Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a 1962 radio interview, the famed R&B disc jockey Magnificent Montague asked Sam Cooke to define soul music in eight bars.

William Harrison Withers Jr. was best known to the music world as Bill Withers, and his career spanned the course of several decades. His unique voice helped define modern soul music for generations, ...

Bill Withers, the influential Grammy-winning soul singer-songwriter who scored four smash singles including the iconic ‘Lean on Me” and “Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone,” has died. He was 81. His ...

Ain’t No Sunshine: Bill Withers in 1976. Columbia Records This is unsurprising. It was already a staple of charity concerts, and had been performed at the presidential inaugurations of both Barack ...

Since 2004 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...