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Vintage Sounds of Miami Reborn: 'Eccentric Soul'

Fresh Air | By Ed Ward

Published February 8, 2006 at 9:11 AM PST

The legendary soul scene in Miami that had its heyday in the 1960s and 1970s is the subject of a new retrospective. Eccentric Soul: The Deep City Label the imprint that discovered Betty Wright, Paul Kelly, and Clarence "Blowfly" Reid.

Copyright 2006 Fresh Air

Ed Ward

Ed Ward is the rock-and-roll historian on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross.

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