A few of my favorite stories from the last decade or so.

Country’s Lost Pioneer: The Linda Martell Story
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For Rock’s Road Crews, 2020 Was Devastating
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Secretary of Shred: Tony Blinken Talks Rock Love
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Yacht Rock Babylon: The Epic Saga of the Doobie Brothers
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The Music and Mystery of David Blue
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The Last Folksinger
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The Return of “Strange Fruit,” One of the First Protest Songs
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Goldie and the Gingerbreads: Why Is Rock’s First All-Woman Band So Obscure?
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The Return of Sister Kate (Taylor)
The Triumph and Tragedy of Woodstock’s Lost Album Producer
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Woodstock 50: What Went Wrong in the Biggest Music Debacle of 2019
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An Oral History of Carlos Santana and Rob Thomas’ “Smooth”
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Music’s Fentanyl Crisis: Inside the Drug That Killed Prince and Tom Petty
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Prince in the ’90s: An Oral History
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Whitney Houston: The Diva and the Dark Side (cover story tribute)
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The Knights of Soft Rock: The Untold Story of L.A.’s Key ’70s Session Musicians–and What They Witnessed
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Glenn Frey: An Oral History
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Inside the 46-Year Journey to Bring Aretha Franklin’s ‘Amazing Grace’ Doc to Life
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Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Last Days
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The Life and Times of Tom Wilson, the Pioneering African-American Rock Producer of the ’60s
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CSNY, Harry Styles and … Jeff Buckley’s “His Own Voice” on the Horizon

Just when I think things are winding down with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock’s Greatest Supergroup, something comes along to delight and surprise. In Rolling Stone(where I work, as a senior writer), my colleague Rob Sheffield...

A Major CSNY Anniversary and An Upcoming Appearance of My Own

It’s been a year – and now summer -- of 50th anniversaries, and this month marks an important one in the saga of CSNY: the first time the quartet began rehearsing and recording after the addition of Neil Young. According to the earliest studio paperwork I...

“Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young” Coverage and Upcoming Appearances

The first six or so weeks of the launch of "Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest Supergroup" have been wonderfully gratifying. This past weekend, May 26, the book was included in the New York Times' annual "Summer...

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