I first set out to chronicle Joni Mitchell’s transformation from a folk visionary to a jazz voyager; a story of invention to instruction. How she developed her own approach to the guitar, but ...

It’s wrongly said he didn’t play on his band’s first two albums. Aware of his “clumsy” approach to solos, he took lessons ...

In 1979, B.B. recruited Parks to contribute guitar to his album Take It Home. King’s rhythm section included members of the ...

Many of today’s bands starting out would bite your right hand off for a career like Demob Happy’s. The trio formed over ten years ago in their hometown of ...

Years after an Atlanta-area teacher helped a student seek help for his depression, the two reunite as he helps to make a ...

Forty-eight years ago this month, Hubert Horatio Humphrey died. At the time I was a young reporter at the Sioux Falls Argus ...

Recent Guitars for Vets graduate Ben Goodner proudly holds his guitar alongside instructor John Thomson.

What really makes for a good life? Money? Success? Genes? The longest-running study on happiness says none of those tops the list. The surprising secret is backed by 80 years of research. The Harvard ...

If you are a regular reader of this column or have studied the science of happiness elsewhere, you’ll know that getting happier requires three kinds of effort: using your intellect to understand your ...

Joan Lunden, the veteran journalist who co-anchored “Good Morning America” from 1980 to 1997, doesn’t mince her concerns about the current media landscape. “I think it’s a really sad state of affairs ...