When Steve Cropper finally got a chance to work with Percy Sledge, he did everything he could to make it happen — regardless of the cost.

Here’s an exclusive stream of Josh Hoyer and the Shadowboxers’ “Over The City”, a deeply soulful, poignant observation of the people that society forgot.

‘First Ya Gotta Shake the Gate’ includes 33 songs, both mirroring Funkadelic’s 33 years away and creating an almost exhaustively comprehensive return.

With D’Angelo’s pertinent message, color-blurring harmonics and a total lack of slickness, ‘Black Messiah’ is a worthy successor to ‘Voodoo.’

We review ‘Ragged & Dirty,’ which finds Devon Allman getting it done his own damned way.

Hall and Oates made a gutsy move, choosing to go their own way – and became genre-jumping pioneers in the process.

Mike Farris is a mix of Al Green, Richard Manuel, Wilson Pickett – and more.

Here are the seven best albums outside of realm of jazz so far in 2014. So says me.

‘On Time’ is an album that stirs up those same old feeling we’d used to get when listening to an old Temptations or Spinners song on the radio.

The architect of classic Isleys slow jams like “Footsteps” and “Between The Sheets” is at it again.