In songs like “Slip Away” and “Back Door Santa,” he performed with the fervor of a backwoods preacher and the bawdy humor of ...

Soul and blues singer Clarence Carter, best known for Slip Away, Patches and Strokin’, has died aged 90 after complications from pneumonia.

The semi-annual Exit Zero Jazz Festival, its twenty-sixth edition, was held May 15-17, 2026, in the nation’s oldest ocean ...

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Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson is best known as a sideman to Magic Sam and Muddy Waters, but he could tear up a stage all by ...

Jeff Cornell is a veteran music and entertainment writer, who has contributed to Variety, Billboard, Loudwire, The Hollywood Reporter, and MTV. Daniel Craig gave the James Bond franchise a much-needed ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Eddie Kendricks was more than just the falsetto voice behind some of The Temptations’ most iconic hits—he was a visionary artist whose solo career showcased remarkable range, ...

Before working on the music for the 2012 James Bond film, Skyfall, producer Paul Richard Epworth read the entire script to the new film and watched a marathon of 13 007 films to break down some of the ...

Ahead of what would have been the music giant’s 100th birthday, we asked artists including Esperanza Spalding, Damson Idris ...

First Light, an action-adventure game that details the origins of 007, was first pitched to Arnold by Broccoli at an appropriately high-level briefing. “The meeting took a long time and was very ...

Sonny James’ 1977 cover of “In the Jailhouse Now” was part of an innovative collaboration with incarcerated musicians, stagehands and photographers. One concert album from that era, “Sonny James In ...