Featuring Phil Spector, Motown, Charlie Brown and Luther Vandross, Variety selects 10 Christmas albums essential to celebrate the season.

In the '60s, soul was ascendant, and Chess couldn't quite keep up. Aside from the towering "Rescue Me" by Aretha Franklin clone Fontella Bass, Chess was never a success on par with labels like ...

Test Department also appears on If You Can't Please Yourself, You Can't Please Your Soul, a Some Bizarre compilation that features The The, Cabaret Voltaire, Psychic TV and six other bands.

This sure was the year for R&B CD box sets. However, despite the Rare Soul moniker here, the quality of rarity doesn’t always translate to it being very good. While there are some quality tracks among ...

Various Artists CD/LP/Track Review Chris M. Slawecki conqueroo Rockbeat Records United States Ray Charles The Temptations King Ernest Magic Sam Bobby Rush Marilyn McCoo Bobby Darin Ray Bryant Isaac ...

Soul Jazz, as always with their awesome scene based compilations, are not trying to make a ‘definitive’ document; rather attempting (and succeeding) to present an intoxicating and effervescent ...

Sacred Soul Of North Carolina casts in amber a decades-long tradition. Recorded over eight days in a no-frills storefront in Fountain, North Carolina, about an hour due east of the state capital ...

Brown’s “Soul Power” chant lures the viewer into the proceedings as Paul Goldsmith, Kevin Keating, Albert Maysles, and Roderick Young’s stunning cinematography offers up a colorful view of ...

What has finally seen fruition as Omnibus Vol. 1 is a limited edition set of 45 7-inch soul singles from the 1970s, each with a replica label from its original release, packed in a portable case ...

CD REVIEW | COUNTRY/SOUL ‘Behind Closed Doors: Where Country Meets Soul’ by various artists By Stuart Munro Globe Correspondent,July 2, 2012, 6:00 p.m.