Former US president Jimmy Carter loved music and musicians loved him back, from Aretha Franklin and Peter Gabriel to Killer Mike.

So, there it was: a banner year for sight and sound. I understood that one was significant but not the other. I loved one and ...

Bob Dylan is back in the news again. A countercultural hero to people who grew up some five decades ago, yet also, perhaps ...

The summer before America’s bard plugged his guitar into an amp there, friends and I hitched a ride to the Folk Festival ...