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Why we are watching: Kristina Train

5205 days ago
Guardian Music — The 30-year-old singer who you are going to be hearing a lot more fromWarm smile, scary bracelet. That's how you've got to be if you come from the land of Aretha Franklin, Tammy Wynette and Gladys Knight.So she's a southerner? "I'm the girl who falls... more info

Amy Winehouse: in her own words

5225 days ago
Guardian Music — In a previously unseen interview from 2006, Amy Winehouse shared her love for Sarah Vaughan, gospel music and the Shangri-Las – as well as recalling her first big breakOn her musical evolutionWhen I was younger, I didn't really listen to a lot of s... more info

Scene report: German music now

5251 days ago
Guardian Music — Following our potted history of German pop, our journey through the sounds of Europe continues as Wyndham Wallace introduces the acts making waves in his adopted countryReading this on a mobile? Click here to view videoGermany is the world's third bi... more info

A History of Soul: Otis Redding

5276 days ago
WFMU's Beware of the Blog — by Thomas Michalski Live Music Show - Otis Redding 14 video clips of raw power with the ultimate soul-punk backed up by tightness from The Bar Kays, The Mar Keys and Booker T. & The MGs. Also includes his Monterey... more info

Booker T & the MGs: 'It was just a lucky marriage of us four' – a classic interview from the vaults

5294 days ago
Guardian Music — Following the death of Donald 'Duck' Dunn, read an interview with Booker T and the MGs by Barney Hoskyns from Mojo in August 2001, now available courtesy of Rock's Backpages – the world's leading archive of vintage music journalismIf ever there was... more info

Donald 'Duck' Dunn

5294 days ago
Guardian Music — Bass guitarist with Booker T & the MGs, the band at the heart of the Stax soul soundThe soul music created at Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee, was an indelible part of the soundtrack of the 1960s. The magisterial and hypnotic bass-guitar lines on ... more info

Memphis soul bassist 'Duck' Dunn dies

5295 days ago
CNN Showbiz — Donald "Duck" Dunn, the bass player who laid the musical floor beneath soul legends like Booker T. and the MGs, Sam and Dave and Otis Redding, has died at age 70, his family announced Sunday. more info

Legendary bass player Donald 'Duck' Dunn found dead in Tokyo at age 70

5296 days ago
Guardian Music — Booker T and the MGs groover was a familiar presence on blues and soul recordings and played himself in 'The Blues Brothers'Musician Donald "Duck" Dunn, the pioneering bass player whose grooves drove Booker T and the MGs and hits including Otis Reddi... more info

Andrew Love

5317 days ago
Guardian Music — Saxophonist with the Memphis Horns, who made an important contribution to the sound of 60s soulThe precise, rich brass riffs on such records as Wilson Pickett's In the Midnight Hour, Sam & Dave's Soul Man and Otis Redding's Try a Little Tenderness we... more info

JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound - Want More Review

5321 days ago
411 Mania — Channeling the old world soul of Otis Redding and James Brown, JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound have been making some waves. But, is this just lazy, recycled fluff or a new golden age for soul? Join 411 reviewer C.A. Bell to find out. more info

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