Arts and Entertainment

Creedence Clearwater Revival put out three albums in 1969, each one featuring at least one all-time classic. From Bayou Country: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hid10EgMXE From Green River (a great song in its own…

As my classmates and I celebrate our 50th High School Reunion this month (Brandywine HS, Class of '69), I'm gonna present a month of great songs from one of the…

From 2005's "Plans" LP, this is Ben Gibbard's elegy for summer, youth and innocence. It was never released as a single, but it's one of the strongest tracks on an…

Nothing says "we're copying Bob Dylan!" quite like calling your folk-pop duo The Changin' Times, and reinforcing it by using "masquerade" in the first line of the lyrics of your…

Jackson C. Frank was an American folk singer who, like Paul Simon and a few others, moved to London shortly after the "British Invasion." He met Simon there and impressed…

Gillian Welch and David Rawlings released this song on her second album, "Time (The Revelator)," and the sparse arrangement and their muted harmonies perfectly captures the sad ending of a…

Ken Burns' multi-part documentary on country music, still airing on PBS stations, hasn't reached the end of the '60s yet, so I don't know if it's going to address what…

Jim Pepper was a tenor saxophonist of Native American heritage who played in a group called the Fresh Spirits, considered the first jazz-rock fusion band, but he's best remembered for…

Back when people bought their music on CDs -- 'memba them? -- bands started to have fun with the format by including hidden tracks after the end of the listed…

If you didn't live in the Philadelphia area, you might not know this Northern Soul classic, but it was all over WIBG in the summer of '67. It also charted…

Wilco has a new album, "Ode to Joy," set for release early next month, and the band released a new video for a not-quite-new song to promote it. Band leader…

Her name is Luna Lee, and she's playing a traditional Korean stringed instrument called a gayageum. She has a whole YouTube channel devoted to her covers of classic rock songs,…

Ric Ocasek, who died in New York at age 75 over the weekend, is a good example of never giving up. The Cars weren't his first band, or his second,…