Sam Cooke News

The lines dividing soul, blues, and gospel have always blurred, and the best artists in each of these three categories have always transcended them.

IT was fitting that Paul Carrack walked on stage moments after the late great Sam Cooke's voice had faded away over the sound system.

Here's the popular understanding of the field for the top prize at the Grammy Awards next weekend: Adele and the four chumps who will lose to her.

Julianne Fishell/Contributed photo Bernie Travers , Steve White, Kelvin Ammons and Mike Fishell are in the midst of recording a new Barstool Pigeons CD.

Sam Cooke put the spirit of the Black church into popular music -- creating a new sound and setting into motion a chain of events that forever altered the course of popular music and race relations in America.

As the late, great soul singer, Sam Cooke, sang: "A change is gonna come" And here we are in 2012 and change is upon us: changes in the way we deliver healthcare in the U.S.; changes in the way we view personal health and wellness; changes in the way we look at our collective commitment to social good; and, even changes in the legal structures ... (more)

Today marks the 82nd birthday of Hall of Fame blues man Robert Calvin Bland, better known as Bobby "Blue". In a case of being "in the right place at the right time", Mr.

North Carolina native Calvin Richardson is a gritty, gospel-minded urban contemporary/neo-soul vocalist and songwriter whose influences have ranged from Sam Cooke, Bobby Womack, Donny Hathaway, and Marvin Gaye to Jodeci, K-Ci & JoJo, and R. Kelly.

Before Sam Cooke, before Clyde McPhatter, before Ray Charles and before Earl Coleman there was Al Hibbler.

The moon is waning. The morning stars are Mercury, Mars and Saturn, the evening stars Venus, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune.

Although Aaron Neville is often compared to singer Sam Cooke in terms of sheer vocal refinement, he has a voice and style uniquely his own.

A masterful storyteller in the grand southern tradition, JJ Grey gets his raw material from the piney woods and blackwater swamps of rural north Florida and delivers it with the demonic fire of a Pentecostal preacher.