He began doing his Sam Cooke Revue when he was 19 in the Bahamas “and that has allowed me to come into a lot of new area,” Rhyant said. He will perform Sunday, July 2, during Picnic in the ...

When Peter Guralnick started writing about soul music, he did it for the purest of reasons: to tell others about an art form he revered ... The Triumph of Sam Cooke,” released this fall by ...

Pop music has rarely sounded more elegantly silky than when Sam Cooke sang “You Send Me,” the dreamily romantic 1957 hit that first put the Chicago singer and songwriter at the top of the ...