“Most of this record was written before seven o’clock in the morning,” Mike Farris tells me over the phone on a recent Monday. In the old days when Farris lived hard, making music at that hour likely ...

Being blind didn’t stop Clarence Carter from becoming one of Muscle Shoals music’s most iconic singers. His late ’60s and early ‘70s R&B hits like “Slip Away,” “Patches” and “Snatching It Back” are ...

UPDATE: Grammy winner and international icon Celine Dion is “working hard,” but “doesn’t have control over her muscles,” her sister Claudette has told Canadian media. Dion earlier this year canceled ...