The Contenders are believed among the great “might have been” rings from your progressive country picture, featuring many of the outstanding players connected with Uncle Walt’s Music group in conjunction with a set of NEW YORK pickers and songwriters. It wasn’t the grade of music that held this group from …

Folksinger Bob Frank was created and was raised in Memphis, TN, where he began using in coffeehouses in the first ’60s. He briefly went to Vanderbilt School before getting expelled for playing his electric guitar within the dorm. He gained a qualification in British from Rhodes University in Memphis in …

The Blue Guys were Jim Reeves’ road band with different times had various personnel. Originally, Reeves known as his music group the Wagon Experts, but in order to avoid dilemma in Nashville with Porter Wagoner, he renamed it in 1958, after his strike ‘Blue Boy’. The music group in the …

The premier blues shouter from the postwar era, Big Joe Turner’s roar could rattle the foundation of any gin joint he sang within — and that is with out a microphone. Turner was a resilient physique in the annals of blues — he very easily spanned boogie-woogie, leap blues, also …

Universally hailed because the king from the blues, the legendary B.B. Ruler was certainly the single most significant electric guitarist from the last half of the 20th hundred years. His bent records and staccato selecting style affected legions of modern bluesmen, while his gritty and self-confident voice — with the …

A wildly flamboyant funk diva with couple of equals actually three years after her debut, Betty Davis mixed the gritty emotional realism of Tina Turner, the futurist fashion feeling of David Bowie, as well as the trendsetting flair of Kilometers Davis, her spouse for a 12 months. You can envision …

In 1966-1967, this Dallas group enjoyed some moderate nationwide success with the quantity five hit “Traditional western Union,” and a few additional Best 40 entries, “I Start to see the Light,” “Zip Code,” and “Audio of Like.” Dominated by high bubbling body organ lines and clean tranquility vocals, the group …

The Blackwood Brothers sang gospel for over 60 years, and in the 1950s towards the ’70s, these were perhaps one of the most popular gospel groups within the U.S. Among their biggest supporters was a Elvis Presley, who auditioned — and was rejected — for the group in 1953. The …

Garage punk clothing the Manufacturers formed in Spokane, WA, in 1991, originally assembling frontman Mike Machine, his bassist sibling Don Machine, guitarists Tim Machine and John Machine, and drummer Jay Machine. Famed because of their anarchic live times and for journeying from show showing inside a 1965 Pontiac hearse, the …

Originally a funky instrumental soul combo in Stax/Volt, the Bar-Kays were almost destroyed when a lot of the band perished within the same plane crash that claimed Otis Redding. Amazingly, the Bar-Kays not merely regrouped but prospered, changing into a well-known funk ensemble during the period of the ’70s. They …