Their single, "Love Train" climbed to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, marking a major milestone for the group and solidifying ...

In 1984, Lionel Richie, Prince, and Billy Ocean helped expand the reach of soul music and forever transformed the sound of ...

Ahead of River City Blues Festival, McKinley James discusses growing up in music, shaping his sound, and what audiences can ...

What’s better than a classic rock song? Well, while there are few answers that will satisfy the most ardent of classic rock fans, there may just be one thing that will get them to nod their heads. And ...

Seattle seven-piece The Dip writes original songs that recall the classic soul music of record labels such as Stax and artists similar to Wilson Pickett. The band plays the Gothic Theatre on Sunday, ...

On this day in 1963, Bobby “Blue” Bland ruled the R&B charts with a timeless love song.

Classic soul music, which ruled the urban airwaves till the mid-’70s, survives these days mostly as a connoisseurs’ genre, preserved by dedicated indie labels. Emulating the chitlin’-circuit package ...

One of the largest private collections of soul music has a new home. A collection of 35,000 recordings of classic "sweet soul" music from Chicago have been donated to the Stax Museum of American Soul ...

In 2018, the monthly, local DJ party known as A Fistful of Soul closed up shop when the DJs realized they were getting too old to keep the party going all night long. Some of them, like founding ...

Joss Stone didn't grow up in Mississippi, Alabama, Detroit or Chicago; she wasn't the daughter of a pastor, and she didn't sing every Sunday in a Baptist church. She didn't develop her love for gospel ...

The Charleston Southern Soul Festival will bring a showcase of classic R&B and contemporary Southern soul on Feb. 28 to the North Charleston Performing Arts Center. The evening will feature powerhouse ...