Blues is as much celebration as it is pain, an affirmation of one’s soul whether wrenching to the core over life’s troubles or definitively casting those troubles aside and saying “not this day you ...

Gene Ludwig has remained a local Pittsburgh phenomenon for most of his life, despite some recording and/or touring stints with jazz notables like Sonny Stitt, Pat Martino and Arthur Prysock.

Music has always been a part of Rashod Ollison's life. His new memoir, Soul Serenade, is a story both of songs and hardships. His father left the family when he was only 6. He writes that his mother, ...

Rashod Ollison is many things. The award-winning journalist is black; he’s a music critic; he’s gay. In his new memoir, Ollison recounts his childhood experiences marked by pain, poverty, dysfunction ...

Rashod Ollison bounced from house to apartment to the projects, his mother slogging from night job to day job with precious few moments of rest in between. Ollison’s daddy was a man with his own ...

Music has played a central role in Rashod Ollison’s life. Before he made a career as a nationally award-winning music critic and features writer, Ollison was a little boy growing up in a broken home.

I chanced to hear a scrap of an interview on NPR this morning with a former Arkansan doing well. If I heard correctly (though I can’t confirm it from the on-line schedule) KUAR will replay an NPR ...

Gene Ludwig is four square in the traditional school of Hammond B3 organ players and with more than 40 years at the console, he helped to form the tradition. His playing is relaxed, laid back, ...

Rashod Ollison was once the pop music critic of The Baltimore Sun. He’s now an award-winning music and culture writer at The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk. His new memoir, “Soul Serenade: Rhythm, Blues ...

Jon Spencer and Matt Verta-Ray continue to reinterpret the early days of rock'n'roll, emphasizing the rawness and raunchiness of it all. Save this story Save this story It's a Beatles world, which ...