The basic premise sounds like a “Saturday Night Live” skit. A rapper from a yesteryear superstar group finally releases his long-awaited debut album, except now he’s a flautist and the album’s all ...

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Beat the January blahs with some blues — or a prize-winning play or an art show. In a few months when everyone is complaining ...

“I just like to sing my soul,” Willie Mae Thornton, better known as Big Mama Thornton, is heard to say in a new documentary ...

Harvard professor and Birmingham, Alabama, native Imani Perry won the 2022 National Book Award for nonfiction for “South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation.

More than a decade later, with prominent placement on “Saturday Night Live” from The Blues Brothers (Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi), “Soul Man” continued to live in pop culture lore.

The Walnut Street Revenue is happening in Louisville next weekend. This year's theme will be the “Soulful Sounds of Derbytown.” ...

The Courant’s arts picks for Jan. 19-25 includes comedians Ms. Pat, Orlando Baxter and Ali Siddiq and a range of music acts ...

Sam Moore of Sam & Dave called Scottsdale home for 30 years. His friend Alice Cooper says, "There's a Phoenix family and he ...

The album “is a Southern ... of funk, soul, jazz and rock. Pam Bricker and her husband, Al, announced on the festival’s final day last June they were stepping away from the Blues Jam Committee ...

Can anyone of any age not smile when they think of John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd and their “Saturday Night Live” characters the Blues Brothers and their 1978 hit cover of “Soul Man?” ...