Otis Redding News Archives

As approximately 62 of you know , I've been spinning a Friday Soul mix via the old Twitter account .

OWLS HEAD : Rod Stewart: Soul book . After five albums of a oeThe Great American Songbook,a Stewart turns to Sixties/Seventies-era soul favorites, or as he tells it, a oeThis is the album I have waited my whole lifetime to record.a And Stewarta s blue-eyed soul voice is, for the most part, perfect for these 13 songs.

Rod Stewart's saved his soul for now Rod Stewart on tour in Texas this summer: The veteran pop star is releasing an album of classic soul covers.

Suki Sennett, shown with dog Iggy, is vice president of the 500-home Sausalito Floating Homes Association and calls the community "a wonderfully crazy" place.

Initially a funky instrumental soul combo on Stax/Volt, the Bar-Kays were nearly destroyed when most of the band perished in the same plane crash that claimed Otis Redding.

Standing in the recording studio of the former Sun Records earlier this month -- where arguably the first rock 'n' roll song was recorded, where Elvis Presley was discovered and recorded his first hits -- I was at total peace.

It's painful to think just how much further Otis Redding could have gone. When he died in a plane crash in 1967 at the young age of 26, he was only just beginning to demonstrate what a talented and iconic part of the R&B/Pop/Rock scene he could be.

R&B singers have so many options, it's at once understandable and frustrating how they get locked into one category and spend a lifetime there.

It's almost as common as having a funeral for a musician -- releasing "new" music after their passing.

I'd been hustling a meager living in the coffee houses and psychedelic joints of Greenwich Village in lower Manhattan when word spread of Janis Joplin's departure from Big Brother & the Holding Company.

Before The Frost...Until The Freeze Review Posted by Scott Rutherford on 10.10.2009 Can I use that old cliche that the South with rise again? In the heyday of hair metal that was the late 1980's, a bluesy breath of reality came screeching out of Atlanta, Georgia in the shape of The Black Crowes .

It's not unusual to see visitors to the Georgia Music Hall of Fame wearing blue jeans, Stetson hats and cowboy boots.

Erykah Badu isn't the only soul diva putting Dallas on the map. Locally raised singer N'Dambi, who's collaborated with Badu in the past, garnered acclaim for three of her own albums in the past decade.

Grammy Award-winning Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Rod Stewart will be releasing SOULBOOK on November 9th , a collection of classic Sixties/Seventies-era soul favourites all newly recorded by the quintessential 'blue eyed soul' singer of our generation.