Season 1

1. Amazing Grace

2020-09-04

This first episode travels through the South, from Muscle Shoals in Alabama to Stax in Memphis, taking a detour north to Detroit, to explore how Motown's most soulful achievement showed the whole world a successful, sophisticated image of black people, at a time when Motown musicians themselves were subject to the same treatment as any black American.

2. Say It Loud

2020-09-11

How inequality, poverty and racism drove black American musicians to a harder soul sound in the late 60s and early 70s.

3. Sweet Love

2020-09-18

How, in the 70s and 80s, a second coming of soul men offered a black female audience slow jams and sexual healing.