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Emmylou Harris: ‘It’s a lot harder, isn’t it, to just live a long life?’

THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: As the country music titan prepares for her final European performances, she speaks to Louis Chilton about life, mortality, and being part of the ‘greatest era’ of music

The Independent UK

Emmylou Harris review – spine-tingling goodbye from 78-year-old country legend

The lived-in dustiness of her voice only enriches her storytelling, with her greatest songs now more devastating than ever

The Guardian - UK

“I think I was pretty naive, and I didn’t see that side of Gram. I must’ve known about it, but I will say that when we were working together, he was on. He was so focused”: Emmylou Harris on working with Gram Parsons

Singer starts her final European tour

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‘There’s serendipity to my story’: Emmylou Harris on Gram Parsons, her garlanded career – and her dog rescue centre

Ahead of her final European tour, the US songwriter discusses her unlikely life as a country star, seeking advice from Pete Seeger – and why retirement isn’t on the cards just yet

The Guardian - UK

“Morrison was very clever. He was a regular guy but he really played that image of his well. He was an actor”: The Byrds’ Roger McGuinn on John Lennon’s dangerous side, the myth of Jim Morrison and the forgotten guitar player who was as good as Hendrix

Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, The Beatles –Roger McGuinn has crossed paths with the them all

Louder

"Love Chant is a wonderful and surprisingly vital return to the fray": The Lemonheads' first album of original songs in 20 years is up there with their best

The Lemonheads' eleventh album is fun, frantic, and full of classic hooks and self-deprecating refrains

Louder

The Uncool by Cameron Crowe review – inside rock’s wildest decade

From shadowing a cocaine-addled David Bowie to winning over Joni Mitchell, deliciously readable tales by the director of Almost Famous

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“The first thing I did in the morning was take a fix… I don’t know why I started. I suppose it was to overcome my insecurity”: He was a member of one of the most famous supergroups of the late 60s. But this forgotten great died in poverty aged just 43

The tragic story of one of rock’s lost greats

Louder

"I said, what are you talking about? Just step over Keith Richards?!" The cult of Keef: guitar hero, blues scholar, rebel, survivor, self-parody, genius

How Keith Richards influenced several generations of rock’n’rollers – for better or worse

Louder

“When Clarence White entered the band, it elevated their guitar work. White and Roger McGuinn were electrifying”: Christian Parker on the Byrds’ legacy as folk-rock trailblazers, gear innovators and righteous players in their own right

Parker’s two consecutive albums of Byrds covers showcase the brilliance of one of the '60s most underappreciated guitar powerhouses

Guitar World

"There wasn't too much talking about who should play what, it was a very instinctive kind of relationship": Mick Taylor on life in the Rolling Stones, Altamont and leaving the band

The Rolling Stones’ secret weapon throughout their golden period looks back on his time with the band

Louder

“Our generation owes him our artistic lives – because he opened all the doors in Nashville”: The Bob Dylan album that helped change country music

On his last studio album of the '60s, Bob Dylan embraced country music and unveiled a surprising new vocal style

MusicRadar

"I jammed with Hendrix and Clapton in a loft in New York": Roger McGuinn's stories of John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison and more

The Byrds' Roger McGuinn played with Jim Morrison, was part of Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder revue, gave John Lennon granny glasses and Brian Wilson speed, and he's got some tales to tell

Louder

A beginner’s guide to country rock in five essential albums

Five must-hear albums that answer the burning question: what is country rock?

Louder

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Evening Standard

London’s style set on their most treasured hideaways

From charming inns in California to uber-chic Italian palazzos, Rosalyn Wikeley speaks to some of the capital’s leading taste-makers to discover their favourite hidden gems

Salon

Jason Isbell & Amanda Shires partnership

The HBO doc has the chance to explore what happens when both partners do the same thing but one is more famous

The Guardian - UK

Dan McCafferty obituary

Lead singer with the hard rock band Nazareth whose vocal range stretched from quiet introspection to heavy-metal howling

The Guardian - UK

Emeralds, elephants and Eric the opalised fossil: the 10 greatest stones in art

From a pliosaur skeleton now known to Australian museumgoers as Eric to the basalt that built Robert Smithson’s almighty Spiral Jetty, these are stones that really speak

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First Aid Kit: Palomino album review - this record’s confidence hints at rock star status

The Swedish sisters have returned with a euphoric new work

The Guardian - UK

‘I’m a roads scholar!’ Marty Stuart’s five decades at the country university

Since joining his first band aged 12, Stuart has played with the likes of Johnny Cash and the Byrds and is now building a country music museum. He explains the roots of his lifelong passion

The Guardian - UK

‘People took so many drugs, they forgot they played on it’ – stars on Exile on Main St, the Rolling Stones’ sprawling masterpiece

Recorded during several hedonistic months in a fabulous Cote d’Azur villa, Exile on Main St is seen as the Stones’ epic, creative peak. As the classic album turns 50, stars tell us how it got their rocks off

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