r&b Archive
28 Apr 2025
Album Review: Eramus Hall – Lost and Found
Eramus Hall is one of those hard luck stories with which the history of popular music is rife. In the case of this Detroit soul-funk outfit, the group signed to […]
11 Apr 2025
EP Review: Little Richard – Try Some of Mine
By 1968, in some quarters, at least, Richard Penniman was considered well past his sell-by date. The man known to the world as Little Richard had already undergone more than […]
10 Apr 2025
Album Review: Various Artists — The Westbound Sound: Foundations
For Record Store Day 2024, Org Music released a superb compilation, The Westbound Sound. That LP drew upon the vaults of Detroit’s venerated Westbound Records, a label at the forefront […]
08 Apr 2025
Album Review: Lotti Golden — Motor-Cycle
Singer-songwriter Lotti Golden released her debut album in 1969, and a remarkable debut it was. But Motor-Cycle largely disappeared without a trace, failing to make the impact it so richly […]
01 Feb 2025
30 Days Out, February 2025 #1: Secret Agent 23 Skidoo, Fantastic Negrito, Judy Collins, Michael Marcagi
Great artists from here (Asheville) and there (everywhere else), from now (Fantastic Negrito) and then-to-now (Judy Collins). Those are among the highlights for the the third 30DO of this new […]
17 Jan 2025
A Chat with Mitch Woods
With his deep immersion into 20th century American musical styles, Mitch Woods is adept at channeling the sound and spirit of that music into his own winning original material. Woods’ […]
16 Jan 2025
Album Review: Mitch Woods – Mitch Woods’ Happy Hour
Brooklyn-born, Bay Area-based pianist, singer and bandleader Mitch Woods has been making music for more than four decades. With his band the Rocket 88s, he has served up album after […]
01 Jan 2025
Album Review: Johnny Bragg – Let Me Dream On
A bonus post to ring in the New Year — bk. One of the most historically significant vocal groups of the 1950s and beyond, the Prisonaires recorded the original version […]
23 Oct 2024
Album Review: The Supremes – I Hear a Symphony
Cogs in the Motown musical machine, the Supremes churned out albums with alacrity. 1966’s I Hear a Symphony was the group’s eighth album. It was also the first of two […]
21 Oct 2024
Album Review: Marvin Gaye & Mary Wells — Together
One of the things Motown singer Marvin Gaye was most known for was his work within vocal duos. Before his socially-conscious What’s Going On era, Gaye concentrated on a more […]