Bruce Springsteen held up a sign that read “You Never Can Tell,” and for a moment, the audience knew what song was coming before the E Street Band knew exactly how it would go. The Chuck Berry hit was the kind of request that could send a concert briefly off its tracks. Springsteen took it…
When Sir Tom Jones returned to the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles on November 4, the audience heard a story he could tell only because he was standing there. The 86-year-old Welsh singer had spent a week in the hospital after struggling to breathe, and at one point he feared he was dying. “You’ve had…
On a sunlit morning in Normandy, Sir Tom Jones sang a promise: “I Won’t Crumble With You If You Fall.” The people he was there to honor had lived through a day when the person beside them could mean the difference between making it home and never seeing home again. Eighty years after the D-Day…
There’s a moment at a Lil Wayne show when the crowd recognizes the beat before he gets to the first word. For people who grew up with his records, that sound can bring back a whole era: the friend who always had a new mixtape, the car with the speakers turned up too high, the…
Nearly six months before Dolly Parton died at 80, her name found a new home in East Tennessee. On February 26, 2026, East Tennessee Children’s Hospital announced that it was becoming Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital, beginning a collaboration to strengthen pediatric care in the region. The name was already familiar to generations who knew her…
The sweetest detail in Reba McEntire and Rex Linn’s love story comes before either of them gets to work. As the story goes, Rex tells her every morning that she’s the most beautiful woman in the world. He’s said it often enough that it could have become ordinary. Instead, it’s the detail that makes their…
The surprise at Alan Osmond’s farewell came after a day of music and remembrance. It was a burst of fireworks, an unexpected ending to a gathering that had brought hundreds of people together in Orem and Spanish Fork, Utah. Osmond, the senior performing member of the Osmonds, died on April 20, 2026, at 76. His…
The room goes quiet all at once. In this imagined concert scene, Willie Nelson steps into a narrow beam of light beside Alan Jackson, who is seated in a wheelchair at center stage. There’s no introduction to tell the audience what kind of moment it’s about to witness. Jackson begins to sing, and his baritone…