Author: Thomas Newman

One of the greatest gifts a musical performer can give the audience is a piece of themselves as they sing a song straight from their own heart. Some of the best hits to ever grace…

In 1968, Crosby, Stills & Nash was formed by singer-songwriters David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash. Each had already enjoyed success in other bands (Crosby with The Byrds, Nash with The Hollies, and Stills…

Tom Waits isn’t an artist who’s ever courted mainstream success. Which is just as well, as he’d have been bitterly disappointed if he had. With the odd exception, his albums have rarely made the slightest…

Music lovers are at least remotely familiar with the name Ricky Nelson, despite the fact that he was killed in a plane crash in 1985, at only 45 years of age. Considering the fact that…

Work – we hate it, we need it, and if we didn’t have it, pop stars, country singers, and rockers would have one less thing to sing about than they do now. Over the years,…

There are a lot of genuinely superb rock bands that came from the late sixties. The 70s and 80s were full of up-and-coming bands enjoying great success and touring the world to bring rock to…

The Monkees were a manufactured pop band who came to fame on a sitcom, had most of their songs written for them, and who, for most of their career, had very limited control over their…

From 1969 until April 7, 2020, John Prine has entertained the audience with his musical talent in the genres of Americana, bluegrass, and country folk. The originality behind the mix of humor and various activism…

Phish is one of the more interesting rock bands to come along in some time. Formed in the early 1980s (1983 to be exact), the band is best known for its uncanny ability to combine…