“We kept making records and releasing them on our own labels and soon we had a Gold album on Z. “Just in case we weren’t going to be a successful record company, as a pharmacy graduate, I kept my license current for a few more years, as a fallback insurance policy.” says Malaco co-founder Tommy Couch Sr. Today, having marked its 50th anniversary, Malaco proudly stands as the oldest continuously run independent record label in America, and the biggest and most important gospel label in the world.Īnd the label remains vital: Not only does it continue to be a major player in the Black gospel world, but when Kanye West, Drake, Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion, Solange, Snoop Dogg or 2Chainz are digging for soulful, powerful samples to undergird some of the 21st century’s biggest hip-hop albums, time and time again they turn to Malaco’s incredible catalog. After releasing a string of era-defining soul hits in the 1960s and 70s, the Jackson, Mississippi-based label expanded into the worlds of gospel and blues, and outlasted Motown, Atlantic, Chess, Stax, Sun, Ace and every other indie label releasing African-American music in the process. That story is one of the greatest, and certainly most improbable, of any independent record company in the history of American music. ![]() “Malaco’s story, by all rights, should never have happened,” says the collection’s author Rob Bowman. Presenting Malaco’s story in almost 200 full-color pages filled with exclusive stories, dozens of never-before-seen photographs, and other ephemera from the label’s illustrious history - and featuring a foreword from legendary music author Peter Guralnick - The Last Soul Company is an invaluable documentation of a unique and essential American music institution. Hill, Johnnie Taylor, Little Milton, James Cleveland, and many more. Today, Malaco Records announces the March 23 publication of The Last Soul Company: The Malaco Records Story, a gorgeous new retrospective book from Grammy Award-winning author Rob Bowman (Soulsville, U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records) that weaves together the tale of a half century of Malaco productions, exploring the careers and catalog of such seminal Malaco artists as Mississippi Fred McDowell, Bobby Blue Bland, Z.Z. WRITTEN BY GRAMMY-WINNING AUTHOR ROB BOWMAN (SOULSVILLE, USA: THE STORY OF STAX RECORDS) We’d love you to watch and read some of the testimonies of how God has met with people over the years and the impact he has had in their lives.THE MALACO RECORDS STORY, OUT MARCH 23, CELEBRATES AMERICA’S OLDEST INDEPENDENT RECORD LABELĬOLLECTS STORIES, PHOTOS + EPHEMERA FROM OVER 50 YEARS OF THE GOSPEL, SOUL + BLUES JUGGERNAUT ![]() We’ve never been the most talented bunch and we’ve never had lots of money or a huge staff team, but we have the most faithful God who loves to meet with his people and draw them to him. The story of Soul Survivor is a story of what God can do when you take a risk and follow him. You can find out more about how Soul Survivor began (and how it almost ended after one year because it was losing money!), the values it was built on and why we closed the events in the above video. An amazing 2,100 made commitments to follow Jesus and thousands more had life-changing encounters. ![]() Over 32,500 attended the last Soul Survivor summer with five events in Peterborough, Stafford and Scotland including Naturally Supernatural, an event for all the family. Soul Survivor festivals ran from 1993 to 2019, gathering thousands of young people to worship Jesus each summer.
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