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Ruth Simon is a New York-based reporter for The Wall Street Journal, where she covers small business and entrepreneurship. She has previously covered consumer lending, mortgages and housing ...

At times, they seem more like a loose aggregation of like-minded music workers dispensing sonic bulletins. The last three albums appeared with almost no advance notice, while you’d be forgiven for ...

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Martin Baylis via mojo4music.com One of the great soul albums of the early 1960s. Mayfield wrote the gospel-soul title track “to help motivate the people” after seeing the divisions in the Civil ...