It’s something of the cliché to state a musician “stubbornly won’t end up being categorized,” but with Alan Licht, that declaration is simply the reality. Although guitarist’s body of function encompasses noise rock and roll, alternative pop/rock and roll, improvisational music, free of charge jazz, minimalism, musique concrète, consumer electronics, …

Though he released only one, made just one single TV appearance, and it has barely been sighted in public areas in over 25 % of a hundred years, Brett Smiley can rightfully claim to ranking among the real legends of glam rock and roll. American blessed, but a thoroughbred Anglophile, …

While they didn’t gain a lot more when compared to a cult following throughout their presence, Louisiana’s Acid Bath has since attained a somewhat legendary position within the darker edges of the rock and roll/metallic underground. Their design — a mixture of Dark Sabbath-like sludge, bluesy Southern rock and roll, …

The Partridge Family members was the ’70s successor towards the Monkees. Both had been totally fictional rock and roll/pop “rings” made by Display Gems, the tv screen branch of Columbia Photos. As the Monkees (Television series and music group concept) had been styled as middle-’60s counter-culture zaniness ? la the …

When Cincinnati-born Leonard Franklin Slye headed western within the spring of 1931, it had been like a would-be musician, working jobs which range from driving a gravel truck to picking fruit in California’s Central Valley. In under 2 yrs, he’d co-founded the best Western performing band of all period, the …

Vocalist, songwriter, and pianist Neil Sedaka enjoyed two distinct intervals of commercial achievement in two slightly different varieties of pop music: initial, as a teenager pop celebrity in the past due ’50s and early ’60s, after that being a vocalist of older pop/rock within the ’70s. Both in stages, Sedaka, …

Lynyrd Skynyrd bassist Leon Wilkeson could dodge death 2 times (while in tour using the music group), but proved much less lucky another time. Delivered on Apr 2, 1952 in Jacksonville, FL, Leon Russell Wilkeson became a significant Beatles fan just like he grew into his teenagers, as he searched …

Deceased May Dance combine components of Western european folk music — particularly music from the center Ages as well as the Renaissance — with ambient pop and worldbeat flourishes. Their music are of dropped beauty, regret and sorrow, motivation and nobility, and of the everlasting individual objective of attaining a …

No-one knew quite what things to label of this L.A. music group within the middle-’60s, who unbelievably included Ry Cooder, Taj Mahal, Kevin Kelley (afterwards within the Byrds), and also Ed Cassidy (briefly) within the same lineup. They just managed a unitary on Columbia before splitting up in 1966, however …

Whether serving being a program musician, single musician, or soundtrack composer, Ry Cooder’s chameleon-like fretted instrument virtuosity, songwriting, and options of materials encompass a remarkably eclectic selection of North American music styles, including rock and roll & move, blues, reggae, Tex-Mex, Hawaiian, Dixieland jazz, nation, folk, R&B, gospel, and vaudeville. …