Subject: Sam Cooke

• STREET-CORNER SERENADEAFTER THREE CONVINCING DECADES, THE PERSUASIONS ARE STILL VOICING THEIR OPINIONS-A CAPPELLA

  January 20, 1993

• BARTHOLOMEW'S RHYTHM AND BLUES CRUISE

  March 31, 1993

• PROGRAM NOTES

  July 28, 1993

• Tom Marches On

  It's not unusual to find we're still in love with him, woah woah woah woah, woah woah woah woah woah woah

  March 7, 1996

• The Good Foot

  A survey of recent soul, blues, R&B and roots reissues

  August 22, 1996

• Recordings

  December 19, 1996

• Heaven

  Rise up with the Al Green Anthology

  March 20, 1997

• King Bobby

  Bobby Fuller billed himself "The Rock & Roll King of the Southwest." His reign was short. He dropped acid, died young and left behind some of the wildest rock guitar ever.

  April 24, 1997

• Recordings

  August 14, 1997

• Charles in Charge

  New collection brilliantly confirms Ray Charles' position as the architect of soul

  September 25, 1997

• Calendar for the week

  September 25, 1997

• Horn of Plenty

  Legendary R&B saxman Grady Gaines stumbles into the fertile second act of his career

  November 13, 1997

• Calendar for the week

  November 13, 1997

• Recordings

  September 10, 1998

• Street Smarts

  Avenue X and Curves take entertaining pokes at society's "isms"

  October 29, 1998

• Universal Greed

  Seagram's merger invites a look into how the suits took record labels away from the true music enthusiasts

  January 21, 1999

• Tupelo Honey

  Wilco's Jeff Tweedy sinks his Summer Teeth into the sugary pop he was always meant to play

  March 11, 1999

• Mystery Men

  Face it, you don't really know what the Everly Brothers have been doing all these years, do you, Bird Dog?

  May 13, 1999

• Recordings

  July 1, 1999

• Fun, Fun, Fun

  Local promoter stages a wild and woolly music festival

  March 8, 2001

• R&B Is “Rap & Bullshit”

  January 15, 2009

• Guitar Shorty

  October 25, 2007

• Jerry Lawson

  Jerry Lawson & Talk of the Town
  (Musical Earth)

  August 23, 2007

• James Hunter

  Van vouches

  September 6, 2007

• Everlasting Sounds

  Ten of the year's most timeless records

  January 4, 2007

• Aloe Blacc

  Shine Through
  (Stones Throw)

  July 6, 2006

• Anthony Hamilton

  Ain't Nobody Worryin'
  (Arista)

  December 22, 2005

• Jon Rauhouse

  March 25, 2004

• Sam Cooke

  Sam Cooke at the Copa (ABCKO)

  July 17, 2003

• REO Speedwagon, Journey, and Styx

  Welcome to the age of nostalgia

  May 15, 2003

• Burke Slaw

  With his latest star-powered release, Solomon Burke — the King of Rock and Soul — preaches to a new congregation

  July 4, 2002

• Future Shock

  Gumbo gazes into his crystal ball and tells us what to expect in jazz, blues and heritage as we approach 2001

  December 14, 2000

• Tombstone Blues

  1,161 rock stars were fatally injured in the making of The Encyclopedia of Rock Obituaries

  January 13, 2000

• Never Sing Ill of the Dead

  Hereafter, tunes extolling departed musicians should assume they might have a chance in hell

  November 9, 1995

• TUNES OF '93 IN TEN EASY STEPS SIR CHARLES, BARRY GOLDWATER AND DAVE FROM CIRCLE K WEIGH IN WITH THEIR FAVES

  December 29, 1993

• And In This Corner...Kris Allen and Adam Lambert Go Mano-A-Mano on 'Idol'

  PictureGroup for FoxAmerican Idol finale: Out come the claws. Mee-yow!So, my American Idol-watching comrades, after several months (it feels longer though, doesn't it?) of the hard work and dedication it takes to be glued to our television sets for at least three hours every week, we finally get the proverbial money shot: Adam Lambert vs. Kris Allen, or, as Seacrest referred to it, guy-next-door vs. guyliner. Oh, Seacrest, how I'll miss your witty quips this summer. Maybe I'll find a bored, prec

  May 20, 2009