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Tinsley Ellis’ career as a bluesman started in a hotel lobby. A fan of British invasion acts like the Beatles, Cream, the Rolling Stones and the Yardbirds, Ellis was told […]

Indie singer-songwriter Damien Jurado might come from Seattle, but he’s one of Fort Wayne’s favorite adopted sons, and he’ll be at the Brass Rail Saturday, June 24 at 8 p.m. […]

The premise of Billy Joel’s 1977 hit, “The Stranger,” is that we all have a face we hide from the outside world, a face that we only allow ourselves to […]

Maybe you’re one of the lucky ones who can recall a certain fateful night in January 1970 when Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Bonham and John Paul Jones wrote a […]

Suggestions anyone? It seems that Germans have a word for every complex emotion known to humans. You’ve probably heard of wanderlust and schadenfreude (pleasure derived from the pain of others), […]

It only lasts two days, but Sweetwater’s GearFest is the kind of event people talk about for weeks, months, even years after the last tent comes down and guitar is […]

The details of Travis Tritt’s love life read like something straight out of your favorite country song. First, and almost predictably, he marries his high school sweetheart. While he works […]

The hardest working band in rock ‘n roll is coming to Brandt’s Harley Davidson in Marion for a free concert July 16. Fans will know immediately who we’re referring to […]

Many followers of the New Orleans music scene will recognize CJ Chenier’s surname immediately. That’s because he’s the son of Zydeco godfather and legend Clifton Chenier. Chenier the younger, now […]