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Motown
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Ken Shane
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Levi Stubbs never left. While Diana Ross split from the Supremes, Smokey Robinson migrated from his Miracles, and David Ruffin took off from the Temptations (ok, technically he was fired,…
Dw. Dunphy
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Considering that I was only three years old when Peter Frampton’s first solo album, Wind of Change, came out, I couldn’t tell you what impact that might have had on…
Ken Shane
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Retro-soul is a musical style in which contemporary artists attempt to recapture the sound and feel of the great soul music of the ’60s and early ’70s. Musical touchstones include…
Ken Shane
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Don Was (born Don Fagenson) and David Was (born David Weiss) grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, and met in junior high school in the 1960s. It was a…
Jeff Giles
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Everyone makes mistakes — even a soul legend like Wilson Pickett, as Jeff Giles discovers in the inaugural edition of a new series looking at the worst albums from respected artists.
Matt Wardlaw
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This week’s Ticket Stub finds Michael McDonald and James Ingram on the run from Kenny Loggins and Jeff “Skunk” Baxter. Plus, we wish McD a happy birthday!
Robert Cass
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“In the style of the boy-band vocal bands of the time, Human Nature became Australia’s most successful pop group of the ’90s and beyond,” according to their Allmusic.com biography, “outselling their…
Dw. Dunphy
1 Min Read
Sometimes criticizing a recording is easy. It’s just like pulling a trigger. You’ve heard the songs, you dislike the songs and you know exactly why. Sometimes it’s extremely difficult, especially…
David Medsker
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David Medsker is kicking up the bass for another beat-heavy installment of White Label Wednesday, and — hey, who let Chico DeBarge in here?
Ken Shane
1 Min Read
Wilco is back, with the appropriately titled Wilco (the album), and Ken Shane is here to tell you how it stacks up against the band’s critically adored earlier work.
Robert Cass
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As mayor of Bootleg City, I’ve decided to make some changes around these parts. You see, recently I noticed that our fair city really is fair. In fact it’s downright…
Ken Shane
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I love soul music in each and every one of its glorious permutations, so it’s been gratifying for me to listen as a new generation of soul masters has taken…
Ken Shane
1 Min Read
Today is a very important day in the history of popular music. It was on this day in 1959 that Motown was born. An auto worker by the name of…
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