By 1936 the McCoys had left Davenport’s band and moved to Chicago. They knew plenty of musicians in town from traveling here for recording sessions, and in short order they were leading the ...

Self-taught virtuoso musicians Joe and Charlie McCoy formed what many consider to be Chicago’s first blues band and were commercial hit-makers whose influence can be heard in the music of Louis ...

McCoy Tyner does not take the Basie or Ellington approach to leading his big band. His piano is clearly out front, and it is a good thing. His muscular style holds up well on top of a crowd.

Derringer's band, the McCoys, was behind the 1965 hit "Hang On Sloopy," and he collaborated with the likes of Barbra Streisand and Steely Dan. Rick Derringer, the pioneering guitarist, frontman of ...

Rick Derringer, legendary McCoys guitarist and Grammy-winning Weird Al producer, dies at 77. Derringer's band, the McCoys, was behind the 1965 hit "Hang On Sloopy," and he collaborated with the ...

Born in Ohio, Rick skyrocketed to fame as the lead singer of The McCoys when his band's song “Hang On Sloopy" landed the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1965.

HIS PUNK ROCK PAST: Local singer-songwriter Dan McCoy embraces an alt-country sound but that wasn't always the case. "With the first few bands I was in when I was a teenager, we did covers but we ...