Jack Elliott

Odetta, the classically trained folk, blues and gospel singer who used her powerfully rich and dusky voice to champion African-American music and civil rights issues for more than half a century starting in the folk revival of the 1950s, has died. She was...

Odetta, the classically trained folk, blues and gospel singer who used her powerfully rich and dusky voice to champion African American music and civil rights issues for more than half a century starting in the folk revival of the 1950s, has died. She was...

Most Southland music fans know McCabe's Guitar Shop for the innumerable folk, country, blues, jazz and world-music concerts presented over the decades in the tiny back stockroom that can hold about 150 folding chairs when all the instrument cases are...

Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman "The Fabled City" (Epic) * * * Some people think folk music is more honest than other forms, but it's also rich territory for alter egos. Bob Dylan called himself Blind Boy Grunt to continue making folk recordings as he...

By Len Righi ALLENTOWN, Pa.—As a young man working in a genre that reveres tradition, blues guitarist-singer-songwriter David Jacobs-Strain could make it easy on himself. "I could either try to be a blues revivalist and play old songs note...

CALIFORNIA Santa Lucia Day Kingsburg marks its centennial in 2008, and to honor that coming milestone, 100 youths are set to participate in the Santa Lucia celebration this year: girls in white gowns with red sashes and wearing candle crowns and boys...

LOCAL LIVE THE STRAWBS. Prog-rock goes acoustic. (8 p.m. tomorrow, Stephen Talkhouse, 161 Main St., Amagansett, 631-267-3117. $25-$35.) RICHIE HAVENS. Freedom! With Steve Forbert and Aztec Two-Step. (7:30 p.m. Saturday, Patchogue Theatre for the...

June 1 David Lee Roth. Diamond Dave and his diabolically diminishing hairline. Westbury Music Fair. 7 p.m. $40. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists. Fusing soft and hard. 11 p.m. Bowery Ballroom. $12. Zootopia. Featuring TLC, Ja Rule, Simple Plan, Ashanti,...

Moving a step closer to settling a longstanding desegregation case, the Mississippi Legislature committed the state to spending $75 million over the next five years for campus improvements at three historically Black universities. The first $15 million...

Friday August 25, 2000      Elliott Charles Adnopoz, the oldest son of Flossie and Dr. Abraham Adnopoz of Brooklyn, N.Y., dreamed the most powerful dream.      Living on prosaic Linden Boulevard, young Elliott didn't merely wish he was a riding, roping,...

Among folk music aficionados, Ramblin' Jack Elliott is regarded as a living legend as much for his life story as for his music, and it's a colorful biography to be sure. Elliott ran away from home at 15 to join a rodeo, lived and traveled with Woody...