Emerging from the Muscle Shoals music scene of the 1960s, Dan Penn wrote an incredible
number of Southern soul, pop, and rock classics, many of them with Spooner Oldham, and most of these in the span of a couple years, ...
Caustic Love is the first album of new material from multi-platinum singer and songwriter Paolo
Nutini since 2009's Sunny Side Up. On that album, the whiskey-voiced Scott explored retro-soul and R&B piecemeal, weaving them into his pop palette. In the ...
If Wilson Pickett could cover the Archies and Al Green could interpret the Bee Gees,
why shouldn't Charles Bradley put his spin on Black Sabbath? Bradley's deep, soulful reading of Black Sabbath's Changes (from 1972's Vol. 4) became something of ...
Daydream is the vintage convertible-friendly full-length debut of Empty Houses, a wryly named Detroit trio
consisting of singer Ali Shea and multi-instrumentalists Dave Mackinder and Adam Mercer, both of pop-punk band Fireworks. The punk, however, is left far behind as ...
I Still Have It was a cathartic first solo album from R&B great Eddie Levert,
but it was somewhat anticlimactic. Poor sound often marred the singer's impassioned performances. That issue has been corrected on Levert's second solo release, Did I ...
Durand Jones hadn't the intent to front a retro-soul band when he moved from the
Deep South to the Midwest. Back home in Louisiana, he had wowed fellow parishioners with his voice, but he had become an accomplished saxophonist and ...
Curtis Harding's debut album, 2014's Soul Power, was a strikingly confident work that demonstrated he
was one of the smartest and most gifted artists to emerge from the retro-soul scene, a vocalist and songwriter with a respect for the past ...
Price wasn't content with R&B fame; he yearned for pop acceptance too. He got plenty
at ABC-Paramount from 1957 to 1960 (the time frame this 18-song retro addresses). Creating a brassy, accessible sound, Price hit huge with his rock & ...