Soul Incarcerated

Reaching Your Apex

The band members get settled back in Virginia and eagerly await the finished new album. Cupcake, however, isn’t feeling great about how things turned out and asks for ano

Bad Old Los Angeles

Getting together after so many years isn’t without its bumps. After working through a few personality clashes, the band hits another obstacle–a big one. eeling from a rec

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 ban

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

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

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 an

An Unusual Musical Happening

Harry “Cupcake” Coleman was 29 years old and staring down a 50-year sentence at the Powhatan Correctional Center, the Virginia penitentiary farm just 30 miles west of Ric

Introducing: Soul Incarcerated

The Edge of Daybreak was a prison soul ensemble who recorded their first and only album in 1979 when they were incarcerated as young men. In this podcast series, the grou