It's a challenge facing contemporary R&B artists who count black music giants like Marvin Gaye or Stevie Wonder as major influences. How do you pay tribute to your idols without replicating what they did so well?
On two songs on Resurrected, the latest and third album from local soul-pop outfit Jacksoul, the group pay their respects to Al Green and Marvin Gaye. There's a vocal run in Love Jones that's straight outta Gaye's Trouble Man, and the disc's first single, Still Believe In Love, is classic Green. Jacksoul play the Mod Club Theatre tonight.
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