The Beatles member, Ringo Starr, is an American football fan — even if he switched up his favorite team throughout the years. His “big team” remains the Dallas Cowboys. This former Beatle shared that he almost bought a house in Texas because he supported the team. In between writing hi...
Reilly’s seven-inch single, Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar. No matter where she’s lent her vocal and instrumental talent, her loud yet bubbly sound is a welcome addition to the catalog. Jean’s forthcoming album, Raving Ghost, (out May 5 on Third Man), and its first sin...
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with a tour beginning on July 7 in Toronto and wrapping up on Aug. 30 in Syracuse, New York. "The idea of retirement is nowhere in my comprehension," she told UCR last year. "I don't know what I'd do, because I've been doing music since I was, like, 14 years old. So ...
As it started to come together, this idea of referring to an old relationship as an alma mater, that excited me and made me want to write that story. That's kind of what an old relationship is: a school that you go to where there's a whole set of friends, and a whole culture,...
Steve Cropper is still going strong at 83 years old. He reports that he enjoyed HBO's recent Stax Records docuseries, and has an unfinished instrumentals album in the can. He hasn't time for regrets, only dreams, but the name of the one person Cropper wishes he had worked with fires of...
Cropper reportedly hated the sound and feel of new guitar strings — something, he says, is no longer the case in old age — and in a lip-smacking good tidbit of studio lore, explained how he managed his unique sound. "I carry a thing of ChapStick all the time and I would go up ...
The 45-year old musician was heading to a marina south of Los Angeles, where he and girlfriend Yvonne Mayotte hoped to spend the winter. Longtime friend Bill Ellis, who had been Smith’s roadie in Loverboy through the ‘80s, was also on board -- and the trio planned an additional ...
Country crooner LeAnn Rimes was just 14 years old in 1997 when she was awarded Best New Artist and Best Female Country Vocal Performance, becoming theyoungest Grammy winner of all time. In interviews that evening, country legend Clint Black quipped “When I was 14, I had a paper route.” ...
Country crooner LeAnn Rimes was just 14 years old in 1997 when she was awarded Best New Artist and Best Female Country Vocal Performance, becoming theyoungest Grammy winner of all time. In interviews that evening, country legend Clint Black quipped “When I was 14, I had a paper route.” ...