Tag Archives: 1960s – 2010s

In lots of ways, Michael Martin Murphey gets the career that Michael Nesmith from the Monkees — with whom Murphey performed early in both of their careers — may have had if he previously never been selected for the NBC series. A guitarist/songwriter, Murphey led the country-rock group the Lewis …

Because the mid-’60s, Norma Waterson, along with brother Mike, sister Lal among others, have performed jointly as the Watersons to create a few of the most beautiful information in British traditional music. While executing one night time with her family members at McCabe’s in Santa Monica, California, membership booker and …

Redbone was a Los Angeles-based music group led by Local American Pat and Lolly Vegas, both business lead singers who have had previously worked under their own titles, showing up in the 1965 film It’s a Bikini Globe ahead of forming Redbone, an all-Native music group, in the encouragement of …

In the past due ’70s, the chart-topping singer/songwriter Cat Stevens formally became female, adopted the name Yusuf Islam, and following the launch of his 11th and final Cat Stevens album (1978’s Back again to Globe), announced his retirement from your pop music business. Mainly inactive through the 1980s and ’90s, …

A singer whose vocal design fused nation with blue-eyed spirit, Alabama-born Rasie Michael “Razzy” Bailey slice his 1st recordings in 1949 at age 10. By 15, he led a string music group, sponsored by the neighborhood chapter into the future Farmers of America, which arrived in second inside a skill …

While an effective singer in her own best, Melba Montgomery could very well be best kept in mind in tandem with her string of duet recordings with famous brands George Jones, Charlie Louvin, and Gene Pitney. Given birth to Oct 14, 1938, in Iron Town, TN, and elevated in Florence, …

It really is to McCoy Tyner’s great credit that his profession after John Coltrane continues to be definately not anti-climatic. Along with Costs Evans, Tyner continues to be the most important pianist in jazz of days gone by 50 years, along with his chord voicings getting adopted and employed by …

The husband-and-wife team of composers Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson authored a few of Motown’s finest songs, like the classic duets of Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, before parlaying their success into an enduring performing career of their own. Created Might 4, 1942, in Fairfield, SC, Ashford grew up in …

As the first choice from the seminal pub rockers Brinsley Schwarz, a manufacturer, and a solo artist, Nick Lowe held considerable influence within the development of punk rock and roll. Using the Brinsleys, Lowe started a back-to-basics motion that flowered into punk rock and roll in the past due ’70s. …

Masabumi “Poo” Kikuchi was a Japan jazz pianist of legendary stature using a huge discography that ran the gamut from straight-up post-bop and vanguard classical to fusion recordings, single synthesizer schedules, as well as digital dub. He toured and documented with performers as different as Sonny Rollins, Lionel Hampton, Terumasa …