John Prine

The singer’s music was guaranteed to put a smile on your face while making you think

US Wrap: ‘Wartime atmosphere’ in city with almost half of the country’s Covid-19 cases

This week’s events also include a party on a boat and a chance to mosh on Good Friday

The Cure, Radiohead, Janet Jackson, Stevie Nicks and LL Cool J among the 2019 cohort

Singer-songwriter Declan O’Rourke mines the darkest corners of Irish history on his latest album

The great American musician on his love of Ireland and the Trump song he can’t write

Happy Mondays, Glen Hansard, Dublin Quays Festival and Culture Vultures

From jazz to electric blues to house and indy rock, Windy City is a real capital of sounds

Obituary: ‘Desperados Waiting for a Train was one of a handful of originals now regarded as standards from his 1975 debut album, Old No 1’

Of all the precarious positions one can occupy within the realm of music the singer-songwriter’s lot is potentially the unsteadiest of them all