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The Colorado Sun, the award-winning, journalist-owned, community-supported online news outlet, asked Colorado Music Experience for a playlist of memorable songs that have Colorado connections. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

In the early ’60s, folk music experienced a pop breakthrough with the Kingston Trio’s “Tom Dooley.” The No. 1 single was traditional—basic acoustic guitar and banjo accompaniment, straightforward [...]

They didn’t become national recording stars, but the Daniels lived the rock ’n’ roll dream for a short time in the ’60s as the darlings of Denver’s debutante set.

Mary Wilson, a founding member of the Supremes, died at the age of 76 on February 8, 2021. Pop music fans recognize Wilson as one-third of the iconic singing trio that epitomized the Motown sound [...]

Eddie Van Halen, the guitar virtuoso and founder of Van Halen, died Tuesday at the age of 65 after a battle with cancer. CoME director G. Brown spoke with Van Halen over the years and has written [...]