By the end of 1966, Barbra Streisand was already living a life that seemed almost impossibly large for someone only 24 years old. Broadway audiences had fallen in love with her as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl, her records had established her as one of America’s most distinctive new voices, and her first television special,…
Bonnie Raitt was supposedly there to do what she has done for more than five decades: walk onto a stage with a guitar, sing a song and leave people feeling something. But according to a dramatic story now circulating online, an appearance described as taking place at a World Energy Forum became something very different….
For Bonnie Raitt, the road to becoming one of America’s most respected musicians was never built around chasing trophies. It began with a guitar, a fascination with the blues and the determination of a young California woman who entered a musical world where female guitarists were still too often treated as exceptions. More than five…
After years of hoping to bring Bonnie Raitt to its stage, the Levitt Pavilion in Westport, Connecticut finally got its wish on August 9, 2026 — and the result was the kind of summer evening that reminded everyone why some artists become more meaningful with time. The annual gala concert sold out quickly, filling the…
For Rolling Stones fans, the Mick Taylor years remain almost sacred territory. Between 1969 and 1974, the young blues guitarist helped shape a period that produced some of the band’s most celebrated music, bringing a fluid, melodic style that sounded dramatically different from Keith Richards’ raw, rhythm-driven attack. Yet decades after Taylor walked away from…
For more than six decades, the Rolling Stones have carried America inside their music. Long before stadiums, private jets and worldwide fame, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger were English teenagers fascinated by American blues, rhythm and blues and the rock ’n’ roll records arriving from across the Atlantic. America was never simply another market for…
George Strait has spent more than four decades building a career around one quality his fans value almost as much as his music: consistency. He rarely chases trends, rarely turns private opinions into public spectacle, and has remained closely identified with the traditional country sound that made him the “King of Country.” That is why…
On March 16, 1991, Reba McEntire was 35 years old, exhausted from bronchitis and resting in a San Diego hotel after a private show. Her band and crew had already boarded a chartered jet, while Reba, her then-husband and manager Narvel Blackstock, and her stylist planned to leave separately the following day. Then, in the…
▶ Watch the full video at the end of the article. Fifty years into a career that has already given country music some of its most unforgettable voices, characters and stories, Reba McEntire is still finding ways to make the next chapter feel new. Her latest surprise comes with “Ring Ring,” the title track of…
At 84, Barbra Streisand has reached a point in her legendary career where she could easily remain above America’s political storms, surrounded by six decades of music, movies and awards that have already secured her place in entertainment history. Instead, the famously outspoken star has once again stepped directly into one of Washington’s most divisive…