The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads is a masterpiece. When he sings, nothing else matters – and that applies to the listener, too. Otis consumes you.
The ongoing celebrations to mark the 60th anniversary of Stax Records will continue with the 8 September 2017 release of The Stax 7s Vinyl Box.
Motown Records will release the soundtrack for the new movie, 'Detroit', featuring songs by Martha Reeves & the Vandellas and a new song by The Roots.
Bobby Taylor, who had late 1960s success on Motown with the Vancouvers and was the first producer and early champion of the Jackson 5, died 22 July 2017.
Lifeline, one of the best-loved entries in the catalogue of Roy Ayers with his group Ubiquity, will be reissued on vinyl by Polydor/UMe on 18 August 2017.
US soul vocalist PP Arnold will have The Turning Tide, her shelved album of songs produced by Barry Gibb and Eric Clapton, released on 6 October 2017.
The self-titled fifth album by the Commodores will be released as a vinyl LP and in a special blue vinyl collectors' edition by UMe on 16 June 2017.
A compelling slice of 80s R&B, Freddie Jackson’s debut album, Rock Me Tonight, remains the much in-demand singer’s best-loved album.
Smokey Robinson and Brad Paisley are among the stars announced to launch the new $100 Million Arkansas Music Initiative in El Dorado in September 2017
From indie releases to overlooked gems by bona fide stars, uDiscover presents a guide to some of the greatest albums you’ve never heard.
Two Motown legends are coming to the Cavern. Martha Reeves and the Vandellas and Mary Wilson of the Supremes will play the Liverpool club in summer 2017.
Van Morrison is to receive the American Music Association Lifetime Award in September 2017 at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium
1990s R&B tastemakers TLC, featuring Tionne 'T-Boz' Watkins and Rozonda 'Chilli' Thomas, played their first-ever European show on 9 May 2017 in London.
A gem from the latter part of the Stax Records heyday, the self-titled 1973 album by Memphis soul man John Gary Williams, has been reissued by Concord.
The late, revered R&B vocal stylist Bobby 'Blue' Bland will be honoured with the unveiling of a life-size statue in Memphis, Tennessee on 12 May 2017.
