Jack Elliott

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Juan Jimenez's job at the casino wasn't the most glamorous one in the place. But picking up cigarette butts, vacuuming dirt from carpets and shampooing stains from spilled drinks (and other, much worse substances) allowed...

Odetta, the classically trained folk, blues and gospel singer who used her powerfully rich and dusky voice to champion African American music and civil rights issues for more than half a century starting in the folk revival of the 1950s, has died. She was...

Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman "The Fabled City" (Epic) * * * Some people think folk music is more honest than other forms, but it's also rich territory for alter egos. Bob Dylan called himself Blind Boy Grunt to continue making folk recordings as he...

CALIFORNIA Santa Lucia Day Kingsburg marks its centennial in 2008, and to honor that coming milestone, 100 youths are set to participate in the Santa Lucia celebration this year: girls in white gowns with red sashes and wearing candle crowns and boys...

LOCAL LIVE THE STRAWBS. Prog-rock goes acoustic. (8 p.m. tomorrow, Stephen Talkhouse, 161 Main St., Amagansett, 631-267-3117. $25-$35.) RICHIE HAVENS. Freedom! With Steve Forbert and Aztec Two-Step. (7:30 p.m. Saturday, Patchogue Theatre for the...

June 1 David Lee Roth. Diamond Dave and his diabolically diminishing hairline. Westbury Music Fair. 7 p.m. $40. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists. Fusing soft and hard. 11 p.m. Bowery Ballroom. $12. Zootopia. Featuring TLC, Ja Rule, Simple Plan, Ashanti,...

Moving a step closer to settling a longstanding desegregation case, the Mississippi Legislature committed the state to spending $75 million over the next five years for campus improvements at three historically Black universities. The first $15 million...

Friday August 25, 2000      Elliott Charles Adnopoz, the oldest son of Flossie and Dr. Abraham Adnopoz of Brooklyn, N.Y., dreamed the most powerful dream.      Living on prosaic Linden Boulevard, young Elliott didn't merely wish he was a riding, roping,...

Among folk music aficionados, Ramblin' Jack Elliott is regarded as a living legend as much for his life story as for his music, and it's a colorful biography to be sure. Elliott ran away from home at 15 to join a rodeo, lived and traveled with Woody...