John D. Luerssen

Jack White will produce an upcoming live album by rock 'n' roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis. The concert will take place on Record Store Day, April 16, at White's Third Man Records compound in Nashville. According to the label, White will man the boards for the show, which will be recorded direct to analogue...

Larry Knechtel, a one-time collaborator of Elvis Presley's and an accomplished sideman in both the rock and country worlds, died Thursday, Aug. 20 at the age of 69. Knechtel, who won a 1970 Grammy award for his arrangement of Simon and Garfunkel's enduring 'Bridge Over Troubled Water,' succumbed to an apparent heart attack, according to a report by his local newspaper, the Yakima Herald Republic..

Stephen Bruton, the guitarist and songwriter who played with country singer Kris Kristofferson for four decades, died on Saturday from complications of throat cancer at the home of producer/musician T-Bone Burnett. Bruton, whose songs were recorded by the likes of Bonnie Raitt, Willie Nelson and Jimmy Buffett, was 60...

Jack White was recently asked by Bob Dylan to pay tribute to Hank Williams in a particularly novel way. According to the White Stripes and Raconteurs guitarist and vocalist, Dylan "came upon, somehow, 20 to 25 unfinished songs by Hank Williams -- just the lyrics, no music -- and he started to ask people if they would finish these songs...

Dolly Parton has fired back at Howard Stern, in response to a bit that the shock-jock aired earlier this month on his Sirius satellite radio show. According to Parton, Stern's show used elements from her audiobook to electronically manipulate her speaking voice, creating "racist and sexually vulgar statements...