"Make Them Understand the Cost of a Helping Hand"

We've long been planning a meditative post on an axiom that's caused us no shortage of angst these past few months: "People always run from what they're best at." Those musings will follow eventually, once things on the paying-work end have settled down a bit. In the meantime, take the above soul cut, off The 24-Carat Black's classic Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth, as an object lesson in what we'll be talking about. Dale Warren, the man behind the group, was one of Stax Records' in-house...