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Over the course of their career, Jethro Tull’s music has been variously described as rock, prog, and folk, but nowhere did the full trifecta come into play more wonderfully than on the band’s 10th album, SONGS FROM THE WOOD. Although...

Whenever a band releases a new album, it generally inspires fans to take a step back and give a good listen to all of the other albums in the band’s back catalog. As such, since Depeche Mode released their latest...

Stax Records turns the big 6-0 this year, which is an anniversary well worth celebrating, so we’ve teamed up with the fine folks from the Concord Music Group in order to pay tribute to Soulsville, USA in a big way...

37 years ago this week, Roberta Flack entered the chart with the one of the final duets she recorded with her frequent vocal collaborator Donny Hathaway. Flack and Hathaway had been friends since they first met as students at Washington...

Break out the champagne: it’s been 35 years since Bootsy Collins released the album that would prove to be his final full-length outing for Warner Brothers. Looking back at that opening line, we should probably clarify – even though we’d...

The overarching sound of the British duo Everything but the Girl (singer Tracey Thorn and instrumentalist Ben Watt) had after years settled into a pleasant, melodic pattern—keyboards and acoustic guitars laying the melodies over a mix of live and electronic...

26 years ago today, Ray Charles was named as one of the first 10 individuals to be enshrined as members of the Atlanta Celebrity Walk. Born and raised in Georgia – Albany, to be precise – Charles was a full-fledged...

49 years ago, Tony Joe White entered the studio to record the song that would prove to be the biggest hit of his career. Written by White himself, “Polk Salad Annie” is a tale of a poor young girl growing...

10 years ago today, Wilco released the album that would provide the band with the highest placement on the Billboard 200 of their career to date. Produced by the band themselves and recorded on their home turf – The Wilco...