The early 1990s are often affectionately looked back on as the Golden Age of Hip-Hop. As icons like Biggie, Pac and Nas were making their...

Vince Guaraldi knew a hit record when he heard one. Years before the San Francisco pianist wrote “Linus and Lucy,” the irresistibly grooving Peanuts theme...

  PHOTO CREDIT: Neal Preston Most supergroups implode amid a clash of warring egos, so you’d be forgiven for thinking that artists of the stature of...

PHOTO CREDIT: UNIVERSAL PICTURES Feel-good movies don’t get much more uplifting than Rudy, the 1993 biopic about the college football player Daniel “Rudy” Ruettiger. Immortalizing...

  Photo Courtesy of Concord In the 1960s and 1970s, the sound of the modern blues guitar was defined by the playing styles of three...

Photo by Wally Seawell/ABKCO Records With his smooth, soaring vocal style and boyish good looks, Sam Cooke was one of the most popular and influential...

John Fahey was an acoustic music pioneer who called his highly influential style “American Primitive Guitar,” as he melded blues and folk song sources with...

In the overall scheme of American music, Leo Kottke’s 1969 national debut album, 6- and 12- String Guitar, was both inevitable and a long time...

Step One: be comfortable with who you are. Step Two: show the world how to follow suit. That’s exactly what Sylvester did with Step II,...