間違いない選曲で様々な角度から世界の音楽を紹介してくれるドック・レゲエことブルーノ・ブルム氏。彼の監修によるシリーズ、ルーツ・オブ・ソウル編が登場。ルーツからパイオニアそして初期ソウルと3枚のCDで説明/紹介。ゴスペル、R＆Bからソウル・ミュージックへの進化の過程を耳で心で感じ取れる流石のラインナップ。深みも説得力も全然違う！音楽を知り尽くした氏だからこそ出来る、聴き応え抜群、必聴のソウル・ミュージック・テキスト。

Disc1 : 1928-1954

• 01.Lord I Just Keep From Cryn'/Blind Willie Johnson
• 02.Have Mercy On Me/The Reverend Benny Campbell
• 03.Rock My Soul/The Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet
• 04.Do You Call That A Buddy/Louis Jordan
• 05.Basin Street Blues/Jack Teagarden & Louis Armstorong
• 06.Beams of Heaven/Sister Rosetta Tharpe & Marie Knight
• 07.Every Little Doggie Has Its Day/Mabel Scott
• 08.Hard Luck Blues/Ray Brown
• 09.Lost In A Dream/Little Esther
• 10.Do Something For Me/Clyde McPhatter & Dominos
• 11.Jesus Gave Me Water/Sam Cooke & Soul Sisters
• 12.Try A Little Tenderness/Little Miss Cornshucks
• 13.Have Mercy Baby/Clyde McPhatter & Dominos
• 14.Baby Let Me Hear You Call My Name/Ray Charles
• 15.Solitude/Billie Holiday
• 16.I Just Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes/Marie Knight
• 17.I'm Going To That City/Sister O.M. Terrell
• 18.Feel Like I Wanna Cry/Dinah Washington
• 19.You Can't Keep A Good Man Down/Jackie Wilson & Dominos
• 20.Lusille/The Drifters
• 21.Until I Die/Hank Ballard
• 22.This May Be The Last time/The Five Blind Boys Of Alabama
• 23.Oh Lord, Stand By Me/The Five Blind Boys Of Alabama
• 24.It Must Be Jesus (I've Got a Woman)/The Southern Tones

Disc 2 : 1954-1961

• 01.I've got Woman/Ray Charles
• 02.Come Rain or Come Shine/Dinah Washington
• 03.There is No Greater Love/Dinah Washington
• 04.I'm Just A Lonely Guy/Little Richards
• 05.Need Your Love So Bad/Little Wille John
• 06.Drown In My Own Tears/Ray Charles
• 07.Please Please Please/James Brown
• 08.Take My Hand Precious Lord/Mahalia Jackson
• 09.Take My Hand Precious Lord (Part.1)/Aretha Franklin
• 10.You Send Me/Sam Cooke
• 11.My Baby Just Care For Me/Nina Simone
• 12.Your Precious Love/Jerry Butler & Impressions
• 13.Wonderful World/Sam Cooke
• 14.Bad Girls/Smokey Robinson
• 15.Blessed Are These Tears/Joe Tex
• 16.The Right Time (Live)/Rau Charles
• 17.That Certain Doors/Snooks Eaglin
• 18.I've Been Wrong So Long/Bobby "Blue" Bland
• 19.He Will Break Your Heart/Jerry Butler
• 20.Spanish Harlem/Ben E. King
• 21.Stand By Me/Ben E. King
• 22.A Fool In Love/Ike & Tina Turner
• 23.Are You Sure/Aretha Franklin
• 24.Shop Around/Smokey Robinson

Disc 3 : 1961-1962

• 01.Sinners Weep/Owen Gray
• 02.Ya Ya/Lee Dorsey
• 03.Maybe I'm A Fool/Aretha Franklin
• 04.Down Now/B.B. King
• 05.Please Stay/The Drifters
• 06.Gypsy Woman/Impressions
• 07.Do-Re-Mi/Lee Dorsey
• 08.Something's Got A Hold On Me/Etta James
• 09.Cry To Me/Solomon Burke
• 10.Dream Come True/The Temptations
• 11.You're Gonna Miss Me/Shirley Raimond
• 12.Ministel And Queen/The Inpressions
• 13.I Don't Care/James Brown
• 14.Twist And Shout/Isley Brothers
• 15.Shout Bamalama/Otis Reding
• 16.Mashed Potatoes U.S.A/james Brown
• 17.I've Got Money/James Brown
• 18.Home In Your Heart/Solomon Burke
• 19.Stubborn Kind of Fellow/Marvin Gaye
• 20.SIgned Sealed and Deliverd/James Brown
• 21.Meet You on A Saturday/Bo Diddley
• 22.These Arms Of Mine/Otis Redding
• 23.Grow Closer Together/The Impressions
• 24.I Found A Love/Wilson Pickett