Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

One of the great bands in soul music history traces its roots to the early 1950s in Canton, Ohio, when two boys met in elementary school. Eddie Levert Sr. and Walter Williams Sr. became friends around ...

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified]: HathiTrust Digital Library. 2021. MiAaHDL Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital ...

Die-hard music fans can correlate the sound of a popular song to the specific decade from which it came. When modern artists recycle old sounds, the adjectives used are: ’50s doo-wop, ’60s soul, ’70s ...