Jesse Sykes is a Seattle-based singer-songwriter. Her backing band is The Sweet Hereafter, which features Phil Wandscher (late of Whiskeytown) on guitar. In 2002 they christened their "collective" Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter. Jesse Sykes (formerly Jesse Solomon) belonged to another band, Hominy, along with her former husband Jim Sykes, who played guitar. The band released a self-titled album in 1998 on the Ivy label.
Two Fingers Of Firewater are a young five-piece band from the South East, UK, playing original roots influenced music centred around the sound of the pedal steel/mandolin, acoustic guitar and keyboards/accordion. Aside from their weird and wonderful selection of melodic instruments Two Fingers of Firewater are essentially a good old-fashioned rock band. There are, however, strong elements of modern americana and traditional country within their unique sound.
Nanci Caroline Griffith, born July 6, 1954, is an American singer, guitarist and songwriter from Austin, Texas, United States. Her career has spanned a variety of musical genres, predominantly country and folk, and what she terms "folkabilly." She won a 1994 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album for Other Voices, Other Rooms, an album of Griffith covering the songs of artists who influenced her.
Sanctorum are a metal band from and located in Essex, England and have been together since late 2002. The current line-up is:
› Kris Sawkins - Bass / Backing Vocals
› Aaron Sly - Lead Vocals / Guitar
› Ash Lewis - Lead Guitar / Backing Vocals
› Matt Alston - Drums & Percussion / Backing Vocals Former members:
› Chris Eldridge - Bass / Backing Vocals Links:
http://www.sanctorum.co.uk.
http://www.myspace.com/sanctorum
1. Country artist. 2. Video game soundtrack composer, with ties to Epic Games, having composed the soundtracks for Jazz Jackrabbit and Epic Pinball. 3. Contestant in the 3rd series of X Factor (UK version), in 2006.
There are six artists with the name OX: 1) A folkie Canadiana band fronted by Mark Browning. 2) A polish band, formed in 1999 in Torun, Poland. Their heavy but sharp-sounding music is inspired by well known bands like Korn, Prodigy, Massive Attack or Incubus. Their music has Christian lyrics. 3)OX is the name of a side project fronted by Ken Baluke of Canadian band Sons of Otis. Ox plays a very slow and heavy style of drone, similar to Earth2 by Earth and the first two Sunn O))) albums (00 Void and GrimmRObe demos).
Groanbox (formerly The Groanbox Boys), the North American trio of Michael Ward-Bergeman, Cory Seznec and Paul Clifford, are a musical hybrid of ideas and ideals. They are at first glance a roots band, soaked in the traditions of American music, with all the guts of rock and roll and all the soul of the wandering troubadour. But somewhere along the way, that troubadour turned off the road and, from the melting pot of New Orleans, began a new journey that would take the Groanbox sound to new and unexplored places.
Jay Farrar is an American songwriter and musician currently based in St. Louis, Missouri. A veteran of two critically-acclaimed music groups, Uncle Tupelo and Son Volt, he began his solo music career in 2001. Beyond his established talents as a songwriter, he is a well-regarded guitarist, harmonicist, and a distinctive vocalist. His music is an informed expansion of traditional American roots music.
Mindy Smith (born June 1, 1972 on Long Island, New York) is an American singer-songwriter. Mindy rose to fame in 2003 when she was the first artist signed to contribute to the Dolly Parton tribute album Just Because I'm a Woman: Songs of Dolly Parton, on which she sang a cover of Parton's classic "Jolene". Later Dolly Parton followed by adding backing vocals to a new mix of the song, which was then featured on Smith's debut album that was released in January 2004, One Moment More.