Donny Hathaway News

Chicago native Donny Hathaway co-wrote and recorded "This Christmas," the greatest holiday song composed by an African American.

Chicago-born guitarist Phil Upchurch has played on Christmas recordings by Donny Hathaway, Natalie Cole and Lou Rawls, including Rawls' final project before his death in 2006.

I normally don't use pop culture catch phrases, but this past Sunday's Basement Soul Lounge was "off the chain." Do you like Marvin Gaye, DeAngelo, Al Green and Donny Hathaway? Well, if you had all of these artists rolled up into one, you'd have Tim Terry.

HammondCast 181 KYOU Radio Funk Soul Blues with spcl. guest Lou Donaldson "Possum Head", Alex Foster "Autumn Leaves", Stevie Wonder "We Can Work It Out", James Brown "Give It Up Or-a Turn It Loose" Donny Hathaway "You've Got A Friend" and "Song For You" Jon's "Party Is Forbidden Here" A© http://www.HammondCast.com 45 mins.

New Brunswick indie-soul combo Like Trains and Taxis comes up kings with its latest EP, "Charlie," a work balancing measured restraint and soaring invention that haunts with a cool yet pervading air - even at only four songs.

North Carolina native Calvin Richardson is a gritty, gospel-minded urban contemporary/neo-soul vocalist and songwriter whose influences have ranged from Sam Cooke, Bobby Womack, Donny Hathaway, and Marvin Gaye to Jodeci, K-Ci & JoJo, and R. Kelly.

JJ Grey knows it's the heat and the humidity. And the South in general. The conversation has traveled from music, Southern music in particular, into the murkier tributaries of race and culture.

While boatloads struggle to be Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway or Marvin Gaye, one Mount Vernon, N.Y., artist is lifting the gentleman-soul mantle from Peabo Bryson's tight grasp.

I LOOK TO YOU Whitney is back, everyone! It's been 11 long years since she's had a full length studio album.

Southern musical storyteller J.J. Grey and Mofro kick off the 2009 Bud Light Hot Summer Nights free concert series Thursday at the Ford Amphitheater in Vail, Colorado.