piano rock

Roger Hubbard , vocalist, guitarist & songwriter, started his career in the sixties, forming his own Brighton Blues Club on England's south coast in 1967. Roger's first love was Delta style blues and in 1970 he recorded his first solo album "Brighton Belle Blues" which made him well known on the then thriving British blues scene, as well as in the USA. In the mid-70s, having acquired his distinctive sounding 1935 National Duolian steel-bodied guitar...

Ben Folds Five is a trio formed in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States in 1994, who until their breakup in 2000 were a mainstay of piano rock. Much of their work was influenced by jazz, evident in frequent improv-styled passages through bridge and/or ending. The members of the band are Ben Folds, the lead singer and pianist, who also wrote most of the songs; Robert Sledge on bass; and Darren Jessee on drums. The group enjoyed the success of the single Brick in 1997, a ballad written by Folds (with a chorus by Jessee) about his high school girlfriend getting an abortion.

There are at least three artists who have recorded under the name Swordfish: one from Poland, one from the Czech Republic, one from Australia. It is also a common mis-tag for tracks from the soundtrack to the 2001 movie Swordfish.

Amy’s fourth album, Grow to Catch the Wind (2011), takes her mul­ti­lay­ered sound to new lev­els. A string quar­tet, lay­ered har­monies, and howl­ing cello solos all join with her sig­na­ture soar­ing vocals, piano and gui­tar. Amy’s lyri­cal con­fes­sions pierce through the sonic com­plex­ity, per­haps more than ever. The album, her most brave and hon­est work yet, is the cul­mi­na­tion of sev­eral years of soul-searching, a cycle of death and rebirth.