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Sought-after session player best known for his collaborations with Ry Cooder and Jackson Browne

SAN DIEGO — David Lindley may not have been a household name for most music fans, but he most certainly was for his fellow musicians. Witness the classic albums that featured this masterful guitarist, who died last week at the age of 78.

Jim O’Neil, with a career arc from high school bass fishing to a career in the outdoors, will speak on swimbaits at the Tinley Park Fishing, Travel & Outdoor Expo; plus early spring signs in Wild Things.

Oh, to be in the room where it happens. The nominating room for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Those debates must be fiery.

If Elliott makes it, she would become the first female hip-hop artist in the hall.

Missy Elliott, Willie Nelson, Kate Bush, Iron Maiden, Cyndi Lauper, Soundgarden, Sheryl Crow and the late George Michael are the 2023 nominees for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, reflecting a mix of country, soul, hip-hop, metal, pop, rap-rock and grunge. The Cleveland-based institution announced Wednesday the…

Missy Elliott, Willie Nelson, Kate Bush, Iron Maiden, Cyndi Lauper, Soundgarden, Sheryl Crow and the late George Michael are nominees for 2023 induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, a list that includes a mix of country, soul, hip-hop, metal, pop, rap-rock and grunge

LOS ANGELES — Shooter Jennings knew "Carmelita." He knew "Lawyers, Guns and Money." And of course he knew "Werewolves of London," Warren Zevon's 1978 rock hit about a "hairy-handed gent" on the prowl for "a big dish of beef chow mein."

Bob Dylan doesn't think much of the current state of songwriting or of contemporary pop music, two points underscored in his sometimes dizzying, sometimes confounding, but rarely less than absorbing new book, "The Philosophy of Modern Song." But he does think polygamist marriages are greatly underrated, about which more in…

The Anacortes, Washington-based DIY hero takes us through his week in listening, from a “sexually suggestive” EDM song by Pickle to a Nina Simone record picked out by a jazz-loving child

Travis Strickland caught the pending Illinois-record skipjack herring, in part because he knew what he had.