Tag Archives: The Blacks

You may remember Nora O’Connor as an associate from the Blacks (she sometimes passed the name Nora Black) or her appearances on-stage and on record with Andrew Bird, the brand new Pornographers, the Aluminium Group, Chris Mills, Otis Clay, or Mavis Staples. People in her indigenous Chicago also understand the …

The nom de plume of guitarist/songwriter Dan Schwartz, an associate from the Philly-based indie folk trio CLASSIC War, Danny Dark delivers knotty and evocative instrumental guitar music that pulls inspiration from six- and 12-string legends like Leo Kottke, Tommy Emmanuel, and Robert Fripp. Following the launch of CLASSIC War’s fourth …

The Blacks, a Chicago-based insurgent country music group, were formed in 1994 by singer/guitarist Danny McDonough, a former person in psychedelic hard rockers Cornmother, who quit the latter group after discovering the music of Hank Williams, Tom Waits, and Louis Armstrong. Teaching himself fundamental drumming and trumpeting abilities, he began …