The Daily Music Break takes every opportunity to send out birthday greetings to musicians of note. I wanted to do that today and found that I Booker T. Jones...
Category - Rhythm and Blues
The top song this week in 1972 was The Temptations’ great “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone.” It really is a very sad song. Check out the...
Louis Allen Rawls was born in Chicago in 1933. He was friends with Curtis Mayfield and Sam Cooke, who would play a significant role in his life. Rawls was in...
Noise Addicts notes that on this day in 1965 Wilson Pickett released “In the Midnight Hour.” This is an odd video: The drum set is on the front...
The Jubalaires seemed to be at the cross roads of jazz, gospel and popular music. Another great song by the band is The Jubalaires were an American gospel...
I will let This Day in Music trace the barest outline of the extraordinary career of drummer Earl Palmer, who died at age 64 on this day in 2008: Worked with...
Curtis Mayfield, among many other distinctions, was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The Impressions and as a solo act. Superfly...
James Brown: Night Train The Capitols: Cool Jerk (featuring Bob Babbitt) Gladys Knight & the Pips: Midnight Train to Georgia/I Heard It Through the...
Fontella Bass, July 3, 1940-Dec. 26, 2012 Here is the beginning of an appreciation of the R&B singer Fontella Bass from Los Angeles Times’ Pop...
Stevie Wonder needs no introduction. His bio may not be well known by all but his most ardent fans, however. Here is how the version at Encyclopedia Britannica...