A+E's Soul Incarcerated podcast is the story of Edge of Daybreak, the best ‘70s soul band you’ve probably never heard about. They recorded their lone masterpiec...
Getting together after so many years isn’t without its bumps. After working through a fewpersonality clashes, the band hits another obstacle–a big one. eeling from a recent breakup and a death in her family, Cupcake finds herself unable to sing lead vocals.The band manages to knock out their new songs, but none feature the show-stopping vocalist at the forefront. Is this really an Edge of Daybreak album without her?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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I Wanna Be a Classic
A legendary LA music producer offers to help the band record their comeback album - but do they still have what it takes, now that they’re being given the chance? The band heads to LA and quickly learns that working with the biggest hit-makers of today feels a whole lot different than when they were just writing for themselves in prison. Creative differences make for an uncertain outcome.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Second Lives, Second Chances
Life after prison was a mixed bag for the artists who each went their separate way, but Eyes of Love began taking on a life of its own, garnering a mythical status among collectors completely unbeknownst to the band. But that would change when, in 2015, a former bandmate cut a deal to re-release the album, which eventually landed one of their songs in the Oscar-winning film Moonlight. Jamie tracks them down and helps parlay their story into a second crack at the fame that has eluded them for forty years.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Behind the Prison Music
Before they were wards of the state, Neal, Jamal, and Cupcake were twenty-somethings criss-crossing the south in traveling cover bands. That was before felony convictions for armed robbery landed them at Powhatan on extraordinarily long sentences. Having grown up under segregation, they now found themselves in a disproportionately Black national prison population–one that would double in size before the last of them got out.The prison music program gave them incentive to start writing songs of their own. But where, under such dark circumstances, did they draw inspiration to start putting pen to paper? Jamal reveals some painful family secrets, Neal talks about love lost to prison, and Cupcake talks about love found behind bars.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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The Band of the State Correctional System
The Powhatan Correctional Center was a hellish place: overcrowded, underfunded, and known for its rampant violence. So how were Neal, Jamal, and Cupcake able to create and perform such soulful, life-affirming music? As America’s prison population began to skyrocket in the late 1970s, the musicians explain how the prison band room gave them the will to make it through their sentences. This is where Edge of Daybreak is born.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A+E's Soul Incarcerated podcast is the story of Edge of Daybreak, the best ‘70s soul band you’ve probably never heard about. They recorded their lone masterpiece, Eyes of Love, when they were locked up at a rural Virginia penitentiary at the height of America’s prison boom. Journalist Jamie Pietras traces the story of young musicians who grow up under segregation, face convictions for armed robbery, and find each other through a prison music program. Pietras puts the group’s music into context and helps navigate their attempt at a comeback more than 40 years later.
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