Reuters - May 12, 2008
Soul legend Solomon Burke says there's no great secret to getting major artists to write songs for his albums. You call friends and say, 'Do you have a song for ol' Solomon Burke? ' the...
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Some of the biggest names in rock music, including Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins and the surviving members of Led Zeppelin, will attend a private memorial in New York on Tuesday for their late...
More »Reuters - Feb 16, 2007
Everyone from Ray Charles to James Blunt chimes in on the life and loves of Ahmet Ertegun, the late revered music executive, in the documentary Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built, set to premiere...
More »Reuters - Jan 26, 2007
The music of the civil rights era is on the mind of soul legend Mavis Staples. Her forthcoming spring album, We ll Never Turn Back, leans heavily on songs from the period in which the Staple Singers...
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Around the time Brett Gurewitz was launching Epitaph Records in 1981, his father was lecturing him to take guitar lessons. The Bad Religion guitarist and punk-rock entrepreneur never sat down for courses...
More »Reuters - Dec 7, 2006
At 42 years old, Patty Griffin believes it s time she started rockin more. On February 6, the singer/songwriter will release her latest album, Children Running Through, via Dave Matthews indie label...
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Here s the complete list of nominees for the 49th Annual Grammy Awards. The awards will be presented Feb. 11 in Los Angeles: Album Of The Year Taking the Long Way, Dixie ChicksSt. Elsewhere, Gnarls...
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British Pianist Jools Holland, once of pop-rock act Squeeze and long known for his versatility as both a musician and broadcast personality, has released a country music album. Moving Out to the Country...
More »Reuters - Oct 30, 2006
An outsider might have found the Down Home Blues Festival problematic. Headlined by Solomon Burke, the billing for the show presented Sunday at the Gibson Amphitheatre proclaimed it a blues event, but...
More »Reuters - Sep 27, 2006
You could say Americana, that indefinable roots music, is the new punk rock. But the punks in question are older and make a lot of money. Last week, a record 1,200 people turned up in Nashville for...
More »AP - Sep 25, 2006
Solomon Burke, Nashville (Shout Factory) When classic soul singer Solomon Burke titles an album Nashville, the inclination is to think he s following in the style set by Ray Charles with his landmark...
More »Reuters - Sep 13, 2006
When his Modern Times debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 last week, 65-year-old Bob Dylan became the oldest artist to top the album chart. Dylan benefited from associations with iTunes and Starbucks...
More »AP - Feb 17, 2006
It s only fitting that Solomon Burke greets visitors from a red velvet throne in the living room of his large, well-appointed home. He is, after all, the king of rock and soul. Burke has embraced the...
More »Reuters - Feb 13, 2006
Twenty minutes into his solo set Sunday night at the Henry Fonda Theater, Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy mocked the crowd s blind adoration, noting that the sold-out throng seemed to applaud his every remark...
More »Reuters - Nov 19, 2005
When Shirlee Ellis Amos died in 2003, singer/songwriter Shawn Amos discovered a whole new side to the woman he called mom. Working under the stage moniker Shirl-ee May, Amos mother was a club singer and...
More »Reuters - Sep 25, 2005
Bettye LaVette landed a top 10 R&B hit with her very first single. In 1962, when she was only 16, her My Man, He s a Loving Man peaked at No. 7. The following 43 years, however, have not been as kind...
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The musician who produced soul legend Solomon Burke s Grammy-winning 2002 album Don t Give Up on Me has started a label devoted to new work by veteran R&B performers. The first release from Joe Henry...
More »AP - Sep 1, 2005
R.L. Burnside, one of the last, great Mississippi bluesmen, whose raw, country blues was discovered late in his life, has died. He was 78. Burnside died Thursday morning at the St. Francis Hospital...
More »AP - Aug 1, 2005
Jimi Hendrix might have stayed in the Army. He might have been sent to Vietnam. Instead, he pretended he was gay. And with that, he was discharged from the 101st Airborne in 1962, launching a musical...
More »Reuters - Dec 16, 2004
The soulful New York-bred trio the Holmes Brothers lead the nominees for the 2005 W.C. Handy Blues Awards, presented annually by the nonprofit Memphis-based Blues Foundation. Singer-guitarist B.B. King...
More »Reuters - Nov 12, 2004
The Who s first studio album since 1982 may finally see the light of day next spring. According to guitarist Pete Townshend s official Web site (http://www.petetownshend.co.uk), the set carries the...
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