When Francis Albert Sinatra kicked the bucket more than a decade ago, his departure left a yawning chasm in American pop that, despite the valiant but feeble ef...
For five decades, the stars upon on Hollywood Boulevard have been subjected to a steady diet of cigarette butts, shoe leather and, when the Reaper calls, the oc...
Country singer-songwriter Mike Stinson, the consummate indie underdog, spent the better part of two decades in Los Angeles quietly churning out a slew of uniformly first-rate original honky-tonk ballads. While beloved by local fans (and music journalists), Stinson enjoyed few other rewards and finally abandoned us for Houston, Texas almost......
Mike Stinson, the Virginia-born, Los Angeles–bruised honky-tonk singer-songwriter, is too genuine, too original, too artful and too damn country for his own goo...
Dan Crary , the masterly guitarist perhaps best known for his long stint with bluegrass provocateurs Berline, Crary & Hickman, has been bewildering audiences wi...
Ah, Silver Lake, that bumpy, peculiar quarter of sprawling Los Angeles. At one time or another, each of us has gotten lost there, made violent love there, parti...
Composer-arranger-producer-musician Jimmy Webb is one the Great American Songbook's all-time noble latter-day contributors. Like Burt Bacharach, Webb steppe...
The 75th anniversary of the king of rock & roll's birth has seen a more than a few commemorative cash-ins -- the release of a splendid new four-CD box set E...
Ian Whitcomb? Don't take him for granted. The British-born author-musician-teen idol-broadcaster-journalist-musicologist -- a man of chronically sunny good ...
With his fright wig tresses, rumpled Salvation Army duds, shopping bagful of sheet music and battered ukulele, no one ever fit in less than Tiny Tim. The consum...
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