But Sebastian is also well aware of the sometimes painful fact that not enough people may know the name John Sebastian. "I'm ...

The post The Lovin’ Spoonful’s John Sebastian on Exploring His Classic Songbook appeared first on Consequence. The “Welcome Back” singer-songwriter takes us his partnership with Roth, compares these ...

John Sebastian, who once sat atop the pop music world as the lead singer and writer of the Lovin’ Spoonful, is under no illusion that chasing the ghost of Gus Cannon will put him, or anyone else, on ...

Even as he lay dying under hospice care at his Camp Hill home, John Sebastian’s thoughts turned to his elderly neighbors. He hadn’t seen them for a while, he told his wife, Dorothy. Maybe someone ...

A reunion of three original members was just part of an epic L.A. show that also had Sebastian acting as a sideman to guest artists. Hitting the exit around 1 a.m., Sebastian, seemed energized, not ...

Few American bands showed the hit-making resilience in the face of the British Invasion quite like The Lovin’ Spoonful. And the main reason they were able to do that was that they possessed a ...

John Sebastian opened the first of two sold out shows at AMSD Concerts with "I'm Satisfied" from his 2007 collaboration with mandolinist David Grisman, whom he related meeting at New York University ...

Is it wrong to invoke a John Sebastian solo tune — “Welcome Back” — to welcome back the Lovin’ Spoonful this weekend, at a Los Angeles show, for the first time in decades? It is wrong, in Sebastian’s ...

JD Souther might well be considered the unsung hero of country rock as we know it. Forget for the moment the ill-conceived and woefully mis-executed David Geffen vanity project that was Souther, ...

John Sebastian pretended to wipe away a tear during a rehearsal late last week, as a string section performed the final aching notes of “Lonely (Amy's Theme),” an exceptionally deep cut from the Lovin ...