Your soul is hungry. Your soul is thirsty. Your soul needs music. Your soul needs soul. You need to go to Soul Buffet at Wynwood Yard this Saturday, May 20th, 2017 at Wynwood Yard, and unleash your emotions with Mango…
Check out the newest book in the Henry Stone Music library! Inside The Music Biz (Stone Cold Truth Book 2) is the ultimate music insider’s look at every aspect of the independent music business from the golden age of the…
Rockin’ and Glory are the first two Miami record labels founded by Henry Stone. These labels began operating as early as 1950 in very limited runs, but began officially releasing records with matrix numbers in 1952. The Rockin’ and Glory…
DJ Khaled better get ready to make a whole bunch of plaques. Michael Sterling’s “Lovers and Friends” is about to go quadruple platinum again. Wait, don’t play yourself. It could go diamond diamond, that’s a hundred million. The original composition’s…
“I wasn’t there at the Harlem Square Club in Miami when Sam Cooke recorded his famous live album in 1963, but I can tell you my first record was on Chess Records and I knew Sam Cooke and I saw…
For over three decades, Gwen McCrae has won worldwide acclaim for her sensuous, classy brand of modern Soul music. Gwen was an important figure in TK’s growth as a center of R&B music in the 70s. In 1975, at TK…
Sexy, sultry, singing ladies with legs as long as US-1. These are the things dreams are made of. The beautiful songbirds of Kayvette Records, Brandye were a three woman group who recorded at least one single for T.K. Disco (“Rhythm…
R.I.P to the artist formerly known as The Artist Formerly Known As Prince. This is what it sounds like when doves cry, my friend. He was the Purple Alpha, the Minneapolis Omega, and a son of funk in the same league…
A million record sales is no easy feat. And for the independent record labels of the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and even 1990’s, it would have been damn near impossible to make hit records without the help of independent distributors. According…
“Pee Wee Crayton was on Modern Records. Modern Records was run by very good friends of mine from California, the Bihari brothers. Jules, Saul and Jo Bihari. I started with them when I first got out of the army in California….
Some of the best R&B guitar work.
Lookout Wynwood! Mysterious Henry Stone street art posters have been taking over the neighborhood as Art Basel Miami 2013 descends on the city. We don’t know who the crusaders putting these up are, but it’s good to know that as…
“Cocaine Everywhere,” Says TK Records Mike Lewis, “Miami Was Dodge City”
August 21, 2017
Urban Crisis – Spread Love Around (Video)
August 18, 2017
Top 200 Florida Funk, Soul, and R&B Singles of 1976 (Part 1)
August 17, 2017
Paulette Reaves – Blue Candle Records (1976 Promo Photo)
August 16, 2017