Browsing: Soul Music

We look at ten of the most interesting facts from the life, and times of Britain’s eternal mad dog, Joe Cocker.

Serving as the long awaited debut release from 20 year old British blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter Connor Selby, ‘Made Up My Mind’ is exactly what the blues world needs.

“We’ve always believed that less is more, and that’s the way we record as well, very simplistically; we don’t overdo things.”

“We ingest all kinds of horrendous crap in our music; it’s just like poison, and it’s really popular and people love it, but do you really want to be taking that?”

His enormous, yet sadly unheralded contributions to the fabric of soul music will be dearly missed.

Percy Sledge, a larger than life musical icon with an unmistakable voice has passed away at 73.

Though fifty years have passed since Cooke’s shocking death, the music he crafted and the legacy he built remains a powerful cultural staple. His life was filled with a rare destiny, creating music with an extraordinarily unusual staying power that reflected his true genius

Songwriter George Jackson, co-author of “Old Time Rock and Roll” and hundreds of other soul, rock and rhythm and blues tunes, has died. He was 68.

Charles “Skip” Pitts, the wah-master soul and blues guitarist from Memphis and best known for his work on Isaac Hayes’ track, “Shaft” and the Isley Brothers’ “It’s Your Thing”, has passed away.