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Yet the event that year that would have the single greatest impact on soul music in the 1970s passed largely unnoticed. An experienced pair of jobbing songwriter-producers, Kenny Gamble and Leon ...
Exploring the story and impact of one of the greatest northern soul songs of all time, Luther Ingram Orchestra's 1966 instrumental masterpiece 'Exus Trek'.
Thom Bell, shown around 1970, worked on more than 30 gold records from 1968 to 1978 as Philadelphia became as much a center of soul music as Detroit and Motown Records were in the 1960s.
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Some of the biggest R&B soul stars of the 1970s will convene at Cleveland’s Wolstein Center for the ’70s Soul Jam on March 7, 2020. Tickets to the show will cost $52-$99 ...
You could call this groundbreaking work of black American music archeology ür-country soul. The now-defunct trio of Dom Flemons, Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson reclaim musical heritage left ...
MIAMI (AP) — Betty Wright, the Grammy-winning soul singer and songwriter whose influential 1970s hits included “Clean Up Woman” and “Where is the Love,” has died at age 66.
Granted, that's a harsh judgment, selling one's soul for commercial success. But not as harsh as saying a band decided to make money instead of music. Neither of those is exactly true.
I make music for people.'" Bell, often collaborating with lyricist Linda Creed, worked on more than 30 gold records from 1968-78 as Philadelphia became as much a center of soul music as Detroit ...
Betty Wright, the Grammy-winning soul singer and songwriter whose influential 1970s hits included “Clean Up Woman” and “Where is the Love,” has died at age 66.
MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) — Miami-born Betty Wright, the Grammy-winning soul singer and songwriter whose influential 1970s hits included "Clean Up Woman" and "Where is the Love," has died at age 66.