Patience pays for Little Big Town
Usually, when bands form with the right mix of talent, chemistry and hit songs, they take off. But it didn't quite happen that way for Little Big Town. Jimi Westbrook's...
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The last go-round for Glen Campbell
For a long time, veteran country singer Glen Campbell, who has 21 Top 40 hits, from "Rhinestone Cowboy" to "Wichita Lineman," forgot the words onstage, and he was frustrated. "Not...
Liz Phair is back, still misunderstood
All Liz Phair wanted to do was make a loose, spontaneous record. "It was very improvisational," says the veteran Chicago rocker. "It really caused the producers and some of the...
Lovett is the answer
Which of these facts about Texas singer-songwriter Lyle Lovett, who performs Saturday at Ravinia, is true: 1. When paparazzi camped out at the end of his Texas driveway during his...
Robert Randolph & the Family Band
It's too bad one of the most impressive guitar talents in modern pop music aspires to be the next Lenny Kravitz. The virtuoso hard-rock fireworks throughout this New Jersey singer-songwriter's...
J.J. Cale and Eric Clapton
If Eric Clapton had never become ERIC CLAPTON, he may well have wound up like J.J. Cale, the Oklahoma City-born singer and guitarist who supplied Clapton's solo smashes "After Midnight"...
Lil’ Ed & the Blues Imperials
Leading with his most fearsome punch, Chicago guitarist Lil' Ed Williams and his longtime electric-blues band open this no-frills album by channeling The Who and Motown's Eddie Holland -- the...
Cephas & Wiggins
Thirty years after they first met, Washington, D.C. singer-guitarist John Cephas and harpist Phil Wiggins have yet to tire of releasing the same album over and over. Their style is...
Dr. John
It seems a little random that the doctor of New Orleans swamp-blues piano would devote an entire album to the late, great Savannah, Ga., pop songwriter Johnny Mercer--but hey, it's...
5 questions with Gore Verbinski, director of both ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ movies, who discusses punk music’s link to pirates
Hardly anyone bought the Daredevils' only punk-rock single, 1996's "Hate You," but they wound up one of the most influential bands in the entertainment business. Drummer Josh Freese went on...