In newly shared footage, Billy Strings gets his hands on Ol' Hoss, an acoustic guitar owned and played by bluegrass legend Doc Watson.

On Monday, the New Yorker released a landmark profile on Texas legend Willie Nelson. From his years on the road to a tribute ...

Mick Abrahams left the legendary rock band shortly after their 1968 debut album "This Was" due to creative differences with frontman Ian Anderson.

In 1981, the musical "Dreamgirls," starring Jennifer Holliday, premiered on Broadway. It ran for 1,522 performances, picking up six Tony Awards in 1982. "Dreamgirls" is based primarily on the story of ...

A self-taught session man extraordinaire, he played with a constellation of stars, including Michael Jackson, Curtis Mayfield, Chaka Khan and Dizzy Gillespie.

The rocker also co-wrote classic songs like Otis Redding's "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay" Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, ...

Steve Cropper, Blues Brothers band member and Booker T. & the MG's guitarist, has died. He was 84. Pat Mitchell Worley, president and CEO of the Soulsville Foundation, told The Associated Press that ...

Guitarist Steve Cropper, who left an indelible impression on Memphis soul music as an instrumentalist, producer and songwriter at Stax Records, has died, his son Cameron confirmed to Variety on ...

The songwriter, two-time Grammy winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer riffed on “Soul Man,” “Green Onions” and “(Sittin’ on) the Dock of the Bay.” By Roy Trakin Steve Cropper, a founding member of ...

Steve Cropper, the iconic and influential guitarist who defined Memphis soul with Booker T. & The MG’s, played on many Stax Records hits and with The Blues Brothers band, died Wednesday in Nashville.

Steve Cropper, the legendary guitarist who was a session musician with Stax Records in the '60s, has died. He was 84. The Missouri-born guitarist played on dozens of hit records over the decades, ...

Leroy Williams, better known to New Orleans nightlife denizens as bluesman Guitar Lightnin’ Lee, died Nov. 6. He was 83. A New Orleans native who grew up in the Lower 9th Ward, he hung out outside the ...