Seattle seven-piece The Dip writes original songs that recall the classic soul music of record labels such as Stax and artists similar to Wilson Pickett. The band plays the Gothic Theatre on Sunday, ...

Joss Stone didn't grow up in Mississippi, Alabama, Detroit or Chicago; she wasn't the daughter of a pastor, and she didn't sing every Sunday in a Baptist church. She didn't develop her love for gospel ...

In 2018, the monthly, local DJ party known as A Fistful of Soul closed up shop when the DJs realized they were getting too old to keep the party going all night long. Some of them, like founding ...

UPDATE: Saturday’s show at Carlyle Room has been postponed to July 27. However, the Voices of Classic Soul will still play at the Mayflower Hotel on Thursday. They fronted four of the greatest music ...

The following transcript was transcribed digitally and validated for accuracy, readability and formatting by an OPB volunteer. Dave Miller: This is Think Out Loud on OPB. I’m Dave Miller. For the last ...

W alk into SoulFire on Harvard Ave., and you’ll feel like you are being transported to Memphis in the 1960s. The smell of authentic, slow-smoked barbecue wafts from the kitchen as classic soul music ...

What’s better than a classic rock song? Well, while there are few answers that will satisfy the most ardent of classic rock fans, there may just be one thing that will get them to nod their heads. And ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Johnnie Taylor was one of the most versatile and enduring voices in American music, seamlessly bridging the worlds of gospel, soul, blues, and funk. Known as the “Philosopher of Soul ...

Classic soul music and American military history are far-apart fields of interest, but Jeff Kollath, who has an impassioned love of both, has found a pathway from one to the other -- and he is about ...