Stax Records cornerstone and one of R&B’s most memorable iconoclasts, Rufus Thomas, died of heart failure on December 15th in Memphis at age eighty-four. Thomas, who found fame as a radio DJ as well ...

WASHINGTON — There has been an outpouring of support for the family of a D.C. mom who was shot and killed in front of her eight-year-old son and her sister while they were in their car Wednesday, on ...

Next week, the Stax Museum of American Soul Music will celebrate a milestone anniversary for one of Memphis' most pivotal musical figures, Rufus Thomas. Known as “The World's Oldest Teenager," Thomas ...

Legendary Memphis singer Rufus Thomas, who died this past December 15th at the age of 84, was the originator of the Funky Chicken, the World’s Oldest Teenager, and the Crown Prince Of Dance. But ...

Memphis music pioneer and Mississippi native Rufus Thomas will be honored Monday with a marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail during a ceremony in Byhalia.Thomas, a native of Cayce, Miss., and who ...

Parties given by Eugene Phillips are a part of Memphis music history many people don’t know about. I began attending birthday parties given by Phillips for Rufus Thomas about 30-plus years ago. My ...

I’ve always liked nicknames, whether they’re simple and direct (Bruce Springsteen is "The Boss") or inexplicable to the uninitiated (a high school friend of mine was dubbed "Squelcho.") Some nicknames ...

Pictures or it didn’t happen. Isn’t that what they say these days? But mobile phones didn’t have cameras in 1997. And even if they did have cameras back then, I didn’t own a mobile, and wouldn’t for ...

Born in Mississippi in 1917 and still performing, bluesman Rufus Thomas is known as "the world's oldest teenager." After high school in Memphis, Rufus spent 11 years in touring minstrel shows, then ...

Rufus Thomas's Do the Funky Chicken, Shirley Brown's Woman to Woman, and the Dramatics' Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get are fortified with bonus tracks LOS ANGELES, Calif.—In 1968, on the heels of the ...