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From Pearl Jam's "Last Kiss" to Frank Ocean's "Moon River" to Patti Smith's "Horses," here are the 100 greatest cover songs of all time.

This is a story about singer-songwriter Dino Valenti and two songs for which he has songwriting credit that defined the Sixties. It also stars Edie Sedgwick, Jimi Hendrix, The Kingston Trio and Folsom Prison.

Jesse Colin Young turns 81 this Tuesday. I wrote up this installment of my Sunday Morning series a year ago in honor of his 80th birthday. Listening to Albert O hosting Highway 61 Revisited on WUMB yesterday, I was alerted to his birthday this week. It vaguely reminded me that I had put something together for him and went looking for it on our search engine. I want to give

A look through the Brainerd Dispatch archives with Terry McCollough combing the microfilm for tidbits of history through the decades going back to 1922.

Mark Smotroff appreciates the nuance underlying a folk blues legend…

We continue our look back at the music of 50 years ago..... He was still a member of his band "The Youngbloods" as he recorded his first solo record i...

We continue our look back at the music of 50 years ago..... He was still a member of his band "The Youngbloods...

Once in a blue moon, a music artist or group evidences a growth spurt that's so quick and impressive it can only be called astonishing. One example is the

Jesse Colin Young turns 80 tomorrow. You may have heard of him as the founding member of the Youngbloods or as a solo artist. I love his work. It has meant a lot to me for a long time. I want to salute him briefly and post a few videos for fun this morning. Jesse struggled over many years with a devastating case of Lyme Disease that went undiagnosed until

Jesse Colin Young: Still a Youngblood With his latest album, "Highway Troubadour," Jesse Colin Young travels from past to present and back again. Author: Feb 25, 2021 Jesse Colin Young performs during the "Music & Revolution: Greenwich Village in the 1960’s Concert" at SummerStage, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park on August 12, 2018, in New York City. Photo by Debra L Rothenberg/Getty Images.  Above left, Youngs latest album Highway Troubadour. By Lee Zimmerman By any definition, Jesse Colin...