Joe Hill was created Joel Emmanuel Haggland in Sweden, the ninth child of the railroad employee. His father passed away when Hill was eight years of age, and he visited work to be able to help support his mom and six siblings. When Hill’s mom passed away in 1902, he …

The serious musical composer may be embarrassed to consider credit for a few from the songs Bob Roberts wrote, while at exactly the same time pleased to deposit the royalty checks. Scribbling single or in a number of songwriting duos, trios, or even quartets or “committee” songwriting, Roberts frequently was …

This artist is area of the oddball British folk project called the Skuobhie Dubh Orchestra, whose sole release gets the ambigious title of Spike’s 23 Collection, perhaps a bid to be connected to an array of strange phenomenon from the number 23. (That could include the variety of survivors in …

Franklin da Flauta started as a specialist musician in the ’60s; witnessing the results from the bossa nova motion, he participated in the first documenting of “Águas de Março” with Tom Jobim. Like a sideman and program musician, he spent some time working with Baden Powell, Dom Salvador, Chico Buarque, …

Wherever the expression “he’s burning up!” originated from to be able to describe a jazz participant who is especially inspired, it really had nothing in connection with the terrible fate which fulfilled the users of Walter Barnes & His Royal Creolians. All eight users of the group, plus 193 other …

Kingsize Taylor & the Dominoes inevitably loom large in virtually any serious background of Liverpool rock and roll & move — an excellent irony due to the fact they had the majority of their success in Hamburg, rather than managed to get beyond those two towns. They deserved better, predicated …

Although Marta Kubisová will most likely continually be listed like a singer and performer 1st, she found prominence in a far more political fashion, among the leading voices of protest against the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Given birth to in 1942, Kubisová 1st found the fore as an …

As the vocalist for the Lotus Eaters, Peter Coyle witnessed a short flicker of fame when the band’s first single, “The First Picture of You,” sold a lot more than 100,000 copies in Britain. The song’s reputation gained Coyle and guitarist Jeremy Kelly some newspaper covers. Nevertheless, when the group …

Rick Watrous’s 1st concert encounter was a Ricky Nelson display at Atlantic Town in the past due ’50s. As he was still really small, all he remembers viewing was a ocean of teenage women’ hip and legs shimmying towards the beat. Spectacular in its method. In the past due ’60s …

Initially a radio character, drummer, and composer, Michel F. Côté became a member of the collective Ambiances Magnétiques in 1988. Since that time, his activities have got encompassed free of charge improvisation along with his groupings Bruire and Klaxon Gueule, sound-art collaborations with Diane Labrosse and Christof Migone, and composing …