Tony Rice, Influential Bluegrass Guitarist, Dead at 69
Said country/bluegrass great Ricky Skaggs in a tweet, “”Tony Rice was the single most influential acoustic guitar player in the last 50 years.”
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Rockers Pay Tribute to the Mountain Man, Leslie West
Peter Frampton recalled when his first U.S. tour when Humble Pie opened for Mountain. “Leslie’s playing and sound had me glued watching everything he did”
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2020 in Review: The Best New Albums by Classic Rockers
It’s time to stock up on the year’s best new albums, by such classic rock giants as AC/DC, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan and many others
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Beatles Release Sneak Peek From Revealing ‘Get Back’ Documentary
Director Peter Jackson has shared a roughly five-minute clip as a “preview of what we’ve been working on.” The montage shows the group playfully rehearsing
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K.T. Oslin, ’80’s Ladies’ Country Star, Dies at 78
She was far from an overnight sensation. She was 45 years old when her debut for RCA Records reached #1 on the country chart and sold over a million copies
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Beach Boys’ ‘Pet Sounds’ is Still Awesome
We spoke with Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine and others as they look back at the masterpiece. “It didn’t meet Capitol Records’ expectations so they took it off the market.”
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Jesse Colin Young Gets it Together on New Acoustic Solo Album
The recent material is excellent, but longtime fans will likely be most interested in the re-recordings of Youngbloods classics and early Young solo tunes.
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Rock Hall Announces Museum Expansion
“It’s time to expand our physical space,” said the Museum’s CEO. The $100 million addition will create both internal and external gathering spaces
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2020 in Review: The Best Music Books of the Year
We put on our reading glasses and dug in to the year’s best books for fans of classic rock and related music. Happy reading!
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Ringo Starr’s Great New Song, Featuring Paul McCartney: Watch
“Here’s to the Nights,” from songwriter Diane Warren, also features Joe Walsh, Eric Burton, Sheryl Crow and Lenny Kravitz. It’s from his upcoming ep, Zoom In
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