Donald Gibson / April 4, 2012 5:17 pm
Even in his formative stages Eric Clapton was earning a rapturous, rabid following and inspiring generations of guitarists to come. “He was already a star,” says veteran music journalist and author Chris Welch.
Nick DeRiso / April 3, 2012 9:32 am
Steve Smith left Journey to focus on jazz, his first musical love, in the late 1990s – but he has remained close with the band’s co-founding guitarist.
Nick DeRiso / March 28, 2012 9:40 am
Regarded as the preeminent modern jazz figure in New Orleans, Ellis Marsalis would have had a sweeping impact as a musical innovator and longtime educator even had he not parented a series of famous jazz-playing sons
Nick DeRiso / March 21, 2012 7:32 am
Adrian Belew’s just-completed tour with Tony Levin and Pat Mastelotto presented an opportunity to revisit their time in King Crimson. Unfortunately, Belew says, partial reunions are all that fans are likely to see for the foreseeable future.
Nick DeRiso / March 14, 2012 8:50 am
Funky guitarist, gifted composer, hipster arranger, giving philanthropist and hit-making svengali, Nile Rodgers is just as chic as ever. And still shaking every thing he’s got.
Nick DeRiso / March 7, 2012 8:54 am
At the turn of the 1980s, Roger Hodgson and Supertramp were coming off a blockbuster album in Breakfast in America that had just spent 15 weeks at No. 1 in the U.S. By the end of the decade, he was out of music.
Nick DeRiso / March 5, 2012 12:04 pm
Over a roots-rocking career decades in the making, Louisiana-born Kevin Gordon has issued a series of acclaimed songs, but none more so than those on his new album Gloryland.
Nick DeRiso / February 29, 2012 10:31 am
A new seven-album retrospective from Legacy focuses on one of Stanley Clarke’s most innovative periods, his solo Epic recordings of the 1970s.
Nick DeRiso / February 22, 2012 8:14 am
When superstar drummer Kenny Aronoff — on tour now with Chickenfoot — starts recalling his sideman projects, they spill out with no rhyme or reason. He’s, almost literally, played them all.
Fred Phillips / February 15, 2012 9:35 am
Paul O’Neill is lucky enough to see his dream come to life on the stage every night. He calls it “Rock Theater”
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