You can attribute some of it to great timing. Some luck was involved. More than anything, a certain indefinable skill for knowing just what the music world needed to hear played into the phenomenon.

What happens when the son of a famous comedian and movie star teams up with the guy who played the organ part on “Like A Rolling Stone”? It’s not a rhetorical question but rather what actually ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Al Kooper is one of the most influential classic-rock guys ever although he spent most of his career in the background. Kooper is a master of multiple instruments, a talented ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- You’d be hard-pressed to find a more apt recipient for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Musical Excellence Award than Al Kooper. Since playing guitar with the Royal Teens (of “Short ...

he wanted the compilation, released for his 50th anniversary in the music business, also to be available on CD, but Sony said no. And iTunes refused to offer the thick booklet he put together, so he ...

Musician Al Kooper will formally get his due. The Somerville resident will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Friday alongside Missy Elliott, Kate Bush, Willie Nelson, Sheryl Crow, Chaka ...

If you've listened to the radio at all in the last few decades, there's a good chance that you've heard the work of Al Kooper. (Soundbite of "Like a Rolling Stone") Mr. BOB DYLAN: (Singing) Once upon ...

In case you’re not totally sick of year-end “Best of” lists yet, Detroit music fans might get a kick out of the fact that the Silent Years placed on a very prestigious list that ran in the Boston ...

“I remember the first single. It was ‘The Closer You Are’ by the Channels on the Whirling Disc label. I believe that my choices were either that one or ‘Autumn Leaves’ by Roger Williams. So I went for ...