtis Harding Online:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Curtis-Harding/1392287757658766

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Night-Sun/178955398854196

http://nightsunband.tumblr.com/

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