For this performance, Cash appears with her husband and longtime collaborator, John Leventhal, whose understated production and guitar work have shaped much of her recent output.
Read MoreRevenge of the nerds: MOJO runs down every album from Steely Dan and their two major dudes, Donald Fagan and Walter Becker.
Read MoreDonald Fagen is one of the greatest musical minds that has ever graced the world of rock, and his standards are impeccably high as a result. Firstly, his standards are high for himself. When he was writing with Steely Dan, he would always ensure that he and the band were doing as much as they could in order to get the most out of a studio session.
Read MoreJimmy Barnes was lost and terrified. It's early in 1983, Cold Chisel had imploded, and Australia's most iconic frontman was staring down that awful question we all face at times of upheaval: what now? Barnes wanted his music career to keep soaring, but needed to prove he had something to offer outside of his legendary band.
Read MoreBefore The Band was established as one of classic rock’s most defining bands, they were known as The Hawks, a group of young musicians getting their start as a backing band.
The Canadian-American outfit secured their proper start playing for rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins.
Five-time Grammy Award winner Angélique Kidjo is much more than a legend of African music: she is a powerful voice for culture, empowerment, and human rights across the continent.
Today, she adds another string to her bow by becoming the master of ceremonies for the CAF Awards 2025 set to take place in Rabat, Morocco.
Photographer Elliott Landy publishes a new two-volume set of Band photos and a live slideshow at Upstate Films’ Orpheum Theater on November 20, revisiting the brief, blazing years that defined Americana.
In Elliott Landy’s studio, there was a box he’d labeled “seconds.” Inside were the photographs that didn’t make it into his first book on The Band. Years after that 2015 volume was published, Landy opened the box, started flipping through the eight-by-ten work prints, and felt a shock of recognition. How did I leave that out? One image after another—favorites, forgotten. “At that point,” he says, “I knew I had to do a second book.”
Read MoreMike Finnigan, an acclaimed studio/touring musician known for his work with the Hammond B3 organ and for recording stints with acts including Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker and many others, passed away in 2021 — and early next year, a special new album will be released in his memory.
Read MoreThey are famously one of the most dedicated studio bands of all time, being both creative and ruthless in equal measure. Enough stories of them being meticulous task masters from behind the mixing board to suggest that at least some of them are true. It means that, out of any band in the 1970s, they were willing to cast judgments on all kinds of fabulous instrumentalists.
Read MoreTOKYO, Nov 12 (Reuters) - The original bag custom-made for late actress Jane Birkin which became a design icon was revealed to media in Tokyo on Wednesday by the Japanese company that purchased it for a record 8.6 million euros ($10 million) at Sotheby’s in Paris earlier this year.
Read MoreSinger and The Voice star is back with 22nd album 'Grandeur Nature', following his lung cancer remission and vocal recovery.
Read MoreThe voice of legendary singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash has been to known stir an audience.
Read MoreCelebrated Beninese singer and multiple Grammy Award winner, Angelique Kidjo, has spoken out against musicians who use their art to glorify or promote politicians and political parties.
Read MoreEXCLUSIVE: Global Constellation has secured key deals on Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard’s Marianne Faithfull documentary Broken English, ahead of the film’s UK premiere at BFI London Film Festival on Saturday, October 11.
Read MoreThe art of songwriting is something that people have devoted their lives to understanding, with Steely Dan even giving up life on the road in a bid to pursue perfect songs.
Read MoreLarry Campbell’s list of performance and recording credits can hold its own next to any other. In five decades of performance, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer has lent his talents to ventures from some of rock’s most iconic artists of all time, including Levon Helm, B.B. King, Willie Nelson, Paul Simon, Linda Thompson, Little Feat, Mavis Staples and Bob Dylan, with whom he spent seven years on the Never Ending Tour. Now, he’s added Bruce Springsteen to that list by his part in the long-awaited live recreation of Nebraska.
Read More“My opinions are changing so fast I can hardly keep up with meself,” Eric Burdon told an Associated Press reporter in 1967. By this point, his band The Animals were already one of the old veterans of the British Invasion, but at the age of 25, Burdon was still a growing boy.
Read MoreAmericana guitarist Larry Campbell talks about the “low-key” sessions resulting in an updated version of Springsteen’s classic album
Read MoreWe’re thrilled to share a warm, in-depth conversation between Ed Greene (host of The Freak Show, Tuesdays 6–8 PM on WMF 88.5 FM) and legendary guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Warren Haynes.
Read MoreWhen a song lands perfectly in a major motion picture’s score, it can become its own character within the entire experience.
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