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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 [...]

The generation that grew up in the 1950s and 1960s had its worldview formed by Top 40 radio. Disc jockeys with oversized personalities did wild stunts and played the music that came to be [...]

Growing up in Colorado, Jinx Jones spent his teen years playing guitar and singing at Christian youth dances around Denver. He moved on to perform at long-departed 3.2 beer clubs such as My Sweet [...]

Pop singer and guitarist Michael Johnson’s wide-ranging experience started with his natural attraction to music as a 13-year-old in his native Denver. In 1958, he and his older brother Paul (then [...]

An indie-folk treasure, Gregory Alan Isakov has patiently cultivated a loyal following in much the same way he has tended his four-acre Colorado garden.

A talented, innovative quartet, Hot Rize not only inspired artists within the progressive bluegrass genre, but also fueled the rise of the jam band scene in Colorado.

Staying with the Byrds for four years and six seminal albums, Chris Hillman then departed with Gram Parsons to develop acoustic country sounds in a new band dubbed the Flying Burrito Brothers. He [...]

Katie Herzig’s lovely, confident voice and songs have embellished numerous films and television shows, as well as her own critically acclaimed albums. 

Traditional acoustic Delta blues attracted a host of young performers in the 1990s and early 2000s, but Denver native Corey Harris was credited with revitalizing the breadth of black musical [...]

Pianist, conductor, arranger, composer, producer—Dave Grusin covered a lot of ground in the music business. But he saw no rationale in keeping score.