Tag Archives: 1960s – 2000s

One of the most elegant, tasteful, and private guitarists, Gene Bertoncini offers perfected the artwork of performing soft, sentimental music and presenting it all inside a light, liquid style, yet retaining a amount of feeling and spontaneity. He started on acoustic guitar at nine and was a specialist at 16, …

Jean-Pierre Ferland is among the great singer/songwriter Quebec provides produced, second and then Félix Leclerc and Gilles Vigneault. First a vocalist/songwriter within the French custom of Léo Ferré and Georges Moustaki, he considered art pop/rock and roll in the first ’70s, launching his most-acclaimed albums (Jaune, 1970; Soleil, 1971). His …

Painter, illustrator, vocalist/songwriter, and folksinger Eric Von Schmidt was a spearhead from the folk revival that swept through Cambridge, Massachusett’s Harvard Square in the first ’60s. When he wasn’t hosting late-night jam classes at his house/studio room, Von Schmidt was carrying out Leadbelly-influenced tunes in coffeehouses and uplifting several decades …

Gal Costa can be an awarded singer with a thorough single discography and worldwide experience. A simple presence within the Tropicalia motion, she has experienced Brazil’s leading group of singers for many years. Since very youthful, she’s been associated with music like a vocalist and violão participant; when her mother’s …

Based in LA, USA, this quartet, Davie Allan (lead guitar), Paul Johnson (rhythm guitar), Steve Pugh (bass) and Larry Brown (drums), found its way to the wake of fellow instrumental stylists Dick Dale as well as the Endeavors. Allan’s exclusive, ‘large fuzz’ audio had been prominent on ‘Apache ’65’, an …

Hein Strobl can be an Austrian modern multi-instrumentalist (effective in piano, percussion, acoustic guitar, and synthesizer), and it has issued countless albums on a reliable basis since 1980 beneath the alias of Gandalf. Acquiring his name through the good-hearted wizard in J.R.R. Tolkien’s trilogy Lord from the Bands, Gandalf’s work …

Offering the soundtrack to varied biker and teen exploitation movies within the mid- and late ’60s, Davie Allan & the Arrows bridged the browse and psychedelic eras. Their traveling, basic instrumentals presented loads and plenty of fuzz acoustic guitar, in addition to good dollops of tremolo pub waggling and wah-wah. …

With an island renowned because of its superb vocalists and composers, John Holt stood head and shoulders that beats all others as you of Jamaica’s sweetest singers and long lasting songwriters. He voiced and penned therefore lots of the country’s classics that in ways, Holt described the island’s sound. Created …

b. 25 Sept 1942, Manchester, Lancashire, Britain. A self-taught pianist, Taylor experienced established himself among the most respected English jazz pianists by the finish from the 60s and it has continuing to consolidate his status since. He started his musical profession having a dance music group until 1964, when he …

Recording both being a single artist and in collaboration with Gershon Kingsley, Jean-Jacques Perrey helped popularize electronic music with some albums in the 1960s which used Moog synthesizers, the Ondioline, and magnetic tape. His function was never designed to participate the avant-garde, as Perrey himself cheerfully announced in his liner …