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SLY STONE, WHO DIED ON June 9 at 82, wrung greatness out of the American abyss. Early in his career, Stone was an avatar of a more peaceful future, forming Sly and the Family Stone as one of the count

Wendy Rigg is planning a summer of festival fun – but what is it about nostalgic music that makes us feel so good?

A new docuseries charts the legacy of a landmark gig

A brilliant new documentary reflects on the world’s biggest music concert 40 years on…

Great pianist who was self-taught from the age ...

The teenage prodigy who helped define the sound of Stax, BOOKER T JONES continues to bring wisdom and peerless Hammond grooves to a new generation of musicians. Yet his path from “Green Onions” and Otis Redding to Willie Nelson and the Drive-By Truckers has not always been clear. “The events in Memphis in 1968 were too much for me,” he tells Stephen Deusner