MICHAEL JACKSON (1958-2009) BY NELSON GEORGE
By Nelson | june 26, 2009 | 9 comments

 Contact: Nicole Nelch                                                                   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETel. 212/228-6951Email: nicole@nelsondgeorge.netMICHAEL JACKSON (1958-2009) BY NELSON GEORGEOrson Wells' rich, brilliant & ultimately doomed character Charles Foster Kane died, alone and unloved, in his California mansion. At the time of his passing he was a deformed, corrupt and far removed from the genius displayed in creating [...]

Soul Cities CHICAGO Jerry "The Ice Man" Butler Interview
By Nelson | january 14, 2009 | 1 comment

Jerry "The Ice Man" Butler was the original lead singer of the R&B vocal group The Impressions and is also a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.  His work with Otis Redding and Cur  He continues to perform and also currently serves as Commissioner for Cook County, Illinois.Due to technical difficulties we weren't able [...]

Soul Cities on vh1 soul
By Nelson | october 4, 2008 | 12 comments

My vh1 soul series, Soul Cities, is scheduled to debut on November 11 at 9p.m. with a trip to the City of Brotherly Love. It will be the first of six shows in the travel series. More info and pix to come. peace[...]

Soul Stuff: The James Brown Reader and Soul Cities
By Nelson | may 9, 2008 | Post a comment

There’s a great review of the recently published The James Brown Reader in the LA Times this weekend. Veteran music journalist R.J. Smith gave the book a fantastic write up. Go look it up. There are pictures from party’s for the book held in LA and NY on my Facebook and MySpace pages… In more [...]

Vintage Soul
By Nelson | april 12, 2008 | 2 comments

Maybe because I’ve been developing a soul travel show for VH1 Soul I’ve been listening to a lot of new and old soul music. At first I thought it was just me, but there’s been extraordinary around the music and culture in the last two years. Lots of new live acts. Lots of new records, especially from the United Kingdom. [...]

Passing Strange: The Great Black Boho Rock Musical
By Nelson | march 8, 2008 | 1 comment

Stew and his band, the Negro Problem, had been making the rounds of the rock world for well over a decade. Like most black rock bands they were marginalized, not part of the world of mainstream black music and had found very little love in the rock mainstream. But Stew was a sharp witted, ambitious lyricist with facility in [...]

Baduism circa 2008
By Nelson | march 6, 2008 | 1 comment

Erykah Badu’s New Amerykah:Part One (4th World War) is a complicated mesh of soul, electro sounds and references, simple and obscure. The lady is one of the great eccentric’s in pop music and it’s a pleasure to have her making music again after a six year absence. That much of the album is produced by [...]