You don’t have to read far in the biographies of Little Richard, Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, and Otis Redding to discover that they grew up singing in one church or another. In fact, ...

The Watson Family Singers were some of the first gospel performers on the radio, thanks to their All Nations Pentecostal ...

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In his thrashing of the South, "The Sahara of the Bozart," penned for a New York newspaper in 1917, H.L. Mencken railed against what he saw as a cultural wasteland, "a vast plain of mediocrity, ...

Let’s be real: you’ve probably been fooled once (or twice) when you were riding in the backseat of your grandmother‘s Buick on the way to church when an unsuspecting jam came through the car’s ...

The artificial intelligence takeover trend in music continues. AI infiltrating the music industry has been one of the biggest stories of the year, and it's concerning how fast everything seems to be ...