Jimi Hendrix predicted the future success of a band who would reach their peak of fame years after Hendrix died.
Bob Dylan's songs are endlessly studied and interpreted. An exercise Dylan must enjoy following a lifetime throwing people off his tracks with mischievous deception and careful fiction. Though ...
As new film A Complete Unknown reignites interest in Bob Dylan, Cork aficionado Jim Comet takes on the task of ranking the ...
Imagine you are a young guitarist, and one of your heroes becomes a fan. Los Angeles-based producer and artist Mike Gordon knows the feeling. Eric Clapton announced his admiration for Gordon—who ...
For most of the past 70 years, popular music has centred on the electric guitar, the portable instrument that emerged from ...
Carlos Santana has canceled his January and February shows at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. The legendary guitarist broke his finger after a fall at his home in Hawaii, according to ...
From his roots in New York’s Greenwich Village folk music scene of the early ‘60s to his more recent role as a grizzled blues ...
John Lennon is the most influential songwriter ever. We've decided to examine his impact by listing the five best covers of songs he wrote for The Beatles.
Although the groundwork for the rock and roll boom had already been established before Chuck Berry, he solidified the genre's place in mainstream culture.
Michael Bloomfield's Telecaster — which outraged Pete Seeger during Bob Dylan's set at 1965 folk festival — is on sale ...
He was a mere sideman during a televised Buddy & Stacey performance in 1965, but even if the camera neglected him, his ...
It's 1968, the Summer of Love is in full swing, and a young Jimi Hendrix is riding high on the success of "Are You ...