Browsing: Ray Charles

Just because Christmas has passed doesn’t mean we put away our holiday music…

Unlike your stereotypical blues man, Texas-born Tony Russell Brown, called Charles, was highly educated. He graduated from college with a degree in Chemistry. Taught science and worked as an electrician and an engineer. A scientist through and through—he was also a classically trained pianist…

Joe Cocker. Immortalized at Woodstock. Lampooned by John Belushi. Best known for his raw, grit-soaked re-interpretations of other peoples’ songs. His venerations, you might say…

I always thought the name Pinetop came from the pine top of a piano. But the man they call Pinetop Smith got his nickname from his love of climbing tall trees. It was the piano though, that made his nickname famous…

Secret document reveals exciting music icons as the subject of stamps in coming years.

The U.S. Postal Service is planning to add soul singer Ray Charles to its “Music Icons Forever” stamp series.

An eye-opening, glamorous, sometimes scandalous account of life in a wildly successful record label.

We’re GIVING AWAY a hardcover copy of the celebrated biography on Ahmet Ertegun!

Nakia is the Austin-based blues singing rocker that gained national notoriety on NBC’s smash hit The Voice. We caught up with Nakia just when he was hitting the road on The Voice tour.

Holy cow, Hugh Laurie (Dr. House) is one hardcore blues fan with amazingly insightful things to say about the blues and his many, often very early blues favorites.