She’s chatting about her record deal when someone yells in the background: “Sara!” And Sara Jackson-Holman slightly stumbles over her words. It sounded like her mom signaling that it was time to do ...

Chelsea Burton is a reporter with the Community News Service, part of the University of Vermont’s Reporting & Documentary Storytelling program. In the home of Rik Palieri, a country-roots and folk ...

*Grammy Award winning singer and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Sam Moore is tired of singing his 1967 hit “Soul Man,” the iconic R&B classic he recorded as part of the duo of Sam & Dave on Stax ...

Minneapolis rockers Soul Asylum had a weary old-soul vibe even when they were young guns, so veteran status suits them nicely. Next month, Soul Asylum will release Slowly But Shirley, the new album ...

D’Angelo asks that question — worries it, caresses it, plumbs its unseen depths — no fewer than two dozen times in what might have been his signature hit. A meticulous, slow-to-boil ballad from the ...

A couple years back, singer-songwriter Jake La Botz was spending his Sundays down at the Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church in south central L.A., and playing in the church’s band with his friend ...