Singer-songwriter Warren Zevon called himself "the foremost chronicler of Hollywood life in the 1970s." He died far too young ...

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum celebrated the legacy of incarcerated Nashville soul pioneers Johnny Bragg and The ...

Johnny Bragg, lead singer of The Prisonaires, was a key figure in Nashville's R&B history. Bragg was incarcerated for a crime his daughter maintains he did not commit, yet he found success ...

The man who inspired Elvis Presley to record at Memphis' Sun Records Studio was a gospel soul crooner wrongfully incarcerated in Nashville. That's the truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story of doo ...

In 1951, Phillips produced a song Ike Turner once called the “cause” of rock and roll’s existence, “Rocket 88” by Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats. It’s hard to ignore the significance ...

Issued on the 90th anniversary of Elvis’s birth on Jan. 8, Preston Lauterbach’s “Before Elvis: The African Americans Who Made ...

“Rocket 88,” issued as Chess 1458 in 1951, has been cited by many as the first rock’n’roll record. Credited to Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats, the band was actually Ike Turner & His ...

Then I spotted the "Delta ... 88 Custom and the Royale, the latter only available on the Holiday Coupe version. This Town Sedan was most likely ordered with the base 350-cubic-inch (5.7-liter ...