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

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.

He is afraid to die.

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?