Coming home for benefit show and for family
When Heather Headley’s brother Iric Jr. called to ask if she’d do a benefit concert for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Fort Wayne, she had a simple answer...
Article Category: Music & Comedy
Celebrating their catalog of success
Listening to Don Barnes’ salad days stories, one gets the feeling that it is sort of miraculous that the band he fronts, 38 Special, became the powerhouse...
Classic ’70s band stays on the bright side
For longtime fans of Three Dog Night, the band that took the 1970s by storm with numerous chart-topping hits, the three men who came to define the sound...
Solo pianist doesn’t label his own music
Pianist George Winston was one of the earliest and most successful practitioners of New Age music. But you really can’t blame him for how terrible the...
Local ska band regroups for Rail show
It’s hard to fathom that it’s been nearly twenty years since Heavy Step released their debut, The Long Shot. Once known as Skavossas, the local ska...
Connecting the songwriter to the listener
Unlike many established musicians, Ben Folds doesn’t mind admitting that he sometimes gets sick of playing his most beloved songs.
“I might have said...
Supergroup revisits its starry history in Wabash
Toto is one band that came out of the gates as a supergroup. Comprised of session musicians who had played on some of the greatest tracks in music history,...
Improvisation masters come with comedy and gratitude
If you’ve seen Jeff B. Davis on Whose Line Is It Anyway? you know him as a dapper lad with a quick wit and a perpetual twinkle in his eye.
In his suits...
Striving for excellence, not popularity
In the mid-1990s, jazz saxophonist Branford Marsalis tried to record the John Coltrane song, “Resolution,” from the monumental album, A Love Supreme.
Marsalis...
Unclassifiable songwriter stays humble
Lyle Lovett is known for his “Large Band.” You can hardly say “Lyle Lovett” without adding “and his Large Band.”
When...