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Otis Redding Family Taps Sony Music Publishing to Administer Catalog in U.S.
Billboard via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoSony Music Publishing has entered into an agreement with Otis Redding‘s estate, now doing business...
Remembering Macon’s own, the ‘King of Soul’
Macon Telegraph via AOL· 2 years agoIt’s possible to complacently forget the lengths of Macon’s reach on the national and international stage, but this weekend is a great reminder. By...
Watch Tina Turner Flip the Rock Script and Usher in the Seventies With ‘Proud Mary’ on ‘Ed Sullivan’
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIt was all happening for Tina and Ike Turner in 1970. They’d spent the Sixties building a steady...
‘STAX: Soulsville U.S.A.’ review: The rise and fall of the record label that gave us Otis Redding...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoThe rise and fall of Stax Records, the influential but underdog label based in Memphis, Tennessee,...
Do You Want to Be Right—Or Do You Want to Be Happy?
Esquire via Yahoo News· 1 year agoDo You Want to Be Right or Happy?Mike Kim It was at the bedside of a dying friend that I faced the absurdity of my overwhelming need to be right. I’d met...
The Iconic Memphis Label Behind Music’s Most Soulful Stars
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoHoward L. Bingham“We were flying by the seat of our pants,” Stax legend William Bell recently...
New Stax Collection Will Make You Rethink One of American Music’s Most Important Record Labels
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 12 months agoThe story of Stax records has long been smoothed over and sculpted into a neat bundle of Southern...
Easy Eye Sound celebrates the blues' timeless legacy at Nashville's Brooklyn Bowl
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 10 months agoThe only trouble with musical revival eras is that it also requires that sounds you love are dying...
Tina Turner, resilient star who sang 'Proud Mary' and 'What's Love Got to Do With It,' dies
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFor Oprah Winfrey, bearing witness to one of Tina Turner’s frenetic, high-octane performances was...
60 of the Best Thanksgiving Songs That Will Make You Feel Instantly Grateful
Parade via AOL· 7 months agoFriends celebrating Adam Sandler once famously pontificated on the lack of Thanksgiving songs, but...