Booker T. Jones

While some music fans might not be familiar with the name Kelly Hogan, it's a relative certainty many have at least heard her remarkable voice. Read More

MEMPHIS, Tenn. The late bass player Donald "Duck" Dunn was honored Wednesday in the city where he performed on some of R&B's best-known hits, with musicians leading a lively funeral march down Memphis' Beale Street. Read More

Six days after her death, Donna Summer's futuristic techno hit "I Feel Love" has been selected for induction into the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress, it was announced Tuesday. Read More

The song was written in 1999, after Hogan had spoken to her friend, a then virtually unknown singer named Neko Case, who was calling from a pay phone from some forgotten roadside between meagerly attended shows. Read More

Chuck Brown, leader of Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers, who was widely known as "The Godfather of Go-Go," has died at the age of 75. Read More

The late bassist, famous for his work at Stax Records, left a mark on nearly every genre of pop music. Read More

There was a time that I thought Scissor Sisters might become the best band in rock music. Read More

A co-founder of the defining country-rock band of the genre's formative years, Chris Ethridge left his mark on music by playing with Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman in the Flying Burrito Brothers, and then as a session and tour musician for Willie Nelson, Randy Newman, Jackson Browne, and Linda Rondstadt, among many other artists. Read More

Levon Helm, singer and drummer for the Band, died on April 19th in New York of throat cancer. Read More