Frankie Crocker was an ORIGINAL
By Charles Duke Frankie Crocker. The name itself evokes many memories, feelings, mental pictures... If you grew up in New...
Funk
RIP “Funky” George Brown (of Kool & the Gang)
BY Carlton J Smith IT IS THE END OF AN ERA IN FUNK. I have always held firm to my...
Booker T (of the MG’s)
Booker Taliaferro Jones, Jr. (born November 12, 1944) is an American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer and arranger, best known as...
Sinbad – Happy Birthday (& The SupaBaddAzz Classic Soul Radio Station)
It sure is good to see that this brotha is getting better. Sometimes a picture is worth 1,000 words. This...
Talkin Loud and Saying NOTHING: The GREATEST Rock n’ Roll Song of ALL Time?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RYP2GsPysM "Talkin Loud and Saying NOTHING"Q: How did you come to start playing Rock n' Roll?Little Richard: "My band the...
New Release – Brian Auger Complete Oblivion
NOTE FROM OUR FRIEND BRIAN AUGER: Even more amazing support for 'Complete Oblivion' - which is released next week! https://soul-bank-music.lnk.to/CompleteOblivion...
Coming Soon to DC Public TV: “DC Street Jocks Rocked the House” with narrator DJ Kool “Let Me Clear My Throat”
Editor's Note: Here is what our friend Beverly Lindsay-Johnson has been up to. She just continues to do what I...
Philly Gumbo: Wilson’s Restaurant & Live Music, 709 Warwick Road, Hi-Nella, NJ (7pm 11/17)
Hot Gumbo coming from Philly to New Jersey (which needs it lol!)…Greetings, All! Philly Gumbo has not played a club...
Fred “Re Run” Berry
By Dianne Washington Fred Allen Berry (March 19, 1951 – October 21, 2003) was an American actor and street dancer....
Rudolph Isley (RIP)
By Kevin Goins FAREWELL to RUDOLPH ISLEY (4/1/1939 – 10/11/2023), the second oldest Soul and Funk’s famous family, THE ISLEY...
