Required Listening: Five Albums for Winter
Winter is a season of mixed emotions. Here are five albums to enjoy as the calendar gives itself over to longer nights, holidays, and…
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Sound and Soul’s 100 Favorite Albums & EPs of 2021
What a year! We’ve heard stunning debuts, reveled in career-defining efforts, satiated our appetites for long-awaited albums, been surprised out of the blue, felt…
Video Premiere: David Childers “Quiet in the House of the Rising Sun”
Ramseur Records has just released Interstate Lullaby: Lost But Found, a deluxe digital edition of the David Childers & The Serpents 2020 album that…
Sound and Soul’s Halloween Mixtape
The candy bowl is filled, the pumpkins are carved, all the good little boys and ghouls got their fangs and claws sharpened and shined–…
Required Listening: Five Albums for Fall
Fall brings shorter days and longer sleeves, but it also delivers waves of nostalgia! Perhaps it’s because the months are punctuated by Halloween and…
Required Listening: Bo Diddley is a Gunslinger
Bo Diddley’s album covers are irresistible, his beat hypnotic, and so it goes with his fifth long-player, 1961’s Bo Diddley is a Gunslinger. Dressed…
Required Listening: I’m a Loser
Doris Duke was born in Sandersville, Georgia– most notable for its chalk and Dairy Lane– and like many R&B/soul artists, she found gospel music…
Required Listening: L.A.M.F.
In the mid-1980s, my dad’s friend and sometimes coworker Dicky flickered in and out of our lives, leaving town to avenge some loss, attend…
Required Listening: Native Son
Like your favorite season, The Judybats 1991 debut Native Son conjures moments of exploding possibility or reassuring melancholy– perhaps a Spring that sends you…