The Staple Singers at Vee-Jay
In 1936, Roebuck "Pops" Staples moved with his wife Oceola from the Mississippi Delta to Chicago , where he continued...
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Four Lesser-Known Soul Singers in Chicago
Jamo Thomas was born in the Bahamas. He came to Chicago in the early sixties and made his first recording...
Eddie Floyd at Stax
Edward Lee Floyd was born in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1937. In 1955, in Detroit, where he grew up, he was...
Percy Sledge in Muscle Shoals
Percy Tyrone Sledge was born in 1940 in Leighton, Alabama, not too far from the Shoals area. He worked for...
The Neville Brothers
Individually, the Neville Brothers had been part of the New Orleans music scene for many years, before Art Neville set...
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