As the organist in the first Animals lineup, Alan Cost was possibly the most significant instrumental contributor with their early operate of hits. He still left the group in 1965 after just a 12 months of international achievement (he is seen discussing his departure with Bob Dylan in the rockumentary …

Although a “singer/songwriter” in the sense that he wrote almost all the music he performed, it’s nearer to the truth to spell it out the well-traveled Al Grierson being a folksinger and Renaissance man in the mold of Woody Guthrie, Jimmie Rodgers, Pete Seeger, Utah Phillips, and Jack Hardy — …

Three Dog Night time have scored a succession of 21 strike singles, including eleven Best Tens, and twelve consecutive gold albums from 1969 to 1975, because of the slick, sometimes soulful vocal harmonies of singers Danny Hutton, Chuck Negron, and Cory Wells and a fantastic ear for quality material. While …

The older sister of Hot Rize member Tim, bluegrass performer Mollie O’Brien was raised in Wheeling, West Virginia, where during senior high school she and her brother teamed up like a folk duo. After learning voice in university, O’Brien relocated to NEW YORK, where she worked well as a purchaser …

A former defensive deal with for the NFL’s Cincinnati Bengals, Mike Reid was perhaps one of the most private writers of intimate songs in modern nation music. He was created in Altoona, Pa, the son of the railroad employee. Although he was a piano participant from age group six, Reid’s …

Italian film composer Nicola Piovani vaulted to worldwide renown via his Academy Award-winning score for the 1998 feature La Vita è Bella, better recognized to UNITED STATES audiences as Roberto Benigni’s Lifestyle Is Beautiful. Delivered May 26, 1946, in Rome, Piovani received his level in piano from Milan’s Verdi Conservatory, …

Adolescent boys couldn’t help noticing the name of the reliable bassist in the wake of James Relationship learning to be a superhero in the ’60s. Jimmy Relationship did not travel an Aston-Martin, nevertheless; nor do he attend morning hours briefings on recently created weaponry. When he went to a conference, …

Jim Keltner is among several session music artists who achieved near super-stardom in the beginning of the 1970s, amid the explosion of saving work from the ex-members from the Beatles — along with Leon Russell, Klaus Voorman, Billy Preston, Jim Gordon, and Bobby Whitlock, to mention just a couple, his …

Probably the most celebrated British guitar hero to emerge in the 1970s and ’80s, Mark Knopfler rose to fame as the first choice of Dire Straits, and his songwriting and incisive guitar work played a decisive role to make them a global success story. At the same time when punk …

This UK act was formed in Manchester in 1981 by Carmel McCourt (b. 24 November 1958, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, Britain; vocals) and previous associates of Bee Vamp, Jim Parris (b. 13 January 1957, Finchley, London, Britain; dual bass) and Gerry Darby (b. 13 Oct 1959, Finchley, London, Britain; drums, percussion). In …