Great soul ballads always seem to tug at the heartstrings. And any music called “soul” better do just that. Connect with the very essence of who we are as humans. But in 1961, a powerful voice was ...

PHILADELPHIA — Joe McEwen was going to call his book "Soul Music Saved My Life." “Because, in a sense, it did,” says the music executive and journalist who grew up in Philadelphia in the 1960s, and ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

Over the course of modern music history, Black artists like the late Aretha Franklin, Miles Davis, Nas, and others have revolutionized their respective genres and have become household names in the ...

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