In a season that began with thanks and culminated in holiday gifts and new year renewal, Pam Garcia and John Busking of Palos Heights learned what it is to receive one of the greatest gifts of them ...

“Fitting in has never really been our thing,” says Pokey LaFarge, whose old-time music – a mix of Western Swing, pre-war folk, jazz and Dustbowl country – has always avoided the modern sounds of the ...

Two weeks ago, The Pierce Brothers – 35-year-old twins Patrick and Jack – had the No.1 Australian album on the ARIA Chart. On ...

Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, whom I was fortunate enough to interview and is now in his 90s, told me that he was playing in the Tube for some British school kids in the early ’60s. He was on one platform ...

Two 16-year-old musicians got the experience of a lifetime when they were spotted busking by Jack Savoretti and asked to open his gig. Singer Hannah Binns and guitarist Charlie Mole were performing on ...

Desperate to hire staff, Melissa Cottam resorted to busking for resumés. For real. Two weeks ago she strapped her guitar around her neck, stood in front of her Cobble Hill business, Moo’s Pizza, and ...

“I’m trippin’,” says Jack Johnson, checking in from his pad on Oahu’s North Shore. “We have a brand-new baby in the house, my boys are throwing up and this is the first interview I’ve done in a long ...