WHEN GOSPEL GOT FUNKY
LEGENDARY STAX COLLECTION SHOWS OFF GOOD-NEWS GROOVES One of my favorite soul albums is actually a gospel album. The Gospel Truth: The...
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By Alan Richard
- Jun 28, 2019
- 6 min
WILL KIMBROUGH'S 'ALABAMA'
Nashville songwriter laments modern-day lynching, finds family in blues and Americana "Picked up by some folks Took to me to the woods...
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By Alan Richard
- Jun 23, 2019
- 3 min
RY COODER'S LATEST BLUES, GOSPEL TRIBUTE
Los Angeles-based master guitarist Ry Cooder’s remarkable 2018 album The Prodigal Son is perhaps the best--out of his many--records that...
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By Alan Richard
- Jun 20, 2019
- 4 min
MARY BRAGG, KYSHONA: BACK IN GEORGIA
Two of Nashville's best emerging singer-songwriters, Mary Bragg and Kyshona (Armstrong), brought their show to Eddie’s Attic, the music...
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By Alan Richard
- Jun 17, 2019
- 4 min
CASH, COODER SALUTE 'MAN IN BLACK'
Rosanne Cash told the audience at the Ryman Auditorium how she’d spent 40 years mostly avoiding playing her father’s songs. But the...
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By Alan Richard
- Jun 7, 2019
- 3 min
YOLA, THE U.K.'S COUNTRY-SOUL MAVEN
Yola’s melodies and vocals soar on her new record, Walk Through Fire, the most country-soul-focused album of the year (as far as I know),...
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By Alan Richard
- Jun 6, 2019
- 5 min
STAX AND MEMPHIS: THE CENTER OF SOUL MUSIC
Memphis is one of the most culturally rich destinations in America, and today’s touristy Beale Street is the least of the reasons why. My...
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By Alan Richard
- Jun 3, 2019
- 5 min
DELVING INTO THE DELTA
My good friend and writer John Gehring and I spent Memorial Day visiting the Mississippi Delta and Memphis, where we ventured to lots of...
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By Alan Richard
- May 17, 2019
- 4 min
MAVIS STAPLES' NASHVILLE CONCERT PARTY
Mavis Staples brought one of her pre-80th-birthday concert celebrations to Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium on May 15, celebrating her more...
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By Alan Richard
- Apr 20, 2019
- 1 min
JIM LAUDERDALE'S SOULFUL COUNTRY, BLUEGRASS
Cosmic-country crooner Jim Lauderdale is another of my favorite artists and a great example of how country and soul music can intertwine....
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By Alan Richard
- Apr 8, 2019
- 4 min
ROSANNE CASH'S NEW SONGS, AND A soulFUL surprisE
Rosanne Cash brought her beautiful and smart music to Atlanta on April 6, sprinkling a wide-ranging set of her older songs and classic...
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By Alan Richard
- Apr 7, 2019
- 1 min
THE MAGICAL COUNTRY-SOUL OF WILLIAM BELL
I fell in love head over heels with soul music after finding my way to the great singer-songwriter William Bell. His first album, The...
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By Alan Richard
- Feb 16, 2019
- 1 min
WELCOME TO SOUL COUNTRY
A new blog about the crossroads of American music Welcome to Soul Country, my place for musings about how black and white American music...
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By Alan Richard
- Feb 16, 2019
- 8 min
'COUNTRY MUSIC': THE KEN BURNS CONCERT
Smashing night at the Ryman marks new documentary, salutes depth of country music “To me, it’s soul music. It’s white man’s soul music,...
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