Simply Red's 'Simplified' American Soul Ed Gordon talks with Mick Hucknall of the R&B group Simply Red. Hucknall, who is English, has a new CD, Simplified, that includes some American soul favorites.

Does anyone else want to call time on unplugged albums? Supposedly a humble gesture, it smacks of classic rocker egotism. Revisiting some of Simply Red's hits after he was asked to perform material ...

IT SEEMS to be the craze these days to remake the old rather than create something new. It is happening on TV, in movies and now with music. Bands have been performing other bands' songs for decades ...