There’s a whole lot less shakin’ goin’ on these days. Rock ’n’ roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis—whose pounding piano, impassioned vocals and raw, uninhibited performing style captured the rebellious [...]
Paul Revere & the Raiders were a pop-rock group formed in Portland, Oregon, circa 1960 around keyboardist Paul Revere and lead singer Mark Lindsay. Their guitarist, Drake Levin, had grown up in [...]
On September 3, 1972, the Grateful Dead performed before approximately 32,000 fans at the University of Colorado’s Folsom Field in Boulder. The band’s first stadium show in Colorado was marked by [...]
John Hazlett grew up in east Boulder County and formed a garage band, Jefferson, in the late ’70s with Centaurus High School classmates. He joined local bands Soft Punk and the School Boys and [...]
In Denver’s Fort Logan Cemetery, among the seemingly endless rows of white stones marking the final resting places of military veterans, is one marked “Walter B Conley.” The stele reads “U.S. [...]
For years, Widespread Panic never cracked Billboard’s Top 200 album chart or had a music video on MTV. But the neo-hippie jam band, formed in the early 1980s in the college town of Athens, [...]
In its original incarnation, the building at the corner of Monaco and Evans in Denver housed a three-screen movie house that failed. The Rainbow Music Hall was born in 1979 when concert promoter [...]
Born in 1964 in Canada, Bill White Acre moved to Boulder, Colorado after high school to study music at Naropa University. Becoming known for his versatility as a composer and his use of open [...]