Mavis Staples told Bob Dylan no. The socially conscious young woman who’d captured a fragmented America’s imagination as the earthy-voiced singer on the Staples Singers hits knew she wasn...

Patty Griffin has built a life of traveling the world and singing her carefully framed miniatures. Three decades into her career, the woman regarded as an “artist’s artist” realized...

They arrived with the full impact of Lauren Bacall’s great line, “If you want to capture someone’s attention, whisper...” In the big bam wham glam of the hair metal era...

Raul Malo is leaving for Europe in an hour, where he and his band the Mavericks will headline festivals in Spain and Holland. “There are 12 of us,” he says with a laugh. “Eight...

It was during a gig in Austin with Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Chris Hillman that David Bromberg was lured back to recording. Killing time in the dressing room with Hillman, the founding member of...

Never mind the pair of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductions (Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Hollies) or the Order of the British Empire, Graham Nash remains most acutely interested in now. Within...

Loudon Wainwright 3rd is apologizing, and it’s kind of funny. Midway through the conversation, an observation about his positive mental outlook comes up. He can’t help himself. “I...

When reflecting on the title of her latest album Mental Illness, Aimee Mann admits that a friend first suggested it as a joke. “But once he said it, I also thought it was accurate. The music I...

At the college radio station where I worked at Rollins College, the poster hung on the wall. A scrawny little thing with a few flaccid chest hairs, greaseball hair tumbling down as much Guido...

He was the Thin White Duke, the most glamorous man I’d ever seen. More glamorous than Bianca Jagger, and that was saying something in those Studio 54 years of excess, glimpsed as a child from...