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Over six years ago we posted the HOLY SOUL TOP 100 SOUL SONGS list. 

To celebrate hitting 100,000 followers we wanted to thank you all by compiling a list of songs we love that weren’t on that list:

Eddie Holman - Four Walls 

Sam Cooke - Nothing Can Change This Love

Lee Dorsey - Soul Mine

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Baby Baby Don’t Cry

Bill Withers - Hope She’ll Be Happier

Otis Redding - Just One More Day

Al Green - I’m Glad You’re Mine

Brook Benton - Life Has Its Ups And Downs

Four Tops - Lost In A Pool Of Red

David Ruffin - The Double Cross

Allen Toussaint - Last Train

Aretha Franklin - Border Song (Holy Moses)

Dixie Nightingales - All I Need is Some Sunshine in My Life

Bobby Womack - That’s The Way I Feel About Cha

Charles Bradley - The World (Is Going Up In Flames)

Labi Siffre-I Got The 

Sly Stone - Underdog

Stevie Wonder - They Won’t Go When I Go

Bobby “Blue" Bland - Ain’t No Love In The Of The City

The Mighty Hannibal - I’m Coming Home

Etta James - Woman

Ray Charles - Hard Times

Nina Simone - I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free

James Carr - The Dark End Of The Street

The Impressions - You Want Somebody Else

Jackson 5 - Blame It On The Boogie

The Isley Brothers - Footsteps In The Dark

The Brothers Johnson - Stomp

The Meters - A Message From The Meters

Johnnie Taylor - Try Me Tonight

Gladys Knight & The Pips - Help Me Make It Through The Night

Annette Poindexter & Pieces of Peace - Mama

The Staple Singers - If You’re Ready (Come Go With Me)

Howard Tate - You Don’t Know Nothing About Love

Wilson Pickett - Down By The Sea

James Brown - You’re Mine, You’re Mine

Billy Preston - Nothing From Nothing

The O’Jays - Stairway To Heaven

Irma Thomas - It’s Raining

The Chi Lites - Oh Girl

King Curtis - Instant Groove

Marvin Gaye - Come Get To This

The Shirelles - Mama Said

Joe Tex - Hold On To What You Got

The Delfonics - Trying To Make A Fool of Me

Parliament - Side Effects

Eddie Floyd - Got To Make A Comeback

Stormy - The Devastator

Ann Peebles - Trouble Heartaches & Sadness

The Supremes - My World Is Empty Without You

The Drifters - Up On The Roof

Isaac Hayes - Never Can Say Goodbye

Helene Smith - True Love Don’t Grow On Trees

Clarence Carter - That Old Time Feeling

The Soul Stirrers - Any Day Now

Jimmy Ruffin - Get On Up

Solomon Burke - Beautiful Brown Eyes

The Stylistics - People Make The World Go Round

Carla Thomas - My Man Believes In Me

The Spinners - I’ll Be Around

The Majestic Arrows - I’ll Never Cry For Another Boy

Syl Johnson - Concrete Reservation

William Bell - You Don’t Miss Your Water

Chuck Jackson - Any Day Now

The Marvelettes - Goddess Of Love

Jackie Wilson - Am I The Man

Donny Hathaway - The Ghetto

Lil’ Lavair & The Fabulous Jades - Cold Heat

Floyd Smith - Getting Nowhere Fast

Johnny “Guitar” Watson - Feel The Spirit Of My Guitar

Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - How Do I Let A Good Man Down?

Funkadelic - The Song Is Familiar

Gil Scott-Heron - Inner City Blues

Greg Perry - Will She Meet The Train In The Rain

Teddy Pendergrass - Love TKO

OV Wright- I Could Write A Book

Little Sister - Stanga

Paul Owens & The Capital City Star Singers - Generation Gap

Sam & Dave - Wrap It Up

The Trammps - Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart

Eunice Collins - At The Hotel

Willie Hutch - I Choose You

The Ronettes - I Wonder

The 5th Dimension - The Rainmaker

New Birth Inc. - I Can Understand It

Fontella Bass - I Surrender

The Undisputed Truth - Ma

Eldridge Holmes - The Book

Ronnie Taylor - I Can’t Take It

Raphael Saadiq - 100 Yard Dash

Lou Rawls - You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine

Barry White - You’re My First, My Last, My Everything

Lee Moses - Bad Girl

Bettye Swann - (My Heart Is) Closed For The Season

Manhattans- I Kinda Miss You

Willie West - Fairchild

Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band - I Got Love

The Moments - Sunday

Rufus Thomas - The Breakdown (Part 1)

The Herero, also known as Ovaherero, are a Bantu ethnic group inhabiting parts of Southern Africa. The majority reside in Namibia, with the remainder found in Botswana and Angola. There were an estimated 250,000 Herero people in Namibia in 2013. They speak Otjiherero, a Bantu language.

Despite sharing a language and pastoral traditions, the Herero are not a homogeneous people. Traditional leather garments are worn by northwestern groups, such as the Himba, Kuvale, and Tjimba, who also conserve pre-colonial traditions in other aspects: for example, they do not buy bedding, but rather sleep in bedding made of cow skin. The Kaokoland Herero and those in Angola have remained isolated and are still pastoral nomads, practising limited horticulture.

However, the main Herero group in central Namibia (sometimes called Herero proper) was heavily influenced by Western culture during the colonial period, creating a whole new identity. The dress of the Herero proper, and their southern counterparts the Mbanderu, incorporates and appropriates the styles of clothing worn by their German colonisers. Though the attire was initially forced upon the Herero, it now operates as a new tradition and a point of pride.

During the 1904-07 war, Herero warriors would steal and wear the uniforms of German soldiers they had killed, believing that this transferred the dead soldiers’ power to them. Today, on ceremonial occasions, Herero men wear military-style garb, including peaked caps, berets, epaulettes, aiguilettes and gaiters, “to honour the fallen ancestors and to keep the memories alive.”

Herero women adopted the floor-length gowns worn by German missionaries in the late 19th century, but now make them in vivid colours and prints. Married and older Herero women wear the dresses, locally known as ohorokova, every day, while younger and unmarried women wear them mainly for special occasions. Ohorokova dresses are high-necked and have voluminous skirts lavishly gathered from a high waist or below the bust, incorporating multiple petticoats and up to ten metres of fabric. The long sleeves display sculptural volume: puffed from the shoulders or frilled at the wrists. Coordinating neckerchiefs are knotted around the neck. For everyday wear, dresses are ingeniously patchworked together from smaller pieces of fabric, which may be salvaged from older garments. Dresses made from a single material are reserved for special occasions.

The most distinctive feature of Herero women’s dress is their horizontal horned headdress, the otjikaiva, which is a symbol of respect, worn to pay homage to the cows that have historically sustained the Herero. The headdresses can be formed from rolled-up newspaper covered in fabric. They are made to match or coordinate with dresses, and decorative brooches and pins attached to the centre front. Anthropologist Dr Lutz Marten writes: “A correctly worn long dress induces in the wearer a slow and majestic gait." The overall intended effect is for the woman to resemble a plump, slow-moving cow.