Even allowing for the fact that authors don't always get to choose their titles, Nancy Spada's new "Beyond the Handsomeness: A Biography of Thomas Schippers" (Universal Music) hits a sour note. Her ...

In the beautiful and moving biography Janis: Her Life and Music, Holly George-Warren paints a complex portrait of singer Janis Joplin. Drawing on archival materials as well as interviews with Joplin’s ...

Sinatra: The Life, by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan. Alfred A. Knopf, 576 pages, $26.95. I believe, based on a lifetime of consideration, that Frank Sinatra was the greatest interpretive musician ...

Best known by his stage name “Ranger Doug,” Douglas B. Green is an award-winning songwriter, musician, singer, writer, accomplished yodeler, and co-founder of the popular western band, Riders In The ...

Stephanie Wicker has been a fixture in Northwest rock since the early ’90s, both as a musician and a self-taught sound engineer. A talented guitarist best known for co-founding the now-defunct Western ...

If you want to make it as an independent artist in the music business, it's important to diversify. One avenue many may not consider is to go into publishing. Not music publishing, but actual ...

Looking to find out more about Dean Johnson (Musical Director, Musician)? We have a full Biography, Photos, Theatre Credits, TV and Movies listings, Videos and more!

Multi-talented singer-songwriter and musician Marty Stuart fell in love with country music at an early age. His mother had named him after her favorite country singer, Marty Robbins, and given him his ...

Most extraordinary of all musical geniuses was Austria’s Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Starting his career as a four-fold infant prodigy (harpsichordist, violinist, organist, composer), he wrote, during ...