Swedish composer, accordionist, and keyboardist Lars Hollmer was a very much much loved artist who escaped the notice of several during his lifetime but who nevertheless handled listeners around the world from Europe to Asia to THE UNITED STATES. Provided his longstanding account in the quirky Samla Mammas Manna, he …

Hip-hop continues to be performed in a number of languages — from Japan to People from france to Polish — but if rap comes with an unofficial second vocabulary (second and then English), it really is Spanish. Latino MCs have already been moving in Spanish since the Mean Machine documented …

He might have appeared on just a set of albums with Ozzy Osbourne, but guitarist Jake E. Lee helped Osbourne rating two of the very most commercially successful produces of his lengthy and illustrious profession. Given birth to Jake Lou Williams on Feb 15, 1957, to American and Japanese parents, …

Streetwise R&B balladeer Jaheim Hoagland comes from Fresh Brunswick, NJ, where he was raised in the 176 Memorial Parkway Homes public casing project. Misfortune strike early: his dad passed away in 1981, when he was just two years previous. From the musical family members helped him get over the tragedy …

Blessed in Augusta, GA, spirit vocalist Chuck Roberson and his family members relocated to Madison, FL, where Roberson discovered his like of music. Affected by such performers as Bobby Bland, Small Milton, Tyrone Davis, and O.V. Wright, amongst others, Roberson started his musical profession in the middle-’70s. He released many …

In the who’s who of rock and roll & move, Chuck Leavell is an extremely big someone. His piano and key pad playing provides graced the albums and/or levels of the Moving Rocks, Eric Clapton, the Allman Brothers Band, the Dark Crowes, George Harrison, Blues Traveller, the Marshall Tucker Band, …

LARRY comprises of Jeff Bradberry (business lead vocals and washboard), Rick Cannon (harmonica), Bob Perkins (bass), Tom “Charge” W (acoustic guitar), Andy Vickers (drums), Tom Vickers (acoustic guitar), and Steve Vickers (percussion). The trip for LARRY started inside a filthy little garage someplace in Austin, TX. Quite unintentionally, Andy Vickers, …

La Musica Della Mafia may be the name directed at a collective of Calabrian Mafia music artists that wrote and recorded Il Canto Di Malavita. The group began as vigilantes that seen themselves protectors of their fellow Italian natives. Fighting with each other against the corrupt, monarchic guideline that overcame …

b. La Velle McKinnie, 22 Might 1944, Kankakee, Illinois, USA. Given birth to right into a musical family members, McKinnie was a kid prodigy, performing at age three, acquiring piano lessons from four, with five was an associate of the tiny Dark Angels gospel group with who she made an …

Colin Escott is a Toronto-based music journalist whose publication, Great Rockin’ Tonight: SUNLIGHT Records Tale, is published by St. Martin’s Press. He provides created many liner records for Polygram, Rhino, MCA, CBS, Keep Family members, RCA, Atlantic, Rounder, and Time-Life music. Desert Isle Picks The Blue Sky Guys The Blue …