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Dixie Dregs
The Dixie Dregs is an American rock band from Augusta, Georgia. Formed in 1970, the band's performance consists entirely of instrumentals that fuse elements of diverse genres such as rock, classical music, country, jazz and bluegrass into an eclectic sound that is difficult to categorize. Recognized for their virtuoso playing, the Dixie Dregs were identified with the southern rock, progressive rock and jazz fusion scenes of the 1970s. In 1975, the band recorded their demo album ''The Great Spectacular'' and self-released it in the following year in a limited pressing. The demo soon garnered attention from record labels, including Capricorn Records, with whom the Dixie Dregs would sign in 1976, and three albums were released for the label: ''Free Fall'' (1977), ''What If'' (1978) and ''Night of the Living Dregs'' (1979); the latter album, which was split between studio and live recordings, was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance, and each of the b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unsung Heroes (Dixie Dregs Album)
''Unsung Heroes'' is the fifth studio album by the Dixie Dregs, released in 1981. This was the band's first album released under the moniker The Dregs. It also received a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. Track listing All tracks are written by Steve Morse. Personnel * Steve Morse – acoustic and electric guitars * Andy West – fretted and fretless bass * Allen Sloan – electric and acoustic 5 string violin * Rod Morgenstein – drums and percussion * T Lavitz Terry "T" Lavitz (April 16, 1956 – October 7, 2010) was an American keyboardist, composer and Record producer, producer. He is best known for his work with the Dixie Dregs and Jazz Is Dead. Biography Born on April 16, 1956, Lavitz grew up in ... – acoustic and electric piano, organ, synthesizer, clavinet, saxophone References 1981 albums Dixie Dregs albums Arista Records albums {{1980s-rock-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dregs Of The Earth
''Dregs of the Earth'' is the fourth studio album by Dixie Dregs, released in 1980. This album was the band's first release on Arista Records, their last one before changing its name to The Dregs, and contains a re-recording of one of their earlier songs ("The Great Spectacular"), which appeared on their 1976 demo ''The Great Spectacular''. Critical reception At the time of release the writers of ''Billboard'' placed review on this album in section "Recommended LP's". As per them the musical style of the band is hard to categorize "but the musicianship is often superb". The album received a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. Track listing All tracks are written by Steve Morse. #"Road Expense" – 3:24 #"Pride o' the Farm" – 3:40 #"Twiggs Approved" – 4:29 #"Hereafter" – 6:21 #"The Great Spectacular" – 3:20 #"Broad Street Strut" – 3:54 #"I'm Freaking Out" – 9:06 #"Old World" – 2:00 Personnel Dixie Dregs: *Steve Morse - acoustic and electric g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Spectacular
''The Great Spectacular'' is a self-produced demo album by the Dixie Dregs, recorded in 1975 on campus at University of Miami and released in 1976 only on limited vinyl. By the time the band had risen in popularity in the late 1970s, the record had been out of print, becoming a highly sought-after collector's item, and was re-released for the CD format in 1997. Overview Eight of the songs from this album were re-recorded for the Dixie Dregs' future releases. The first three tracks ("Refried Funky Chicken", "Holiday" and "Wages of Weirdness") were re-recorded on their debut album ''Free Fall'', while "Ice Cakes" and "What If" were re-recorded for ''What If'', "Country House Shuffle" and "Leprechaun Promenade" for ''Night of the Living Dregs'', and "The Great Spectacular" for ''Dregs of the Earth''. "T.O. Witcher" was featured during Morse's time with Kansas on the album ''In the Spirit of Things''. "Kathreen" hasn't appeared elsewhere. On the making of ''The Great Spectacular'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Rock
Southern rock is a subgenre of rock music and a genre of Americana. It developed in the Southern United States from rock and roll, country music, and blues and is focused generally on electric guitars and vocals. Author Scott B. Bomar speculates the term "southern rock" may have been coined in 1972 by Mo Slotin, writing for Atlanta's underground paper, ''The Great Speckled Bird'', in a review of an Allman Brothers Band concert. History 1950s and 1960s: origins Rock music's origins lie mostly in the music of the American South, and many stars from the first wave of 1950s rock and roll such as Bo Diddley, Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Buddy Holly, Fats Domino, and Jerry Lee Lewis hailed from the Deep South. However, the British Invasion and the rise of folk rock and psychedelic rock in the middle 1960s shifted the focus of new rock music away from the rural south and to large cities like Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco. In the 1960s, rock m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. But jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz (a hard-swinging, bluesy, improvisationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grammy Award For Best Rock Instrumental Performance
The Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance was an honor presented to recording artists for quality instrumental rock performances at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position". The award was first presented at the 22nd Grammy Awards in 1980 to Paul McCartney and the band Wings for "Rockestra Theme". From 1986 to 1989, the category was known as Best Rock Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group or Soloist). According to the category description guide for the 52nd Grammy Awards, the award is presented to artists "for newly recorded rock, hard rock or metal instrumental performances". As of 2011, Jeff Beck holds th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grammy Award
The Grammy Awards (stylized as GRAMMY), or simply known as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize "outstanding" achievements in the music industry. They are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the music industry worldwide. It was originally called the Gramophone Awards, as the trophy depicts a gilded Phonograph, gramophone. The Grammys are the first of the Big Three television networks, Big Three networks' major music awards held annually, and is considered one of the EGOT, four major annual American entertainment awards, alongside the Academy Awards (for films), the Emmy Awards (for television), and the Tony Awards (for theater). The 1st Annual Grammy Awards, first Grammy Awards ceremony was held on May 4, 1959, to honor the musical accomplishments of performers for the year 1958. After the 2011 ceremony, the Recording Academy overhauled many Grammy Award categories for 2012. History The Grammys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Of The Living Dregs
''Night of the Living Dregs'' is the third album by Dixie Dregs, released in 1979. The first half of the album was recorded in the studio, and the second half at the Montreux Jazz Festival on July 23, 1978. The album received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. "Country House Shuffle" and "Leprechaun Promenade" were previously released on the band's 1976 demo record ''The Great Spectacular''. Track listing # "Punk Sandwich" – 3:18 # "Country House Shuffle" – 4:13 # "The Riff Raff" – 3:17 # "Long Slow Distance" – 6:45 # "Night of the Living Dregs" – 4:21 # "The Bash" – 4:28 # "Leprechaun Promenade" – 3:46 # "Patchwork" – 4:53 *All tracks composed by Steve Morse except "The Bash", by Morse/Morgenstein/Parrish/Sloan/West. Personnel *Steve Morse – guitars *Andy West – bass *Allen Sloan – strings *Mark Parrish – keyboards *Rod Morgenstein – percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What If (Dixie Dregs Album)
''What If'' is the second studio album by the Dixie Dregs, released in 1978. Track listing # "Take It Off the Top" (Steve Morse) – 4:07 # "Odyssey" (Morse) – 7:35 # "What If" (Morse) – 5:01 # "Travel Tunes" (Andy West) – 4:34 # "Ice Cakes" (Morse) – 4:39 # "Little Kids" (Morse) – 2:03 # "Gina Lola Breakdown" (Morse, Twiggs Lyndon) – 4:00 # "Night Meets Light" (Morse) – 7:47 Personnel * Steve Morse – guitar, banjo * Mark Parrish – keyboards * Allen Sloan – violin, viola * Andy West – bass guitar * Rod Morgenstein – drums, vocals Production Producer - Ken Scott * Assistant engineers – Brian Leshon, Chris Gregg, Gary Coppola * Mastered By – SR/2* * Recorded At – Chateau Recorders Production coordinator - Steven Brooks Notes * "What If" and "Ice Cakes" are re-recordings from the band's 1976 demo record ''The Great Spectacular''. * The lead track "Take It Off the Top" was used as the theme song for the ''Friday Rock Show'' for most of the show' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Free Fall (Dixie Dregs Album)
''Free Fall'' is the debut studio album by the Dixie Dregs, released in 1977. It was their first release on the Capricorn Records label. Three of the songs from this album ("Holiday", "Refried Funky Chicken" and "Wages of Weirdness") are re-recordings from the band's demo release ''The Great Spectacular'' (1976). Track listing All songs written by Steve Morse. # "Free Fall" – 4:40 # "Holiday" – 4:29 # "Hand Jig" – 3:16 # "Moe Down" – 3:49 # "Refried Funky Chicken" – 3:16 # "Sleep" – 1:53 # "Cruise Control" – 6:14 # "Cosmopolitan Traveler" – 3:01 # "Dig the Ditch" – 3:50 # "Wages of Weirdness" – 3:45 # "Northern Lights" – 3:12 Personnel *Steve Morse – guitar, banjo, keyboards, guitar synth *Allen Sloan – strings, violin, viola, electric violin *Andy West – bass guitar *Stephen Davidowski – keyboards *Rod Morgenstein Rod Morgenstein (born April 19, 1953) is an American drummer and music educator. He is best known for his work with the rock bands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Demo Album
Demo, usually short for demonstration, may refer to: Music and film *Demo (music), a song typically recorded for reference rather than release * ''Demo'' (Behind Crimson Eyes), a 2004 recording by the band Behind Crimson Eyes * ''Demo'' (Deafheaven album), a 2010 EP by Deafheaven * ''Demo'' (The Flat liners Album), a 2002 album by the band The Flatliners * ''Demo'' (Miss May I album), a 2008 recording by the metalcore band Miss May I *"Demo", a 1990 single by Die Krupps * "Demo" (P-Model song), a 1979 recording by songwriters Susumu Hirasawa and Yasumi Tanaka *'' Demo (Skinless)'', a 1994 recording by the band Skinless * ''Demo 2004'' (Year of No Light album), a 2004 recording by Year of No Light *'' Demo #2'', an unreleased recording by Neutral Milk Hotel *''Demo'', 2008 debut EP by Yuna Computing and technology *Demo (computer programming), a multimedia spectacle of programming skill *The Demo, a computer demonstration in 1968, sometimes called "the mother of all demos" *DEMOn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz Fusion
Jazz fusion (also known as fusion and progressive jazz) is a music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and jazz improvisation, improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Electric guitars, amplifiers, and keyboards that were popular in rock and roll started to be used by jazz musicians, particularly those who had grown up listening to rock and roll. Jazz fusion arrangements vary in complexity. Some employ groove-based vamps fixed to a single key or a single chord with a simple, repeated melody. Others use elaborate chord progressions, unconventional time signatures, or melodies with counter-melodies. These arrangements, whether simple or complex, typically include improvised sections that can vary in length, much like in other forms of jazz. As with jazz, jazz fusion can employ brass and woodwind instruments such as trumpet and saxophone, but other instruments often substitute for these. A jazz fusion band is less likely to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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