The Telluride Bluegrass Festival is widely regarded as one of the world’s most important outdoor festivals. Tim Benko, who has shot TBF for more than three decades, shares some of his favorite images.
Bassist Phil Lesh, a founding member of the Grateful Dead, passed away on October 25, 2024. He was 84 years old.
What band would audition its sax player with a four-part questionnaire: “Are you single? Do you drink beer? Do you play basketball? Can you play ‘Yakety-Yak’?”
Townes Van Zandt
A highly influential Texas singer-songwriter, Townes Van Zandt enrolled at the University of Colorado in 1962; in the spring of his sophomore year, his parents, who were living in Houston, flew to Boulder to bring him back home. The wild, tragic cult artist later wrote and recorded while splitting his time between Texas, Tennessee and the… more ≫
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