The booming baritone voice of Tennessee Ernie Ford was most widely known for his 1955 cover of Merle Travis’ grim coal-mining song “Sixteen Tons,” watered straight down from the dulcet strains of the Hollywood studio orchestra but retaining its innate seriousness because of the sheer power of Ford’s singing. But …

Paul Natural cotton is really a country-rock guitarist and vocalist that has enjoyed a five-decade profession in music. Given birth to in 1943, in Fort Rucker, AL, he reached his teenagers just as rock and roll & move was dominating the graphs. Natural cotton took up your guitar at age …

If bluegrass music artists were permitted to be knighted for outstanding provider to their music kingdom, after that this exceptional player’s name would definitely be Sir Clarence Tate, not Tater Tate. But while simple misters are converted into sirs with hook whack of the royal sword upon their noggin, the …

Although best-known to record collectors because the tenor soloist within the 1st recording of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, Kullman had a wide-ranging career, you start with considerable successes in Europe before settling right into a quarter century of reliable performances in the Metropolitan Opera. Essentially a lyric vocalist, …

American singer/songwriter Ryan Keith Follesé fronts the rock-band Hot Chelle Rae and in addition has a single career like a country artist. Created in Nashville in 1987 to songwriter parents Keith (Tim McGraw, Trust Hill) and Adrienne (Martina McBride, Woman Antebellum), Follesé was raised surrounded by nation music. In 2005, …

Guitarist/vocalist Johnny Aries began his music career using the Margate, England-based music group Two Wounded Wild birds, who played revved-up surf-rockabilly-punk-with-melody design. Going beneath the name Johnny Risk at that time, Aries’ twangy electric guitar and evocative vocals had been the band’s things. After the discharge of several singles and …

Nashville-based indie combo Promised Land Sound play a variety of artful country-rock and gently psychedelic pop with an antique flavor. Composed of several youthful but seasoned players who surfaced from Nashville’s fertile garage area picture, they quickly established themselves aside by relying even more on twang, spirit, and pop than …

Oslo, Norway-based contemporary creative jazz-pop quartet Pixel had been founded this year 2010 by bassist/vocalist Ellen Andrea Wang, who have began performing the two times bass at age group 17 after initial learning classical violin and piano. Qualified in the Norwegian Academy of Music, Wang combines her assured bass using …

Nikki Street reinvents the nostalgic noises of 1960s nation music for today’s audience, blending Southern twang with lush orchestral preparations and the casual pop/rock and roll hook. A high-school dropout from Greenville, SC, she spent her early adulthood operating as an L.A.-centered fashion designer. Street later shifted to NEW YORK, …

Sleepy Vikings’ idiosyncratic indie pop sound combines introspective, reverb-kissed guitar use drowsy, twangy vocals, a method of music the band identifies as “Southern shoegaze.” Sandi Streppone and Nicole Schleif teamed up with a small number of other musicians to create Sleepy Vikings in Tampa, Florida in ’09 2009, following breakup …