2020 was a year of painful losses, and the music world was no exception. Our weekly Rolling Stone Music Now podcast spotlighted the lives of some of the many musicians we lost this year, including one of rock & roll’s founders and two of rock’s greatest-ever virtuosos. Press play on …
Read More »Chris Knight Plans New Album 'Almost Daylight' for Fall 2019
Singer-songwriter Chris Knight, who released his major-label debut 20 years ago and has since gone on to issue a handful of independent albums, will release his first new music in more than seven years this fall. The musician who came to prominence during the birth of the Americana movement toward …
Read More »Cult R&B Singer Swamp Dogg Talks New Country Album Featuring John Prine
Swamp Dogg has been trying to make a country album for a long time. “All my life,” he says. Although the 76-year-old singer-songwriter is best known for his oddball R&B, country music has been an integral part of his musical foundation ever since he stayed up late at night as …
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