Your message has been sent! Close Last night at a campaign fundraiser at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, President Obama took the stage, crooning a line from Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" during his speech. Between busting out his falsetto register for

Detroit R&B survivor Zephire "Andre" Williams teams up with guitarist Dennis Coffey, upright bass player Don Was, electric bass player Jim Diamond, and drummer Jim White for this earthy effort. The cover art promises blaxploitation sleaze, but there's mo

Perhaps our dear Atlanta boy John Mayer decided it was time to follow suit and go country like everyone else! His latest album Born and Raised (produced by Don Was) is supposed to be released in the near future, and I am sure some of us will be waiting w

Few Baby Boomers can forget the mid-'60s hits of Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels—“Sock It To Me, Baby,” “Devil With A Blue Dress On/Good Golly, Miss Molly,” and “C. C. Rider” among them. But other than the classic 1971 release with the band Detroit an

Kurt Elling lost out on a Best Jazz Vocal Grammy last night in what was a crowded field of worthy nominations for that category. Last year's The Gate was a stellar collection of inspired covers, with two originals, that found producer Don Was (Bonnie Rai

There’s no shortage of stars, real and imagined, visible along Hollywood’s Walk of Fame, but even by Tinseltown standards, Paul McCartney ramped up the quotient Thursday in getting his own belated star. The former Beatle drew several hundred fans who pac