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Boston alternative popsters the Force Superstars are led by songwriter/vocalist/guitarist Chris Trapper, with bassist/keyboardist Dan McLoughlin and drummer Ryan MacMillan rounding out the lineup. The music group debuted in 1996 with an record for the now-defunct Imago label, Match Me on the Fair; following that, they self-released the 1997 EP …

Sisters Amy Boone and Deborah Kelly (not half-sisters: Deborah nabbed their mother’s maiden name) was raised within the Adirondacks, finding “house lessons” off their parents’ Bob Dylan and Johnny Money records. Obviously talented and enthusiastic about music, they understood while still youthful that hearing New York traditional rock r / …

A primitive swamp-rock duo made up of Ben Reynolds (vocals, guitar, percussion) and Brant Slay (vocals, harmonica, washboard), the Chickasaw Mudd Young puppies were proteges of R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe, a fellow Athens, Georgia citizen who teamed with John Keane to co-produce their 1990 debut Light Dirt. Chicago blues tale Willie …

The Hackensaw Kids are not a family group band. Rather, the name originates from their freewheeling method of bluegrass and origins music. The Hackensaw Kids perform acoustic music using the joyous abandon of the rock-band, hacking at their guitars and mandolins, and sawing at their fiddles. The group was shaped …

Based away of Charlotte, NEW YORK, amiable country-rockers Amigo focus on a winning mixture of propulsive, Jonathan Richman/Doug Sahm-inspired rockabilly/root base rock and roll and soulful, heartache-inducing folk-rock in the vein of Gram Parsons as well as the Group. A honky tonk dance music group using a punk rock and …

A country-folk duo hailing from eastern Kentucky, Sundy Best features Nick Jamerson and Kris Bentley, close friends since elementary college. Jamerson and Bentley mix nation, Appalachian folk, bluegrass, rock and roll, spirit, and R&B right into a stomping back-porch audio centered around Jamerson’s classical guitar, Bentley’s cajón (sort of portable …

East Tx outlaw honky tonk nation outfit JB as well as the Moonshine Music group were born in ’09 2009 when singer and songwriter JB Patterson made a decision to quit his advertising profession and begin a music group. He delivered an audition contact his community in support of three …