The Green Rock River Band
Last.fm Tags:
Link:
Artist Type:
Leadbelly
Huddie Ledbetter (23 January 1888-6 December 1949) was a leading American blues singer and guitarist. His songbook contained a large number of standard folk tunes, most adapted from previous sources. Though many of his posthumous releases list him as "Leadbelly," he himself spelled it "Lead Belly." This is also the usage on most of his original records, tombstone, as well as of the Lead Belly Foundation.
Last.fm Tags:
Link:
Artist Type:
James McMurtry
James L. McMurtry, along with his Austin-based band, James McMurtry & The Heartless Bastards, is a self-described "rock & roots" guitarist and singer-songwriter, drawing on elements of alt-country, folk and old-fashioned texas rock. The son of novelist Larry McMurtry, James was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1962, and grew up in Virginia. James McMurtry's seventh studio album, Childish Things, was released on Compadre Records in the fall of 2005. As writer L.E.
Last.fm Tags:
Link:
Artist Type:
The Broken Family Band
The Broken Family Band rose from the ashes of ‘several crap indie bands and a pretty good post rock band’ in post-millennial Cambridge (i.e. around 2001). “The first nice thing outside our own little world was getting a call from John Peel on a Sunday morning saying he liked our first record. It was like a pat on the back from your favourite uncle,” says frontman Steven Adams. Their first mini-album The King Will Build A Disco appeared in 2002, to general bemusement and delight that East Anglia had produced its own leftfield Americana act.
Last.fm Tags:
Link:
Artist Type:
The Bad Things
Bubbling forth like a mossy belch of polka filth from the greasy, jet fuel-contaminated wetlands of the Northwest, comes The Bad Things. With junkyard waltzes and shameless shanties, The Bad Things are hellbent on providing traditional music for the post-apocalyptic era. "Combining elements of Gypsy, folk, Klezmer, Hillbilly ballads, mariachi crooners, and a Vaudeville theatrical aesthetic, the group has a reputation for drunken debauchery and feverish dancing at their live shows.....The group lends their old-fashioned style with a post-modern sense of black humor."
Last.fm Tags:
Link:
Artist Type:
Barnstormers
Barnstormers is the long-time collaboration between singer/songwriter Ronald Moore with multi-instrumentalist Chris Wilson featuring a revolving cast of musicians and producers. Based out of the suburbs of North Alabama, Barnstormers was started in 2002 as the brainchild of singer/songwriter and then actor Ronald Moore to explore new styles of folk music through a long-time solo project. During that time he met Chris Wilson who was a music student at the same community college. In 2007, the band released their first independent release entitled "Switchblade Serenades"
Last.fm Tags:
Link:
Artist Type:
Chip Taylor
Chip Taylor (b. January 1, 1940 in New York City) is the stage name of American songwriter James Wesley Voight noted for writing the song, Wild Thing. Taylor's brothers are the actor, Jon Voight, and the geologist, Barry Voight. He is the uncle of actors Angelina Jolie and James Haven. After a hardly successful attempt to become a professional golfer, Taylor entered the music business. He wrote and composed pop and rock songs, both alone and with other songwriters including Al Gorgoni, Billy Vera, Ted Daryll, and Jerry Ragovoy.
Last.fm Tags:
Link:
Artist Type:
Kirsty McGee & The Hobopop Collective
Kirsty McGee is an established singer-songwriter who emerged as part of the "new acoustic" scene (including such alumni as Elbow and I Am Kloot in her native Manchester. No.5 is Kirsty McGee's first album with her full band the Hobopop Collective, it was recorded live, in one take, at the Contact Theatre in Manchester. The Hobopop Collective include Mat Martin, Nick Blacka and Rob Turner. The special guests performing with them on the No. 5 record are James Steel of The Brute Chorus, Christopher Cundy from Guillemots and Clive Mellor (Richerd Hawley Band).
Last.fm Tags:
Link:
Artist Type:
The Felice Brothers
The Felice Brothers are a folk rock/country rock band from upstate New York founded in 2006. It is comprised of the five main members Ian Felice (lead vocals, guitar, piano), Simone Felice (drums, vocals, guitar), James Felice (accordion, piano, organ), and their friend Christmas (bass), previously a traveling dice player. They have been joined by Farley, a washboard player and fiddler, and others who at times had a horn section to the band. The three brothers are from the Catskill Mountains of New York. They hail from Palenville, NY, twenty minutes from Woodstock.
Last.fm Tags:
Link:
Artist Type:
Edgar Meyer
Edgar Meyer (born November 24, 1960) is a prominent contemporary bassist. His styles include bluegrass, newgrass, jazz, and classical. Meyer has worked as a session musician in Nashville, part of various chamber groups, a composer, and an arranger.
Meyer grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He learned to play the double bass from his father, the late Edgar Meyer, Sr., who directed the string orchestra program for the local public school system. Meyer later went on to Indiana University to study with Stuart Sankey.
Last.fm Tags:
Link:
Artist Type: