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