January 26, 2023
Biography
Like John Hammond and a small number of other music artists whose professions began in the 1960s blues revival, guitarist, singer, and songwriter Chris Smither may take satisfaction in the actual fact that he’s been there because the beginning. Aside from a couple of years when he was from performing …
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January 16, 2023
Biography
Very long a critics’ darling, singer/guitarist Bonnie Raitt didn’t commence to win the comparable commercial success as a consequence her before release from the aptly titled 1989 blockbuster Nick of your time; her tenth album, it rocketed her in to the mainstream awareness nearly 2 decades after she first dedicated …
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December 27, 2022
Biography
Universally hailed because the king from the blues, the legendary B.B. Ruler was certainly the single most significant electric guitarist from the last half of the 20th hundred years. His bent records and staccato selecting style affected legions of modern bluesmen, while his gritty and self-confident voice — with the …
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December 25, 2022
Biography
The first main blues and jazz singer on record and something of the very most powerful ever, Bessie Smith rightly earned the title of “The Empress from the Blues.” Also on her initial information in 1923, her passionate tone of voice overcame the primitive documenting quality of your day but …
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December 21, 2022
Biography
Nice Pea Atkinson was among the vocalists for the Detroit R&B ensemble Was (Not Was). The group released four LPs from 1981-1990, although there is almost a five-year space between their second launch and their third in 1988. Atkinson later on departed for any solo career.
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December 20, 2022
Biography
Vocalist/songwriter Ann Austin isn’t an easy musician to categorize. Even though Massachusetts resident provides documented for Whaling Town Sound (a little, jazz-oriented indie label located in New Bedford, MA) and is fairly capable of performing straight-ahead, acoustic-oriented jazz, she actually is not really a jazz purist by any extend of …
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December 19, 2022
Biography
Led by East Coastline singer/songwriter Alice Leon, the Alice Task is really a Princeton, NJ-based strap that focuses on melodic, hooky, tuneful pop/rock and roll. Leon isn’t the type of designer who is out of her method to become abstract or hard; her tunes tend to become meaty and considerable, …
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December 17, 2022
Biography
For roughly half of a 10 years, from 1968 through 1975, the Band was one of the most well-known and influential rock and roll groups on earth, their music embraced by critics (and, to some somewhat lesser level, the general public) as seriously because the music from the Beatles as …
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December 14, 2022
Biography
Paul Simon was perhaps one of the most successful and respected songwriters of the next fifty percent of the 20th hundred years. Rising to popularity within the middle-’60s, Simon’s tracks had been mature and literate, but additionally melodically participating, and spoke towards the worries and uncertainties of the generation. Because …
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December 10, 2022
Biography
A singer, instrumentalist, and songwriter with a wealthy pedigree, Amy Helm was a veteran performer with years of saving and touring knowledge under her belt before she initial stepped forward being a single artist whilst in her forties. Amy Helm was created in Woodstock, NY on Dec 3, 1970; her …
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