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For most of the 1970s, Katy Moffatt was a fixture in the Denver folk music scene, playing clubs and small rock venues and spending countless hours at musicians’ haunts like the Denver Folklore Center.

A master cornetist, Ron Miles uses jazz as a starting point for his original voice, but he has helped elevate every style with which he’s involved, from funk to sophisticated big-band charts to [...]

The barriers to entry in the music business proved insurmountable to Meese’s career progression, but the Denver-based quartet’s melodic brand of pop-rock was widely admired in the local scene.

Americans were chattering away like mad on their CB (Citizens Band) radios when advertising agency director Bill Fries assumed the identity of C.W. McCall and recorded “Convoy.” The tale of the [...]

Growing up in Southern California, Steve Martin first picked up the banjo when he was around 17 years of age. He learned his way around the instrument with help from high school friend John [...]

The Denver music scene was a perfect place for this wildly successful band to nurture its sound.

In 1997, Britain’s Chemical Brothers reigned as the kings of electronica—pulsing dance music with frenetic beats, lots of computer or synthesizer treated sound effects, minimal vocals and a [...]

Bob Lind was another Colorado “folkie” who found pop music success recording “Elusive Butterfly,” a #5 national hit in March 1966.

Serving up self-described “polyethnic Cajun slamgrass”—a unique brand of bluegrass-based boogie that drew from miscellaneous influences—Leftover Salmon won an astounding national following on the [...]