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Having recently worked on Barbra Streisand’s The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume Two (a record with a roster of impressive singers), producer Peter Asher continues to make his mark in the world of ...

Colm Clark is a freelance writer, musician and composer (a.k.a. Crush Limbo) whose music has appeared in TV and film and whose songs have been sung on New York theater stages. Despite all this (if ...

Editor’s Note: There are certain tracks that are, well, “epic” — memorable, larger than life, carved into music history. In this series, we look at one of them. What do you get when you combine ZZ Top ...

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