R&B and blues singer Esther Phillips is among the 2023 inductees into The Blues Foundation’s Blues Hall of Fame. Phillips had two top 20 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 — “Release Me” (1962, when she ...

Originally released in 1975, Esther Phillips’ disco album features her soulful delivery and passionate feel for the blues. This came toward the end of her career, during the singer’s second major ...

The decades-long battle with drug addiction, which ultimately led to her untimely demise, contributed to vocalist Esther Phillips' status as a tragic second-tier figure in the larger annals of popular ...

Jacki Lyden quotes from "Aged and Mellow Blues," a song performed by R&B legend "Little Esther" Phillips: "I've got a strange philosophy/Nothing here appeals to me/I like my men like I like my whiskey ...