The master of country soul, Percy Sledge crooned some of the genre's greatest hits, like "When a Man Loves a Woman." Rock historian Ed Ward says a new box set featuring all of Sledge's Atlantic ...

Percy Sledge never matched the height of his first hit, but Lauren Onkey frames it as less of a failure than an act of coming back down to size.

Percy Sledge rose to fame with the 1966 hit When a Man Loves a Woman in an extraordinary case of beginner's luck.