Carla Thomas had a stellar career that began with a ballad she wrote at age 15.
Otis Redding
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Popdose Staff
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If you had to go away for awhile and you could only take five of your favorite albums with you, which ones would you choose? Yes, we know it isn’t…
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Ken Shane
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James Carr was one of soul music’s most brilliant talents, but his career was derailed by mental illness.
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Popdose Staff
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Ready to wrap up our discussion of Time-Life’s “AM Gold: 1968”? Too bad, we’re going to talk about “American Pie” instead.
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Kelly Stitzel
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Soundtrack Saturday fans rejoice! Kelly Stitzel is reposting some of the most popular, most requested Soundtrack Saturday columns as a gift to you this holiday season. First up, John Hughes’s classic Pretty in Pink.
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Leslie Liberatore
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Get your Friday night date night songs here. Two songs for the soundtrack of your date tonight are served fresh and hot out of the oven each week for your pleasure. For all you lucky lovebirds, there’s a song to get your mood headed to hot and heavy. For the date deprived, there’s a song to soothe you, too.
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Ken Shane
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Otis Redding would have turned 70 tomorrow. The great New Orleans musician Wardell Quezergue died this week. Ken Shane pays tribute to both artists.
Ken Shane
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The Stax label released many of the seminal records in soul music history. The Stax Remasters series launches next week. We have a set for one lucky reader.
Judd Marcello
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You have no idea what you’re missing. That’s what Judd Marcello’s here for. He says Levon Helm’s Midnight Ramble is a rare musical experience you must not miss.
Popdose Staff
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No classic song deserves to be heard after the cover versions that followed it — but hey, the world ain’t fair.
Ken Shane
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You know these guys, at least you know their work. Between them, Steve Cropper and Felix Cavaliere were complicit in the creation of dozens of hit records in the ’60s…
Ken Shane
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By the time a 24 year-old Otis Redding arrived in Los Angeles in 1966 for appearances that included a Hollywood Bowl show with Donovan, Sonny & Cher, and the Mamas…
Scott Malchus
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Scott Malchus pens a bittersweet farewell to famed photographer Jim Marshall, who passed away this week.
Ken Shane
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I have to admit to being a little bit torn about this one. Our friends at Shout Factory generally do a great job in bringing us the best of pop…
Scott Malchus
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It’s time for another edition of Basement Songs — and this week, Scott Malchus has John Hughes on his mind.
Jack Feerick
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The point of a column like this is not to be a consumer guide, or to give “thumbs up”/”thumbs down” to the latest media product (which is just as well…
Dw. Dunphy
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I said I wouldn’t do it. I was called out, however, and if there’s one thing I’m not, that’s a punk. All my neon green hair fell out a long…
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…
Scott Malchus
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The first full-length screenplay I wrote was a semi-autobiographical account of an out of control party I threw in the summer of 1987. My script was an attempt to capture…
Ken Shane
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This raises a question that I have pondered recently. When asked to review a classic album, what is the job of the reviewer? Surely anyone who is taking the time…
Jeff Giles
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[Here it is, at long last: The Graduate’s conclusion to the Complete Idiot’s Guide to Otis Redding. I’ll be doing next week’s Guide, unless I get a better offer from…
Jeff Giles
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[Note: I put out a call for guest Idiots a few weeks ago, and was quite pleased to get a response from one of my favorite bloggers (his comment about…
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