Plain and Fancy

In 1969, four students at the prestigious Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., banded together to perform cover songs by such contemporar...

Puff has a connection to the early sixties group The Ramrods, originally called The Rockin Ramrods. I loved them in back in the day and Brig...

Born in 1942 but briefly emigrating with his family to Australia in 1953, his teens were later spent in the fertile music area of Reading En...

Long before Leon Russell became the albescent bearded high-priest of gritty rock’n’soul, he was a session musician in Phil Specto...

Titled for the name under which Tractor plied their trade around the time of their earliest recordings, The Way We Live is an astonishing ...

"You look like a real human being but . . ." "He got feet/ Down/ below his knees/ Hold you in his arms yeah you ca...

The Music Emporium was a venturesomely creative quartet, comprised of Dora Wahl, their only non-vocalist, but an accomplished girl drummer...

Kris Kristofferson was approaching his mid-thirties and had been kicking around Nashville for several years when he belatedly be...

The August 2000 reissue of Live at the Paramount on the Buddha label has 13 songs, the whole 75 minutes of music from the first of two...

In a career packed with varying types of compositions, Galt MacDermot is still best-known for the music he wrote in the late-...