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London roots music fans could be forgiven for cursing the calendar gods last night; this early in the year, who would have foreseen simultaneous visits to this shore from Lucinda Williams, The Milk Carton Kids and Jason Isbell, not forgetting Isbell's notably up-and-coming guest, John Moreland? Following a

Upon hearing of Glenn Frey's passing this afternoon, my thoughts turned almost immediately to Don Felder, the great guitarist whose signature lines helped shape and define much of The Eagles' music from 1974 to 2001. Felder was summarily dismissed from The Eagles in 2001 in the midst

I stopped listening to the Eagles, one of my favorite bands in the early and mid-70s, when Hotel California came out. Maybe it was the loss of Bernie Leadon and Randy Meisner and the addition of Joe Walsh—whom I had seen in the early '70s when he opened

Carly Simon might have been guided by the clouds in her coffee but David Bowie had mammoth moonage daydreams. There was something larger than life, other or outer-worldly about Bowie, who transformed folk songs originally made under his birth name Davy Jones into the epic spectacle of what became Ziggy

This week we talk to Mary Tilson, who hosts a popular and long-running show on Berkeley, California's powerful and ultra-liberal KPFA, which was the first listener-supported radio station in the United States. Bill Frater: Where and when did you start in radio? What other stations have you worked