Alterna-rock group the Mayfield 4 shaped in Spokane in mid-1996 around vocalist Myles Kennedy, guitarist Craig Johnson, bassist Marty Meisner, and drummer Zia Uddin. Affected from the silky Motown spirit of Marvin Gaye and Stevie Question, along with the intense groove of Led Zeppelin, the group authorized to Epic Information …

Recognized by their youth and eclectic flavor, Nickel Creek became a word-of-mouth sensation within the progressive bluegrass scene and soon discovered their appeal distributing beyond the genre’s key audience. Guitarist Sean Watkins, fiddler Sara Watkins (his more youthful sister), and mandolin/banjo/bouzouki participant Chris Thile 1st started performing collectively in 1989, …

An expressive, frequently funky hard bopper who’s quite comfy in soul-jazz configurations, Randy Johnston has evolved into among the finest straight-ahead jazz guitarists of the infant Boomer generation. Johnston hasn’t been an introverted type of player; he’s an intense, gritty, hard-swinging musician who brings significant amounts of blues feeling to …

Musician, composer, and vocalist Lisa Brigantino was created in NEW YORK and raised not a long way away in the tiny city of Katonah. She started her musical schooling over the piano when she was just five yrs . old. Around that same age group, she spent leisure time performing …

The ’80s saw the emergence of a number of technically accomplished very difficult rock bassists — tops becoming Billy Sheehan and Stu Hamm — in addition to several lesser-known (however just like skilled) players, including Randy Coven. Coven occurred to result from exactly the same locale that two of the …

A robust vocalist and songwriter whose music combines components of blues, jazz, rock and roll, R&B, and gospel, Danielia Natural cotton was born in Sept 24, 1967. Cotton’s mom, Wenonah Brooks, was a jazz vocalist, as had been two of her aunts, Jeannie Brooks and Carol Brooks-Meyners. Cotton’s dad had …

J-Henry’s handlers prefer to review him to scruffy heartland heroes such as for example John Mellencamp and Bob Seger, however the goateed everyguy owes more of a music debts to Bruce Springsteen, and not simply because he’s also from NJ. Delivered in North Plainfield, NJ, in 1974, J-Henry, who selects …

Vocalist/songwriter Matthew Jay received an archive agreement even before his initial live performance. Frequently in comparison to U.K. troubadours such as for example Badly Drawn Youngster and David Grey, Jay was originally agreed upon by the United kingdom label Food, launching two EPs, Four Tracks and Friendly Fireplace, both snaring …

Aggressive post-hardcore quartet Lorene Travel mostly proffers exactly the same punk-influenced emo angst as better known acts like Hawthorne Levels, Glassjaw, and Cave In. But this youthful music group from California’s desert interior also betrays the impact of vintage metallic and hard rock and roll (instead of nu-metal) clothes like …

American string band Uncle Earl shaped in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 2000. Founded by vocalist/songwriters K.C. Groves and Jo Serrapere, the band’s early years arranged the tradition of the all-female lineup that included Amanda Kowalski, Casey Henry, Sally Truitt, and Tahmineh Gueramy. This preliminary lineup yielded the 2002 individually released …