Steve Knopper

Otis Rush can communicate worlds of emotion in a few flicks of his fingers. The only thing sadder than Rush moaning "I'm so tired I could cry, I could just...

If you can read this while balancing six water-filled glasses on your nose, you're in the wrong line of work. Consider joining the Peking Acrobats, a 47-year-old acrobatic troupe that...

Bowling is no longer just for middle-aged beer guzzlers with goofy shoes - it's for urban hipsters who guzzle beer and wear goofy shoes. So even if the Loop's new...

Johnny Farmer Wrong Doers Respect Me (Fat Possum/Epitaph) With only his voice and an electric guitar, this 66-year-old Holly Ridge, Miss., native renames and rewrites a dozen old standards (among...

To pay tribute to the silent film era, movie theaters should turn off their sound and television watchers should click their "mute" buttons for an entire day. But if that's...

Look - a tiny Joe Lockhart holding a press conference with teensy microphones and a 6-inch Sam Donaldson. And in the Diplomatic Reception Room - isn't that a small Abdullah,...

If being addicted to the tunes of Cole Porter, the Gershwins and Rodgers and Hart means you're living in the past, 72-year-old Bobby Short is proud to list his address...

It's Women's History Month, which means it's time to celebrate the achievements of women in leather and boots. She-Wolf, the biker gang leader in the 1989 parody flick "Easy Wheels,"...

Collective Soul Dosage (Atlantic) Since its 1994 smash "Shine," Collective Soul has always lived on the median between fun pop tunes and painstaking studio gloss. Unfortunately, with every album the...

Rory Block Confessions of a Blues Singer (Rounder) Rory Block, who has spent most of 13 acoustic-blues albums saluting her heroes, acknowledges the originals--Charlie Patton's "Bo Weavil Blues," Blind Willie...