Duke Ellington once said that there are two kinds of music: the good one and the bad one. With the compilation series Shaolin Soul, one is always certain to be on the right side of the line since its first volume which compiled two dozen tracks sampled by RZA and the Wu-Tang Clan. Following a second episode and a third, the famous curator Uncle O is back to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Shaolin Soul series with a fourth episode compiling 22 tracks.
Features Esther Phillips, Al Green, Eddie Kendricks, Sylvia, Betty Wright, The Ambassadors, The Dynamics, Carolyn Sullivan, Brenton Wood, The Floaters, Faze-O, Ernie Hines, Jerry Butler, J.J. Johnson, Monk Higgins and Alex Brown, The East St. Louis Gospelettes, Jean Plum, The Staples Singers, The Sylvers, Della Humphrey, Freda Payne, and Carla Thomas.