Peplowski, who died Feb. 2, started playing clarinet professionally at age 10 and went on to perform with the Benny Goodman Orchestra and to record on his own. Originally broadcast July 7, 1999.

Kenny Wayne Shepherd’s career launched to stardom when he was only 18 years old with his debut album Ledbetter Heights, featuring his explosive guitar solos ...

Snoopy's tribute to Ozzy Osbourne became an instant viral sensation at Knott's Berry Farm, with Sharon Osbourne sharing the performance during the Grammy Awards.

Yet Steely Dan stood apart from all of them. The musical alter-ego of bookish New Yorkers Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, Steely Dan, with their broad musical palette, didn’t really fit in anywhere.

Time marches on, but the urge to rock continues. Some iconic musicians are touring in their 70s and 80s these days, while others have retired and left the road behind. When a classic rock band comes ...

As The Beatles go their own ways, George Harrison crafts a devotional wall-of-sound hymn that would bring him huge solo success and a load of legal trouble ...

John Fogerty was recently awarded the Johnny Mercer Award by the Songwriters' Hall of Fame. To celebrate, we count down 15 of ...

The jam scene came from jazz, especially where bands would lay out the rhythm for soloists to dance over. Paul Gonsalves’ 26 choruses during “Diminuendo in Blue and Crescendo in Blue” from Ellington ...

No band was more suspect for a straight-edge Eighties kid than the Grateful Dead. But slowly a fan was born — one shaggy jam at a time.

By junior high, Pete was playing electric guitar in a band. The nascent country-rock scene that started to explode after The Byrds’ 1968 album Sweetheart of the Rodeo soon had Pete hooked on the sound ...

Album by album with Dan superfans David Crosby, St Vincent, Paddy McAloon, Lloyd Cole, Bonnie Raitt, Talib Kweli and more ...