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Jay Dee Maness: 'The Desert Rose Band Is the Best Band that I Was Ever a Part Of'

Jay Dee Maness: 'The Desert Rose Band Is the Best Band that I Was Ever a Part Of'

When Jay Dee Maness started playing pedal steel guitar at age 10, he certainly couldn’t have imagined that 13 years later he would be playing on one of the most important albums in the history of pop music. Maness was contacted by the Byrds to play on their Sweetheart

Ann Klein Gives It All Up to Stevie Ray Vaughan, Fleetwood Mac

Ann Klein Gives It All Up to Stevie Ray Vaughan, Fleetwood Mac

I’ve seen electric and acoustic Ann Klein shows, and I can’t understand why she's ever classified as a blues artist. She isn’t sure either. “Although I definitely have some blues roots,” Klein says, “I describe it like this: If Lucinda Williams met up with Paul

Martin Barre (Jethro Tull) Credits McCartney, the Nightriders

Martin Barre (Jethro Tull) Credits McCartney, the Nightriders

Martin Barre wants to bring audiences back to the lively concerts of decades ago on his current U.S. spring tour. “I want to play gigs like they were in the early ’70s and ’80s — full of of energy and full of music,” says the long-time Jethro Tull guitarist who

Eric Andersen on Camus, Byron, Dylan, and Ochs

Eric Andersen on Camus, Byron, Dylan, and Ochs

When I first saw Eric Andersen perform, I was floored by the sheer beauty of his music, voice, and lyrics. It was 1974 in a tiny downtown Denver club called Ebbets Field that no longer exists, and the entire audience appeared mesmerized by every word he sang. He played “Violets

Orenda Fink Will Never Forget Nina Simone

Orenda Fink Will Never Forget Nina Simone

Jazz is usually not a part of Orenda Fink’s musical palette, but the 23rd Annual Atlanta Jazz Festival presented the best concert she has ever seen. Nina Simone stepped on the amphitheater stage at Chastain Park on May, 26, 2000, and there was magic in the air. “I had

Webb Wilder: "Work Hard, Rock Hard, Eat Hard, Sleep Hard, Grow Big, Wear Glasses"

Webb Wilder: "Work Hard, Rock Hard, Eat Hard, Sleep Hard, Grow Big, Wear Glasses"

There were many reasons for the six-year gap between Webb Wilder’s new album, Mississippi Moderne, and 2009’s More Like Me, but the years that passed may have been the glue that solidified the most recent release on Landslide Records. “The first studio we began work in burned!” Wilder

Stephen Stills: Sparkle and Fade, and Sparkle Again

Stephen Stills: Sparkle and Fade, and Sparkle Again

Stephen Stills was once my favorite musician. That was long ago. I was a little too young to appreciate his first acclaimed group, Buffalo Springfield, but I loved what he delivered in Crosby, Stills and Nash and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in the late 1960s and early '70s.