Ken Hoffman gets salty about a potential french fry crisis
Right now in America, there's a truck driver shortage, teacher shortage, blood shortage, construction worker shortage, EpiPens shortage, and Air Force pilot shortage. And, a gas shortage is always...
View ArticleDown North at Your Mom's House show preview
The comparisons do ring true: Soulful singer Anthony "RenaGade" Briscoe has no qualms about dropping the occasional King of Pop vocal tic into the mix, while his three bandmates' stripped-down...
View ArticlePensacola mourns the loss of Tommy Ratchford
Tommy Ratchford was a well-known attorney who appeared on BLAB-TV's "Justice for All" program. Before that, he was a well-known Pensacola rocker Pensacola loses one of its original rockers, cool-cat...
View ArticleNick Rashad Burroughs is James Brown Live at Joe's Pub
Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready for Star Time?!? Broadway favorite, Nick Rashad Burroughs returns from touring in the acclaimed production of Something Rotten and recently being featured singing...
View ArticleFormer Blanchfield Army Community Hospital commander returns to Fort Campbell
The commanding general for the largest regional health command in the Army visited Blanchfield Army Community Hospital, June 27th, 2018 and shared her priorities for the 25,000 military and civilian...
View ArticleBefore retiring from the road, George Clinton brings the funk to Chicago one...
I considered myself quite lucky when in 1996 I caught two legendary flash and funk showmen, James Brown and Screamin' Jay Hawkins, at the Petrillo Music Shell. Recently George Clinton, who possesses...
View ArticleJames Brown's sax man at The Newt
It was Parker's recurring stints in James Brown's band that not only produced some of the most enduring entries in the vast canon of American soul music, but also sowed the seeds of the funk revolution...
View ArticleBrown Over Purple: Why James Brown Was Greater Than Prince
My brother Adrian and I recently debated a simple, unanswerable question: who was greater, James Brown or Prince? We agree that arguing who is "greater" more influential, more charismatic, more...
View ArticleThe Chris Brown mug shot tells the story of a life
Chris Brown has been arrested again, and he looks bad. It's a particular kind of bad.
View ArticleRichmond cover bands: The Allman Brothers. David Bowie. James Brown....
Skydog pays tribute to the Allman Brothers Band. Skydog pays tribute to the Allman Brothers Band.
View ArticlePhil Haynes and Free Country: My Favorite Things
There have been several jazz projects that looked back at the popular music of the 1960's, but none have been as all-encompassing as what drummer and his band Free Country do here. They touch on Baby...
View ArticleSay It Louder: I'm Black and I'm Proud
In the gym at Paul Junior High School in Washington, D.C., in the spring of 1968, not that long before the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., I asked a buddy whether he was...
View Article15 Reasons You Should Drive To, Not Through, This Georgia City
It's the second oldest and the second largest city in Georgia , according to georgiaencyclopedia.org. And while its GPS coordinates align with major routes to Atlanta and Charleston, you'll find plenty...
View ArticleJust Announced: August "Gala" Celebrates Crucial Music Legacy of Cincinnati's...
On Aug. 25, Memorial Hall will host "Celebrate the King: The Gala," an event honoring the 75th birthday of the pioneering Cincinnati-based record label King Records, one of the most historically...
View ArticleJames Brown's sax man at The Newt
It was Parker's recurring stints in James Brown's band that not only produced some of the most enduring entries in the vast canon of American soul music, but also sowed the seeds of the funk revolution...
View ArticleWhen James Brown Brought the House Down
Ever since 1968, I have been meaning to compose a letter to the Godfather of Soul that begins something like this: First, I want to thank you for coming to Vietnam and performing for the soldiers at...
View ArticleTower of Power Keeps on Rising
Tenor saxophonist Emilio Castillo was still a teenager when he formed the Motowns five decades ago in Oakland. The funk-and-soul group played black nightclubs and after-hours joints until some of the...
View ArticleLawyer for James Brown's widow: "I feel good"
Tommie Rae Brown has secured another legal victory in her effort to prove that her marriage to legendary soul singer James Brown was the real deal. "I feel good," quipped her Charleston-based attorney,...
View ArticleBlue Ribbon Blues Fest Saturday on fairgrounds
The fifth annual Blue Ribbon Blues Fest, presented by the Southeast Iowa Blues Society and the Fairfield Convention & Visitors Bureau, is set for Saturday at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds. This...
View ArticleListermann brewing Stanley Brothers beer this month
Listermann Brewing Company in Cincinnati is launching a special tribute beer this weekend in honor of the upcoming 75th anniversary of King Records, a Cincinnati institution. The beer is a New England...
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