When mega-groups tour together, the players often are content to each play a set alone and then come together for a finale or two.

The other day, singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter had a conversation with early rock and roll/R&B pioneer Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Only…

Nearly 50 years after Simon & Garfunkel closed the opening night of the Monterey Pop Festival, Art Garfunkel reflects on the historic gath…

“Tikya the Blackheart Man, children I say, don’t go near him/ Tikya the Blackheart Man, for even lions fear him,” croons Bunny Wailer on the o…

ittle Joe’s 75th birthday on stage in Salinas will be a far cry from his 15th birthday, spent in a Temple, Texas cotton field.

Something changed after Pat Benatar’s stirring 1980 MTV debut, when her cover of the Young Rascals’ “You Better Run” was the second video to a…

Since catapulting into the spotlight in 1962 with the Tijuana Brass, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame trumpeter Herb Alpert has sold more than 72 mi…