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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 [...]

As a lifelong fan of hard-core honky tonk, I usually have to search far and wide to find kindred spirits who share the same affliction. Then a friend of mine reinvented himself as classic country [...]

Let’s pretend that I’ve been posting regularly on this blog over the past year, rather than completely ignoring RCR’s vast global empire of digital assets. Fact is, I’ve written dozens of [...]

John Lee Hooker's deep, dark and powerful Modern recordings announced the arrival of a singular artist who simply had no peers.

RIP Evan Johns: one of the most fearsome and original guitarists to never hit the big time.

A few nuggets the Stones can consider when they record a follow-up to their all-blues album Blue & Lonesome.

Is your head filled with dread during the holidays? RCR can help you cope, with The Mavericks, The Crown, Blue Note jazz, meditation and full-contact bocce.

Let's raise a glass to legendary blues shouter Wynonie Harris and his classic King recordings, 1947-1954.

Should I a) waste bandwidth trashing Trump, or b) share some new stuff by The Frightnrs, Trixie Whitley, Sturgill Simpson, etc?

What's the best way to honor blues legends Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf? Stage a virtual cutting contest.