Nearly 40 years after it began as an SNL skit, the Original Blues Brothers Band, featuring Steve Cropper and “Blue Lou” Marini, have a new album
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The surviving Grateful Dead members, plus other heavyweights of the jam band scene, came out to pay tribute to their friend. Watch it starting this weekend.
Although they had often played sections of their game-changing rock opera in concert, until this year they’d never performed the entire album.
Before they became one of America’s biggest bands, John and Tom Fogerty, Stu Cook and Doug Clifford had another name. Their complete catalog is coming out.
She’s sung with Leon Russell, Eric Clapton, Graham Nash, Stephen Stills and Dave Mason, and had top 10 hits on her own. She’s just signed a new record deal.
Continuing to support his recent solo release, ‘This Path Tonight,’ the British rock legend will head out on the road throughout the U.S. this summer.
A series of special events celebrating the final album from Gregg Allman, ‘Southern Blood,’ will be held in L.A., Macon and Nashville
The two recently departed co-founders of the Allman Brothers Band were honored by their friends and family at a weekend festival in Pennsylvania.
The original lead guitarist of the popular ’70s/’80s band claims that the current lineup should not be using their name. We speak with Craig Chaquico.
‘Everything is Combustible’ chronicles the guitarist’s rise in the heady NYC music scene and his life and work in the decades since.