1001 Albums #46

The Rolling Stones cleverly titled their first album The Rolling Stones. They have been together since 1962. Almost all of the original members are still alive and touring. The Beatles were framed in history as the good guys in white and the Rolling Stones were the bad guys in black. I think that should only go for the music, but not […]

1001 Albums #44

Solomon Burke‘s Rock ‘n Soul was the album that put him in the books as one of the greats and as one of the founding fathers of soul. He has been called the “the greatest male soul singer of all time.” It has also been written that he is the “most unfairly overlooked singer.” I […]

1001 Albums #20

The Genius of Ray Charles? Someone decided Ray Charles was a genius and many of his album titles have agreed. I wonder if it was a tongue-in-cheek nickname. I knew I had heard of him before listening to the album, but after listening to the Side A I was not so sure. Unlike some of the females I have heard on the […]