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Kim Simmons, the leader and founder of Savoy Brown, died on December 13, 2022. The seminal blues-rock boogie band from England recorded a live album of greatest hits at Denver’s Rainbow Music [...]

Billy Strings has made it his career mission to find, mine and reinvent traditional bluegrass music. Ten of his many influences have a Colorado connection!

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 [...]

Robert Gordon, a fixture on the ’70s New York City downtown club scene who resuscitated rockabilly music, died on October 18, 2022. He was 75.

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, [...]