The Staple Singers : I’ll Take You There [ purchase ] I’m a little surprised that I’ve never devoted a post to the great Mavis Staples—a...

How to even begin to cover the enormity and importance of this influential studio, musically, culturally and even politically, apropos race ...

  purchase [ Slow Train Coming ] Muscle Shoals has a special place in the pantheon of music from the 1960s on. It's the name of multipl...

Rockpile : A Knife and Fork [ purchase ] I took some time off from this blog over the summer, so for the Leftovers theme I’m trying ...

Aretha Franklin (w/ Duane Allman) : The Weight [ purchase ] When I heard about this theme, I thought that I might try to write about s...