The Byrds helped pioneer folk rock with a cover of Bob Dylan’s song in 1965. Dylan’s original didn’t include a tambourine, and it opened the acoustic side of his album Bringing It All Back Home. But ...

The cowbell, modeled here by Swiss bovine Sophia, is, in many ways, rock and roll's secret weapon. Sometimes, it's just what a song needs to go from good to great. Credit: Photo by Maria Feofilova.

"Don't Fear the Reaper": Oh come on. You knew this was coming. You know we've got a fever. And you know what the prescription is. All we know is that when the men of DFA 1979 bang on that cowbell and ...

BOUNTIFUL — It was the early '80s and a young Idaho farm boy was trying to learn the high notes that he heard from rock vocalist Steve Perry. "Oh, I want to be there in my city, whoa-whoa…" shrieks ...