Al Kooper

The Zombies were a British Invasion band that produced some memorable music but ultimately had very poor timing. Read More

Names like Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez and a young Bob Dylan are synonymous with the origins of folk music. Read More

Mike Bloomfield's a guitar player blues fans know and appreciate, but he's one of those guys whose name many rock fans have heard but couldn't necessarily explain his place in history like they could, say, Eric Clapton or Stevie Ray Vaughan. Read More

Well, it's been an exceptionally hot year in the 65-year-old's wonderland. Read More

Well, it's been an exceptionally hot year in the 65-year-old's wonderland. Read More

This album is the masterpiece of a master. Read More

Julia Glass is the author of Three Junes, which won the National Book Award for Fiction, and the national bestsellers The Whole World Over, and I See You Everywhere. Read More

Excerpted from We'll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives , by Paul Shaffer with David Ritz, to be published this month by Doubleday, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc.; © 2009 by Paul Shaffer Enterprises, Inc. Listen to this excerpt on VF.com's " Writers Reading " podcast page, and subscribe to our iTunes podcast . Read More