On 1955, Ray Charles hit number one on the Billboard R&B chart with "I Got a Woman" — and American music was never quite the ...

June 22, 2024 marked the return of the Stone Soul Music and Food Festival in Richmond, Virginia, following a five-year hiatus of the venerable event. Soul, funk, and R&B are the heartbeat of America.

When Thee Sinseers performed on NPR’s Tiny Desk series, they were given the option to perform in studio or record at home. Instead of heading to the network’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., the ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - Well-known musicians and songwriters of R&B, blues, and southern soul were recognized during the 2nd annual Soul Music Awards at Ground Zero Blues Club in Biloxi on Sunday.

The 1970s brought a revolution to R&B and soul music that changed everything. Artists started blending funk rhythms, social messages, and cinematic production in ways nobody had heard before. These 8 ...

Soul music in 1963 spoke to the times, but it also laid the groundwork for the future of R&B, pop, rock and roll, funk, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With Podcast Canon, Benjamin Cannon analyzes the history of podcasts and interrogates how we talk about the art form. The way a ...

As far back as he can remember, Dante Carfagna has collected soul records. He maintains his bounty in his third-floor walk-up apartment on a single floor-to-ceiling shelving unit, stacked with white ...