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Mollie O’Brien, a nationally venerated interpretive singer of folk, blues and R&B, has issued acclaimed albums with her brother, Tim O’Brien, and her husband, guitarist Rich Moore, and equally [...]

Singer-songwriter Esmé Patterson is a former member of Paper Bird, an indie folk band that started as sidewalk buskers, performing its joyful blend of roots, folk and indie pop on the streets of [...]

Rick Nelson was the first teen idol to use television as a way to promote records. In 1948, he joined his parents’ radio show, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, which moved to television in [...]

Lee “Scratch” Perry, one of the most influential forces of Jamaican music, died at the age of 85 on August 29, 2021.

Stanley Sheldon, a longtime member of Peter Frampton’s band, was a musician with fusion master guitarist Tommy Bolin’s groups from 1971 to 1974, including Energy.

Nanci Griffith, a Grammy-winning singer, guitarist and songwriter, died on August 13, 2021. She was 68. Griffith emerged from the same generation of folk/country stars as Lyle Lovett and Steve [...]

Dispatch, a jam band based in the Boston area, developed a following via word-of-mouth and file-sharing in the late 1990s; drummer Brad Corrigan grew up in Littleton.

In the late ’90s, Brethren Fast earned a reputation along the Front Range for white-hot live shows that were reckless adventures in self-described “electrified hillbilly hot-rod funk.”

As a member of such seminal bands as the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash (and occasionally Young), David Crosby was assured a place in rock history. But his legacy was overshadowed by a public [...]