It has been a tough year for fans of guys who can get down on a guitar because the music world has lost some absolute legends ...

Mississippi Goddam” is a song of the Civil Rights Era, and our own. Listen to it with our critic Wesley Morris.

South Central, Los Angeles, Sylvester James was raised primarily by his mother and grandmother, two women who, with their ...

After rock laid its rhythm-and-bluesy roots in the '50s, baby boomers came of age and began crafting music of their own — and ...

The official music video positions the piano ballad as the emotional core of Sienna Spiro’s Capitol Records debut. At twenty, ...

Decades after its release, the beloved ballad remains a staple of love-song playlists ...

Lee Allen Zeno, a legend with the guitar in his hands, died on May 3. He was 71. Zeno, called “a master of zydeco and R&B ...

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Michael Jordan may be one of the most famous athletes in sports history, but for one of his former teachers, he was still the same student she remembered from high school in North Carolina. Ms. Etta, ...

Blind from age one, the Alabama-born artist taught himself how to play the guitar as a child. Soul musician Clarence ...

As 'Iceman' approaches, Variety takes a look back at the 25 songs that helped define Drake as a generational talent.

Singer-songwriter, and former husband of Candi Staton, was blind from birth and had further hits including Slip Away and Back Door Santa ...