As the lead singer for the vintage lineup of Bob Wills’ Tx Playboys, Tommy Duncan was the definitive Western golf swing vocalist. Crossing the easy croon of Bing Crosby using the twang of Jimmie Rodgers as well as the bluesy inclinations of Emmett Miller, Duncan experienced a warm, unique, and …

The success that was expected for teenaged ska and reggae strap Music Youth when their pro-marijuana single “Move the Dutchie” sold a lot more than four million copies in 1982 didn’t arrive to fruition. Within 3 years, the music group, who highlighted vocalist Dennis Seaton, keyboardist Michael Offer, as well …

Creator of Berlin’s Digital Hardcore Recordings, Alec Empire created a few of the most musically diverse functions from the 1990s, saving both as himself and with the trio Atari Teenage Riot. Empire was frequently discovered with (and pigeonholed due to) his ATR productions — lo-fi breakbeats performed at the swiftness …

Bauhaus guitarist Daniel Ash created Shades on Tail being a aspect task in 1981 with bassist Glen Campling, who was simply also a roadie for Bauhaus. When Bauhaus split up in 1983, Ash thought we would focus on his brand-new group, attracting Bauhaus drummer Kevin Haskins aswell. Their design ranged …

A trusted guitarist having a interesting shade, a hard-swinging design, and strong complex abilities, Al Viola have been a secured asset to every program that he made an appearance on, and there were many. Viola performed inside a jazz music group within the Military (1942-45), where he fulfilled Page Cavanaugh. …

Among the lesser-known acoustic guitar pop rings to emerge from your fertile Athens, Georgia music picture from the 1980s, Period Plaything was formed in 1984 by vocalist/guitarist Bryan Make (formerly of Is Ought Space), ex-Little Tigers guitarist Paul Hammond, bassist Danny Cottar and drummer Rob McMahon. The group preferred a …

An American director, choreographer and dancer, Tommy Tune is definitely internationally identified and has performed in and directed several Broadway shows. He’s known for his comedic design and producing light of significant issues such as for example androgynous part modeling. His credits are the film The Partner, starring well-known model …

Tom Paxton has shown to be one of the most durable from the singer/songwriters to emerge in the Greenwich Community folk revival picture of the first ’60s. In a few ways, he previously more in keeping using the past due-’50s era of folksingers such as for example Dave Truck Ronk …

Self-proclaimed pioneers of “chav” culture, ten-piece pop/rap act Blazin’ Squad scored an extraordinary six consecutive TOP hits in only two years. Associates Flava, Plat’num, Strider, Freek, Krazy, Tommy-B, Melo-D, Spike-E, Reepa, and Kenzie all fulfilled at Higham Recreation area College in Chingford, London where they bonded more than a like …

Applying the polka and world-music dance treatment to a most unlikely song lineup (“FOLKS ARE Strange,” “Sixteen Tons,” “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida,” “O Holy Night”), Daring Combo produced in the late ’70s in the tiny Texas hometown of vocalist and guitarist Carl Finch, documented three albums for the self-owned Four Dots label, and …