“For me, everything is improvising,” Steve Wynn, the one-time frontman and main songwriter for The Dream Syndicate, said talking about his new book, “I Wouldn’t Say it if it Wasn’t ...

As 1981 ended, Steve Wynn was a clerk at Rhino Records ... and ‘Sing My Blues,’ which was the first song you ever wrote as a boy. Had you ever played that one live before?

The Dream Syndicate were founded in 1981 in LA by singer/ songwriter Steve Wynn and Kendra Smith, who were joined by guitarist Karl Precoda and Dennis Duck on drums. Duck came up with the band’s ...