Alabama's soul music heritage isn't much of a best-kept secret anymore. Thanks to a well-timed documentary hit on Netflix, a revival of sounds through Brittany Howard and St. Paul, and the willingness ...

There was a time, pre-Beatles if you want something more specific, when singles ruled pop music. But around the mid '60s things started turning toward album-length statements by artists. Of course, ...

For a little while, Soul Asylum was a gratifying rock 'n' roll success story: After many years spent blasting out unpretentious Midwestern rock at smoky clubs across America—not to mention an ugly ...

Candi Staton’s career has been full of zigzags since she released her first solo album, I’m Just a Prisoner, in 1970. She was an overlooked southern soul singer, working with producer Rick Hall of ...