Jad Tariq, a Memphis-based rhythm & blues guitarist and vocalist, has been writing, recording and gigging since he was a kid in Connecticut, building a following for himself locally and helping to ...

Radio interview with Cynthia Gooding, WBAI, 1962 -- Radio interview with Studs Terkel, WFMT (Chicago), May 1963 -- "The crackin', shakin', breakin', sound" by Nat Hentoff, the New Yorker, October, ...

It's easy to associate Daniel Lanois with a distinct sonic approach shared by many of the classic albums he helped birth, from Emmylou Harris‘ Wrecking Ball to Bob Dylan's Time Out of Mind. The ...

A new documentary, Newport & The Great Folk Dream, uses rare archival footage and fresh interviews to revisit the legendary 1960s festival that shaped modern music The film spotlights Bob Dylan's ...

Bob Dylan changed his surname from Zimmerman because he feared possible anti-Semitism. He didn't mind being booed at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. And he wrote "Lay Lady Lay" for Barbra Streisand.

"I want to make music that will take people to another place beyond their understanding," Daniel Lanois says, "for them to feel that a record will be a reliable transporter." He's talking about ...