Over the course of a stop–start 17-year-long association, the group from Chapel Hill, North Carolina (Folds on piano and vocals, drummer Darren Jessee, and bassist Robert Sledge) produced four studio ...

Bass players often find themselves at the butt-end of tongue-in-cheek jokes about “those who can’t play guitar, play bass,” and as it turns out, not even Beatles bassist Paul McCartney was ...