Tag Archives: 1970s – 1980s

This short-lived pairing of two already established solo artists occurred after a conversation at London’s Hard Rock Cafe, where in fact the performers joked that this moniker “Moe & Joe” sounded almost as musical as “Waylon & Willie.” Back the U.S., they visited focus on a duet recording, Just Great …

A get better at bodhran (Irish drum) participant, Frank Torpey has used Michael O’Suilleabhain, Luka Bloom as well as the Brandan Power Music group and has appeared in Michael Flatley’s Riverdance. Furthermore to playing on albums by Alan Stivell and Mel Mercier, he collaborated with Donal Lunny and O’Suilleabhan on …

Understanding the perversity of Frank Zappa, it really is highly possible that his strike song “Bobby Brown” was a secret tribute to the artist, whose 1972 album The Enlightening Beam of Axonda will be a candidate for one of the most obscure album ever, only if such a nomination could …

Mlimani was founded in 1978 by veteran acoustic guitar ace Michael Enoch and quickly became the undisputed celebrity from the Tanzanian music scene. Merging three guitars, percussion, and a good brass section with lyrics that are both directed however poetical, the music group enjoy unprecedented interest, both around the airwaves …

Ouza continues to be recording because the 1970s but hasn’t quite present an audience beyond Senegal. His music is made on Wolof rhythms, very much like Youssou N’Dour’s, and he’s a staunch traditionalist.

Agreed upon to Columbia in the first ’70s, Dave Nicol documented several well-known singles in his indigenous Canada, including “Goodbye Mama” in 1973 and “Mexico” the next year. All of the Crazy Birds premiered in 1975. He afterwards lost his agreement with Columbia but continuing to record and experiment his …

A nine-member funk and spirit aggregation co-led by Kaiya Matthews and Michael Judkins, the ADC Music group recorded for Cotillion in the past due ’70s and early ’80s. At their finest, the cuts used the funk details of Parliament/Funkadelic and Slave. The largest strike was 1978’s “Very long Heart stroke,” …

Tuba participant Willie J. Davis was a necessity for saxophonist and arranger Frank Foster to make all Twelve Tones of Black shown on that 1978 record, among three periods Davis continues to be credited with through the late ’70s.

Among the strongholds of New Influx of British ROCK and among Neat Information’ initial signings, Axis, from Cleveland (in the northeast of Britain), were, with the label’s criteria, an unusually professional though not absolutely all that large sounding group. Founded at some unspecified stage in the past due ’70s, and …

A graduate of MIT’s prestigious anatomist program, electronic devices wizard Tom Scholz was the master-mind behind the phenomenal success from the ’70s rock and roll group Boston. Producing demos in his cellar studio, Scholz obtained the eye of Epic information who agreed upon the guitarist to a offer. After assembling …