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souly (not comparable)
- (uncommon) Soulful; characteristic of soul music.
1997, Robert Stone, A Hall of Mirrors, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 190:He's bending over givin' it hell, singing souly music, dig, but he can't break that thing, man, because he ain't equipped.
1999, E. Breitinger, “Heroes of South African History as Operatic Heroes”, in South African Theatre Journal, Taylor & Francis:To my liking however, the souly parts seemed artificial, the citation of the African-American musical style sounded rather forced and arty, because it diverted from the main message of […]
2009 November 11, Mike Evans, Ray Charles: Birth of Soul, Omnibus Press, →ISBN:Larkin continued: “The band is sparked off by a Fender bass and plenty of souly Lat-Am percussion, and has jetting spirited trumpet and matching saxes. 'I Remember Clifford', 'Pas-Se-O-Ne Blues' and 'Sidewinder' are the most satisfying […]
2013, A Jones, G Martin, “A psychedelic band who could" create fucking havoc", fronted by a bovver boy in a kaftan...”, in Uncut:We had a kind of music going on that no-one else was doing, … and put together a few sort of souly riffs and this, that and the […]
1976, Harīśa Trivedī, Uttarākhaṇḍa prakr̥ti thī prabhu --:[…] in Greenwich Connecticut, to present to us an afternoon of "souly" spiritual music! Black and white together, we all sang to the glory of one God.