However culture-shifting history proves Beyoncé’s new album, Cowboy Carter, to be, it’s not unprecedented. For generations, artists have blurred the supposed lines between country music, R&B, soul, ...

On Friday evening, country soul superstar Charley Crockett headlined Nashville's Ryman Auditorium for the first of two nights. The set achieved peerless magnificence because it created bridges to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When vocalist and piano player Ronnie Milsap worked with Elvis Presley on Presley's 1970 hit "Kentucky Rain," Milsap recalls The ...

When soul jazz was born in the late 1950s/early 1960s, it provided a pathway for the funky, window-rattling grooves of contemporary soul and R&B to infuse the muscular hard bop of the day. For the ...

A 19-year-old Labor Day tradition for Charleston is just around the corner. For almost two decades, the Lowcountry Jazz Festival has delivered some of the biggest soul-jazz and smooth-jazz performers ...

The 56th Annual Hampton Jazz & Music Festival in 2026 will feature a vibrant mix of R&B, gospel, and jazz artists, ...

"Hers was not a voice or a face to forget. Yet, we forgot." Those words by Alice Randall reflected the nearly lost legacy of Linda Martell, the first Black woman to top the country charts. Her ...

Love it or hate it, there is no denying that the country has gone country. Beyoncé is touring on her Grammy-winning country album, “Cowboy Carter.” All races and ages are line dancing to ...