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Rusty Draper is championing for the overdue recognition of Archie and Gordon Sloan.

Singer Lola Dee, who recorded for Mercury and Columbia in the 1950s and toured with Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante and Johnnie Ray, has died. She was 95. 

Bill Pitman, a guitarist who accompanied Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Barbra Streisand and others from the late 1950s to the ’70s, and who for d

The guitarist and bassist has died at the age of 102 at his home in California after he was put in hospice care following a fall that left him with a fractured spine.

As a versatile member of the loose association of musicians known as the Wrecking Crew, he was heard on many of the biggest pop and rock hits of the 1960s and ’70s.

Although inducted into the 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, her contributions haven't always been properly acknowledged.

Although inducted into the 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, her contributions haven't always been properly acknowledged.

Although inducted into the 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, her contributions haven't always been properly acknowledged.

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From the September/October 2020 issue of Acoustic Guitar ; excerpted from the February 1995 issue of AG | By Linda Demmerle Seven years after the death of folk guitarist Elizabeth Cotten, her music is heard everywhere—from Peter, Paul and Mary to the Grateful Dead to movie soundtracks and even the jukebox band on PBS’ Shining Time Station. Cotten, who began…