While Nashville has long been known as Music City, that deep passion for music can be felt across the entire state of Tennessee. At the core of this musical legacy are the songwriters for whom ...

GRAMMY®-nominated songwriter, singer and producer David Porter — known for penning songs for artists such as James Brown, Celine Dion, Drake, Eminem, Aretha Franklin, Bonnie Raitt, Otis Redding, ZZ ...

Rubbing shoulders with Motown for soul's defining label, Memphis' Stax Records boasted an impressive discography, all ...

Museum lovers like myself swoon over cities like Washington D.C., Chicago and New York for their outstanding museums, but we ...

Lincoln's Josh Hoyer and Soul Colossal won the 40th International Blues Challenge last Saturday. The band took the band ...

"So actually the horns sound, the Memphis horns sound, that's basically Isaac," said Moore. Stax's star act was Otis Redding. But when the label's legendary Soul Revue would tour, Sam & Dave stole ...

A summer song fit for any season, "Soul Man" was a very big hit for Sam Moore and Dave Prater back in 1967. Nearly half a century later Sam Moore is still very much the "Soul Man" and more than ...

At the Memphis, Tennessee-based Stax Records, Moore and Prater ranked only behind Otis Redding as the label's biggest stars. They transformed the “call and response” of gospel music into a ...

Sam Moore, the surviving half and higher voice of the 1960s duo Sam & Dave that was known for such definitive hits of the era as “Soul Man” and “Hold On, I'm Comin,’” has died.

The Lincoln band, representing the Blues Society of Omaha, took the band division of the competition in Memphis, Tennessee ... was home to soul legends Otis Redding, Booker T & the MGs and ...