Ronnie Hawkins News and Photos

‘Might be a big career’: It all changes for the Band’s Rick Danko with a visit from Ronnie Hawkins

Mon, May 06 2013 3:04pm - Source: Something Else!

Early musical collaborator Glen Silverthorn remembers the moment Rick Danko began his journey toward membership in the Band, though first his friend had to make the switch from guitar to bass.

Duane Allman - Skydog: The Duane Allman Retrospective

Mon, March 25 2013 2:53pm - Source: Uncut.co.uk

Until now, no guitar great's career has been as under-represented as has that of Duane Allman , who packed a lifetime's worth of music into seven intensive and wildly productive years.

Joanna Colangelo: The Weight: When a Song Becomes an Anthem

Tue, March 12 2013 4:50pm - Source: The Huffington Post - Entertainment

There are a number of songs that serve as a musical roadmap in my life, and for every one of them, I can remember the exact moment when I heard the song - the exact moment that the song made me stop in my tracks, grab the record sleeve, look at the album photos and read the liner notes in a desperate attempt to learn everything I could about the music.

2012 review: notable deaths in music

Mon, December 24 2012 9:17am - Source: The Guardian Music Blog

The bandleader Johnny Otis, who has died aged 90, was one of the first white American musicians to cross the racial divide, aligning himself with the black community as a teenager and from then on regarding himself – and being treated as – a black man.

Chuck Berry Rocks Cleveland Tribute Concert

Mon, October 29 2012 4:14pm - Source: Rolling Stone

"I'm 86 years old," Chuck Berry said after playing a short, raw set at Cleveland's State Theatre late last night.

Icon will perform at October 27th event

Fri, October 12 2012 4:37pm - Source: Rolling Stone

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is gearing up for a weeklong celebration of Chuck Berry.

Movies: Bob Dylan and the Band – Down in the Flood: Associations and Collaborations (2012)

Thu, September 20 2012 12:50pm - Source: Something Else!

"It was as big a thing," Rolling Stone's Anthony De Curtis says, "as has ever happened in the history of rock 'n' roll, Dylan going electric."

Remembering Levon Helm – a classic interview with the Band

Tue, April 24 2012 11:49am - Source: The Guardian Music Blog

Big Pink is of those middle-class ranch houses of the type that you would expect to find in a development row in the heart of suburbia rather than on an isolated mountaintop high above the barn architecture of New York State's rustic Woodstock.

Levon Helm: Drummer and soulful singer at the heart of The Band

Fri, April 20 2012 11:52pm - Source: The Independent - Music

A year before the song's appearance in mid-1968, The Beatles had seemed to point the way for their contemporaries with Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, an expansive psychedelic album that exploited production technology.

Levon Helm (May 26, 1940-April 19, 2012)

Fri, April 20 2012 12:37pm - Source: Twangville

The man behind the drums has finally succumbed to throat cancer.

R.I.P. Levon Helm

Thu, April 19 2012 7:16pm - Source: Pitchfork Media

He grew up in a musical household where he learned to play multiple instruments.

Jesse Kornbluth: Levon Helm: A Thank-You Note For The Music -- And The Example

Tue, May 01 2012 8:32am - Source: The Huffington Post - Entertainment

He's the one who sang "The Weight" and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" and "Up on Cripple Creek."

Gimme Five: Celebrating Levon Helm, co-founder and voice of the Band

Wed, April 18 2012 11:28am - Source: Something Else!

News came on Tuesday that Levon Helm's cancer has returned , leading us to marvel all over again on his towering achievements in music.

Soul Serenade: The Band (With Van Morrison), “Caravan”

Thu, November 24 2011 12:39pm - Source: Pop Dose

35 years ago tomorrow, one of the most important events in the history of rock and roll took place at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco.

ALBUM REVIEW - GENE CLARK: TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY

Fri, August 19 2011 4:53pm - Source: Uncut.co.uk

By the time Gene Clark arrived at RSO Records, Robert Stigwoods disco house supreme, in 1977, the decade had beaten him up pretty badly.

Breakin' The Rules - Robbie Robertson Interview

Wed, June 22 2011 8:10am - Source: ClashMusic.com

What happens when the master story teller finally opens his heart?

Wilco, Royal Festival Hall, London

Sun, September 19 2010 11:46pm - Source: The Independent - Music

For a few, most fortunate, bands, there comes a time in their existence when they are operating at such a peak of natural, instinctive power that everything they do seems just right.

Deer Tick and Matt Vasquez of Delta Spirit at Webster Hall [Concert Review]

Tue, August 17 2010 2:09pm - Source: hear ya

It's been almost three years since I first saw Deer Tick perform at a Brooklyn apartment.

Fred Carter, Jr., Famed Musician, Dies at 76

Mon, July 19 2010 7:06pm - Source: The Boot

Fred Carter, Jr., the Nashville-based musician whose distinctive guitar was heard on recordings by several of the most influential and popular country and pop artists of all time, died Saturday, July 17.