CALLAWAY — Music festivals are a huge hit in Panama City Beach, but one local entertainer is bringing the music to the east side of Bay County. Bay County’s inaugural Southern Soul Music Festival will ...

For 20 years, Nick Johnson, under his radio sobriquet of Dr. Nick, has charismatically and creatively brought the sounds of blues and soul, new and old, popular and obscure, to listeners via a trio of ...

CONFERENCE A SHORT WHILE AGO...AND WHILE CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING WITH A JAM SESSION. LOCAL MUSICIANS AND STARS KICKING IN AS THE CITY STAKES IT'S CLAIM AS THE HOME OF SOUTHERN SOUL. IT IS IN PART ...

Voted “Best Blues Book of 2013” in this year’s Living Blues Magazine Critic’s Poll, “Southern Soul-Blues” by David Whiteis has drawn the attention of local blues fans as the Jackson Rhythm and Blues ...

Ms. Jody is one of the leading lights on the southern soul-blues circuit, but she’s virtually unknown among mainstream fans in other parts of the country. A large part of the singer’s appeal, at least ...