The Wild Frontier
2001 - 2011 THE WILD FRONTIER is from Sydney
2001 - 2011 THE WILD FRONTIER is from Sydney
Patterson Hood (born Mar 24, 1964) is best known as the leader of the Drive-By Truckers. He is the son of acclaimed Muscle Shoals bassist David Hood. In 2004, he released an album entitled Killers and Stars. His second solo album, Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs) was released in June 2009.
A new star in the singer-songwriter galaxy, Edinburgh-based Aaron Wright is unafraid to bare his soul and let it all out. A great voice, with great tunes. Check him out.
Eric Taylor is a sage musician, a lyrical genius and a master of the guitar. If you're familiar with the intricate Texas singer/ songwriter jigsaw puzzle, you probably already know a lot about Taylor. If you're not familiar with Taylor by name, you've probably heard his songs performed by people such as Nanci Griffith and Lyle Lovett. He has created a multitude of fans and devotees that are legends themselves in the singer/songwriter realm, artists who have long considered Taylor to be a teacher and a lantern bearer whose time is long overdue.
The Blackeyed Susans are an Australian band, formed in Perth in 1989, based in Melbourne since 1992. They were initially a "holiday band" put together by David McComb in 1989 while The Triffids were in hiatus. Although line-ups have varied from year to year, almost all of them have featured Rob Snarski and early Triffids member Phil Kakulas. www.blackeyedsusans.com.au
The Brokeoffs are as shy as they are drunk. There's not a lot about the past they'd tell you other than the unlikely story about being the illegitimate sons of Roger Staubach, born in a briar patch to the famous bruja Burr Woman who left them to be raised by a paint huffing coyote named Gary. Who knows, it could have some truth to it. Influenced largely by music played on the cutting edge of the Victrola, Dave formed The Brokeoffs to, "git them ghosts to shut the fuck up.
Eef Barzelay (born Ifar Barzelay in Tel Aviv, Israel, on May 12, 1970) is an Israeli-born American musician. Mostly known as the principal songwriter and singer of alt country band Clem Snide, Barzelay has been performing since 1991. Early on this included stints in a number of Boston-based bands, while later he has toured as a solo act, both as headliner and as international support. Barzelay was raised in Teaneck, New Jersey. He enjoys old-timey music but also has an out-of-left-field interest in the apocalyptic and the ways human folly and failure might influence it.
The phrase “Long Live All of Us” is the title of Glossary’s seventh full-length album, but it’s also meant as an all-inclusive homage to humanity. Frontman Joey Kneiser says, in light of all the bad things happening in the world, the band just wanted to make a positive record. Long Live All of Us allowed the band from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, to take their influences farther than ever before, adding piano, haunting pedal steel, R&B-influenced horns and more to their own style of romanticized rock & roll.
Del Barber is an acoustic/folk artist from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Born in 1983, Del displays the world-weariness of a traveler of more years than he has amassed. Drawing on the traditions of artists like Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie, he explores what it means to be human in an infinite universe.