Mick Jagger performs during the Rolling Stones’ Forty Licks Tour at Madison Square Garden in New York City in 2003. Photo by KMazur/WireImage. Photo by James Keivom/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images. In 2018 I completed a quest to list my top five (or so) songs for every…

Reba McEntire, “Not That Fancy.” Reba McEntire has seen and done many things throughout the course of her nearly 50-year music career, from writing chart-toppers to producing, acting and, most recently, joining “The Voice” as a judge. Reba checks one more off the list with her first entirely acoustic…

Duran Duran performs at Outside Lands in Golden gate Park on Aug. 5, 2016. Che Holts/STAFF. It’s annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame week, which means the music snobs have arrived in force, and are currently crying about the good old days and how new inductee Pat Benatar…

Inside the Johnny Cash Museum in Nashville on Feb. 12, 2022. Roman Gokhman/STAFF. As you read this (assuming, as usual, that you’re reading it as soon as it’s published) I am on a ranch to see a rodeo. No, really. I know that’s not usually my scene, but I’m…

Dolly Parton performs at the UK Country Music Festival in an undated photo. Andrew Putler/Redferns. In two of the last three years I’ve attempted, with minimal success, to do an Easter column. (I apparently ignored it completely in 2020. There was other stuff going on in April of 2020…

Dolly Parton performs at the UK Country Music Festival in an undated photo. Andrew Putler/Redferns. Our illustrious editor Roman Gokhman pointed out to me this week that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced its nominees. I of course didn’t know this, because Halls of Fame are kind…

Now, I hate to gloat, since so many people are still waiting for their turn, but I’m going to do it anyway: I GOT MY FIRST SHOT OF THE COVID VACCINE! Three hundred and sixty-five days after my day job’s office first closed due to COVID, I unexpectedly found…

Most folks associate the Bee Gees with John Travolta’s strut down gritty New York City sidewalks in the classic 1977 film “Saturday Night Fever.” The famous falsetto of lead singer Barry Gibb flowed over disco dance floors in the late ’70s on huge hits like “Staying Alive” and “Jive Talkin’.”…

Dolly Parton circa 1976. Courtesy: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images. There’s Dolly Parton. Then there’s the rest of us. Before joining the media pile-up pledging eternal love for one of history’s greatest country singer-songwriters—deserved without saying she’s a better human than us—I’ll start with “the rest of us.” It’s sort…

Christmas has come early this year—thank God—as Dolly Parton is set to release her first holiday album in 30 years. A Holly Dolly Christmas is the latest offering from country music’s queen, and it includes all the merriment of the season. This 12-track album features Parton singing favorites, as…