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Avant-garde jazz musician and composer Karl Berger has transitioned. He co-founded the Creative Music Institute in Woodstock with his wife, Ingrid Sertso, and the late…

Whenever I saw David Crosby onstage, he was always in fine fettle, except for once…With Stephen Stills and Graham Nash, and sometimes also Neil Young, or in a duo with…

Rock Icon David Crosby, who was a seminal voice of the 60s, 70s, and beyond, died today at 81 after a long illness. Crosby was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame…

Nippertown lost another musical giant in the blues and folk genre. Thomasina Winslow was an internationally known blues guitarist and vocalist. She toured on the East Coast…

Jeff Beck and Buddy Guy leaned into each other shoulder to shoulder. Their fingers flew across the strings of their guitars in an extemporaneous jam that was two parts duet…

Bluesman Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson passed away at age 83 on Christmas Day. Johnson played the Nippertown area regularly in the 1990s. I got to introduce him at The Metro…

When Frank Daley got onstage to sit in with a band, the energy in the room would tilt on an invisible axis. People loved to see and hear him play. After decades on the stage,…

OSWEGO, NY - Kim Simmonds, founder of the seminal blues band Savoy Brown, has died. For 57 years, Simmonds was the cornerstone of the last British blues rock bands to ride to…