AP - Jun 10, 2009
Bonnie Raitt and Taj Mahal are planning a hot summer together. Even though they ve known each other for decades, they will tour as a double bill for the first time beginning Aug. 6 in Williamsport, Pa...
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If Bonnie Raitt has her way, this summer's BonTaj Roulet tour with fellow blues musician Taj Mahal will be the first of many such outings. I trademarked 'BonTaj Roulet,' Raitt told Billboard...
More »AP - Oct 23, 2007
Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne and Graham Nash are putting a new millennium twist on their 1970s anti-nuclear message, urging Congress not to approve federal loan guarantees for new nuclear power plants...
More »E! Online - Oct 23, 2007
Bonnie Raitt is once again giving the government something to talk about. The titian-haired songstress joined fellow rocker-activists Jackson Browne and Graham Nash in Washington, D.C., Tuesday to dissuade...
More »Reuters - Jun 8, 2007
This summer looks like a busy one for rock band Poison's Bret Michaels. EMI America Records/Capitol just released Poison'd, which finds Michaels and original bandmates C.C. DeVille, Rikki Rockett...
More »Reuters - Apr 27, 2007
Singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile's self-titled 2005 Columbia debut had a relatively quiet rollout. Released on the label's Red Ink imprint, the album, which has sold 74,000 copies, according to...
More »AP - Apr 26, 2007
The blues stage will be back when the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival opens Friday, and so will such performers as blues singer Alton Big Al Carson and singer-pianist Henry Butler. Carson, who...
More »Reuters - Apr 18, 2007
Wannabe pop star Sanjaya Malakar, the American Idol contestant best known for his wacky hairdos, was booted from the hit show on Wednesday, disappointing a hard core of smart alecks who delighted in mocking...
More »Reuters - Mar 21, 2007
Songwriter and music producer Dave Stewart is collaborating with activist group Greenpeace to come up with ways that Hollywood can promote environmental causes. Stewart, who along with Annie Lennox...
More »AP - Mar 12, 2007
I want it! squealed 13-year-old Hiiaka Kaneao, pointing to a sparkly, hot pink, star-shaped bass guitar hanging inside a pink fur-lined booth. Her high-pitched voice is music to the ears of the guitar...
More »AP - Mar 6, 2007
Nick of Time was a turning point for Bonnie Raitt. The 1989 album elevated the blues singer-songwriter to a new level of success and earned her three Grammy Awards. Now it s part of the Definitive 200...
More »AP - Jan 5, 2007
The Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival is negotiating to buy the 500-acre farm where the first five festivals were held to be the event s permanent home, the landowner has said. Bonnaroo officials declined...
More »AP - Nov 8, 2006
A musician who wrote the 1970s pop tunes Still the One and Dance with Me toppled a longtime Republican lawmaker after a campaign that merged his minor-league celebrity with anti-Iraq war momentum and...
More »Reuters - Oct 16, 2006
He s performed in front of millions of people, but few of them know his name or his distinguished rock n roll history. Now, Blondie Chaplin is stepping out from the giant shadow cast by the Rolling...
More »Reuters - Oct 13, 2006
Usually when an artist releases a multiple-CD collection, it s a boxed set of greatest hits, perhaps with a few previously unreleased tunes thrown in. In a possibly unprecedented move, Vince Gill s new...
More »Reuters - Oct 10, 2006
Soul diva India.Arie says a previously unreleased version of her song I Am Not My Hair will finally be heard -- in a new Lifetime Television movie, Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy. In fact,...
More »Reuters - Aug 28, 2006
You may have seen the recent photos of Bob Dylan looking uncannily like Charlie Chaplin, and his 44th album, Modern Times, shares a title with Chaplin s 1936 classic about automation, big business and...
More »AP - Jun 20, 2006
The fifth annual Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival grossed $15 million, according to a report on Billboard.com. About 80,000 fans attended the sold-out, four-day festival that ended Sunday. Tom Petty...
More »AP - Jun 18, 2006
As Beck took the stage at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, he had dancers in bear suits and a band that played on water glasses and dinner plates. He also had a puppet alter-ego take a swipe at...
More »E! Online - Jun 14, 2006
Get ready, Tennessee; here come Radiohead, Tom Petty and 70,000 tour wookiees. Now in its fifth year, Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival will be welcoming fans back to Manchester, Tennessee, beginning...
More »Reuters - May 19, 2006
John Lee Hooker could not read or write, according to his daughter, but the legendary Delta bluesman s estate is hoping to educate a new legion of fans about his 50-year musical legacy. The Hooker estate...
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