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In 1969, the first and only Denver Pop Festival opened at Mile High Stadium on Friday, June 27. Woodstock didn’t happen until three months later. The three-day event featured seventeen acts, [...]

On June 20, 1978, Springsteen and the E Street band made their Colorado debut at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in support of Darkness on the Edge of Town, his first release in almost three years. The [...]

Many locals knew Dizzy Reed from his performances in Colorado with bands like Bootleg and Gauntlet. Then the keyboardist achieved more success than most regional musicians ever dream of—Guns N’ [...]

With singles like “All Mixed Up,” “Don’t Stay Home” and their biggest hit, “Down,” the guys of 311 won 1996’s alternative-rock lottery. The funk-rap-rock group had been on a steady climb toward [...]

Jethro Tull was booked to open the summer concert season at Red Rocks on June 10, 1971. In one of the most infamous events in Denver concert history, it resulted in a riot.

Few people outside the music industry knew of Mac Rebennack’s career. But as Dr. John, his enduring character creation, he was accepted enthusiastically worldwide as the acknowledged master of [...]

In the 1970s, a veritable who’s who of rock music’s elite was lured to the legendary Caribou Ranch recording studio, located near Nederland. Even in the Quietest Moments..., the fifth album by [...]

Like other Midwest bands in the 1970s, REO Speedwagon was constantly on the road, eventually becoming a regional star attraction. Lead singer Kevin Cronin and guitarist Gary Richrath wrote the [...]

In the mid 1970s, the rage among top recording stars was to hole up at “destination studios.” So they headed for Caribou Ranch, near the Boulder County foothills hamlet of Nederland, Colorado. [...]

At 18 years of age, still lacking any real direction and learning his craft, Bob Dylan was essentially a scrawny kid trying to be a folk singer. He arrived in Denver in the summer of 1960 and [...]