When Leon Redbone showed up on the music scene in the early 1970’s, no one knew quite what to make of him. Bob Dylan said he ...

Leon Redbone, the famously mysterious musician whose strummy, Ragtime-style crooning seemed to emanate from a bygone era, died Thursday at age 69. Leon Redbone, the famously mysterious musician whose ...

Singer-songwriter Leon Redbone, who specialized in old-school vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley-style music, died Thursday, his family confirmed. No cause of death was given for the notoriously private ...

Watching a concert by Leon Redbone is like being stuck in the closing credits of a Woody Allen movie, or trapped in a retro comic by R. Crumb. Enjoying the experience requires a very specific taste, ...

Myth and mystery swirl around jazz and bluesman Leon Redbone, who has been dubbed "the most famous non-famous American musician." His recurrent musical gigs on "Saturday Night Live" in the '70s and, ...

He was an icon of individualism in an era of pop-culture extravagance. Often attired in a white Panama hat and suit, Leon Redbone casually strummed an acoustic guitar to songs of the 1930s and ‘40s ...

I (and hundreds of others, I expect) received an e-mail Tuesday morning announcing the retirement from recording and live performing by Leon Redbone. People of a certain age may have fond and ...

TRAVERSE CITY -- Leon Redbone's music resides in a time when recording was new and classical music had a strong influence on the first generation of mass-produced audio. Redbone, who first gained ...

TRAVERSE CITY - With a voice that sounds like it's squeezing through a Victrola horn speaker, Leon Redbone is likely the best-known interpreter of early 20th century pop music. With his show at Dennos ...