It has been a little over 50 years since I first picked up a guitar.Even so, there are still things that I find ...

Paul McCartney, Judd Apatow and Morgan Neville had a revealing conversation about Wings and the Beatles in a Q&A after a ...

From The Beach Boys’ groundbreaking sound to AC/DC’s hard-rocking anthems, these albums changed music forever and became ...

After decades spent establishing himself as a formidable guitarist across bands including Vicious, Lizzy Borden and Metal Church, Ira Black is entering a new chapter — one where he is stepping behind ...

What if the stairway isn’t upward toward more but inward toward what matters? I found myself asking that question after unexpectedly running across a video on YouTube of Dolly Parton singing Led ...

Ann Wilson made Robert Plant cry. At the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, D.C., Wilson (on vocals) and her younger sister Nancy (on guitar) performed Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven,” with ...

Song titles are the elevator pitch of any great track. Thus, the more evocative and descriptive the better. Sure, U2, Metallica, Three Dog Night, and countless others have put out songs just called ...

Dolly Parton and Carl Dean kept most of their nearly six-decade marriage away from the public eye, but one of the most personal pieces of their love story was hiding in plain sight in her music.