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Bob Atcher was probably one of the most popular nation music entertainers from the post-World Battle II period, enjoying a 21-yr career in OKeh and Columbia Information, in addition to main radio stardom on WLS’ Country wide Barn Dance from Chicago. His selection of materials went from traditional nation and …

Vocalist/songwriter Audrey Auld was created in Australia and raised within the bush in Tasmania, without tv or radio. She analyzed dancing and used the traditional violin inside a musical family members; her father performed jazz piano, and her stepfather experienced a jazz band. Like a pre-adolescent, she relocated to city …

The pop-folk trio the Mammals came together in early 2001 after fiddler Ruth Ungar and guitarist Michael Merenda met in an area bar in NEW YORK. Ungar, who’s the girl of famous fiddler Jay Ungar and folksinger Lyn Hardy, briefly flirted having a profession in performing. While she and Merenda …

A talented designer in her own ideal, scoring several adult modern radio strikes, Beth Nielsen Chapman rose to prominence while an effective songwriter, penning a string of tracks that could earn their performers strikes about both pop and nation radio. Created in Harlington, TX, Chapman spent her youngsters moving frequently …

One of nation music’s most versatile performers, Steve Wariner was raised in suburban Indianapolis, thinking about the Beatles on the air in addition to Chet Atkins and George Jones, the performers his father paid attention to most regularly. He began playing music in his dad’s music group, and by his …

The Bacon Brothers earned considerable attention a long time before they ever released an album; vocalist/guitarist Kevin Bacon currently enjoyed an effective career among the most prolific display stars of his era, with starring shows in movies including Diner, Footloose, JFK, The River Crazy, and Apollo 13. He originally shaped …

Louisiana local Andy Griggs was raised hearing the noises of Merle Haggard, but turned his mind toward outlaw nation and gospel by enough time he reached university. After a brief stint at Northeast Louisiana School, Griggs returned house in the first ’90s to grieve the fatalities of his dad and …

If there’s an unfortunate aspect to Steve Gillette’s profession, it’s that he was created slightly too late to become celebrity within the folk circuit through the growth times of the early-’60s folk revival. Along with his unabashedly passionate voice and the proper ballad, he might’ve very easily soared in to …

Shirley Eikhard began her multi-faceted music career in the ripe age group of 12 when she was paid 15 dollars to sing “Ode to Billy Joe” and “MORNING HOURS Rainfall.” By enough time she was 14, she acquired nailed a agreement being a folk and nation vocalist. In 1972, Eikhard …

Though he was once referred to as “America’s Favorite Folksinger,” Slender Whitman was, in most of his career, even more famous in Europe than in america. Best appreciated for his early-’50s strike singles like “Like Song from the Waterfall,” “Indian Like Contact,” and “Performing Hillsides,” Whitman was a fantastic yodeler …