Daptone Records holds a fairly unique position in the music industry. In the early 2000s soul and funk musicians Gabe Roth and Neal Sugarman bought a rundown ...

LP, recorded when the singer was just a teenager, was a comedic rock melodrama that should have made the Brooklyn native a ...

This isn’t the first time I’ve written about Aretha Franklin—and I doubt it’ll be the last. With a career as monumental and ...

his Howard University classmate and Atlantic Records label mate. Although their relationship was strictly platonic, their musical chemistry was undeniable as they recorded several hits together ...

Early in my career as an entertainment journalist, I received a promo copy of Jill’s eponymous 1995 Atlantic Records album. That year ... tribute album “Forever Dusty”) and “Stoned Soul Picnic” (from ...

Atlantic Records, the visionary New York label that made stars of ... Ertegun was the first music executive to champion soul and R&B music and his support for artists like Ruth Brown and Ray Charles, ...

Jalen Ngonda just wrapped up his recent sell-out UK tour at the revered Roundhouse in London, but as he heads home he has shared the wonderful radiant old school soul of his new track-‘Just As Long As ...

with distribution through Atlantic Records. Moore's otherworldly tenor provided a natural foil to Prater's gritty baritone for a match made in soul-music heaven. Both singers had cut their teeth ...

He produced and co-wrote the recordings that helped Sam & Dave score major label deals with Stax, a landmark R&B/soul label out of Memphis, and New York-based Atlantic Records that called North ...

Sam Moore, a legendary soul singer ... circuits together. The duo met in the King O’ Hearts Club in Miami where Moore was working as the MC. In 1964 the duo was signed to Atlantic Records ...

Signed to Atlantic Records in ... and a pair of 1981 sets of soul covers for Odyssey Records similarly flopped. Moore and Prater played their last show together in San Francisco on New Year ...

Sam Moore, one half of beloved soul duo Sam and Dave ... and were initially signed to Roulette Records. After a few middling singles, they switched to Atlantic, but producer Jerry Wexler thought ...