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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 [...]

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.