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    Shaolin Soul: Episode 4Various Artists

    Because Music
    • Esther Phillips – That’s All Right With Me
    • Al Green – I Wish You Were Here
    • Eddie Kendricks – Intimate Friends (Full Length Version)
    • Sylvia – Sweet Stuff
    • Betty Wright – Girls Can’t Do What The Guys Do
    • The Ambassadors – Ain’t Got The Love
    • The Dynamics – Get Myself High
    • Carolyn Sullivan – Dead!
    • Brenton Wood – Trouble
    • The Floaters – Float On (Single Edit)
    • 1. Esther Phillips – That’s All Right With Me
    • 2. Al Green – I Wish You Were Here
    • 3. Eddie Kendricks – Intimate Friends (Full Length Version)
    • 4. Sylvia – Sweet Stuff
    • 5. Betty Wright – Girls Can’t Do What The Guys Do
    • 6. The Ambassadors – Ain’t Got The Love
    • 7. The Dynamics – Get Myself High
    • 8. Carolyn Sullivan – Dead!
    • 9. Brenton Wood – Trouble
    • 10. The Floaters – Float On (Single Edit)
    • 11. Faze-O – Riding High
    • 12. Ernie Hines – Our Generation
    • 13. Jerry Butler – I’m Your Mechanical Man
    • 14. Martha Reeves – Keep On Movin’ On
    • 15. Monk Higgins – A Good Man Is Gone
    • 16. The East St. Louis Gospelettes – Have Mercy On Me
    • 17. Jean Plum – Here I Go Again
    • 18. The Staple Singers – Let’s Do It Again
    • 19. The Sylvers – Only One Can Win
    • 20. Della Humphrey – Don’t Make The Good Girls Go Bad
    • 21. Freda Payne – I Get High (On Your Memory)
    • 22. Carla Thomas – What The World Needs No

    Following a second episode in 2001 and a third one in 2014, the famous curator Uncle O is back to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Shaolin Soul series with a fourth episode compiling 22 tracks among the rarest and finest treats of soul music, sampled by hip hop greats.

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