Accompanied by Johnny Winter and his band, Muddy Waters turns in an enthusiastic performance on Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live. The set list contains most of his [more]

Membran's Blues Archive program is a series of two-CD sets that feature classic blues performers in significant periods of their career.

Muddy Waters was most [more]

Although not a blues singer in the strictest sense, Aretha Franklin's glorious voice could never make anything dull, especially not blues classics. These songs didn't [more]

She's Billie Holiday. No, she's Ella Fitzgerald. No, wait, she's Dinah Washington. The conventional wisdom on Aretha Franklin's tenure at Columbia Records is that the label didn't [more]

Lou Rawls has had a long and commercially successful career mostly singing soul, R&B, and pop music. Originally a gospel singer, Rawls' first album as a leader features him performing [more]

At the beginning of his career, Keb' Mo' appeared to be a clever update of the acoustic bluesman, one that managed to recall country-blues but offer a contemporary spin on tradition -- sort of [more]

Lou Rawls gives a riveting performance on Live!, covering standards from Basie/Rushing's tambourine-jumpin'

Muddy Waters left Chess only when the label folded upon its sale in the mid-'70s, but by that point he was in need of the kind of career revival that only comes [more]

Sensational Memphis R&B by this Sun alumnus, these are the '50s recordings of this rhythmic piano-led combo. (Import) ~ Hank Davis, All Music Guide

The general perception is that soul music peaked as a form in the late '60s and then morphed into the endlessly changing American musical landscape, [more]