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Lyle Lovett was still in college when he first heard John Hiatt perform. Hiatt’s band backed guitar guru Ry Cooder during a show in 1981 at th…
“Something’s Happening Here” is the aptly titled first chapter of X co-founder John Doe’s recently released memoir, Under the Big Black Sun: A…
Cécile McLorin Salvant was riding the high of a first Grammy nomination (WomanChild in the Best Jazz Vocal Album category) when she made her M…
Andrew York wasn’t your average 6-year-old, fooling around playing air guitar during regular family sing-alongs. The native Virginian would pa…
“Janis Joplin offered me a slug off her beer,” Peter Tork says. “And along comes this guy who plays the guitar left-handed.”
“I’ve still got it,” Patti Smith told the packed house at the Golden State Theatre back in 2012. The punk rocker’s rare acoustic birthday trib…
Last week, 75-year-old Dr. John headlined the Louis Armstrong’s Wonderful World Festival in Queens. The July 22 Monterey show kicks off a stri…
Violent conflict led to beautiful sound. For the past few years, Iyad Moussa Ben Abderahmane, aka Sadam, toured with remarkable African blues …
Recently featured at New York’s Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Berkeley-based singer Nell Robinson and Bay Area native Jim Nunally re…
A age 6, Australian-born Tommy Emmanuel was playing rhythm guitar in his family’s band.