OK. OK. It’s Friday. Not a bad thing. The weekend is chock-loaded with festivals of all varieties (Hamtown Labor Day Fest, Detroit Jazz Fest, Arts, Beats and Eats) and the weather, at this point, is supposed to precipitation-free. The Detroit Lives film is coming out real, real soon.

In celebration, it’s time for a little Friday Soul Roundup, a collection of succulent selctions coming straight out of Detroit in the late 50s and 60s:

There is an entire stockpile of information and anecdotes about Detroit soul, R&B and otherwise over at Soulful Detroit.  It’s quite easy to get lost in the depths of information over there. Have a pleasant weekend now, ya hear?

In 1807 Woodward Avenue was named for Judge of the Territory of Michigan and author of the Plan of 1806, Judge Augustus B. Woodward. Find out from this site what the story is behind a whole lot of Detroit streets.

And if you are feeling ambitious, check out this chapter from The History of Detroit and Michigan, published in 1894 and scanned for Google’s Book Search program. The text and style just wreaks of awesomeness and kind of makes you feel like you are reading someone’s diary or something. And you can learn a hell of a lot.