The songs on Nashville-area singer and songwriter Tracy Nelson’s first album in 12 years, Life Don’t Miss Nobody, might represent an attempt to sum up the history of R&B — that useful blanket term for ...

This recording represents the anticipated follow up to Tracy Nelson’s well-regarded 1998 release, Sing It! with shouters Irma Thomas and Marcia Ball, and returns her to the country and blues feel of ...

Sometimes when you get into a story, you find a thread that leads to another equally interesting story. Let’s start with a rock and blues legend from the 1960s, releasing her first album in over a ...

There are voices, and then, there are voices. Two of the absolutely most spine-tingling, toe-curling, soul-caressing voices I know belong to Irma Thomas, the long-reigning Soul Queen of New Orleans, ...

The Waukesha Rotary Club has announced that Mitch Ryder and Tracy Nelson & The Jimmys will headline this summer's 18th Annual Waukesha Rotary BluesFest. NOTE: This post was updated to reflect a ...