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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.

Before he finally made a chart showing in America, John Grant had been making records for 20 years. Even then, it was a moderate push, but the emergence of Pale Green Ghosts showed that [...]

Circa 1980, Denver rock promoter Barry Fey got the go-ahead from CBS Records (Columbia) to assemble talent for his own custom label. Under the arrangement, his Feyline Presents handled all of the [...]

During the mid 1970s, one of the most popular rock bands in Colorado was Gerard, a ten-piece aggregation known for melding sweet pop sensibilities with the roar of a big band. Whiz kid Gerard [...]

At age 22, Lannie Garrett arrived in Colorado, her first stop on a purposely undefined emigration to the West. While waiting to establish residency for tuition purposes, she met Denver club [...]

While walking down a road to his house near Nederland, Richie Furay wrote Poco’s most distinctive composition—1973’s “A Good Feeling to Know.”

One of the most well-known and sought-after jazz musicians in the world grew up in Denver—Bill Frisell, a guitar great who graduated from Denver East High School in 1969.