The Backsliders were an alternative-traditional country-rock music group from NEW YORK comprised of guitarist Steve Howell, frontman and acoustic guitarist Chip Robinson, bassman Danny Kurtz, Jeff Dennis on drums, and Brad Grain rounding things out along with his guitar. In 1994, motivated by Buck Owens, Webb Pierce, as well as …

Mainly a clarinetist, Beth Custer can be a composer, performer, and teacher – having penned music for television, movies, theater, and dance. The very long time SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA resident released a solo profession during the past due ’90s, but primarily got her begin playing with various other clothes. …

Through the 1970s, Steve Martin was probably the most successful standup comedian in the us, generating the amount of commercial success — sold-out arena performances, platinum documents, strike singles, and delirious buff adulation — usually reserved for rock and roll stars. Although his profession continued to encompass stints as an …

Among the initial white rock and roll & rollers to record for a significant label (Columbia), Sid Ruler (given birth to Sid Erwin) was also among the initial young Southern music artists to look from Western golf swing to rockabilly within the mid-’50s. Erwin was raised within the Dallas-Fort Worthy …

Beginning their job as the utmost popular browse band in the country, the Shore Boys finally surfaced by 1966 as America’s preeminent pop group, the only real act in a position to task (for a short time period) the overarching success from the Beatles with both mainstream listeners as well …

Singer/celebrity Mary Martin was, alongside Ethel Merman, among the two leading performers in stage musicals through the middle third from the 20th hundred years. In the 1930s towards the 1960s, Martin made an appearance on Broadway, in the Western world End, and on tour a large number of situations in …

The Asylum Road Spankers, from Austin, TX, certainly are a unique band led by vocalist/washboard player/poet Wammo and vocalist Christina Marrs. They’re getting a developing cult following for his or her unique make of acoustic blues and early jazz. While a lot of their materials is blues from your 1920s …

Of the electric powered guitar’s couple of proponents in avant-garde jazz, Sonny Sharrock is conveniently probably the most influential; he was among the first guitarists to also attempt free of charge playing, alongside Derek Bailey and Sonny Greenwich. Sharrock’s visceral hostility and monolithic bed linens of noise had been influenced …

For a lot of the ’80s, Paul Youthful rivaled Simply Red’s Mick Hucknall because the best blue-eyed spirit/pop singer within the U.K. IN THE US, Little was known mainly for his lone chart-topper, “EACH TIME You DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY,” but could sustain his industrial success in the home for a lot …

An under-recognized pioneer from the lo-fi trend, Smog was fundamentally the alias of 1 Costs Callahan, an enigmatic singer/songwriter whose unusual, fractured music nicely epitomized the tenets and excesses from the home-recording increase. Melancholy, poignant, and self-obsessed, Callahan’s four-track result provided a peepshow watch into an insular globe of alienation …