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David Robertson rose to main prominence in the 21st hundred years among American conductors in his assignments as music director from the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, primary guest conductor from the BBC Symphony Orchestra, so that as a regular guest conductor from the main orchestras of NY, Boston, Chicago, LA, …

After singing in a variety of school functions, local groups, and Pepe Callahan’s Mexican-Irish band, Carr began her professional musical career in earnest in the first ’60s. Her single debut is at Reno, supported with the Chuck Leonard Quartet, which resulted in a record agreement with Liberty. Without gathering much …

Commander Cody and His Shed Globe Airmen were equally adept at stripped-down simple rock & move, R&B, and gritty country-rock. Commander Cody’s country-rock rocked harder compared to the Eagles or Poco — essentially, the group was a club band. Very much like British pub rock rings like Brinsley Schwarz and …

A long time before Kevin Haskins became the drummer for Bauhaus, he pounded on the different instrument. As a kid, Haskins banged on flowerpots; he ultimately shifted to bongos and to drums. After Haskins went to a Sex Pistols gig, he and his sibling David J (bass) created a group …

The intricate and varied musical and personal relationships that formed in the later-’60s/early-’70s cultural scene spewed forth a lot of fertile collaborations. Nevertheless, as unmystical since it sounds, it had been only a matter of timing regarding Keith Godchaux as well as the Pleased Deceased as their after that keyboardist, …

One of the better trumpeters to emerge from your avant-garde, Bobby Bradford largely fulfilled the potential of Don Cherry (whose chops declined over time because of the timeframe allocated to executing on flute and additional tools). Bradford was raised in Dallas, playing trumpet locally with such regional players as Cedar …

b. c. 1946, Britain, d. 19 July 1992, Britain. Playing harmonica, within the middle- to past due 60s Rye was frequently using the Groundhogs, a hard-hitting blues music group that were produced in 1963 by Tony McPhee and John Cruickshank from the last mentioned’s pop group, the Money Bills. The …

A relationship of shared admiration, Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer quickly gained the respect from the folk music community with Carter’s amazing depth of songwriting and Grammer’s professional accompaniment about fiddle, guitar, mandolin and violin. Carter, elevated in rural regions of Tx and Oklahoma, hasn’t traveled the typical path to …

Regardless of the amputation of elements of both his legs during his job, Chicago guitarist Buster Benton by no means quit playing his music — an infectious hybrid of blues and soul that he dubbed at one stage “disco blues” (an unfortunate appellation in retrospect, but useful in describing its …

Few figures deserve higher credit for the preservation of America’s folk music traditions than Alan Lomax. Scouring the backroads, honky tonks, and function camps from the Deep South, he unearthed a treasure trove of tunes and performers, documenting the music of the normal man for potential generations to find; through …