Bassist Phil Lesh, whose dense, inventive playing powered the Grateful Dead and, following the 1995 death of guitarist Jerry Garcia, many of the San Francisco band’s touring reincarnations, died ...

who — like his Bay Area colleague Jack Casady of Jefferson Airplane and his English contemporary Jack Bruce of Cream — essentially reinvented the role of the bassist in a rock band format ...

Recorded just one month after their performance at Woodstock, this newly released archival album finds the band in fine, ...

Today in Music History for Nov. 21: ...

Jefferson Airplane ... Pretty heady for a 19 year-old!" By the end of 1968, the band had written over 50 songs and were touring in a new Dodge van, stuffed with equipment such as amps, a Ludwig ...

Most were made during the golden era of 1966-1968 ... than on Jefferson Airplane’s more song-oriented later albums. Grace Slick writes a pair of free-associative cabaret songs; Jorma Kaukonen ...

When The Hudson Independent caught up with the multi-Grammy-winning singer and songwriter Lucinda Williams by phone from her ...

If you want to understand what makes Albert King a much-loved guitar player and purveyor of the blues, then look no further than Live Wire/Blues Power his 1968 release. Recorded live at the ...

Cathy Richardson: I think this band has always been about great songs and great singing. Even in all the different incarnations, Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship and Starship, which are ...

One of the first rock bassists whose instrument regularly took a lead role, he also had a hand in writing some of the band’s best-known songs ... Jack Casady in Jefferson Airplane, a mainstay ...

Below, we're taking a look at 60 Rock Songs Inspired by Books and Literature, for the most part limiting it to one entry per ...