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Junior Johnson is an Americana/Folk singer/songwriter from Randalstown, Northern Ireland. He has shared the stage with Shane MacGowan, Sean Cannon (The Dubliners), Frankie Miller’s Full House band and Irish multi-platinum rockers, Ash. Junior was honoured with the title of L.A. Music Awards "Folk Artist of the Year" 2006 for his song The Fireside, an honest detailing of the life that a once unfortunate friend leads now.

Led by the gifted songwriting, impeccable playing, and honeyed harmonies of vocalists/guitarists Gary Louris and Mark Olson, the Jayhawks' shimmering blend of country, folk, and bar band rock made them one of the most widely acclaimed artists to emerge from the alternative country scene. The group sprung up in 1985 out of the fertile Minneapolis, Minnesota, musical community, where Olson had been playing standup bass in a rockabilly band called Stagger Lee until his desire to write and perform his own country-folk material prompted him to begin a solo career.

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Educated Hillbillies, The Phantom Drummer, and the Relentless Acoustic Decibels of a Commando Jam: The Wilders Live Up to Their Name on Someone’s Got to Pay When hillbilly band The Wilders first named themselves, they didn’t realize the moniker itself was a bit of old-time snake oil; less of a description, and more a prediction. The foursome also didn’t know they had the power to invoke a fifth paranormal band member now known as the Phantom Drummer.