Steve Knopper

The angriest man in rock 'n' roll history is on the phone, talking about his love for nature. "I don't know what makes an insect tick, or want to bother,...

Singer-songwriter Regina Spektor lived in Russia until she was 91/2, and she misses a lot about it. She titled an album "Soviet Kitsch," recently covered a folk song by Russian...

Singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin's recent memoir "Diamond in the Rough" contains many revelations — for example, she has struggled with anorexia, alcoholism, panic attacks, divorce and depression. And there is this...

Fred Eaglesmith pulls up to some small club, 200 or 300 nights a year, in some city in his school bus that runs on vegetable oil. Like Willie Nelson's bus,...

Johnny Winter, one of the greatest blues guitarists of all time, is on the road somewhere in Massachusetts, delivering terse answers by phone to a wide range of questions. What...

If you believe Huey Lewis, pretty much nothing has changed in his career since his rock 'n' soul band, the News, formed in the late '70s, and that includes you-know-when,...

Steve Wynn is on the defensive. The veteran singer-songwriter is expecting a breezy interview about his latest band, the Baseball Project, which sets classic stories about Willie Mays, Mark "The...

The central idea of Slipknot, the punishing metal band, is that the musicians are almost grotesquely anonymous. They wear horror masks and clown makeup, and identify themselves as cold, emotionless...

"Life's Been Good," the definitive Joe Walsh song from 1978, is about a rock 'n' roller who tears out hotel walls, loses his license speeding in a Maserati and sloughs...