Latest articles by Bill DeMain
Just one more thing... The story of the time Johnny Cash played country-gospel singing murderer Tommy Brown on Columbo, taking the Man In Black places he'd never been before.
Raphael Ravenscroft's sax intro gave Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street its classic status - but no one can agree how it happened
Tedeschi Trucks Band have woven the isolation of the pandemic and a classic Arabic tale of love about into a four-album project that’s both epic and intimate
Seattle’s rising guitar star Ayron Jones on festivals, Jeff Beck and a budding love affair with France
The late Johnny Winter’s brother Edgar reveals the story of the star-studded album dedicated to the blues great
Heart's Ann Wilson and Halestorm's Lzzy Hale on sibling bands, connecting with an audience, and staying grounded when success throws you sideways
Johnny Cash's iconic version of Nine Inch Nails’ Hurt was nothing if not unlikely, but the Man In Black was no stranger to unlikely cover versions
Step back Chuck Berry, Elvis and the rest... and meet Sister Rosetta Tharpe, one of the founding mothers of rock'n'roll
David Bowie's Earthling album was hybrid before hybrid was cool. Its featured guitarist was Reeves Gabrels, a member of Tin Machine and current axeman for The Cure
Almost 20 years into their career, Spoon are back with album number 10 and a playlist that helped inspire it
Stevie Ray Vaughan, every John Lee Hooker album, the entire genre of gospel, and much more: these are the albums that changed Eric Gales' life
Ousted from Fleetwood Mac, guitarist/vocalist Lindsey Buckingham bounced back with one of our albums of 2021, but he’s still hopeful that he can make one more record with the Mac
The Barenaked Ladies are back with a new album – and the frontman’s secret project with Geddy Lee “that I can’t talk about”
Country-rockers Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real on close encounters with marine life, backing Neil Young and continuing a family tradition
Eric Church, country-rock superstar, returns with a triple album, optimism for future gigs, and thoughts on *that* controversial interview
Heart guitarist Nancy Wilson talks guitars, the new solo album You And Me, and her surprise choice for the most underrated guitarist of all time
Putting Sgt. Pepper's iconic album's iconic artwork under the microscope to discover the weird, the wonderful, and what Sonny Liston thought of Ringo's drumming
In the year of Star Wars, Pink Floyd’s former engineer Alan Parsons was creating his own barmy sci-fi masterpiece, I Robot
David Bowie had everything to prove, but backed by his greatest band and produced by the engineer for The Beatles, he made his first classic album, Hunky Dory
After the minimalism of his ‘Berlin trilogy’, David Bowie went all out for a kitchen-sink art-rock album on Scary Monsters
Released 50 years ago, Ladies Of The Canyon marked the moment when Joni Mitchell went from folk princess to pop star
A tribute to Prince: multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, producer, actor, eccentric, sex symbol, rocker, badass funk pioneer
The record industry claimed he "wasn't black enough or white enough" to become famous - this is how the funk-rock superstar proved them wrong.
