Deep soul singer James Carr, hitmaking garage band The Gentrys, session musician/songwriter Spooner Oldham, prolific rap producer Jazze Pha and R&B legend Wilson Pickett are among those set to be ...

Rock legend Neil Young will be in the Bluff City this week, appearing as part of the Memphis Music Hall of Fame induction ceremony at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts on Friday night. Young — ...

MUSCLE SHOALS — Spooner Oldham recalled the frustration of trying to write a song for the Box Tops in the late 1960s with his partner Dan Penn, bending over and placing his head in his hands on the ...

This set of live recordings from 1998 is one of the coolest records of 2005. In case you don’t recognize the names, Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham are soul music giants, writers and co-writers of such ...

The Memphis Flyer is Memphis’ alternative newsweekly, serving the metro Memphis area of nearly a million residents. The Flyer was started in 1989 by Contemporary Media, Inc., the locally owned ...

Neil Young works in strange ways. That might well go without saying, but it deserves repeating if only because, with the release of a brand-new song with a novel lineup of musicians, the inscrutable ...