Here are nine bands that have literally rocked my world.

There are plenty of bands who find early success, then, for whatever reason, see that acclaim wane. Maybe not entirely, then again other fade away for good. Here are 20 of the kind.

CD set, which contains five hours of music, features Vaughan’s work with the Fabulous Thunderbirds, the blues, rock, and R&B group he co-founded in 1974 with singer and harmonica player Kim Wilson.

The band, which included the classic lineup of Tyla, Jo 'Dog' Almeida, Steve James and Bam, got going in the early 1980s and put out music through the early 2010s. There was a certainly poetic, often ...