Nobody seems to like Wolfgang Press’s Queer except me and the friend of mine who lent me the CD back in the day. I soon bought my own copy. It...
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Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, needs no introduction. But I offer a few disclaimers: First, Michael Jackson’s Off the Wall was the first album I bought with my own...
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Before there was little Michael Jackson fronting the Jackson 5, there was child prodigy “Little Stevie Wonder,” who hit number one in 1963 with “Fingertips” at the age of thirteen,...
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Truly, I shouldn’t really care much for Al Green’s music. When it comes to a choice between slow songs and fast songs, for example, I almost always prefer the fast...
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Not only were Sly and the Family Stone a model of diversity, they put out some of the best, most influential music of their time. Like their personnel (black and...
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As the ‘70s began, Donny Hathaway sprung onto the R&B/soul scene with one song—“The Ghetto”—that stands as one of the greatest and most influential tracks of its time. The song…
Prince Rogers Nelson (1958-2016), more commonly known as Prince—and for a time as an undecipherable symbol, and then The Artist Formerly Known as Prince, and finally back to plain-old Prince...
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British R&B belter Joe Cocker didn’t write many songs himself, but he was a master of reinterpretation of other people’s material. It’s rare to find an artist who can competently…
Janis Joplin really came into her own with Big Brother and the Holding Company’s second album, Cheap Thrills. With her ragged, passionate voice, she could belt it out like no…
If Otis Redding is the passionate soul of rhythm and blues, then surely Wilson Pickett is its fun-loving heart. He belts out one irresistible dance tune after another. Pickett can…
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