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Ruby Turner: The Gospel according to Ruby

Report and Interview by David Burke, R2/Rock'n'Reel, October 2009

"THEY CAN KEEP their big record deals. Gone are the days when I'm going to be told what to do. I can go to bed ...

Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Paul Butterfield's Better Days: Paul Butterfield 1942-1987

Obituary by uncredited writer, Rolling Stone, 18 June 1987

ON MAY 4TH, bluesman Paul Butterfield was found dead in his North Hollywood, California, apartment. He was forty-four. Though he had been in a Pittsburgh ...

X: Guitars Against The Golden State

Profile and Interview by Robin Eggar, The Face, April 1984

They've been called The Last American Rock Band. It's a tag they hate. ...

Bobby Charles' Bobby Charles

Retrospective and Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, April 2004

BY THE TIME he got to Woodstock in 1971, Robert Charles Guidry was a wanted man. ...

Johnny Otis at 80

Retrospective and Interview by James Maycock, MOJO, 2002

JOHNNY OTIS, the renaissance man of rhythm and blues, is somewhat ambivalent about entering his ninth decade. "I have two kinds of feelings," he concedes. ...

The X Factor

Comment by Paul Morley, The Observer, 31 October 2009

I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, but I decided that I would not watch this particular series of The X Factor, because I thought, I'll get ...

Timi Yuro: That Time Of Yuro: Timi Yuro

Retrospective by Steven R Rosen, blurt-online.com, 23 April 2012

ANY LIST OF proto-feminist Top 40 hits of the 1960s would have to include Timi Yuro's 1962 'What's A Matter Baby' along with Lesley Gore's ...

Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, O'Jays: The Sound of Philadelphia

Retrospective by Michael A. Gonzales, Ebony, 18 October 2013

Sweet Philly soul has influenced the likes of Erykah Badu, the Roots, David Bowie and more. Michael A. Gonzales delves into the1970s sound. ...

Various Artists: Take Me To The River – A Southern Soul Story 1961-1977

Review by Tony Burke, Blues & Rhythm, March 2009

"WHILE MOTOWN targeted its super-slick beat at teenagers, the much tougher Southern soul issued on labels such as Stax, Hi and Goldwax from Memphis; Fame ...

"You want blowjob?": Ageing (dis)gracefully

Comment by Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages, 1 February 2010

LAST YEAR I had an appointment at my local hospital with the orthopaedic consultant to have a look at my wonky knee. So there I ...

Joan Osborne: A cowgirl gets the blues

Interview by David Sinclair, The Times, 26 January 1996

Joan Osborne has gone from bluegrass country to R&B heaven, says David Sinclair ...

C.M Lord: This Lord's A Lady

Profile and Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 24 August 1976

C. M. Lord offers a diverse range of talent...a little bit of everything. But the little lady aims to avoid being pigeonholed when a hit ...

Earth, Wind & Fire 'Promise' to Keep Rocking

Interview by Michael A. Gonzales, Ebony, 5 August 2013

WHEN EARTH, Wind and Fire's bass player extraordinaire Verdine White speaks affectionately about his influential group playing shows in the mid-1970s, one is instantly transported ...

Aretha Franklin: Aretha: Supersoulstar

Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 21 December 1973

2008 introduction: Aretha Franklin had just enjoyed major success with the Stevie Wonder composition 'Until You Come Back To Me'. She was in contract re-negotiations ...

Ann Peebles: Hangin' On To Success

Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 7 May 1974

ALL OF a sudden, it seems like the whole world is talking about the talents of a magnificently soulful young woman and she puts it ...

Grace Potter: With Daylight Grace Potter Returns (from a Messy Midnight)

Interview by Holly Gleason, American Songwriter, 27 November 2019

GRACE POTTER IS BACK, and you can blame it on Gwen Stefani. ...

Dyan Diamond, Kim Fowley, Helen Reddy: Kim Fowley: Prince Of Dog Food

Profile and Interview by Radio Pete, New York Rocker, July 1979

KIM FOWLEY has been called everything from "a rancid pimp" to "an egomaniac hustler who pushes shit groups out of the toilets of pop music." ...

Madison Beer: Pop interview: Madison Beer on 'Home with You', five years after Justin Bieber declared her a star

Interview by Lisa Verrico, The Sunday Times, 26 August 2018

The teenage singer is storming up the charts without the help of a record label. Is this the future? ...

Patti LaBelle: Nobody's fool

Interview by Penny Valentine, Melody Maker, 28 April 1979

AN EMPTY hotel restaurant reverberates with the sound of waiters shovelling ice. In a corner, wearing black leather trousers, a zipped jacket and a black ...

Diana Ross: The Gospel According To Miss Ross

Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, Q, October 1987

"I'VE BEEN HERE so many times before," murmurs Diana Ross as she sweeps, surrounded by a clucking entourage, through the foyer of the EMI Records ...