Last July, Jean-Paul ‘Bluey’ Maunick hosted a very special concert at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire to celebrate the 35th anniversary of his musical creation,...
‘Lot of people can’t do nothing but start some s***, that’s why I own that word s***.’
There’s very little we can say about this new single and the video for...
The story of R&B singer, songwriter, and guitarist Eban Brown is a pretty incredible one, but one that most people probably haven’t heard or read about. As ...
“I was born in Louisiana,
And at the age of two
My Mama told my Papa,
Our little boy has the blues”
Firstly, yes we know: Buddy Guy pays the blues n...
This August sees the release of an excitingly ambitious project from Cleopatra Records in the form of a ‘new’ album from the late, great Teddy Pendergrass which...
When we first started TFSR at the beginning of this year we thought we knew many of the top soul and funk artists in the business, but as started to build an au...
British soul appears to be currently going through a period of renaissance, leading the rest of the world in producing quality new grooves. This year alone we’v...
Another week and another musical discovery for us here at TFSR, as we stumbled upon one of our new favourite songs of the year, Vivian Green’s ‘Get Right Back T...
Best known in the UK for her stellar performances with Brit-Funk legends Incognito, Maysa Leak has just released her new album Back To Love on the Shanachie lab...
Last week - whilst we were spending an inordinate amount of time procrastinating rather than dissertation writing - when we came across one of the most exciting...