But his concert music ... The trumpet, for instance, is often thought of as an instrument that delivers fanfare or is used to play military themes. Yet in “The Godfather Waltz” it is ...

“The ‘Godfather of freak folk’ was for a prolific half-century the purveyor of an eccentric genius and compassionate wit. He alone was snock. There is no other. Friends, family, and the ...

“The ‘Godfather of freak folk’ was for a prolific half-century the purveyor of an eccentric genius and compassionate wit. He alone was Snock. There is no other. Friends, family, and the ...

My go-to mood enhancer these days is E.B. White, a Maine farmer and writer known mostly for 20th-century children’s classics.

The idiosyncratic songwriter and cartoonist had been coming to the East Tennessee city for decades, but his trip there over the last weekend in March for the sprawling music festival Big Ears had ...

If, as Goethe said, you can judge someone’s character by how they treat those who can do nothing for them, an episode in Afghanistan reveals much about Mike Waltz’s character. And that story ...

The idiosyncratic songwriter and cartoonist had been coming to the East Tennessee city for decades, but his trip there over the last weekend in March for the sprawling music festival Big Ears had ...

Thought he spent time around the folk revival scene of the 1960s, Michael Hurley quickly cut a unique path for his career, with an extremely independent approach to recording and releasing music.