Soul

Dotted throughout our discography are certain songs so fine, certain breaks so sample-able, and hooks so hot that they deserve to be pulled together into one, crème de la crème ...

It’s fun to watch bodies move around. Since Philadelphia’s jubilant Bandstand struck up a national obsession in the 1950s, the dance show has proven perhaps television’s most...

During his 40 years spent operating at the margins of the record business, Consolidated Productions founder Mel Alexander penned a total of 73 original songs. Across those same ...

It used to take more than a Distrokid account and cracked version of Ableton to get your music into the world. Back in the Before Times, an artist had two choices when it came t...

Never walk behind the pulpit in a Black Church. It’s an old tradition rooted in reverence and a...

It looked as if a tornado had passed through the house, picked up the remnants of Arrow Brown’s strange, sordid life, and dumped them in the alley. September 1990: a warm breeze...

Four years in the making, this box set seeks not to finalize the Syl Johnson story but simply to set its foundations in stone. After three years drifting rudderless through phon...

At the crest of his mid-20s, Andre Gibson, a native of the Washington Park neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side, was nearly a decade deep into a sprawling, unchecked musical dis...

Robert Hosea Williams was born in 1936 in tiny Princeton, Indiana. His father, Albert Williams, was far too ambitious to stay put in Princeton, a town best known as the early ho...

When it came to rhythm and blues and rock and roll recording activity during the late 1950s and early ’60s, Los Angeles truly was the wild West. The Rocky Mountains handily sepa...