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"FacebookPinterestcurtis-harding (1).jpg\n\nTurn on a new genre\u2014\"slop n' soul\"\u2014courtesy of Curtis Harding. His solo debut, Soul Power, drops tomorrow and with it, a sound that's equal parts retro soul and fresh pop. Basically, Soul Power\u2014recorded at The Living Room Recording in Harding's hometown Atlanta\u2014is a one-stop party soundtrack. We rang up Harding to talk slop n' soul and steal his playlist.\n\n\n\n\u00B7\u00B7\u00B7\n\nGQ: Let's start with the basics: describe your sound.\n\n Curtis Harding: I christened it: slop n' soul. At its core it's soul, but I kind of take all of my influences and just go for it, man. I take the leftovers of everything and throw it together with what I know.\n\nSoul Power is your solo debut, but you're not exactly new to the music scene.\n\n I didn't start playing guitar sophisticatedly until about seven years ago but I've always picked up instruments and sang\u2014my mom's a gospel singer so we traveled around and she would make us sing, literally, like, \"You guys get up there and sing.\" We had this joke in my family that she's the female version of Joe Jackson because she would make me and my sisters and everybody just sing. That's just what we did. But music was something I thought that I could fall back on because I always did it and I knew that I could do it. And I don't mean that in an asshole kind of way, but I never wanted to be musician, music was something that we did. It just worked out, man\u2014it grew into a passion over time.\n\nName your dream collaboration, dead or alive.\n\n That's a hard question because there's so many. Maybe Willie Hutch, who's a guy that I really look up to as a producer and singer and songwriter, like, he's amazing. Lee Moses, Ronnie Dyson, Sly Stone. I would love to do a video with Sly Stone.\n\nYou're heading to a deserted island\u2014what records do you take with you? You get three.\n\n Only three? Since I grew up listening to gospel music, one of the CDs would be The Consolers. Not really sure which record, but one of the records would be a Consolers record, definitely. I would probably take a Beach Boys record. I mean, desert island, like come on, got to have one. And last but not least, I'd probably take a Sly Stone record.\n\nWhat are you listening to right now?\n\n I've been listening to a lot of Lee Moses lately. King Tuff. Dead Ghosts. A lot of country stuff, like my friend's band The Abigails; they're like a throwback country band. Lot of Bo Diddley. Actually, you know what? I'll take a Bo Diddley record on that island. Scratch Sly Stone, I'll take a Bo Diddley record. Hell yeah.\n\nIf \"Soul Power\" were a superhero power, what would it be?\n\n I guess, to see through bullshit."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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