She didn't sing a note or write a lick of a lyric, but Smokey Robinson contends that Maxine Powell was as essential to Motown Records' operation as the legendary label's songwriters, producers and… By ...
Johnny Griffith, a keyboard player with the Funk Brothers, the highly skilled group of Detroit studio musicians who helped create and define the legendary Motown sound, has died. He was 66. Griffith ...
Instrumentals were an integral part of the northern soul scene, from the Marketts' Stirrin' Up Some Soul to the Just Brothers' Sliced Tomatoes. Sometimes they were nothing more than backing tracks for ...