Mavis Staples's new album hums with a hope that could only be delivered by the 86-year-old’s raspy contralto. It is titled ...

Eighty-five years ago today, the blues rocker who has won multiple Grammy Awards and played with blues legends was born in Texas.

Apart from hip-hop and the occasional rock or country song, these times of protest and divisiveness lack the musical voices ...

Maia Sharp has been a friend to WFPK since her first album Hardly Glamour from 1997. Since then, she has put out several ...

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NPR's Don Gonyea rides around Detroit with producer and musician, Don Was. He's assembled a new band from the Motor City to honor its musical legacy on the album, "Groove In The Face Of Adversity." ...

Screen legend Diane Keaton has died in California at the age of 79. Keaton was known for her roles in "The Godfather," "Annie Hall" and "The First Wives Club." ...

John Prine‘s death in 2020 was a tragic loss for country music fans everywhere. And to salute the songwriter, Prine’s widow Fiona Whelan Prine gathered some of country’s most accomplished musicians ...

Concertgoers are pictured milling around outside the Chautauqua Institution Amphitheater before the Bonnie Raitt concert in early September. While there are going to be program reductions coming as ...

For an hour and 40 minutes on a Wednesday night in Green Bay, Bonnie Raitt made the world slip away. Hardly an easy lift these days given the weight of news headlines, but in the darkened comfort of ...

Farm Aid, the annual celebration of music and sustainable agriculture founded by Willie Nelson, turns 40 on Saturday. To mark the occasion, Willie and family will headline a bash at University of ...