Bill Withers: The Everyman Singer With A Poet's Soul
Bill Withers' very first single became a breakout hit in 1971. He would go on to record nine albums over the next 14 years, and all of them are now available on a new box set, The Complete Sussex and...
View ArticleLady: Two Soul Stalwarts Find A New Groove Together
R&B singers Nicole Wray and Terri Walker both had promising starts to their careers more than ten years ago. Wray came up on the Virginia coast under the wing of mentor Missy Elliott. Walker, a...
View ArticleOn Two New R&B Albums, An Old Soul Sound That Glows
It's tempting to describe the voices of Charles Bradley and
View ArticleShuggie Otis: 40 Years Later, Still An 'Inspiration'
This isn't the first time Shuggie Otis' masterpiece, Inspiration Information,has been reissued — but that's OK. It's an album that absolutely deserves to be rediscovered every decade or so.Released...
View ArticleDionne Warwick, Reduced To An Essence
In title and concept, the new tribute album Dionne Dionne is a great gimmick. But if you've followed the career of Dionne Farris, having her record an entire album of Dionne Warwick covers isn't an...
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Music Review: 'You're Dead!' By Flying Lotus
Copyright 2014 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Finally this hour, music that explores death not as end but as a beginning. It comes from Steven Ellison,...
View ArticleKanye West Plays Puppet Master With 'Life Of Pablo' Premiere
I'm not sure there's ever been a record release as confounding as the one for Kanye West's The Life Of Pablo.
View Article'James Brown: Live At The Apollo Vol. 4' Is A Marvelous And Mysterious Time...
The names James Brown and Apollo Theater have practically become synonymous; it's hard to think of one without the other. Beginning in 1963, Brown released three albums recorded there. But there was a...
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