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Bluesman Chris Whitley's career has flourished in the indie-label world of shoestring budgets and creative freedom, and he has an intensely devoted following on both sides of the Atlantic. Now, Whitley has a new album called Soft Dangerous Shores. It's a collaboration with renowned producer/engineer Malcolm Burn. Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers interviewed Whitley and has this profile.

Laboe is credited with inventing the "oldies, but goodies" phrase, as well as with helping end segregation in Southern California by organizing live DJ shows that attracted a diverse audience.

If you're a jazz musician looking for recognition from the Grammy Awards, it helps to be playing a song that's familiar.

The beloved singer and interpreter of pop standards won 20 Grammy awards over a career that touched eight decades.

Buzzfeed's Heidi Blake fails to support a dubious argument, but the book is worth reading for its recap of more than a dozen murder and suspicious death stories during a two-decade period.

Chynna Clugston Flores' cult comic about a music-crazy high schooler and her mad mod friends is back after more than a decade. It's a largely autobiographical look at teen life in the early '90s.

Brown was a music industry survivor, but he wasn't as indestructible as he seemed to believe. RJ Smith's new biography The One presents the soul godfather as an unparalleled performer undone by drugs and violence.

Robert Benincasa is a computer-assisted reporting producer in NPR's Investigations Unit.

The bleak pathos of Bill Withers' original is tempered in this arrangement, which José James bends into a funk jam.

A founding member of the contemporary music ensemble Alarm Will Sound, Marks inspired fellow musicians with his blend of "playfulness and gravity."