“Snooky” Flowers, a saxophonist who most notably organized the Kozmic Blues Band for Janis Joplin in the late 1960s, and...

Janis Joplin wasn’t around when her second solo album, Pearl, was released in January 1971. She wasn’t around a few...

Sam Andrew, the guitarist and founding member of Big Brother and the Holding Company who also helped launch the career...

Music photographer Jim Marshall, who spent more than a half-century capturing rock ‘n’ roll legends including the Beatles, Bob Dylan...

LOS ANGELES – James Gurley, the innovative guitarist who helped shape psychedelic rock’s multilayered, sometimes thundering sounds as a member...

NEW YORK — Odetta, the folk singer with the powerful voice who moved audiences and influenced fellow musicians for a...

SAN FRANSISCO: Chet Helms, the man who gave Janis Joplin to San Francisco, has died. The Summer of Love legend...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Chet Helms, the revered father of the 1967 Summer of Love and a music promoter who...

The tale of salvation begins as all good ones do, with high birth and great promise. Seth Morgan was born...

It was a mere coincidence of time and happenstance. But it seemed to sum up an era with cruel finality....