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“Well my friends, the time has come…” to commemorate a very recognizable lyric and a chart anniversary for Lionel Richie. On November 12, 1983, “All...

By the second half of 1966, the smoothy soulful Chicago stylist Lou Rawls was five years into his contract with Capitol Records, and seriously in...

To understand The Blueprint 2: The Gift & the Curse, one should first know that JAY-Z isn’t particularly proud of it. On his 44th birthday, the...

Evoking long summer days in the UK, Booker T And The MGs’ track “Soul Limbo” has long since been known as the theme for the...

Larry Young may have started out as a soul jazz organist in the mold of such redoubtable Hammond heroes as Jimmy Smith, but when, in...

Jhené Aiko’s debut EP, Sail Out, is a melodic ode to romance and self-sufficiency. Straying from typical R&B themes of needing love and someone else to feel fulfilled,...