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WHATEVER YOU DO , don't call the music of Lalah Hathaway - daughter of legendary soul singer Donny Hathaway - "jazz." "Nothing is more frustrating to me than walking into Best Buy and finding my record in the ...

Artist Biography: Noel Gourdin By Chris True Originally from the south -- Mississippi, to be exact -- soul and R&B singer Noel Gourdin honed his skills in Brockton, Massachusetts, and by the age of 24, scored a ...

July 16, 2008 08:27 AM - Alan Parker's 1991 film, The Commitments , made quite an impression on Andre Bisson, with its homage to 1960's soul and R&B. And though he's only 25, his band, Andre & The J-Tones, ...

F JAMES BROWN was known as "The Godfather of Soul," then the Rev. Al Green could be the Michael Corleone of the genre.

Georgia Music Hall of Fame inductee Hamp Swain is seen Monday at his home in Macon.

It was the record label that wrote the soundtrack to the Black Power movement of the 1960s and created its own genre of Southern soul in the process.

The death this past February of Buddy Miles, for several years a resident of Fort Worth, cost the music industry at once a great drummer and a great soulful vocalist.

Originally from the south -- Mississippi, to be exact -- soul and R&B singer Noel Gourdin honed his skills in Brockton, Massachusetts, and by the age of 24, scored a deal with Sony, and had his first album in ...

Eli "Paperboy" Reed and his band, The True Loves. Set List "Stake Your Claim" "It's Easier" " Boom Boom" World Cafe , July 2, 2008 - Blue-eyed soul virtuoso Eli "Paperboy" Reed may have grown up in ...

In the 1960's, WLAC DJ, 'Hoss' Allen hosted a television show called The !!!! Beat shot in Dallas, Texas.

SOUL music is second nature to 17-year-old singer and guitarist Singa Bromfield.

It was the mid-'60s, when stick-to-the-ribs soul music was ruling the roost, and I took weekends from college to catch concerts by Ray Charles, Otis Redding, James Brown, Jerry Butler, Wilson Pickett and ...

Originally from the south -- Mississippi, to be exact -- soul and R&B singer Noel Gourdin honed his skills in Brockton, Massachusetts, and by the age of 24, scored a deal with Sony, and had his first album in ...

Aretha Franklin, The Queen of soul, had the number one song on the charts for the week of June 18th, 1967 in today's Top 4 at 4, with " R-E-S-P-E-C-T ". A song written by Otis Redding, who had a minor hit with ...

Originally from the small farm town of Visalia, Calif., sad-faced singer-songwriter Nik Freitas took a break from his job to record "Sun Down" at Poppy Peak, a Craigslist-stocked studio shed behind his house.

The Georgia Music Hall of Fame and the Big O Youth Educational Dream Foundation will present the Otis Redding Singer/Songwriter Camp from June 23-27. The camp, geared for kids ages 13-17, will introduce ...

LISTENING TO JUSTIN Nozuka's debut alum, Holly , is a little like trolling through your dad's collection of vinyl LPs: there's enough soul to appease the Otis Redding fan, enough "hurt" to satisfy a Johnny Cash ...

Alan Walden speaks at Gateway Park in Macon on Thursday during a ceremony to dedicate a stretch of Interstate 16 in his brother Phil Walden's memory.

Many of the reasons I like soul music so much are on display in David Porter's 1965 single for Stax, "Can't See You When I Want To." Here Porter inhabits a classic soul protagonist.

British producer-turned-singer Jamie Lidell champions R&B and light funk that play up the genres' feel-good effervescence at the expense of their sexual urgency.