Guitarist Nick Block, bassist Frank Abraham, drummer Gene Coye and vocalist Maiya Sykes originally pooled their talents together not as a performing band, but with the idea of working as a music-production house You May Also Like: Incognito – ‘Tomorrow’s New Dream’ (2019)
The Meldavians represent the coming together of three major talents all out of North Carolina: vocalist and acoustic guitarist Melissa Reaves, guitarist Scott Sawyer and keyboardist Dave Fox. You May Also Like: Farewell Milwaukee – FM (2016) Spencer Davis Group – Taking Out Time: Complete Recordings 1967-1969 (2016)
Simply Red, from its late-1960s sense of pop-soul style to its keening, R&B-soaked countertenor, sounded old from the start. It was little surprise, then, that they eventually had a No. 1 hit with a remake of “If You Don’t Know Me By Now” — and even did an album withRead More
The Tedeschi Trucks Band features the most inspired husband-wife team in roots music since Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett.
Is there a place for, you know, an American in a world of soul shouters dominated by a certain big-voiced Brit superstar? Cut to two-time Grammy-nominated R&B singer Ryan Shaw, who returns on May 15, 2012, with Real Love You May Also Like: Woody Shaw – ‘Love Dance’ (1976, 2026Read More
Charles “Skip” Pitts, one of the architects of soul, R&B, and funk guitar and a member of the Bo-Keys, has passed away at the age of 65. Pitts is best known for creating two of the signature guitar riffs of all time: The Isley Brothers’ “It’s Your Thing” and theRead More
Allen Toussaint reminisces about his long-standing relationship with the Band, and reveals his true feelings about mothers in law.
We sat down with Allen Toussaint, fonky pianist, writer and producer of untold hit songs, Rock & Roll Hall of Famer and NOLA’s first-chair favorite son.
The Spinners, though finalists for the 2012 class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, came up short. It was one of the only times something like that’s happened for the greatest soul group of the early 1970s. You May Also Like: Tower of Power’s Emilio Castillo: The AlbumsRead More
We dug back into some of Lionel Richie’s greatest moments – as a solo artist, with the Commodores and even with another, harder-edged duet partner.
