Soul singers

The name of music writer Peter Guralnick may not resonate with rock music fans the way names like Lester Bangs and Richard Meltzer do, likely because his work is informal, thoughtful, and restrained compared to that of many of his self-aggrandizingly, flamboyantly gonzo contemporaries from the early days of rock writing coming into its own. For example, his scholarly ‘90s Elvis Presley biographies Last Train to Memphis, Careless Love, and the mind-bogglingly granular Elvis Day by Day serve…

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We've all heard abut the hot grits incident, but most of us don't know ALL of the details about the woman involved in the..

Soul singer James Brown sings in to a vintage microphone as he performs onstage in 1962 in New York, New York.

Two blocks from the Wisconsin state capitol building, and 150-odd feet away from Lake Monona-- an eight square mile lake that, along with neighboring Lake Mendota, creates the isthmus that forms the downtown of the city of Madison--is the Monona Terrace Convention Center. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the Monona Terrace Convention Center has two matching, four story pillars as its anchors, each of which features a beautifully maintained rooftop garden. On the northern pillar--near where…

A deluxe edition of soul singer-songwriter Minnie Riperton's Perfect Angel album, which contained 'Lovin' You,' will be released by UMG on 1 December 2017.

UMe/Motown's 'Let's Get It On: Deluxe Edition'

Soul Singers whose lives ended just when then were at their peaks.