Everybody in the music business told Sharon Jones she was too much. “They told me I was too dark skinned, too short, too fat; and once I got past 25, they told me I was too old,” the fiery soul singer […]
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Charles Bradley’s cover of “America” only lasts a minute and thirty two seconds. But once you hear it, you’ll never want to hear anybody else do it again. Bradley doesn’t just cover a song, he embraces it with all of […]
Charles Bradley is a man on a mission. Since his debut album, 2011’s No Time For Dreaming, brought him from James Brown impersonator “Black Velvet” to bonafide soulman in his own right, Bradley continues to try and find his voice amid “retro” R&B […]
I have to admit the thought of a Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings holiday album made me happy. I knew I’d probably like It’s a Holiday Soul Party, the group’s first album to follow 2014’s Grammy-nominated Give The People What […]
Wilson Pickett liked to tell his audiences about the time a white journalist asked him: “What is ‘soul’?” “You know what I told him?” Pickett would preach. “I said, ‘So-oh-oh-ul. Soul! Ain’t nothin’…but a feelin’!” No need to dispute such […]
R&B is hardly a hotbed of feminism these days, as Destinys Child proclaim their status as independent women while shimmying in outfits that would make seasoned Vegas showgirls blush. The era when strong-willed ladies like Aretha Franklin demanded Respect and […]
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