Although one of the biggest rock tragedies from the ’90s will forever be the suicide of Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain, there is another super-talented musician who died throughout that decade, but is sadly often overlooked — Blind Melon’s Shannon Hoon. Created Sept 26, 1967 in Lafayette, IN, Hoon started performing and …

Vocalist/guitarist Michelle Malone, inspired by her lounge-singer mom, released two albums within the mid-’80s like a single act, FOR YOU PERSONALLY Not Them and New Encounter. She also fronted the music group Pull the River, but later on formed Music group de Soleil with bassist Mike Snowden and drummer Danny …

The rock era saw several white female singers, like Janis Joplin, show they can sing the blues. But person who could outshine all of them — Jo Ann Kelly — appeared to slip with the breaks, mainly because she preferred the acoustic, Delta design instead of rocking out with much …

Located in Gravette, AR, Crow Johnson can be a favorite songwriter within the Southern and Western. She edits the mag Zassafrass Music Information, and it has sporadically released folk-jazz albums because the early 60’s. Beginning within the Houston espresso home circuit, she got the name Crow Johnson from her grandfather’s …

YOUR GOVERNMENT & the Keeping Firm weren’t known because of their precision as performers — the music group was notoriously sloppy on-stage and in the studio room, and the main one album they ever did with Janis Joplin was so chaotic to record that it had been like tugging teeth …

Cleveland, OH local Laura Theodore is really a jazz-oriented vocalist with blues, rock and roll, and R&B leanings; she actually is also a talented celebrity who’s known on her behalf on-stage portrayals from the past due rocker Janis Joplin. Although jazz continues to be Theodore’s primary concentrate within the ‘90s …

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA psychedelic folk-rock device It’s a lovely Day time was primarily the automobile of virtuoso violinist David LaFlamme, given birth to Apr 5, 1941 in New Britain, Connecticut but raised in Sodium Lake Town, Utah. After starting his musical education at age group five, LaFlamme later on …

The later-’60s/early-’70s blues-rock outfit NATURE was led by singer Tracy Nelson and issued several somewhat underappreciated releases throughout their span of time. Nelson was originally from Madison, WI, and it had been while participating in the School of Wisconsin which the singer was uncovered by manufacturer Sam Charters and was …

As couple, Ike & Tina Turner headed up probably one of the most potent live works for the R&B circuit through the ’60s and early ’70s. Guitarist and bandleader Ike held his ensemble limited and well-drilled while tossing in his personal distinctively twangy plucking; lead vocalist Tina was a ferocious …

Led by former Guns N’ Roses guitarist Gilby Clarke and Stray Pet cats drummer Thin Jim Phantom (in addition to bassist/singer Muddy Stardust and keyboardist Teddy Andreadis), the straight-ahead rock and roll clothing Col. Parker created in 1999. The band’s roots lay within the Phantom-owned Kitty Golf club in Hollywood, …