Music

Missy Elliott, John Prine and Yusuf/Cat Stevens are among the 2019 inductees into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Country great Tom T. Hall, R&B hitmaker Dallas Austin and “Peaceful Easy Feeling” writer Jack Tempchin will also be honored at the June 13th induction ceremony at New York’s Marriott Marquis Hotel. …

Jimmy Page kept himself pretty busy in the Eighties. In addition to co-founding the short-lived supergroup XYZ, he composed the soundtrack to Death Wish II, launched the Firm with Free and Bad Company vocalist Paul Rodgers, reunited with Led Zeppelin for a couple high-profile one-offs, and guest-starred with everyone from …

On May 7th, 2018, Richard Swift posted a black-and-white image of his recording studio, National Freedom, to Instagram. Situated in a converted barn behind his home in Cottage Grove, Oregon, the studio was full of the tools of his trade: a triple stack of keyboards, the custom C&C drum kit …

Roger Miller would have turned 83 years old today. Born January 2nd, 1936, in Fort Worth, Texas, and raised in Erick, Oklahoma, Miller would become one of the most celebrated songwriters in American history, an entertainer and composer distinguished for his contributions to country and pop music, as well as …