ZZ Top was offered $1 million apiece by Gillette to shave their beards for a television commercial in 1984. The good news is that both lead guitarist Billy...
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Bill Haley & His Comets’ Rock Around the Clock was the number one song for virtually the entire summer of 1955.
I wasn’t aware of Adrian Legg, but he certainly belongs alongside guitarists such as Bert Jansch, Leo Kottke and the master, John Fahey. The song above...
Richie Cannata, who has long been associated with Billy Joel — he was his sax player through 1982 — and more recently with The Beach Boys and...
Here is the start of The Washington Post’s obituary of George Duke: George Duke, a Grammy-winning keyboardist who crossed musical boundaries to play with...
Here is the first paragraph of the Associated Press story on the passing of Cowboy Jack Clement: “Cowboy” Jack Clement, a producer, engineer, songwriter and...
I don’t know much about Widespread Panic, other than they come from the same school of music — and are associated with — Phish and other...
This beautiful song was written by Gillian Welch for the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? It is performed by Welch, Emmylou Harris and Alison Krauss...
The two best YouTube clips of the influential folk revival group The New Lost City Ramblers are from Pete Seeger’s program Rainbow Quest. It’s no...
