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When Sam Cooke recorded “A Change Is Gonna Come” in 1964, he gave the world more than a song, he offered something that has carried through the decades. The lyrics, rooted in his own experiences and ...

Legendary R&B and soul singer Bobby Womack is known as much for his scandalous love life as he is for his catalog of hit songs. He shocked the music world when he married Barbara Cooke, the widow of ...

In 1964, Sam Cooke‘s iconic anthem “A Change Is Gonna Come” became a song of revolution and protest for generations to come. More than three decades later, the powerful ballad is being reimagined as a ...

The family of iconic musician Sam Cooke, who sang the civil rights anthem "A Change Is Gonna Come," among many other hit songs, is keeping his legacy alive with a new picture book. Cooke's ...

Less than a month after WGBW ended its “Maino and the Mayor” morning show, the Civic Media radio station has switched from its news/talk format to oldies music. The Green Bay station at 97.9 FM and ...

Without the template he set in the late 1950s and early 1960s, it’s possible we would never have enjoyed those artists. New Jersey’s Bradd Marquis is another artist who Cooke influenced. On June 14, ...

In just a few short years, Missouri farm boy Sam Barber has become one of the buzziest new Americana-leaning country artists on the internet. You might know him from a short stint on American Idol, ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. Illustrator Nikkolas Smith tells PEOPLE he hopes the forthcoming book “can act as a supplement to Mr. Cooke’s timeless anthem for freedom ...