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Alt.Country Exposed Roots
''Alt.Country Exposed Roots'' was a 2 disc compilation released in 1999. Track listing Disc 1 # Lucinda Williams - "Passionate Kisses" (Lucinda Williams) - 2:39 # Blue Mountain - "Blue Canoe" ( Blue Mountain) - 4:42 # Gillian Welch - "My Morphine" (David Rawlings/Gillian Welch) - 5:50 # Whiskeytown - "Nervous Breakdown" (Greg Ginn) - 2:19 # Golden Smog - "Looking Forward to Seeing You" (Kraig Johnson) - 2:45 # Jimmie Dale Gilmore - "Dallas" (Jimmie Dale Gilmore) - 2:49 # Freakwater - "Picture in My Mind" (Freakwater) - 3:34 # Meat Puppets - "Lost" (Curt Kirkwood) - 3:27 # The Gourds - "I Like Drinking" (Jimmy Smith) - 3:07 # BR5-49 - "Bettie Bettie" (Chuck Mead) - 3:51 # Tangletown - "See Right Through" (Seth Zimmerman) - 4:08 # Cheri Knight - "Black Eyed Susie" (Cheri Knight) - 4:40 Disc 2 # The Jayhawks - "Waiting for the Sun" (Gary Louris/Mark Olson) - 4:19 # Kelly Willis - "Talk Like That" (Kelly Willis) - 3:10 # Steve Earle - "Guitar Town" (Steve Earle) - 2:34 # S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
K-Tel
K-tel International Ltd is a Canadian company which formerly specialized in selling consumer products through infomercials and live demonstration. Its products include compilation music albums, including ''The Super Hits'' series, ''The Dynamic Hits'' series and ''The Number One Hits'' series and consumer products, including the Record Selector, the Veg-O-Matic, the Miracle Brush, and the Feather Touch Knife. The company has sold more than half a billion units worldwide. K-tel is based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and has been in business since the late 1960s. It has subsidiaries or other controlled entities in the US and UK. History K-tel was founded by Philip Kives, a demonstration salesman from Oungre, Saskatchewan. Kives had worked at a number of jobs as a young man, including selling cookware door-to-door and in a department store, and as a pitch-man on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City. In 1962 he used his own money and his fast-talking demonstration style to create a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheri Knight
Cheri Knight is an American singer, songwriter, and bassist known for her albums (solo and with the band Blood Oranges). Early music career After performing in various Northampton-area bands, Cheri Knight was the singer, songwriter and bass player with the alternative country band Blood Oranges. Solo music career When East Side Digital Records folded, the Blood Oranges amicably disbanded. Cheri then recorded two solo albums during her active music career. ''The Knitter'' (1996) was produced by Eric "Roscoe" Ambel, and released on East Side Digital Records. Artists involved included guitarist Eric Ambel (The Del-Lords), bassist Ray Mason, drummer Will Rigby (The dB's), guitarist Mark Spencer, Andy York (bass). '' The Northeast Kingdom'' (1998) was produced by the Twangtrust ( Steve Earle and Ray Kennedy) and released on E-Squared Records. Musicians include Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris (vocals), Tammy Rogers (fiddle), Jimmy Ryan (mandolin), Mark Spencer (guitar), and Will R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mata Hari
Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod (née Zelle; 7 August 187615 October 1917), better known by the stage name Mata Hari (), was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy for Germany during World War I. She was executed by firing squad in France. The idea of a beautiful exotic dancer using her powers of seduction as a spy made her name synonymous with the ''femme fatale''. Her story has served as an inspiration for many books, films and other works. It has been suggested that she was convicted and condemned because the French Army needed a scapegoat,Howe, Russel Warren (1986). ''Mata Hari: The True Story. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company.'' pp. x–xi, 285. and that the files used to secure her conviction contained several falsifications. Some have even stated that Mata Hari could not have been a spy, and was innocent. Early life Margaretha Geertruida Zelle was born 7 August 1876 in Leeuwarden, Netherlands. She was the eldest of four children to Adam Zelle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marlee MacLeod
Marlee is a female given name. Notable persons with this name include: *Marlee Matlin (born 1965), American actress *Marlee Ranacher, Australian author *Marlee Scott (born 1986), Canadian country music singer now living in the United States See also *Marley (other) Bob Marley (1945–1981) was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. Marley may also refer to: People * Marley (surname) * Baron Marley, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom **Dudley Aman, 1st Baron Marley * Alejandro Wiebe, nicknamed " ... {{given name Feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alejandro Escovedo
Alejandro Escovedo (born January 10, 1951) is an American rock musician, songwriter, and singer, who has been recording and touring since the late 1970s. His primary instrument is the guitar. He has played in various rock genres, including punk rock, roots rock and alternative country, and is most closely associated with the music scene in Austin, Texas but also San Francisco and New York. He comes from a family of musicians. Biography The son of a Mexican immigrant to Texas and a Texas native, Escovedo is from a family that includes several professional musicians, including his brothers (and percussionists) Coke Escovedo and Pete Escovedo, and Sheila E. (Pete's daughter and Alejandro's niece). Alejandro's brother Mario fronted the hard rock band the Dragons, and another brother, Javier, was in the punk rock band the Zeros. Escovedo began performing in the first-wave punk rock group the Nuns, with Jennifer Miro and Jeff Olener, in San Francisco, California. After Escovedo's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Levy
Adam Levy is a jazz guitarist who was a member of Norah Jones's band. Career Levy was born in Encino, California. Two of his uncles and one cousin played guitar, and his mother briefly took lessons. His grandfather, George Wyle, worked for ''The Andy Williams Show'' and ''The Flip Wilson Show'' on television as music director. As a teenager, Levy was a member of a local big band. After he graduated from high school, he studied at the Dick Grove School of Music, where his teachers included Ted Greene and Jimmy Wyble. He moved to San Francisco in 1990 and worked as a studio musician, appearing on a Tracy Chapman album in the mid 1990s. At the end of the decade, he was a member of the group Killer Joey with drummer Joey Baron, guitarist Steve Cardenas, and bassist Tony Scherr. Levy then moved to New York City, where he met Norah Jones and was a member of her band at the beginning of her career through her bestselling albums and world tours. He has also played with Rosanne Cash, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Honeydogs
The Honeydogs is a band from Saint Paul, Minnesota that opened at First Avenue (nightclub), First Avenue in 1994. History The band's popularity grew after signing with record label Mercury Records, and their major label debut album ''Seen a Ghost'' in 1997.Horak, Terry (19 July 1997).Debris Makes Debut With Rootsy Act Honeydogs, ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' The band left Mercury after the executives who signed them left the label as Mercury's parent PolyGram merged with Universal, and signed with Palm Records in May 2000 to release their next album, ''Here's Luck''.Snyder, Bill (January 2001)A Dogs Life ''CMJ New Music Monthly'', pp. 30-31 Film Adam Levy and producer Rick Fuller worked together to make a film version of the album ''10,000 Years'' which is a feature-length music video. Honors and awards The Honeydogs were honored with a star on the outside mural of the Minneapolis nightclub First Avenue (nightclub), First Avenue, recognizing performers that have played s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vic Chesnutt
James Victor Chesnutt (November 12, 1964 – December 25, 2009) was an American singer-songwriter from Athens, Georgia. His first album, little (album), ''Little'', was released in 1990. His commercial breakthrough came in 1996 with the release of ''Sweet Relief II: Gravity of the Situation'', a charity record of alternative artists covering his songs. Chesnutt released 17 albums during his career, including two produced by Michael Stipe, and a 1996 release on Capitol Records, ''About to Choke''. His musical style has been described by Bryan Carroll of AllMusic as a "skewed, refracted version of Americana (music), Americana that is haunting, funny, poignant, and occasionally mystical, usually all at once". Injuries from a 1983 car accident left him partially paralyzed; he used a wheelchair and had limited use of his hands. Early life An adoptee, Chesnutt was raised in Zebulon, Georgia, where he first started writing songs at the age of five. When he was 13, Chesnutt declare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Handsome Family
The Handsome Family is an American music duo consisting of husband and wife Brett and Rennie Sparks formed in Chicago, Illinois, and as of 2001 based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. They are perhaps best known for their song " Far from Any Road" from the album ''Singing Bones'', which was used as the main title theme for the first season of the 2014 crime drama ''True Detective''. The band's tenth album, '' Unseen'', was released on September 16, 2016, the first new release on the band's own label Milk & Scissors Music and through long-time label Loose in Europe. History Husband-and-wife duo Brett Sparks (vocals, guitar, keyboards) and Rennie Sparks (bass, banjo, vocals) formed the band in 1993, along with drummer Mike Werner. The band would later revolve around Rennie, who writes the lyrics, and Brett, who writes the music. Guest musicians complete the band line-up for recordings and live work.Strong, Martin C. (2003) "The Handsome Family", in ''The Great Indie Discography'', Canonga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Cash
John R. Cash (born J. R. Cash; February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American country singer-songwriter. Much of Cash's music contained themes of sorrow, moral tribulation, and redemption, especially in the later stages of his career. He was known for his deep, calm bass-baritone voice, the distinctive sound of his Tennessee Three backing band characterized by train-like chugging guitar rhythms, a rebelliousness coupled with an increasingly somber and humble demeanor, free prison concerts, and a trademark all-black stage wardrobe which earned him the nickname "The Man in Black". Born to poor cotton farmers in Kingsland, Arkansas, Cash rose to fame during the mid-1950s in the burgeoning rockabilly scene in Memphis, Tennessee, after four years in the Air Force. He traditionally began his concerts by simply introducing himself, "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash", followed by "Folsom Prison Blues", one of his signature songs. His other signature songs include "I Walk the Lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Culture On The Skids
Southern Culture on the Skids, also sometimes known as SCOTS, is an American rock band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Originally a straightforward roots rock band, they became known as a tongue-in-cheek "party band" with an exaggerated "white trash" image and humourous lyrics inspired by the culture of the Southern United States. The band released their debut EP ''Voodoo Beach Party'' in 1984, followed by their self-titled debut album the following year, influenced by blues, psychobilly and rock and roll. After these early releases, the band's line-up shifted due to a perceived lack in direction, and the band reemerged with a new, hard to classify sound, which encompassed Southern rock, swamp rock and surf music. Later, they added pedal steel guitar and accordion to their instrumentation and shifted their sound to country music. Biography Guitarist and founding member Rick Miller grew up dividing his time between his father's home and business in Henderson, North Carolina an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Earle
Stephen Fain Earle (; born January 17, 1955) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, author, and actor. Earle began his career as a songwriter in Nashville and released his first EP in 1982. Initially working in the country music genre, Earle branched out into multiple genres of rock music, bluegrass, folk music and blues. His breakthrough album was the 1986 debut album '' Guitar Town''; the eponymous lead single peaked at number 7 on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country chart. Since then Earle has released 20 more studio albums and received three Grammy awards each for Best Contemporary Folk Album; he has four additional nominations in the same category. "Copperhead Road" was released in 1988 and is his best selling single; it peaked on its initial release at number 10 on the Mainstream Rock chart, and had a 21st century resurgence reaching number 15 on the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart, buoyed by vigorous online sales. His songs have been recorded by Johnny Cash, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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