Musician Chris Beland of Bend, Oregon learns that he shares more with his Facebook friend and the front man from the Flying Burrito Brothers than just a love of music… In a hallway outside an auditorium that serves as home to Antioch Church in Bend, Oregon, Chris Beland Chabot presses his spine...

Forced to sign-and-red-star-stamp a document insuring that he wouldn’t offend the fragile feelings of the Chinese people, he complied, but even a preapproved Dylan is a resourceful Dylan. He’s gritty at 69 and has songs about everything. Nonetheless, the preapproved Dylan was a sad Dylan. A love...

I’m on my way to Alabama right now.  One of Burnside’s first contributors, Chad Gibbs, is taking me to an Auburn game.  I’ve never seen anything like SEC football.  I’m excited.  Plus, the Tigers are playing West Virginia, so it’s a battle of two of the classiest states...