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R.I.P. Chuck E. Weiss, who died on July 19 at 76 after a long illness. The Denver native moved to L.A. in the late ’70s, living at West Hollywood’s Tropicana Motel with Tom Waits and Rickie Lee [...]

In 1984, Hazel Miller tried to move from her hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, to Los Angeles. Her rental truck broke down in Denver, so she stayed—and became a Colorado institution. Belting out [...]

Led by singer and keyboardist Steve Conn, Colorado’s Gris Gris played “slightly twisted funky New Orleans dance music” in the early 1980s. Conn was a regular soloist at the Hotel Boulderado’s [...]

In 1993, Paul McCartney’s U.S. “New World Tour” served up Fab-tinged family fun for nearly two million fans at 78 concerts, including a performance at Folsom Field in Boulder on May 26. He put [...]

Brent Rowan, a graduate of Arvada High School, became a premier session guitarist who supported Nashville's biggest stars, playing guitar on more than 10,000 sessions.

Tom Nix, a Colorado native, played throughout the Rocky Mountain region; he made the Billboard Country Singles charts in 1981 with “Home Along the Highway” (#79).

The son of a Pulitzer Prize winner, Peter La Farge, an often neglected folk singer-songwriter of the 1950s and 1960s, grew up partly on the former Kane Ranch in Fountain, Colorado.

In the ’70s, when Boulder served as a microcosm of the rock era, one of the town’s great live bands of the decade was a swinging country and western act—Dusty Drapes & the Dusters. The bandleader [...]

Rusty Young, a founding member of Poco and the most adept and imaginative steel guitar player in the country-rock genre, died on April 14 of a heart attack at the age of 75.