The annals of popular music is full of the careers of the kids of famous artists, performers who have the ability to carve out some small way of measuring success based much less on talent than within the recognition that their famous names afford them. Maybe no greater exclusion to …

Although it’s still extremely early in her recording career, origins rock singer Kerri Capabilities continues to be compared in the press to such renowned artists as Shelby Lynne, Lucinda Williams, Rosanne Cash, Tammy Wynette, and Bonnie Raitt, amongst others. A Boston indigenous, Capabilities’ desire for music stemmed from hearing nation …

Teddy Thompson was created into music, the prince of 1 from the Royal Groups of Uk Folk. Blessed on Feb 19, 1976 in London, Britain, his parents had been Richard & Linda Thompson, who documented some wildly acclaimed albums within the ’70s and ’80s. Although his parents divorced when he …

“People would hire me personally,” Waddy Wachtel told Musician newspaper in Feb 1999, “simply because they needed that rock and roll & move element.” At that time, Wachtel’s clean, immediate, rock and roll guitar-playing have been ‘putting an advantage,’ as he as he phrased it, in to the audio of …

Folk-rock vocalist/songwriter John Kilzer was created and raised in Jackson, TN; after playing golf ball at the University or college of Memphis, he trained English before putting your signature on in 1986 to Memphis music veterinarian Keith Sykes’ posting company. Sykes later on helped Kilzer property a record cope with …

Having a sound that recalls Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash combined with the cynicism of grunge and punk, no one could believe wry singer/songwriter Willy Mason was only 19 when he appeared around the indie scene. Given birth to and elevated on Martha’s Vineyard, Mason was raised along with his …

When Rodney Crowell first gained widespread acknowledgement like a head of the brand new traditionalist motion from the mid-’80s, he was, actually, a singer, songwriter, and manufacturer with root base and ambitions extending considerably above the movement’s perimeter. Blessed to some musical family members on August 7, 1950 in Houston, …

Maker John Leventhal enjoyed his greatest achievement in cooperation with a number of acclaimed modern vocalist/songwriters. He 1st attracted notice dealing with longtime enthusiast Shawn Colvin, co-writing and creating her Grammy-winning 1989 debut LP Steady On; Jim Lauderdale’s World of Love adopted in 1991, along with a yr later on …