Shake off the holiday blues with the horn-driven, blues, roots and soul music of Deborah Stafford and the Night Stalkers when the 8-piece outfit plays at 6 p.m. Saturday at Bricks on Main, 471 Main St ...

UPDATE as of Fri 2/24/2023, 2 PM: This concert has been canceled. Cicero Blake’s career spans the trajectory of modern soul music from doo-wop to contemporary southern soul-blues. Blake was born in ...

His 1967 song "Different Strokes" became one of the most sampled in hip hop music. By The Associated Press Syl Johnson, a Chicago soul singer and blues artist whose work was sampled by top hip-hop ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

Saturday’s event promises to showcase the extraordinary talents of award-winning musicians Johnny Rawls and the Jennifer Lyn & The Groove Revival band Johnny Rawls, a soul blues singer, guitarist, ...

The consistency of impressive quality in the worlds of jazz and blues in Nashville allows fans to enjoy great music year-round. The amount of noteworthy events makes it impossible to cite everything ...

It’s been a long, long time coming. For the last few years, traditional soul music has been going through a major revival in popular music. The sound, which originated in the United States during the ...

Somewhere between my office, the kitchen and the bedroom for nearly two years, I began completely questioning whether I was going to continue in the business of music, writes soul/blues ...

CHICAGO (CBS) – Chicago Blues and Soul singer Syl Johnson has died at the age of 85. "It is with extreme sadness that our family announces the passing of Soul & Blues Hall of Fame Legend, Syl Johnson ...

Syl Johnson, a Chicago soul singer and blues artist whose work was sampled by top hip-hop artists, has died at age 85, his family said Sunday. “A fiery, fierce, fighter, always standing for the ...