The Chicago Sun-Times reports that the great soul and blues wailer Etta James died of complications from leukemia this morning in Riverside, California. She was 73. As a teenager, James was discovered in 1950 by the bandleader Johnny Otis (who also died this week), and she scored her first minor hit, “Roll With Me, Henry,” [...]

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In recent weeks, we’ve heard plenty of new songs, in various forms, from Ryan Adams: “Lucky Now,” “Ashes & Fire,” “Invisible Riverside,” “Dirty Rain,” “Chains Of Love.” All those tracks seem to promise a return to form, and now ...

Hey, another song from the new Ryan Adams album, you guys! This album seems like it’ll be pretty great, right? I mean, right? In various different forms, we’ve already heard the Ashes & Fire songs “Lucky Now,” “Ashes & Fire,” and “Invisible Riverside,&#82...

I sort of can’t believe I’m typing this, but Ryan Adams has been straight killing it lately; his new songs “Lucky Now” and “Ashes & Fire” and his Iron Maiden cover are all varying degrees of great. And now here comes another song from the forthcoming album Ashes & Fire...