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Lucero as cherubic young lads? Via Daytrotter. Lucero "The Devil and Maggie Chascarillo" The best song on "1372 Overton Park," live and looser in the Daytrotter studio.

How a local writer and music aficionado uncovered the story of rock's foremost cult band and their masterpiece album It's as if all of the music coming out of all the little transistor radio speakers - Beatles, Stones, Byrds, Beach Boys, Sam and Dave, Fifth Dimension, Lovin' Spoonful, Question Mark and the Mysterians, Supremes, Young Rascals, Sonny ...

This two-disc See & Hear compilation pairs a CD of classic Stax/Volt studio sides by Otis Redding with a DVD of amazing concert footage shot in Sweden by legendary director D.A. Pennebaker .

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame turns 25 this year, and to celebrate, they invited a long list of inductees to perform two star-studded concerts at New York's Madison Square Garden.

Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Billy Joel, John Fogerty, Jeff Beck, Jackson Browne, Simon & Garfunkel and Crosby, Stills & Nash helped get the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th Anniversary Concerts off to a rollicking start Thursday night at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

I'd been hustling a meager living in the coffee houses and psychedelic joints of Greenwich Village in lower Manhattan when word spread of Janis Joplin's departure from Big Brother & the Holding Company.

Season 32, Episode 11 of 14 : Between 1959 and 1975, Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee, released international chart-topping hits such as "Soul Man," "Dock of the Bay, " "Green Onions," "Midnight Hour," "Respect Yourself" and the theme from Shaft.

Erykah Badu isn't the only soul diva putting Dallas on the map. Locally raised singer N'Dambi, who's collaborated with Badu in the past, garnered acclaim for three of her own albums in the past decade.

No one from Central Texas, and in this case, Austin, has stepped up the way Black Joe Lewis has to claim the soul crown left by the likes of Joe Tex in the early 1980s.

When it came to selling the Soul, their mini-MPV - that stands for multi-purpose vehicle, I'm told - the South Korean carmakers Kia could have just bought the rights to Sam & Dave's "Soul Man." Or perhaps built a promotional campaign around Robert Johnson's "Crossroads Blues," and revamped the whole concept of selling your Soul to the Devil.

1966 - John Lennon met Yoko Ono in an art gallery. 1967 - Sam & Dave released "Soul Man." 1971 - John Lennon released his classic album Imagine .

COMIN' to you on a dust road, good lovin' I got a truck load. The opening lines to a song that defined how 1950s rhythm and blues had morphed into tight, funky Sixties soul music.

After moving to Tucson from Southern California in 2004, Ruby Mashburn dived headlong into Tucson Roller Derby and her job as an accountant at a company we are not at liberty to mention by name.

CRYSTAL LAKE – Some teenagers are more into the Blues Brothers than the Jonas Brothers.

Memphis is where you go to celebrate everything Elvis. Sun Studio is where Presley got his start as the King of Rock '*' Roll, and Graceland is a few miles south of downtown.

If I mess around and outlive myself, I figure someone will deposit me one day at Hazy Horizons Retirement Home, out there on Deadend Road.

If I mess around and outlive myself, I figure someone will deposit me one day at Hazy Horizons Retirement Home, out there on Deadend Road.

If I mess around and outlive myself, I figure someone will deposit me one day at Hazy Horizons Retirement Home, out there on Deadend Road.

If I mess around and outlive myself, I figure someone will deposit me one day at Hazy Horizons Retirement Home, out there on Deadend Road.

Born in Kansas City, raised in Iowa City and a 1983 grad of the renowned Berklee College of Music, Boston-based guitarist Fred Woodard Jr.