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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Greenwich Village was the place to be during its folk heyday in the '50s and '60s. Just ask John Sebastian. "What the Catskills represented to comedians," the musician says, "these places represented ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Do you believe in magic?" a sweet-voiced John Sebastian asked with the 1960s folk-rock group Lovin' Spoonful, which landed him in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. A decade later he landed the ...

John Sebastian Rinelli passed away unexpectedly on August 31, 2022, at the age of 53. He was born in Wisconsin and moved with his family to several places in the country, eventually landing in ...