Ruth Brown, the pioneering singer whose 1950s hits including “Teardrops From My Eyes” and “(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean” helped establish both the rhythm-and-blues form and Atlantic Records as ...

Charles “Big Saul” Greene didn’t have the longest career as a DJ in Macon, but it was certainly one of the most impactful. As part of the legendary “Three Horsemen” of WIBB -- along with Hamp “King ...

Brook Benton, whose deep, velvet-voiced ballads topped the rhythm and blues charts in the late 1950s and early 1960s, died Saturday at a hospital in Queens. He was 56. Officials at Mary Immaculate ...

Cleveland’s story as an early torchbearer of rhythm and blues begins in the late 1940s when this new genre of pulsating, dance-oriented music was broadcast on local stations like WJMO and WABQ. LOS ...

Rock & Roll and Country Music Hall of Fame's, but where is the R&B Hall of Fame 2013 the Inaugural R&B Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony was hosted, 12 induction ceremonies, later and with 300 ...

Rhythm and Blues wasn’t just a genre—it was a powerful force in the fight for civil rights. In this episode of The Cause: Conversations on Music, History, and Democracy, Dr. Reiland Rabaka explores ...

This essay challenges the received wisdom that teenpix of the 1950s were dominated by a soundtrack of rock 'n' roll. I argue that this cycle of film production was marked by a diversity of musical ...