Reuters - Oct 25, 2006
On Monday I celebrated the fifth anniversary of the iPod s introduction at the Laundromat, listening to a recent Theme Time Radio Hour With Your Host Bob Dylan on my own iPod and reading a new book about...
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Fifty years after Dick Clark first hosted the popular television show that came to be called American Bandstand, he s ready to let go of some of the rock n roll items he s collected. Thousands of pieces...
More »E! Online - Oct 5, 2006
Something funny happened on Janet Jackson s way back to number one. Make that something Ludacris... The rapper-actor s fifth album, Release Therapy, edged out Jackson s 20 Y.O., to lead four albums...
More »AP - Sep 25, 2006
In case you ve forgotten about the many magical moments in Janet Jackson s illustrious career, she s ready to remind you of each one — if you buy her new CD. In the booklet and the artwork accompanying...
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When his Modern Times debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 last week, 65-year-old Bob Dylan became the oldest artist to top the album chart. Dylan benefited from associations with iTunes and Starbucks...
More »AP - Sep 13, 2006
Jerry Lee Lewis hardheaded life of self-destructive recklessness — filled with drugs, booze, scandal and broken marriages — didn t seem like it would be the formula for a long career. But The...
More »E! Online - Aug 31, 2006
Farm Aid is ready to kick out the jams and, um, polkas. With the annual daylong music fest turning 21, founders Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp unveiled an eclectic lineup for this year...
More »AP - Aug 31, 2006
This year s Farm Aid benefit concert will feature not only the nearly annual show s mainstays such as Neil Young and Willie Nelson, but also genres from polka to reggae. The lineup for the Sept. 30...
More »Reuters - Jun 14, 2006
Twenty years ago, a camera crew and some of the world s biggest rock stars ventured to St. Louis to help Chuck Berry celebrate his 60th birthday. They were lucky to survive the experience. The famously...
More »Reuters - May 12, 2006
Jerry Lee Lewis will inaugurate Time Life s Legends of American Music with the three-disc boxed set Jerry Lee Lewis: A Half Century of Hits. The June 13 release was overseen by Lewis and features the...
More »AP - Apr 11, 2006
A high school band plays Beethoven. President Calvin Coolidge delivers his inaugural address. Fats Domino turns Blueberry Hill, which had been a hit for Glenn Miller, into a rock n roll classic. They...
More »AP - Nov 17, 2005
When the new Johnny Cash biopic Walk The Line opens in theaters Friday, Kris Kristofferson will probably be watching more closely than most. As a close friend and collaborator of Cash s, Kristofferson...
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If you nail yourself down to one thing, you re gonna have a hurt foot, Waylon Payne says. Country singer-songwriter Payne has been a hard man to nail down lately. The musician, who released a fine but...
More »AP - Sep 14, 2005
Three musical acts from the Hurricane Katrina-devastated Gulf Coast are among the reggae, rock, jazz and blues legends to perform on a Thai resort island for a music festival starting Sept. 23, an event...
More »AP - Sep 13, 2005
Joaquin Phoenix did not have to learn just to sing and play guitar. He had to learn to strum the strings in the distinctive freight-train rhythms of Johnny Cash and sing in his sonorous storytelling style...
More »AP - Aug 13, 2005
Fans of rock n roll icon Jerry Lee Lewis will no longer be allowed to tour his home. Lewis Nesbit residence has been closed to the public for more than a year during his lengthy divorce proceedings with...
More »AP - Jun 16, 2005
A judge in Mississippi has approved a divorce settlement between Jerry Lee Lewis and his sixth wife, Kerrie Lynn McCarver Lewis, and promptly sealed the court records. The settlement was reached Wednesday...
More »Reuters - May 25, 2005
Starbucks Hear Music, the record arm of the coffee retailer, is launching two projects with Concord Records, its partner in the wildly successful 2004 Ray Charles album Genius Loves Company. On July...
More »Reuters - May 20, 2005
Just because I wrote it doesn t mean I have to remember the words. So said the great Cowboy Jack Clement during his recent gig at Joe s Pub in New York. But the man behind such country classics as...
More »Reuters - Apr 20, 2005
The movies have been very good to T Bone Burnett, but he s scratching his record-making itch again. The lanky Texas-born musician-producer was barracked at the Village Recorder in West Los Angeles this...
More »E! Online - Mar 15, 2005
U2 may have found what they re looking for...immortality. After a quarter-century of pushing musical boundaries in an everlasting bid to lay claim to the title of world s most important rock band,...
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