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Musicians have long influenced Tucson’s soundtrack. The annual HocoFest Homecoming celebrates Tucson’s past and present as well as the variety of music styles that have...

HoCo Homecoming over Labor Day weekend will pay tribute to Linda Ronstadt and Tucsons rich and varied musical history.

The Spanish-language album released 35 years ago will be available to a new generation of listeners when it comes out on vinyl Sept. 8.

As it turns out, the story of Tucson rock is filled with so many twists and characters that it couldn’t possibly be summed up in...

His killed me as a pre-punk boy. Like some free-reed instrument, it glowed more than pushed, transmitting a longing I couldnt yet name. Was the sweetest on KWFM radio in Tucson in the mid 70s. That voice sidled up swimmingly next to his male-peer stars, like the velvet country-rock throats of John Dawson (New Riders of The Purple Sage) and Jackson Browne, especially on the song of isolation "The Story...

Ned Sutton: Grandpa. ‘The Man. The Myth. The Bad Influence.’ The three white ducks, Huey, Dewy and Louie, hang together in a corner like a band, waddle and flop in unison, squawking a specific waterfowl rhythm that soon becomes a kind of dusty, backyard aria, which includes two young clowning grandchildren, an overhead helicopter, a hammock creaking in the breeze, several baby chickens in a coop, and Ned Sutton bitching about the rises in the yard, the hard dirt humps he finds difficult t...