Leon Thomas is well aware that R&B is not the first style of music that comes to mind when the guitar takes the lead. Now, as a member of the 2025 Fender Next class, the 32-year-old is excited to ...

About two minutes into “Outta My Head,” from the new album Free Spirit by pop-R&B star Khalid, a strange, foreign sound bubbles to the song’s shiny disco-pop surface. It’s a squiggly, pitchy thing ...

Charles Moore's first instrument was the classical guitar. Charles Moore has played bass in his brother "Deacon" John Moore's band for 41 years. He also has backed the likes of Allen Toussaint, ...

Light in the Attic's crusade to unearth long-lost audio treasures (see Rodriguez and Lewis) will continue later this fall via the re-release of Texas R&B guitarist Barbara Lynn's 1968 LP, Here Is ...

Back in the ‘60s in Memphis, I listened to and played a lot of Aretha Franklin, Sam and Dave, Otis Redding, Booker T. and The M.G.’s, Percy Sledge and Wilson Pickett. We used to call it “soul music.” ...