Clayton Bailey’s World of Wonders finds a perfect home in downtown Akron.

It's time to funkify your life by diving into The Meters' criminally overlooked catalog.

Bob Corlett brings the spirit of NOLA soul to NE Ohio.

Shelter and shimmy in place with Delbert McClinton, Darondo, Elizabeth King, Michael Kiwanuka, Gladys Knight, The JB's, Tom Waits, etc

How I learned to appreciate "three days of peace and music" and the endless boogie of Canned Heat.

What's the 10-Day Movie Challenge? Hell, I don't know... but I took it.

Down the soul music rabbit hole with Bull & The Matadors, Shorty Long, Etta James, Sugar Pie DeSanto, Bobby Womack, etc.

Get on the good foot with James Brown and a few other masters of funk.

Michael Jackson, R. Kelly, Ryan Adams, Fyre Festival, rock stars who don't clean up after their pets... The music industry truly sucks.

Let’s get back to RCR’s sweet spot — the blues. Didn’t have to do much digging around for this post. About a third of my playlists focus on some facet of the blues — piano, harp, Chess, Vanguard, [...]

Bettye LaVette, Sen. Michael Bennet, Pony Bradshaw, snow plows... Just a few worms that, for better or worse, haven’t worked their way out of my brain yet.

It’s that time of year again… Time to dig through an avalanche of Russian spam and find the handful of questions that are worthy of replies from the drug-addled braintrust here at RCR. In their [...]