Colonel Bruce Hampton, a veteran of the grassroots jam-band scene, was performing with members of Widespread Panic and Phish at Atlanta's Fox... Colonel Bruce Hampton, guitarist and respected elder ...

ATLANTA – When Col. Bruce Hampton slowly fell to his knees during the finale of his star-studded birthday concert, fans and musicians alike thought it was another one of his quirky performance acts.

ATLANTA — Music was Col. Bruce Hampton’s lifeblood, and his death came hours after being surrounded by the things he loved most — family, friends, fans and an everlasting beat. Hampton, affectionately ...

This story was originally published on June 28, 1987. It's 1964. The IV of IX, a rock band sometimes fronted by Bruce Hampton, is chased out of Tuxedo, N.C., by displeased local citizens with shotguns ...

Bruce Hampton, who was known as the granddaddy of the jam scene for his energetic, eccentric guitar playing in a career that lasted five decades, died in Atlanta on Monday. He was 70. His death was ...

The Lefont Film Society will pay tribute to Col. Bruce Hampton with a one-night-only double feature. At 7:06 p.m. Monday (May 15), the Lefont Theater at 5920 Roswell Road will show Michael Koepenick’s ...

Elder statesman of rock weirdness Col. Bruce Hampton has been keeping music strange since 1963. He may have added the pseudo-military parenthetical (Ret.) to the end of his title in recent years, but ...

happiness/in Zambiland,” he sang. Burbridge joined the Aquarium Rescue Unit in 1987. He wouldn’t have it any other way. “It’s wonderful. I feel like I’m the minor-league coach for the Grateful Dead ...