Hosted on MSN

8 Troop Songs That Shaped Late 80s and 90s R&B.

(ThyBlackMan.com) Few R&B groups from the late 1980s and early 1990s managed to blend vocal precision, stage charisma, and emotional depth quite like Troop. Hailing from Pasadena, California, the five ...

Sabrina Carpenter’s and Chappell Roan’s sexy pop hits have roots in the bedroom ballads of Teddy Pendergrass and Philly soul

Growing up in Philadelphia in the 1990s, I listened to soul singer-turned-R&B sex symbol Teddy Pendergrass and other artists ...
American Songwriter

3 One-Hit Wonders That No One Alive in the 1980s Could Forget

If you were rocking big hair and leather jackets in the 1980s, you definitely still remember these three one-hit wonders from ...

How Jude Wellington Is Building a Revolutionary Global DJ Culture and Lifestyle Brand Through ITMP

Jude Wellington is on his path to foster a community that encapsulates the essence of DJ culture with an innovative ...

Steve Cropper, Booker T. & the M.G.’s and Stax Records Guitarist, Dead at 84

Steve Cropper, the Rock Hall-inducted guitarist who helped form the sound of "Memphis soul" with Stax Records, has died at ...

Rock and roll as we know it began with Rubber Soul

Rubber Soul, the last copy. My copy. After I paid the Walmart cashier a ten-spot, Rubber Soul crashed into me like a carom. Suddenly hackneyed pop was cool. Protest music was funny. Those ...
KPVI

Memphis soul guitarist Steve Cropper dead at 84

Steve Cropper, the Booker T. & the MG's guitarist and key songwriter and producer for the Memphis soul sound of Stax Records, ...

Steve Cropper, Guitarist, Songwriter and Shaper of Memphis Soul Music, Dies at 84

As a member of Booker T. & the MG’s and as a producer, he played a pivotal role in the rise of Stax Records, a storied force ...

Steve Cropper, guitarist and member of Stax Records' Booker T and the M.G.'s, has died at age 84

Steve Cropper, the lean, soulful guitarist and songwriter who helped anchor the celebrated Memphis backing band Booker T. and the M.G.