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Ray Charles lived in South Dallas in the mid-1950s while assembling his crack Atlantic Records band, featuring Lincoln High ...

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It tells of an ability to create music so powerful that it can bridge the cavernous gaps between space and time, past and ...

There are artists who make music, and then there are artists who ignite it. Guess which one Rosie Flores is? She’s her own ...

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The jazz, blues and rock great plays favorites with his gear and recalls that time when he was supporting Jimmy Witherspoon and he took a fall... and took the drums with him ...

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New Orleans bluesman Guitar Lightnin' Lee has died; he fronted a band that included punk musicians decades younger than him ...