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Cover Yourself
''Cover Yourself'' is Blues Traveler's ninth album. It contains previously released songs reworked with acoustic instrumentation and, for some songs, different arrangements from the originals. History As early as 1998, Blues Traveler expressed a desire to release an acoustic album. During writing sessions for the follow-up to their previous album, ''¡Bastardos!'', the band decided to revisit older material as they were approaching their twentieth anniversary. Fans were asked for input in the song selection through the band's official website in early 2007. At the band's annual Independence Day concerts at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in 2007, twenty flash drives were randomly distributed throughout the venue. Each included two songs from the upcoming album. Blues Traveler performean acoustic seton A&E's ''Private Sessions'', which aired in August 2007. During the interview segments, John Popper John Popper (born March 29, 1967) is an American musician and songwriter, known as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blues Traveler
Blues Traveler (formerly known as "The Establishment" or "The Black Cat Jam" or "The Establishment Blues Band") is an American rock band that formed in Princeton, New Jersey in 1987. They are known for extensive use of segues in live performances, and were considered a key part of the re-emerging jam band scene of the 1990s, spearheading the H.O.R.D.E. touring music festival. Currently, the group comprises singer and harmonica player John Popper, guitarist Chan Kinchla, drummer Brendan Hill, bassist Tad Kinchla, and keyboardist Ben Wilson. Tad Kinchla and Ben Wilson joined the band following the death of original bassist Bobby Sheehan in 1999. While Blues Traveler is best known among fans for their improvisational live shows, the general public is most familiar with the group from their Top 40 singles " Run-Around", "Hook", and " But Anyway". They gained mainstream popularity after their fourth studio album, ''four'', which was released in 1994 and became a sleeper hit almost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Red Rocks Amphitheatre (also colloquially as simply Red Rocks) is an open-air amphitheatre built into a rock structure in the Western United States, western United States, near Morrison, Colorado, west of Denver. There is a large, tilted, flying disc, disc-shaped rock behind the stage, a huge vertical rock angled outwards from stage right, several large outcrops angled outwards from stage left and a seating area for up to 9,525. In 1927, the City of Denver purchased the area of Red Rocks; construction of the amphitheater began in 1936, and was opened to the public in June 1941.Red Rocks Park Timeline of the 1930s and 1940s, from Denvergov.org Since then, many notable performances and recordings for film and television have taken place there. In June 2015, the Colorado Music Hall of Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Sexton
Charles Wayne Sexton (born August 11, 1968) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. Sexton is best known for his years as a guitarist in Bob Dylan's band, though also has become well known as a music producer. Sexton co-founded the Arc Angels and created the Charlie Sexton Sextet. He was still a teenager when he gained fame for his 1985 hit, "Beat's So Lonely", from his debut album, '' Pictures for Pleasure''. Biography When he was four Charlie and his mother relocated from San Antonio, Texas to Austin—where clubs such as the Armadillo World Headquarters, Soap Creek Saloon, the Split Rail and Antone's exposed him to popular music. He moved back to Austin at age 12 after a brief period living outside Austin with his mother. When Charlie and his brother, Will Sexton, were still young boys, they were taught how to play guitar by Austin legend W. C. Clark—known as the "Godfather of Austin Blues." Early successes Charlie's first band was the Groovemasters, fronted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tad Kinchla
Thaddeus Arwood "Tad" Kinchla (born February 21, 1973) is an American musician, who is the bassist for the jam band Blues Traveler. Early life He was born in Princeton, New Jersey, Kinchla is the younger brother to long-time Blues Traveler guitarist Chan Kinchla. He began playing the upright bass as a child after his brother had settled with the guitar. He graduated from Princeton High School in 1991, the same high school that the rest of the band attended (with the exception of keyboardist Ben Wilson). Following high school, he attended and graduated from Brown University. During his time there, he studied political science, played lacrosse and formed a band called Dowdy Smack with future internet personality Ze Frank. Career In 1999, Blues Traveler's original bassist Bobby Sheehan died. This left an opening in the band for a new bassist. Kinchla was one of five bassists to try out for the spot. He was the first to audition, with auditions being held live in concert. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Run-Around (song)
"Run-Around" is a song by American rock band Blues Traveler, featured on their fourth studio album, ''Four'' (1994). The song was the band's breakthrough hit, peaking at number eight on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and number 13 on Canada's ''RPM'' Top Singles chart. It won the band's first Grammy Award in 1996, for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group.Rock On The Net 38th Grammy Awards Overview and history "Run-Around" debuted on June 24, 1993, during a solo show featuring Blues Traveler frontman . The first full band performance of the song took place the next time it was played, February 21, 1994. The 1994 show was significant because it took place at the fam ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Sheehan (musician)
Robert Vaughan "Bobby" Sheehan (June 12, 1968 – August 20, 1999) was an American musician and songwriter best known as a founding member and bassist of Blues Traveler. Life and Death Sheehan attended the Berklee College of Music and co-founded Blues Traveler in 1987. Sheehan had his own group of fans called FOB (Front of Bob) who would always meet in front of him during live shows. FOB is also an abbreviation for "front of board", in reference to live concert recording by audience members, which Blues Traveler encouraged. He died of an accidental overdose of heroin, cocaine, and valium Diazepam, first marketed as Valium, is a medicine of the benzodiazepine family that acts as an anxiolytic. It is commonly used to treat a range of conditions, including anxiety, seizures, alcohol withdrawal syndrome, muscle spasms, insomnia, a ... in 1999. References External links * 1968 births 1999 deaths American rock bass guitarists Musicians from Summit, New Jersey Cocai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chan Kinchla
Chandler Kinchla, better known as Chan Kinchla, (born May 29, 1969) is a Canadian-American musician best known as the guitarist for the jam band Blues Traveler. Early life Kinchla was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Kinchla is the older brother of Blues Traveler bassist Tad Kinchla. He attended Princeton High School in Princeton, New Jersey, where he started playing guitar with John Popper in 1986. Kinchla was one of the two original members of the band. While still in high school, the band gigged in New York City often. After graduation, they moved there and played at "divey, shit-hole bars" until they secured a record deal with A&M. Career After their record deal, a bartender at one of the clubs they played at had a job with David Letterman and introduced the band to him. Blues Traveler appeared on The David Letterman Show as their first national television event. Kinchla "think of Dave fondly as the guy who gave us our first break, as far as some national television e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Popper
John Popper (born March 29, 1967) is an American musician and songwriter, known as the co-founder, lead vocalist, and frontman of the rock band Blues Traveler. Early life John Popper was born in Chardon, Ohio. His father was a Hungarian immigrant who left Budapest in 1948. Through him, Popper is related to David Popper, a 19th-century European cellist whose many solo works for the cello are staples of the instrument's repertoire. Popper's mother and brother are lawyers. Popper was raised in Stamford, Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey. He attended Davenport Ridge School, Stamford Catholic High School (now Trinity Catholic High School), and Princeton High School, from which he graduated in 1986. He took lessons on the piano, the cello, and the guitar, but none of those instruments appealed to him, and he hated being forced to practice. He originally wanted to become a comedian, finding he could use humor to make friends and avoid bullies, but when he and a friend perfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A&E Network
A&E is an American basic cable network, the flagship television property of A&E Networks. The network was originally founded in 1984 as the Arts & Entertainment Network, initially focusing on fine arts, documentaries, television drama, dramas, and educational entertainment. Today, the network deals primarily in non-fiction programming, including reality television, reality docusoaps, true crime, documentaries, and miniseries. As of July 2015, A&E is available to approximately 95,968,000 pay television households (82.4% of households with television) in the United States. The American version of the channel is being distributed in Canada while international versions were launched for Australia, Latin America, and Europe. History Launch A&E launched on February 1, 1984, initially available to 9.3 million cable television homes in the U.S. and Canada. The network is a result of the 1984 merger of Hearst/American Broadcasting Company, ABC's Alpha Repertory Television Service (ARTS) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flash Drives
A flash drive is a portable computer drive that uses flash memory. Flash drives are the larger memory modules consisting of a number of flash chips. A flash chip is used to read the contents of a single cell, but it can write entire block of cells. Specific flash drive types Memory cards: * Flash memory-based CompactFlash (CF) card (including CFast card) and XQD card (Note: some other types of CF and XQD card are not flash memory-based) * Memory Stick (MS) * MultiMediaCard (MMC) * Secure Digital card (SD, SDHC, SDXC) * SmartMedia card (SM) * xD-Picture Card (xD) Other: * Solid-state drive, SSD, using flash memory (a few SSDs use DRAM or MRAM) * USB flash drive (UFD) See also * Flash memory * Comparison of memory cards This table provides summary of comparison of various flash memory cards, . Common information :''unless otherwise indicated, all images to scale'' Physical details Note that a memory card's dimensions are determined while holding the card w ... Solid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independence Day (United States)
Independence Day (colloquially the Fourth of July) is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the Declaration of Independence, which was ratified by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, establishing the United States of America. The Founding Father delegates of the Second Continental Congress declared that the Thirteen Colonies were no longer subject (and subordinate) to the monarch of Britain, King George III, and were now united, free, and independent states. The Congress voted to approve independence by passing the Lee Resolution on July 2 and adopted the Declaration of Independence two days later, on July 4. Independence Day is commonly associated with fireworks, parades, barbecues, carnivals, fairs, picnics, concerts, baseball games, family reunions, political speeches, and ceremonies, in addition to various other public and private events celebrating the history, government, and traditions of the United States. Independence Day is the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blues Rock
Blues rock is a fusion music genre that combines elements of blues and rock music. It is mostly an electric ensemble-style music with instrumentation similar to electric blues and rock (electric guitar, electric bass guitar, and drums, sometimes with keyboards and harmonica). From its beginnings in the early to mid-1960s, blues rock has gone through several stylistic shifts and along the way it inspired and influenced hard rock, Southern rock, and early heavy metal music, heavy metal. Blues rock started with rock musicians in the United Kingdom and the United States performing American blues songs. They typically recreated electric Chicago blues songs, such as those by Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, and Jimmy Reed, at faster tempos and with a more aggressive sound common to rock. In the UK, the style was popularized by groups such as the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and the Animals, who put several blues songs into the pop charts. In the US, Lonnie Mack, the Paul Butterfield Blues B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
