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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

***** Various artists, Soul Motion (OM); ***** Various artists, Mushroom Jazz (OM): Both of these acid-jazz compilations are full of terrific music. And each comes with a second, CD-ROM disc of ...