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Singing soul music was never about profit for singer Little Jake Mitchell — it’s about seeing people happy. Even now, at 80 years old and 50 years into his career, his band, Little Jake and the Soul ...

Leela James’ bluesy voice dubbed her as the “God Daughter of Soul,” originally coined by the legendary Etta James. Though the two don’t actually have familial ties, Leela is carrying the torch for ...

When the genre-mashing aggro-rock collective Soul Glo formed in 2014, frontman Pierce Jordan liked to joke around by visualizing wild, seemingly unachievable goals for the group. “I would be like, ‘Yo ...

A veteran freelance journalist who specializes in music criticism, book reviews and feature articles about popular culture, Wolff has written or co-authored six books. This one is his fourth published ...

"Soul music is great, authentic music that people still want to see." 83-year-old Music City native and world-traveled soul vocalist Charles "Wigg" Walker is nattily attired in a black and ...

Paste brought Cuco and MRCY together to explore where their visions of the genre overlap. The conversation wound its way from their earliest encounters with soul music to the cross-cultural ways it ...

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