Super Chikan, given birth to Wayne Louis Johnson, was one of the most acclaimed growing blues performers from the past due ’90s. His small-combo, good-humored blues includes a funky contact. As an instrumentalist, he’s recognized not really much by his design as his tools: his “Chicantars” are constructed of flattened …

Common wisdom says that Muddy Waters was the person in charge of turbo charging the Delta blues and creating what we have now call Chicago blues. Waters’ importance is certainly inestimable, but to place all of the credit at his foot is to disregard the contributions of these who quite …

Ideal remembered for the wartime requirements “The White colored Cliffs of Dover” and “I’M GOING TO BE Home for Xmas,” Walter Kent was created in Manhattan in August 1911. He went to CCNY and analyzed music in the exclusive Juilliard College. His first main songwriting success was included with 1932’s …

The Ad Libs were an early-’60s vocal group from NJ whose female lead vocals and male-voiced backing prefigured the jazzy doo wop singing design of several later on groups, including Manhattan Transfer. They obtained a major strike in early 1965 with “The Boy From NEW YORK,” compiled by John T. …

Testament were the largest thrash metallic music group to never reach the platinum plateau. Actually, the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA quintet seemed around the verge of demanding Metallica (their most apparent influence) within the melodic thrash sweepstakes, but their work toward the very best was ultimately derailed by inconsistency, poor …

Multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and songwriter Steve Adam has carved a distinct segment for himself within the acoustic and folk-blues picture through a whole lot of touring. He’s constructed his group of fans the old-fashioned method, minus the support of a global record company advertising machine. Adam, who plays Country wide steel …

Bert Kaempfert had nearly too much skill, ability, and all the best rolled into a single career to become fully appreciated, even by his very own chosen viewers, the lovers of great orchestral pop music. He was one of the most effective conductors, arrangers, and documenting artists within the last …

Circumstances as wide as Tennessee stimulates rambling, so that it comes as no real surprise that we now have bands known as the Tennessee Ramblers, two actually, in neuro-scientific old-time nation music alone. This biography issues itself using the Tennessee Ramblers from East Tennessee, whose past due-’20s recordings resulted in …

Among Canada’s most imaginative composers/electronic keyboardist, Amin Bhatia offers written and performed the ratings for movies including Iron Eagle II, Café Romeo, as well as the IMAX-film Yellow metal Fever; and tv shows, including Kung Fu: The Tale Continues, Tales Through the Crypt, and John Woo’s Once a Thief. His …

Sex Mob began merely being a environment to feature the slip trumpet of innovator Steven Bernstein, but is continuing to grow into a music group with a much bigger mission: to place the fun back jazz music. After assembling the music group (Bernstein, slip trumpet; Briggan Krauss, alto sax; Tony …