Arlo Guthrie was arrested in Massachusetts 60 years ago and his tale became the unnofficial song of Thanksgiving.

The Wicked phenomenon just reached its final crescendo. Republic Records and Verve Records have released Wicked: For Good — ...

B ack in the mid-1990s, The Beatles released an eight-part Anthology series featuring John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George ...

London-reared, L.A.-based musician Arlo Parks will play her first shows in more than a year next month, during which she plans to debut some fresh songs and other surprises. “I’ve spent the past few ...

USA – “I see the statue in the marble and chip away until I set it free,” Michaelangelo is supposed to have said. The Renaissance genius was echoing a deep desire that has powered creatives of all ...

SHEFFIELD — Growing up in London, fiddle player Kevin Burke received the best education in Irish traditional music that anyone could ask for. When Burke came of age in the 1960s, the influx of Irish ...

Nearly 80 years after Woody Guthrie wrote the poem “Deportee” (also known as “Plane Wreck at Los Gatos”), his sole recording of the piece performed as a song is being released to commemorate his ...

Actor William Smithers (“Dallas,” ″Peyton Place”) is 98. Singer Mavis Staples is 86. Actor Mills Watson (“B.J. and the Bear,” ″Lobo”) is 85. Actor Robert Pine (“CHiPS”) is 84. Bassist Dave Smalley of ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. At dusk a few nights ago, a thunk at the window eighteen inches from my head took me by surprise. A bird ...

“‘All you can write is what you see’ is a quote from my grandfather that is ingrained in my songwriting brain,” says Cole Quest. The grandson of Woody Guthrie, Quest grew up in New York City, where ...

No folk music collection is complete without the all-time classic 1967 LP, Arlo Guthrie’s debut, the entire first side of which was the 18-minute opus called “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree.” It was a ...