There was no musical era quite like the 1960s, and that was definitely the golden age for soul and R&B music. Countless soulful hits made it to the top of the charts, and many of those songs were ...

The 1970s brought a revolution to R&B and soul music that changed everything. Artists started blending funk rhythms, social messages, and cinematic production in ways nobody had heard before. These 8 ...

The Charleston Southern Soul Festival will bring a showcase of classic R&B and contemporary Southern soul on Feb. 28 to the North Charleston Performing Arts Center. The evening will feature powerhouse ...

Soul is the intangible essence of being human. You can’t see it or touch it, but you can certainly feel it. Soul music, on the other hand, evolved from gospel and R&B, which are two forms that embody ...

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade's end, ...

Bad Company was known for their hard-driving rock originals, but one of the band’s most unexpected hits came from the past. In 1976, Bad Company recorded a cover of the 1957 song “Young Blood,” ...