Experiencing great success in music, film, television, as well as the stage, Dean Martin was less an entertainer than an icon, the eternal essence of interesting. A member from the renowned Rat Pack, he resided and passed away the high lifestyle of booze, broads and shiny lights, often projecting a …

Despite a comparatively prolific recording profession which yielded up to 40 solo edges and a group of celebrated collaborations with vocalist Lucille Bogan, pianist/singer Walter Roland continues to be among the blues’ most elusive and mysterious numbers. Likely given birth to in or about Birmingham, AL, circa 1900, he 1st …

Mixing up the heartfelt angst of the singer/songwriter using the cocky brashness of the garage area rocker, Ryan Adams reaches once mostly of the artists to emerge in the alt-country scene to attain mainstream commercial success and the main one who most strongly refused to become defined with the genre, …

Seattle’s Catbutt was known because of its supergroup lineup. Its unique members contains two parts U-Men, one component 64 Spiders, and one component Girl Trouble. These were all rings that experienced created a mix in the Northwest punk picture during the middle- to past due ’80s. With two individual lineups, …

The probabilities are very good that if a country record got some distinctive guitar licks onto it, anytime from the first ’50s through the 1970s, these were played by Grady Martin. Along with Hank Garland and Chet Atkins — who, being a manufacturer, regularly utilized Martin — he was perhaps …

Dory Previn was an effective lyricist for film theme music through the 1960s and early ’70s, earning 3 Academy Prize nominations for best tune; in the mid-’70s and early ’80s, she released books of memoirs and composed and performed in musical movie theater functions. But she continues to be most …

The steel guitar of Don Helms can be an essential part of a lot more than 100 recordings by Hank Williams, like the country landmarks “Your Cheatin’ Heart,” “Cold, Cold Heart,” and “I CANNOT MAKE IT (If I’m Still deeply in love with You).” Pursuing Williams’ loss of life, the …

The associates of alternative metal outfit Finger Eleven was raised in Burlington, Ontario, and came together in senior high school being a funk-styled music group named Rainbow Butt Monkeys. Originally composed of vocalist Scott Anderson, bassist Sean Anderson, drummer Rob Gommerman, and Adam Dark and Rick Jackett on guitars, they …

Garth Brooks is a pivotal body in the annals of nation music, regardless of just how much some nation purists wish to deny it. Along with his commercially savvy fusion of post-Merle Haggard nation, honky tonk, post-folk-rock delicate vocalist/songwriter sensibilities, and ’70s industry rock and roll dramatics, Brooks brought nation …

Rock & move forerunner Freddie Bell exerted a profound impact within the young Elvis Presley — not merely did Bell’s energetic NEVADA act form The King’s have larger-than-life stage persona, but Presley also raised his rendition from the raucous Big Mama Thornton basic “Hound Puppy” nearly note-for-note, notching a landmark …