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Marshall Crenshaw, Bobby Womack: Marshall Crenshaw: Channel Boston; Bobby Womack: Berklee Performance Center, Boston

Live Review by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 2 March 1982

MARSHALL CRENSHAW is a believer. A guitarist and singer who draws from the classic, lean rock 'n' roll of the late-'50s and mid-'60s, he believes ...

Bobby Womack: The Bravest Man In The Universe

Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, June 2012

THEY'RE CALLING IT a masterpiece. That's the way when these beloved legends come in from the cold: so welcome is their return that weaknesses are ...

Prince Phillip Mitchell: Atlantic Crossing

Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 19 June 1979

AFTER TEN years of giving his best songs to other acts – notably 'Starting All Over Again' for Mel & Tim, 'Hurt So Good' for ...

Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Rod Stewart, Terence Trent D'Arby, Bobby Womack, Johnnie Taylor: Honey and Sandpaper: Sam Cooke's disciples

Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, January 1995

The deep and enduring influence of Mr Soul. ...

Anastacia: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London

Live Review by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 11 June 2001

Short, sharp shock of soul ...

Sam Cooke, Bobby Womack, Johnnie Taylor, Soul Stirrers, The, Valentinos, The: Sam Cooke's SAR Records: Two Desks, One Vision

Retrospective and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, January 1995

SAR was Sam Cooke's dream of an R&B empire. It nearly came true. ...

Me'Shell Ndegeocello: Meshell Ndegeocello

Profile and Interview by John Lewis, Hotline, June 2010

Meshell Ndegeocello talks to John Lewis about the Rolling Stones, the Devil and Christopher Hitchens. ...

Raphael Saadiq: Stone Rollin'

Review by Lloyd Bradley, bbc.co.uk, 25 March 2011

Vintage touches and modern twists combine on an irrepressible soul record. ...

Womack and Womack: Womack & Womack: Love Wars (Elektra 60293)

Review by Mitchell Cohen, High Fidelity, May 1984

THE MEN and women that Cecil and Linda Womack portray on Love Wars almost never want the same thing at the same time which makes ...

Womack and Womack: Womack & Womack: Love Wars (Elektra)

Review by James Hunter, Record, March 1984

WITH A sassy authority too gritty to be bitchy, too determined to be shrill, Linda Womack lithely barks out the phrase "I can't understand that" ...

Leon Ware: Motown's Musical Masseur

Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 15 February 1977

Some guys get all the best album sleeve sessions! With his Musical Massage set, Leon Ware has come to the fore of Motown's influx on ...

Kool and the Gang, Ohio Players, The: The Ohio Players, Kool & The Gang: From Ohio to Japan

Profile and Interview by Robin Katz, Sounds, 15 February 1975

THE OHIO Players have been America's number one R&B band for the last two years. Kool And The Gang were the first instrumental based band ...

David Ruffin: Riding rough with Ruffin

Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 7 February 1976

"I KNEW IT was a hit record from the time I walked from the microphone up into the control room." David Ruffin on 'Walk Away ...

Sam Cooke: Peter Guralnick: Dream Boogie – The Triumph of Sam Cooke (Little, Brown)

Book Review by Robert Sandall, Sunday Times, 1 January 2006

SAM COOKE WAS the first black American pop superstar. By 1962, the year of his biggest British hit, 'Twistin' the Night Away', he was the ...

Sam Cooke: Keep Movin' On (ABKCO)

Review by Ted Drozdowski, The Boston Phoenix, 14 March 2002

THE TRAGIC DEATH of Sam Cooke remains one of rock and roll's great mysteries. Cooke was shot in the wee hours of December 10, 1964, ...

LL Cool J, Maxwell, Omar, Tony Rich Project, The, Jodeci: Romeos of Record

Comment by Amy Linden, New York Times Special Features Syndication, 9 April 1996

Today's black singers conquer charts and hearts by crooning instead of crowing. ...

Freddie Jackson, Alexander O'Neal, Teddy Pendergrass, Luther Vandross: Who Took the Heart out of Soul?

Comment by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 2 February 1987

As London prepares for more streamlined sophistication, Adam Sweeting wonders what happened to the sweat and suffering ...

D'Angelo, Marvin Gaye, Maxwell, Omar, Tony Rich Project, The, Babyface: Young Crooners Learn The Subtle Art of Seduction

Report by Amy Linden, The New York Times, 7 April 1996

A QUIET revolution is at hand in urban music. Gone is the boasting about the girl you seduced last night and can't remember today. These ...

New Birth: The Re-Birth Of New Birth

Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 8 July 1975

FRANKLY, ANYONE who has not in the past become totally confused with the New Birth, Niteliters and Love, Peace & Happiness triangle should apply immediately ...

Mary Wells: Back On The Right Track

Profile and Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 19 June 1979

Showing every sign of being ready to get right back into the swing of things, we recently had the opportunity to rap with Ms. Mary ...