charles bradley was the man. followed his short career

i'd recommend that whole label. daptone. at least sharon jones and the dap kings, and lee fields. anything the menahan street band is apart of is absolute flames

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3rIA-BCZ0E

I listen to basically anything except opera. Here's some favs Ive bumped quite a bit lately:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3K-2Sfzs6w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKBUrl5Yq84

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zKARkpDW4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvvjiE4AdUI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE--uvKROhs

I also listen to a bunch of EDM shit, mostly chillstep and psytrance/psybient, some house, club and shit like that. If anyone is interested in me giving any recs I got some rather lesser known good shit on hand as Ive dived a bit into those genres.