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Sixty years ago Mark Gardner considered the singular Chicagoan a superlative craftsman who would soon come up with an exciting album

You don’t have to read far in the biographies of Little Richard, Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, and Otis Redding to discover that they grew up singing in one church or another. In fact, practically every classic-era soul or R&B singer either first lifted his or her voice in sanctified settings, or was directly … THE 10 GREATEST GOSPEL ALBUMS OF ALL TIME Read More » The post THE 10 GREATEST GOSPEL ALBUMS OF ALL TIME appeared first on SPIN.

When Lee Fields says, “I’m a soul man,” he isn’t reciting the lyrics of a hit record from the previous century. He’s telling you about his life.

Recent News: Jeff Beck, who became lead guitarist of the Yardbirds in 1965, has died at the age of 78.

Rhythm and blues, also called rhythm & blues or R&B, term used for several types of postwar African-American popular music, as well as for some white rock music derived from it. The term was coined by Jerry Wexler in 1947, when he was editing the charts at the trade journal Billboard and found that the record companies issuing Black popular music considered the chart names then in use (Harlem Hit Parade, Sepia, Race) to be demeaning. The magazine changed the chart’s name in its June 17, 1949, issue, having used the term rhythm and blues in news articles for the