A press photo of NRBQ from 1986, featuring, from left, Al Anderson, Terry Adams, Joey Spampinato and Tom Ardolino, the lineup that appears in the concert movie, “Rusty Nail – New Year’s Eve ’84 with ...

First, NRBQ rocked a greeting to the jam-packed Hangar crowd Saturday night, noting who would make us smile more than we had in days, weeks. The upbeat “Here comes Terry” name-checked Terry Adams, ...

. There is nothing pretty about most Greyhound bus stations. They usually reside in the grimy part of town, and some of the people in them are no strangers to living behind locked doors. Sometimes, ...

Innovative and energized, the long-running, genre-spanning Kentucky band performs a live concert. NRBQ On Mountain Stage NRBQ makes its long-overdue return to Mountain Stage, recorded live in ...

It still might technically be summer, but that doesn’t mean that New Year’s Eve shows aren’t starting to be announced. To wit: NRBQ will play The Drake in Amherst on Dec. 30 and 31. NRBQ is no ...

The often termed “definitive” lineup of NRBQ- Terry Adams, Joey Spampinato, Al Anderson, and Tom Ardolino—strikes again. This configuration began a run of classic studio recordings with All Hopped Up ...

We’ve mourned many mighty musicians recently, including Richard Lainhart, Sam Rivers, Jackie Leven and Robert Dickey of James and Bobby Purify (“I’m Your Puppet”). More on them in a minute, but the ...

It’s a good thing NRBQ have been known by their initials rather than the words those initials stand for: New Rhythm and Blues Quartet (or Quintet until 1978). It’s hard enough trying to describe what ...