AP - Apr 22, 2009
Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris and Travis Tritt are among the many acts performing at this year s MerleFest in the North Carolina mountains. The 22nd annual festival opens Thursday and continues through...
More »AP - Apr 13, 2009
Berklee College of Music has announced that R&B legend Smokey Robinson, vocalist Linda Ronstadt and merengue pioneer Juan Luis Guerra will be awarded honorary degrees. The three will...
More »AP - Mar 2, 2007
Country radio has had a rough go of it in the big city. New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco all have seen country stations fail in recent years. But the return of country to the FM airwaves this...
More »AP - Jan 19, 2007
Barry Manilow became one of the world s best-selling artists by making timeless classics out of unknown songs. But these days, he s more likely to rely on other people s classics than interpret new material...
More »Reuters - Jan 5, 2007
The only child of pop songwriter Burt Bacharach and actress Angie Dickinson has committed suicide after a lifetime struggling with a form of autism, a spokeswoman for the former couple said on Friday....
More »E! Online - Dec 7, 2006
Here s the complete list of nominees for the 49th Annual Grammy Awards. The awards will be presented Feb. 11 in Los Angeles: Album Of The Year Taking the Long Way, Dixie ChicksSt. Elsewhere, Gnarls...
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 - Aug 28, 2006
When Smokey Robinson segued into a traditional pop segment at Saturday s Greek Theater concert, it was natural to expect a letdown. So many performers -- including Linda Ronstadt and Rod Stewart -- have...
More »E! Online - Aug 25, 2006
Well, this is no good. Linda Ronstadt has canceled the remaining dates on her tour in order to recover from an unexpected--and unspecified--surgery earlier this week. It wasn t an emergency...
More »AP - Aug 24, 2006
Singer Linda Ronstadt has canceled tour dates for the rest of the year to recover from surgery she had this week, her agent said Thursday. Ronstadt s agent, Shelly Schultz, would not provide details...
More »Reuters - Jul 14, 2006
Rocker-turned-preacher Richard Furay, a founding member of Buffalo Springfield and Poco, says he long felt overlooked for his contributions to two 1960s bands that pioneered the next decade s country-...
More »Reuters - Jul 9, 2006
It s a bit disconcerting to remember a now-classic 28-year-old album cover featuring a very sexy Linda Ronstadt in roller skates and short shorts, only to have her remind the audience that her 60th birthday...
More »AP - May 22, 2006
If pop star Michelle Branch and her pal Jessica Harp had their way, their new country album Stand Still, Look Pretty would have registered even higher on the twang scale. We had people holding the...
More »AP - Apr 19, 2006
Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs, Under The Covers, Vol. 1 (Shout Factory) About a decade ago, Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs were the nucleus of Ming Tea — the flower-power band that provided...
More »AP - Mar 29, 2006
Hawaii s most famous dormant volcano is in for a loud awakening. Diamond Head crater, hidden within the famous mountain backdrop to Waikiki beach, will host a daylong concert Saturday with the Steve...
More »E! Online - Mar 13, 2006
The verdict is in: He s no good, he s no good, he s no good. A Colorado man accused of stalking Linda Ronstadt for nearly 10 years has been ordered at long last to keep his distance. Bernie Salazar...
More »Reuters - Dec 16, 2005
Here is a look at some of the notable artists who died in the past year. Swing-era clarinetist/bandleader ARTIE SHAW, 94, died December 30, 2004, in Thousand Oaks, Calif. By some accounts, Shaw sold...
More »AP - Sep 8, 2005
Aaron Neville, part of the Neville Brothers singing group from New Orleans, said he hasn t been back to his beloved city, but images of flood waters show it has turned into a toxic gumbo. I haven...
More »Reuters - Aug 17, 2005
Acclaimed fiddle virtuoso Vassar Clements, dubbed the Miles Davis of bluegrass, died Tuesday near Nashville following a battle with lung cancer. He was 77. Clements performed with a variety of artists...
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 - Jan 28, 2005
Comedy was absolutely king during the 30 years that Johnny Carson ruled late-night TV from his desk at The Tonight Show, but from his very first program in 1962, the landmark series also made time for...
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