Latest

In 1966, Little Richard was in the same boat as most of the others who had invented rock 'n' roll little more than ten years earlier -- washed ashore by the British invasion, by changing tastes, and by the inability to either get with the times or make the

The Byrds at their artistic peak were a fractious band with an uneasy chemistry, unable to sustain a balance for any significant duration. They were not alone in this. Some of the era's other important bands had equally volatile combinations of personalities and inclinations, creating pivotal works but

Christopher Guest's 2003 satirical film A Mighty Wind affectionately spoofed three real-life '60s folk luminaries: the Kingston Trio (the Folksmen), the New Christy Minstrels (New Main Street Singers) and the duo of Ian & Sylvia (Mitch & Mickey). Satirizing the Rooftop Singers wouldn't have

Give the young woman with the pleasing smile some serious credit. The pressure to simply supply Come Away With Me -- Again, with all of that moved-to-New York ambience merely replicated, or even exaggerated, must have been enormous. But Feels Like Home is as much a turn in another

Always the outsider, the inscrutable observer who keeps his distance behind those sunglasses, Graham Parker stakes out familiar territory on an album promoted as a new direction. Your Country, he calls it. Not My Country or Graham Parker's Country, but America's country music, the music of

In 1974 Emmylou Harris was still alarmingly close to being nobody. Her first album, 1968's Gliding Bird, evaporated when Jubilee Records went out of business a few weeks after its release. (Apparently, this is a blessing.) Her singing partner, friend and mentor, Gram Parsons, had been dead about