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Rolling Stone Jonathan Taplin Tour-Managed Rock Royalty. Now He’s Telling His Stories In a new memoir, Taplin recalls what it was like to watch Dylan go electric, George Harrison speed-drive, and Clapton and the Band wrestle with demons and drugs By John Scheele* Jonathan Taplin wasn’t present at the creation, but in rock & roll terms, he came close enough. He witnessed Bob Dylan going electric at the Newport Folk Festival, saw Jimi Hendrix and many others at Monterey Pop, flew into Woodstock while working for the Band, helped coordinate George Harrison’s Concert for Ba...

The blues became bluer Thursday. Albertina Wassenhove, whose Midway Tavern gave blues musicians and fans a place to call home for more than three decades, died Thursday night from a heart ailment. She was 93. “She was a kind of a quiet whirlwind of energy,” local musician Eugene “Jumpin’ Gene” Halton said. “Sometimes she would seem like a quiet person, but she was always at this place of positivity and joy.” Visitation will be from 3 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Hahn Funeral Home in Mishawaka and noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, followed by a service, at Hahn. Harvey Stauf...

The blues became bluer Thursday.