Here is part of the very good profile of Otis Redding from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame website, He was inducted in 1989: Redding’s relatively unspectacular...
Category - Soul
It’s interesting to compare the staid, probably lip-synced and homogenized version of Bobby Hebb’s great song, Sonny (at this link) and the far...
James Brown: Night Train The Capitols: Cool Jerk (featuring Bob Babbitt) Gladys Knight & the Pips: Midnight Train to Georgia/I Heard It Through the...
The beginning of War is one of the signature musical moments of the Vietnam War era. It’s nice to learn that Edwin Starr contributed much more than that...
This Day in Music lists more than 20 musical personalities born on this day — including three each in 1947 and 1950 alone. Two are here: Nate Nelson of...
Love Train, above, has gotten a second life in Coors beer commercials. There are versions with far better audio quality than the original video — such as...
“ Here is the promotional copy about Lianne La Havas from her label, which is Nonesuch: Lianne La Havas has emerged as one of the UK’s most buzzed-about...
Here is the beginning of the band’s Wikipedia profile: Gladys Knight & The Pips were an R&B/soul family musical act from Atlanta, Georgia...
This is what Digital Dream Door — a great site for music lovers, by the way — wrote about Lee Dorsey: One of the most underrated and overlooked...
Few performers come close to the intensity of Al Green. Here is part of the AllMusic bio of the artist, who is as at home in the gospel and soul worlds: The...
