American Idol will always have a place in my heart. It's where I met Clay. And what could be more exciting than televised karaoke?

For younger musicians, Coltrane’s death became one of those iconic events that stays vividly in the mind.

He is afraid to die.

six days a week, starting on the highest ground and working their way downward foot by foot, cutting with saws and axes and kaiser blades—long-handled machetes—and then dynamiting and burning out the stumps.