The Rainy Daze had one of the biggest Colorado-based hits of the 1960s—"That Acapulco Gold,” an ode to marijuana crooned in Roaring Twenties vaudeville style.
An Iowa native, Chuck Pyle made his way to Colorado’s Front Range in 1965, “when Boulder was mostly gravel streets.” His path as an accomplished songwriter was set in 1975 when Jerry Jeff Walker [...]
When the world of popular music became just a mouse-click away, Colorado’s Pretty Lights—the creation of Derek Vincent Smith—built a following by offering his music for free.
Rusty Young got his musical start in Böenzee Cryque, a Denver-based band whose odd moniker was inspired, perhaps apocryphally, by the local business sign on an appliance store. Getting local [...]
Created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, the Comedy Central television network’s controversial and wildly successful animated sitcom, became infamous for lampooning a wide [...]
One of five children, Stacie Orrico sang at church and in school as a child. At home she listened for hours to pop divas and R&B artists while singing along in front of the mirror.
In the music business, the busiest guy of his generation may be Ryan Tedder. The singer-songwriter built a dual career—as frontman for the Denver-based OneRepublic, and as a prolific and visible [...]
Coming out of the fluid California scene of the late 1960s, the pioneering Nitty Gritty Dirt Band was initially an acoustic jug band. With a core of Jeff Hanna, Jimmie Fadden and string wizard [...]
