In a line of business where in fact the term “genius” is passed out freely, Van Dyke Parks may be the real article. Being a program musician, composer, arranger, lyricist, and vocalist, he’s contributed considerably to several years’ value of inimitable masterpieces acknowledged to various other performers, aswell as generating …

As the frontman from the Byrds, Roger McGuinn and his trademark 12-string Rickenbacker guitar pioneered folk-rock and, by extension, country-rock, influencing everyone from contemporaries just like the Beatles to acolytes like Tom Petty and R.E.M. along the way. Wayne Joseph McGuinn was created on July 13, 1942, in Chicago, whereby …

Joseph Patrick Moore’s skill in the bass is liquid and flexible, allowing his skill to glimmer whether he’s taking part in by himself jazz CDs or freelancing on additional musicians’ produces, performing within an ensemble environment, or backing the music theater performances of Carol Channing or Jerry Lewis. His wish …

John Sebastian has already established a varied profession being a singer, songwriter, and musician. As the first choice from the folk-rock music group the Lovin’ Spoonful, he was in charge of a string of TOP strikes in 1965-1967 that included the chart-toppers “Daydream” and “Summertime in the town,” and he …

David Rea has produced his most significant marks being a program participant and songwriter. Shifting to Toronto, at age 17, Rea performed and documented with such Canadian performers as Gordon Lightfoot, Jesse Winchester, and Ian & Sylvia, who protected his music, “Pilgrimage to Heaven” and “The Minstrel.” Furthermore, Rea added …

The literary sensitivity of New Britain is combined with spiritual vision from the American Western world by Massachusetts-based singer/songwriter Erica Wheeler. Her first songs inspired the brand new Britain Folk Almanac to see that “…among (Wheeler’s) greatest talents is her capability to temper like, light and goodness with darkness and …

Eric Andersen has preserved a career being a folk-based singer/songwriter because the 1960s. As opposed to such peers as Tom Paxton and Phil Ochs, Andersen’s composing has already established a intimate/philosophical/poetic bent generally, rather than socially mindful one, though one of is own best-known music, “Thirsty Boot styles,” provides as …

This little-known band made a short impression in 1969 with a superb instrumental version of ‘Amazing Grace’, a long time before Judy Collins popularized the song. The mantra-like fuzz electric guitar added a religious quality that was lacking from later variations. So small was known of the group that these …

Fred Hellerman was most widely known like a singer, guitarist, and songwriter using the folk group the Weavers through the late ’40s towards the mid-’60s. After and during the group’s lifestyle, nevertheless, he also taken care of a varied profession behind the moments in the music market that included functioning …

b. 15 Sept 1931, NEW YORK, NY, USA. Holzman, a tuned engineer, founded Elektra Information in 1950 and continued to be its guiding light over another 23 years. His label was renowned for traditional music, and early produces featured such performers as Jean Ritchie, Theodore Bikel, Ed McCurdy and Cynthia …