Jerry Butler, a soul music giant who later served as a Windy City politician, has died following a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 85. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee died at his ...

“Good music is good music” is an obvious maxim, according to Indianapolis entertainment legend Geno Shelton. But there have been some welcome and some less-welcome changes in the R&B/soul scene in ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s something about Bobby Womack’s voice that hits you in the soul before you even realize what he’s saying. Maybe it’s the grit, maybe it’s the honesty—but whatever it is, it ...

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For decades, a soft-touch style of soul music has found a strong Chicano and Latino audience in Southern California. A record label based there is helping it bloom. For decades, a soft-touch style of ...

D’Angelo asks that question — worries it, caresses it, plumbs its unseen depths — no fewer than two dozen times in what might have been his signature hit. A meticulous, slow-to-boil ballad from the ...

A veteran freelance journalist who specializes in music criticism, book reviews and feature articles about popular culture, Wolff has written or co-authored six books. This one is his fourth published ...