The Number Ones is a new column where I’ll review every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. ...

Before she became the international pop star behind hits such as “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” and “Time After Time,” Cyndi Lauper was the singer in a band called Blue Angel that brought a distinct ...

Heartaches By The Number; Set Me Free; I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry; The Longer You Wait; I Threw It All Away; Learned My Lesson In Love; Don’t Take Her (She’s All I Got); I Hope You Find What You’re ...

Willie Nelson brings his more than 50 years of friendship with Ray Price to For The Good Times: A Tribute to Ray Price, out September 16th. The video above, premiering exclusively on Rolling Stone ...

David Cantwell and Bill Friskics-Warren's Heartaches By The Number echoes Dave Marsh's book-length list The Heart Of Rock & Soul in that both comment on a massive body of popular songs, and both are ...

There is an ongoing resurgence in retro-soul music, as contemporary artists emulate the style and sound from the golden age of soul and rhythm and blues. But there are still many of the original ...

“Heartaches By The Number” is a jaunty song about despair, which is to say that it’s a country song. It’s a weird gift that the Nashville machine has: to put together a song about soul-ripping sadness ...

Most interesting release: You’d have to call this country/soul, performed in the noble tradition of the great Arthur Alexander, Joe Simon, Candi Staton, Jimmy Hughes and several swamp pop artists.

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