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November 27th is the birthdate of Mr.Hendrix who left this world in 1970 after taking the blues to make rock and roll underneath a pandering showmanship that eventually gave way to concerts without the teeth-picking and fire-starting. Every genre of popular music has some Jimi in it somewhere because his virtuosity was not a technical [...]

Rahsaan Patterson You won album of the year tonight, how does it feel? It was really nice and a beautiful surprise and it’s really nice to be able to say it. You were kind of speechless you didn’t have much to say. No, no (laughs.) What is Wine And Spirits all about? It’s about my [...]

Soultracks.com took their online poll of stunning but underrated soulstars offline to Detroit’s Cobo Hall for an evening of honors and performance on a cold and wintry November 16th that had all of winter’s feeling but no snow. A cadre of soul bloggers, musicians, soul fans and their friends took in the grassroots-efforted affair inside [...]

Happy Birthday to one-half of rock’s first couple Ms. Tina Turner! Before Paul and Linda, Mick and Marianne, John and Yoko, Sonny and Cher and Bobby and Whitney there was Ike and Tina. And before any woman received any recognition in rock there was Tina. Happy birthday to the first lady of rock!

Deja Vu? This happened when Jay-Z toured with R.Kelly a few years ago. Hear Ne-Yo, one of today’s best songwriters explain to Big Tigger why he was dismissed from the tour. read more

People heard him before they saw him, mumbling — croaking, really — in a low voice that seemed to come from nowhere. “Is the show starting?” Then: “Hold up, hold up.” Then, seemingly to an assistant: “I don’t want to fall.” This was good news. It was Tuesday at the B. B. King Blues Club [...]

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