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Stax Records turns the big 6-0 this year, which is an anniversary well worth celebrating, so we’ve teamed up with the fine folks from the Concord Music Group in order to pay tribute to Soulsville, USA in a big way...

37 years ago this week, Roberta Flack entered the chart with the one of the final duets she recorded with her frequent vocal collaborator Donny Hathaway. Flack and Hathaway had been friends since they first met as students at Washington...

Break out the champagne: it’s been 35 years since Bootsy Collins released the album that would prove to be his final full-length outing for Warner Brothers. Looking back at that opening line, we should probably clarify – even though we’d...

The overarching sound of the British duo Everything but the Girl (singer Tracey Thorn and instrumentalist Ben Watt) had after years settled into a pleasant, melodic pattern—keyboards and acoustic guitars laying the melodies over a mix of live and electronic...

26 years ago today, Ray Charles was named as one of the first 10 individuals to be enshrined as members of the Atlanta Celebrity Walk. Born and raised in Georgia – Albany, to be precise – Charles was a full-fledged...

49 years ago, Tony Joe White entered the studio to record the song that would prove to be the biggest hit of his career. Written by White himself, “Polk Salad Annie” is a tale of a poor young girl growing...

10 years ago today, Wilco released the album that would provide the band with the highest placement on the Billboard 200 of their career to date. Produced by the band themselves and recorded on their home turf – The Wilco...

Double down with Mr. Michael Nesmith. Take a trip back through Nez's childhood to Monkee-mania and beyond when you win an autographed copy of Infinite Tuesday: An Autobiographical Riff and its CD companion. All you have to do is enter...

40 years ago this week, the title track of Seals & Crofts’ fifth studio album made its debut on the Billboard Hot 100. Like the majority of their material, the jazz-influenced “Diamond Girl” was written by Jim Seals and Dash...