While Nashville has long been known as Music City, that deep passion for music can be felt across the entire state of Tennessee. At the core of this musical legacy are the songwriters for whom ...

GRAMMY®-nominated songwriter, singer and producer David Porter — known for penning songs for artists such as James Brown, Celine Dion, Drake, Eminem, Aretha Franklin, Bonnie Raitt, Otis Redding, ZZ ...

Rubbing shoulders with Motown for soul's defining label, Memphis' Stax Records boasted an impressive discography, all ...

From live music on Beale Street and mouth-watering BBQ to Elvis Presley's Graceland, Memphis is an easy city to fall in love ...

Museum lovers like myself swoon over cities like Washington D.C., Chicago and New York for their outstanding museums, but we ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Up and down, the two high-octane offenses went. The Memphis Grizzlies and Sacramento Kings combined for 202 points through three quarters in a battle of fast and explosive ...

(Walter Lindlar/AP Photo file) At a Chicago church, on the day after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Mississippi-bred bluesman Otis Spann delivered what arguably remains the ...

"So actually the horns sound, the Memphis horns sound, that's basically Isaac," said Moore. Stax's star act was Otis Redding. But when the label's legendary Soul Revue would tour, Sam & Dave stole ...

A summer song fit for any season, "Soul Man" was a very big hit for Sam Moore and Dave Prater back in 1967. Nearly half a century later Sam Moore is still very much the "Soul Man" and more than ...

At the Memphis, Tennessee-based Stax Records, Moore and Prater ranked only behind Otis Redding as the label's biggest stars. They transformed the “call and response” of gospel music into a ...

Josh Hoyer and Soul Colossal won the 40th International Blues Challenge Saturday. The Lincoln band took the band division of the competition that featured performances from more than 200 acts.

Sam Moore, the surviving half and higher voice of the 1960s duo Sam & Dave that was known for such definitive hits of the era as “Soul Man” and “Hold On, I'm Comin,’” has died.