Young Aretha would meet visitors to the Franklin home from every walk of life, including some of the most prominent gospel musicians of the day (Clara Ward and James Cleveland), many of the great ...

There are only a handful of people alive today who participated in the formation of modern gospel music in Chicago during the 1930s and 1940s. Fewer still worked directly with the genre’s founding ...

Joe Cocker transformed The Beatles’ With a Little Help from My Friends into a bluesy masterpiece during his legendary ...

Imagine that you have wished to host the Honors all your life. Now you get to. The honorees are several of your favorites.

Few vocalists in modern music history have demonstrated range as radically as Mike Patton, whose recorded span stretches ...

The majestic multi-instrumentalist changed the course of soul music and did it with Blackness as the focal point of his ...

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s top boss tells all about this year’s ceremony — and who might join in the future.

The Jam played their last gig; Aretha Franklin made her New York stage debut; Elvis Presley started a 20-week run at No. 1 on ...

As our latest “Music History” guest, Isbell swept us up in his fascinating career journey, which began with his brain ...

And, if you want to avoid Christmas altogether, there’s the usual round-up – Babyshambles, Tom Hingley, a new supergroup ...

Quick-Fire Quips is a speedy questionnaire where we get to know people who stand out in the State of Alabama! In this episode, Alabama Public Radio host Baillee Majors talks with the president of FAME ...

This would have been in the mid-'80s, when Simply Red were just breaking through. The hero in question was none other than ...