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Along with his world-weary voice and gritty, narrative-driven songs, Kasey Anderson has drawn comparisons to Americana and alt-country artists like Steve Earle, Tom Waits, Nebraska-era Bruce Springsteen, and Ryan Adams. Jumping between your folk moments of Bellingham, WA, and Portland, OR, Anderson has turned into a regional favorite and it …

The best scene-maker, Chuck E. Weiss offers spent a profession hobnobbing using the awesome and popular in rock’s hierarchy while hardly pursuing a profession of his personal. Created in Denver, Weiss was originally a drummer, touring with bluesman Lightnin’ Hopkins. From the past due ’60s, Weiss got performed and/or documented …

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 …

Since 1998, Dustin Kensrue continues to be most common as the business lead singer, lyricist, and guitarist for the well-regarded Irvine, California post-hardcore quartet Thrice. After launching three albums using the group in 2001 (Identification Turmoil), 2002 (The Illusion of Basic safety), and 2003 (The Musician within the Ambulance), Kensrue …

The Czech rock group Psí Vojáci is among the major acts that were only available in the underground through the Communist regime and became successful following its fall in 1989. The group is certainly dominated by songwriter, vocalist, and pianist Filip Topol, a charismatic personality who shares commonalities with English …

Bob Schneider is really a fixture around the Austin picture, having kicked around for a long time in various rings before getting into a single profession in 1999. Given birth to in Michigan and partly elevated in Germany, he decreased from the University or college of Tx at Un Paso …

Performance musician, songwriter, classically trained harpist, circus sideshow veteran, and transgender road star Baby Dee was created in 1953 in Cleveland, OH. She spent a decade as music movie director and organist for the Catholic church within the Bronx before signing up for the circus because the bilateral hermaphrodite at …

Producer/engineer Bone fragments Howe had large hits using the 5th Sizing, the Association, as well as the Turtles, and he recorded Tom Waits’ highly acclaimed albums from the ’70s and ’80s. He gained the nickname “Bone fragments” due to his thinness. Given birth to Dayton Howe in 1933 in Minneapolis, …

A rip-roaring, Delta blues-inflected singer, guitarist, and songwriter, Jake La Botz was reportedly conceived while his parents were hearing an album by Tx bluesman Mance Lipscomb. Shifting to Chicago as a little child along with his dad, a truck drivers, union organizer, and journalist, La Botz uncovered classic blues and …

Arranger Bob Alcivar studied piano and structure with Stephen Balough in the Cornish University in Seattle, WA. With jazz promoter and Seattle jazz DJ Norm Bobrow, he shaped a vocal group known as the Signatures, carrying out in Bobrow’s Weekend Jazz Concerts and along with his Small Big Band. Later …