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Cratedigger: The Young Rascals, “The Young Rascals”
In 1966 the Young Rascals rocked the world with their #1 hit "Good Lovin'." The single spurred their debut album into the upper reaches of the charts
Read More »Whoops!: Wilson Pickett, “American Soul Man”
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
Read More »CD Review: Wilson Pickett, “Funky Midnight Mover: The Atlantic Studio Recordings (1962-1978)”
Like a lot of his peers, Wilson Pickett was primarily known as a singles artist; most people, if they remember his work at all, know him for “In the Midnight Hour,” “Land of 1000
Read More »Mojo’s Cold Shot: Bo Diddley, “Drive By: Tales From the Funk Dimension”
One of the many things I love about Popdose is our collective freedom to write different kinds of posts: Sometimes you gets yourself a Cold Shot related to some bit of blues news, or
Read More »Versionality: “Stagger Lee”
In our new series, Kelly Stitzel and the Popdose staff bring you 27 -- count 'em! -- versions of the great blues-folk song "Stagger Lee."
Read More »Popdose Flashback: Terence Trent D’Arby, “Neither Fish Nor Flesh”
A couple years after 12 million buyers signed their name across his heart, Terence Trent D'Arby got sophomore jinxed but good -- and in this week's edition of Popdose Flashback, Mojo Flucke makes a
Read More »Mojo’s Cold Shot: Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens
Be still my soul. Lawd have mercy. When soul first came out, so many social issues made so many people so PO’d (civil rights, Vietnam, rioting in seemingly every urban area, drug abuse, the
Read More »CD Review: Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears, “Tell ‘Em What Your Name Is”
Do you like those smooth soul ballads? Maybe you like to kick back with your lady, or man, and chill out with the lights low, and the Delfonics singing softly in the background. If
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