Gary Stoller

Recording music in bands since 1967, steel guitar extraordinaire Rusty Young finally released his first solo record this month—and it’s a tour de force. Waitin’ for the Sun on Blue Elan Records finally shows the world what Poco fans have known for decades: Rusty Young is not just

Jim Yester remembers his band, the Association, playing before a crowd that could fill up the Rose Bowl, but it’s the small venues he likes best. “The largest crowd the Association played before was probably the Wisconsin State Fair,” he says. “I don't remember what year, but

Carla Olson sang, played guitar, and was a leader of the highly respected Los Angeles-based rock band the Textones long before she met Gene Clark. Yet she credits the late Byrds singer for providing her with a musical education. “Gene taught me so many things about singing,” Olson says, “He

The members of Southern Soul Assembly may not be as high profile as other so-called “super groups”— the Traveling Wilburys immediately come to mind — but, after two tours, the Southern powerhouse has plenty of concertgoers begging for more. Southern Soul Assembly consists of four recording artists with deep catalogs—Marc

There’s a timeless beauty that emanates from much of Diana Jones’ music. “When I feel a song coming on—which is usually how it begins, with a feeling—I go back in my mind to the hills of eastern Tennessee and a sense of my grandfather and our ancestors,

I was sitting more than halfway up from the stage at Red Rocks Amphitheater when a murmur in the crowd began to snowball into increasing applause and cheers. James Taylor was midsong and appeared perplexed by the growing roar. He turned and looked behind his band, but a giant rock—