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Matthew E. White

Like all of us, Matthew E. White was born into a constructed world. His unfolded out of the mingled sands of Virginia Beach and Manila, the youngest son in a family that raised him barefoot between the blurred racket of that far eastern jungle city and the backyard lightning-bug-hum of a trimmed southern lawn. His first moves, from picking up a basketball to picking up a guitar, were cast in the dual glow of these latitudes. Something between them taught him to love. Something between them taught him to time travel. Here began the lessons of Big Inner.

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Barebones

1) A Japanese Sludge/Hardcore punk band who are best known to western audiences as having done a split with Boris 2) An acappella folk / gospel group based in WV formerly known as the Missing Person Soup Kitchen Gospel Quartet whose albums include "Put Your Loving Arms All Around Me", "Bare There Were They" and "Stirring It Up" 3) A Christian Hard Rock band from United States fronted by Barren Cross's Mike Lee.

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Soulsavers

Soulsavers are Rich Machin and Ian Glover, a pair of English producers/remixers behind the critically acclaimed album It's Not How Far You Fall, It's the Way You Land, released in 2007. Chief collaborator for the project was renowned gravel-voiced singer Mark Lanegan, who also is credited with co-writing five of the album's songs with the pair. The release has surprised and delighted many Lanegan fans who seem content to consider the record a near-solo album to add to his considerable body of work...

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Virtue

There are at least 4 artists under this name. An English NWOBHM band from Oxford, a female singing group, a Hip-hop MC/producer, and a hardcore band. Virtue/DJ ear.2.ear (n. Steve Tyson), began experimenting with producing, mixing, and spinning since childhood, but didn't actively pursue it until enrolling at Franklin & Marshall College in southeastern PA. Alongside his partner in rhyme T.R.E. (Trained Revolutionary Emcee/ Truth Remains Eternal), they have won a variety of competitions, as well as opened for hip-hop icons The Spooks and Talib Kweli.

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Amy Grant

Amy Grant (born November 25, 1960) is an American Christian and pop singer-songwriter and has done some television. She has also sold 30 million albums world wide during her career. Grant made her debut in 1977 under the guidance of Myrrh Records, and became the first Christian recording act to have an album be certified platinum. Following her marriage to Gary Chapman in 1982 and a subsequent deal between her record company and A&M Records...

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The Triumphs

The Triumphs, an instrumental precursor group to Booker T & The MGswere assembled in 1961 by producer/songwriter Chips Moman in Memphis TN. He recorded recorded them at Stax headquarters in the old Capitol Theater on McLemore Avenue. They were the first release for the Volt label. and they were also apparently the first inter-racial group in the then segregated city. Joining Moman on guitar duties was Booker T Jones on Hammond organ, Lewie Steinberg on bass and drummer Howard 'Bulldog' Grimes, who later would go on to anchor Hi-Records rhythm section.

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