Peter Jones has covered music for Colorado newspapers and radio stations and for such national news outlets as Billboard, Goldmine, Filmfax and National Public Radio. He is currently working on a book of interviews of artists who played an often-underreported role in the Beatles’ history. Scroll down for Billboard clips. Click on images to read stories.
A former Doobie Brother is still smokin’
Send in East High School graduate Judy Collins
Glen Campbell remembers
K.D.Lang … err k.d. lang
Indigo Girls on film
LeAnn Rimes & reasons
The Zombies walk again
Fries with that? Fast food meets speed metal
Getting the Kinks out with Ray Davies
The beautiful ‘Smile’ of Beach Boy Brian Wilson
The best trip for ‘folkie’ Beach Boy Al Jardine
The overnight success of Three Dog Night
Shawn Colvin is slow good
The Tymeless Flyte of Roger McGuinn
Another notorious Byrd brother
Ramblin’ Jack rambles … and then some
The ‘marvelous’ Tom Paxton
You can’t get everything you want from Arlo Guthrie
Is the musical better than the book?
Don’t cry for me, Webber haters
Lieber and Stoller finally make it ‘On Broadway’
Two men and a record store: A love story
Meet the pre-Beatles!
A Wing and a prayer
Denny Laine is in my ears and in my eyes
The ‘grace’ of Ladysmith Black Mambazo
The luck of the Chieftains
They ain’t makin’ Jews like Kinky anymore
The Doobie Brothers: A long train runnin’
First Winter
Let’s correct the record on Dan Fogelberg
Sheila E. dances to her own drum
Save it for later? Nah, bring on the ‘old wave’
And now, a few golden ‘hits’ from …
Denver was first stop on Doobie Brothers’ 1989 reunion tour
Denver’s KVOD named nation’s top classical station
When CDs were the next big thing
Tour starts in Denver: Backstage with Spinal Tap’s Derek Smalls
Denver’s KHIH ‘messes up,’ brags about it
Melanie’s daughters and other unsigned talent
Waxing nostalgic
