Soul Serenade is the fourth commercial release for Allman Brothers guitarist Derek Trucks. A second generation band member (the guitarist is the nephew of drummer Butch Trucks), Mr. Trucks studied ...

Gene Ludwig is four square in the traditional school of Hammond B3 organ players and with more than 40 years at the console, he helped to form the tradition. His playing is relaxed, laid back, ...

Music has always been a part of Rashod Ollison's life. His new memoir, Soul Serenade, is a story both of songs and hardships. His father left the family when he was only 6. He writes that his mother, ...

Derek Trucks recorded this album with his band in two sessions (one in 1999, the other in 2000). By Billboard Staff Derek Trucks recorded this album with his band in two sessions (one in 1999, the ...

Rashod Ollison is many things. The award-winning journalist is black; he’s a music critic; he’s gay. In his new memoir, Ollison recounts his childhood experiences marked by pain, poverty, dysfunction ...

Rashod Ollison has loved music for all his life. As a young boy growing up in Little Rock, Ark., music provided him with solace from his hard scrapple life. Motivated by that love, alongside his ...

They call him the Screaming Eagle of Soul. When newcomer Charles Bradley sings you feel it deep down, similar to the gritty soulfulness of the legendary Otis Redding, if more torn and frayed around ...

Jon Spencer and Matt Verta-Ray continue to reinterpret the early days of rock'n'roll, emphasizing the rawness and raunchiness of it all. Save this story Save this story It's a Beatles world, which ...