O.V. Wright: Eight Men, Four Women
Song
O.V. Wright was one of the rawest, most gospel-rooted voices in Memphis soul, and this 1967 single is a slow, grinding ballad framed as a courtroom, with a jury of eight men and four women weighing up his love. His gritty, pleading delivery turns the conceit into real anguish. Choose it for deep soul with no commercial polish at all.