October means playoff baseball and the World Series, so what better “Classic Track” to talk about this month than John Fogerty and “Centerfield”? Not only does 2010 mark the song’s 25th anniversary, it also earned the supreme honor this past summer of being formally “inducted”...
Like so many of the people who became part of the bedrock of San Francisco’s colorful music scene in the mid- to late ’60s, Janis Joplin got her start in folk music. A couple of years after graduating from high school in the small town...
When Warren Zevon emerged in the midst of L.A.’s vibrant singer/songwriter scene in the mid-’70s, he was like a breath of…well, strange air. As a songwriter, Zevon bore little resemblance to the other leading craftsmen of the day, such as his friends Jackson Browne (who...
By the time Ray Parker Jr. hit the top of the charts in 1984 with that instantly infectious slice of R&B/pop fluff called “Ghostbusters” — the Number One theme song from the hit comedy film of the same name — he had already enjoyed a...