Guitar Player

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OVER THE COURSE of his 40-year recording career, Robert Cray has forged a sophisticated blues-soul sound that is timeless, even while it has hewed to the roots of the Memphis soul scene. His recordings have been imbued with the sound of Stax and Hi R

NPR

6 min. di lettura

A look back at the extraordinary creative souls we lost in 2018, from producer Richard Swift and opera singer Montserrat Caballé to rapper Mac Miller and, of course, Aretha Franklin.

Los Angeles Times

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Earth, Wind & Fire founder Maurice White had one name in mind for his memoir photos: Bruce Talamon. The photographer, who has nearly 40 years experience shooting feature film stills, began his career documenting R&B, soul and funk music's golden age

NPR

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Topped by Otis Redding's "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay," the R&B Top 20 from the week of March 30, 1968 shows American soul flourishing in all directions.

UNCUT

2 min. di lettura

Proto-soul and adjacent sides, deep and hidden, from the glitzy city FOR some, Los Angeles might not have quite the aesthetic and historical cachet, the cultural capital, of soul’s reigning, myth-heavy cities such as Detroit, Chicago and Philadelph

Garden & Gun

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During a recent visit to Los Angeles, Devon Gilfillian had a little time to kill before he was due in the studio. So his manager arranged a last-minute songwriting session at the home of Jonas Myrin, a Swedish artist best known for his work in the Ch

Los Angeles Times

2 min. di lettura

One of the more surprising trends rolling through the Southern California underground recently has been the inspiration of Art Laboe-approved oldies on a rising generation of multi-hyphenate musicians. Songs from the late 1950s through the mid-'70s h

Goldmine

7 min. di lettura

Sixty plus years into his career, Alabama-born songwriter and musician Dan Penn returns with a new album. Released this year, Living on Mercy showcases Penn’s brand of music, a style that can be labeled as anything from pop to country to soul to rhyt

Electronic Musician

2 min. di lettura

$39.88 This, the first in a four part series, is LOA’s latest go-to collection of sweet soul samples, and the sh*t is dope, son! Off the bat, the drums splash and pop, and generally get necks snapping. The super warm horns and rock solid basslines fe

Nautilus

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My wife Ingrid and I had been in Aburi, Ghana for just over a week when our host, Kwame Obeng, informed me that I’d be joining the royal drummers for a performance at the chief’s palace the following afternoon, in celebration of an important holy day

Scootering

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I first came across Seratones when they were a fairly average new wave influenced band with a brilliantly soulful singer. Sadly, at that point they weren’t anything special. A change of emphasis and line-up though, and they’re a completely different

Chicago Tribune

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"Ain't Too Proud," the frustrating biographical Broadway musical about Motown's hit-machine The Temptations, takes its title from a 1966 record, "Ain't Too Proud to Beg." But it could just as well mean "ain't too proud to change the line-up." Between

Goldmine

1 min. di lettura

Genre: 1960s This collection’s subtitle tells you all you need to know: “60s mod, R&B, Brit soul & freakbeat nuggets.” Sound good? Then dive in. There’s plenty of well-known names doing lesser known tracks, like David Bowie’s 1966 single “Do Anything

Chicago magazine

1 min. di lettura

1 Soul provided an avenue for black entrepreneurship. As the genre’s popularity grew, smaller labels around Chicago flourished. Most famously, singer Curtis Mayfield cofounded Curtom Records with Impressions manager Eddie Thomas and “became his own e

The Atlantic

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Berhana, the Atlanta musician behind 2016’s “Janet,” talks about incorporating diverse geographic influences in his debut album, HAN.

Nashville Lifestyles Magazine

2 min. di lettura

“The truth is, Black music and American music are inseparable,” says Tuwisha Rogers-Simpson. She is the vice president of brand and partnerships for the highly anticipated National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM), set to open January 18, 202

History Revealed

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The Singapore Grip / ITV, September On 15 February 1942, Singapore, one of Britain’s key strongholds in Asia, fell to the Japanese. As many as 80,000 troops – Britons, Australians and Indians – surrendered. Winston Churchill noted that this represen

UNCUT

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Smooth soul diva with alluring jazz motifs TO a large degree, even the biggest songs that brought Barbara Lewis to the fore of record buyers’ attention were overshadowed by subsequent cover versions. The R&B bounce of “Someday We’re Gonna Love Aga

Hi-Fi Choice

1 min. di lettura

CD The Last Music Company PENN’S GOT FORM. Back in the sixties he was bashing out hits for Aretha, Janis and Percy Sledge, and now he’s back with his first new music in 26 years, and there’s some good stuff here. Clean Slate is a great example of his

UNCUT

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Four key albums from reggae’s melodica maestro repackaged SOMEWHERE between a pump organ and a harmonica, the melodica is a strange and often derided instrument. Invented by Hohner in the 1950s, Steve Reich conferred a degree of respectability by c

NPR

2 min. di lettura

Throughout their career together, Jones and her band gave listeners something to feel with every recording and every performance. That's still true on their final album.

NPR

1 min. di lettura

The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music's Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It's the same spirit — stripped-down sets, an intimate setting — just a

Classic Rock

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Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? COOKING VINYL/BLACKBALL UNIVERSE Funk, soul, and social justice are the orders of the day from the Cali singer-songwriter. Sometimes inspiration strikes at exactly the right point in history. This latest album from genre-

NPR

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In the late '60s, young people were listening to soul music — so Fitzgerald started incorporating soul idioms into her concerts. One particular performance in 1968 shows how much she learned from it.

Futurity

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As family, friends, and fans pay their final respects to Aretha Franklin, whose funeral was August 31, Charles Kronengold argues that Franklin defined her time in many ways. Franklin, who died August 16 at age 76, figures extensively in Kronengold’s

Chicago magazine

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Coronavirus quarantine has shown us how stifling it feels to never, ever leave our streets. (Or, let’s be real, our apartments.) That’s doubly true for kids in under-resourced communities, even in non-COVID times. The organizers of My Block, My Hood,

NPR

1 min. di lettura

The Texas soul singer returns with two different tracks off his forthcoming album Good Thing.

Goldmine

2 min. di lettura

Devoted to making music, even from an early age, The Bacon Brothers (Michael and well-known actor Kevin) cite such varied influences as The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Motown, Led Zeppelin, Philly soul, James Taylor, Pete Seeger and Chet Atkins, jus

UNCUT

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FRAZEY Ford leans back in her sofa and looks out across the red-tiled rooftops of Lisbon, shielding her eyes from the late-afternoon Portuguese sun. She is telling us about a recent recurring nightmare, involving a fantastical journey in the company

NPR

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Monroe sounds more sensitive, sensual and comfortable in her skin than she ever has on her upcoming album, Sparrow.