At the end of every “Saturday Night Live” episode, the host, the musical guest and cast members assemble onstage to say goodbye to the audience and...
Pablo Alboran, ‘Clickbait’ The Spanish pop songwriter Pablo Alboran usually deals in romance. But “Clickbait” confronts a different class of relationships: the parasocial ones online. “Many...
Eddie Adcock, a virtuoso banjo and guitar player who served as a bridge between the formative early years of bluegrass and the innovative “newgrass” movement of...
Eddie Adcock, the virtuoso banjo and guitar player who served as a bridge between the formative early years of bluegrass and the innovative “newgrass” movement of...
If you know one thing about the country musician Orville Peck, it’s probably that he wears a mask. Peck has long kept himself shrouded in mystery,...
2. Dolly Parton: “Two Doors Down” In this perky 1977 hit from Parton’s pop crossover era, the narrator is nursing a broken heart when she hears...
First things first: The mask is coming off. Ever since the country singer Orville Peck was announced as the next Emcee in Rebecca Frecknall’s ritzy production...
Bon Iver featuring Danielle Haim, ‘If Only I Could Wait’ Doubts and yearning — and electronics and distortion — threaten to overcome Justin Vernon, who performs...
Over their nearly 60-year marriage, Carl Dean inspired his wife, the country music superstar Dolly Parton, to write several songs. There was “Just Because I’m a...
In the early years of her nearly six-decade marriage, Dolly Parton noticed that her husband was spending a lot of time at the bank, where he...