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Flying Fish Records
Flying Fish Records was a record label founded in Chicago in 1974 that specialized in folk, blues, and country music. In the 1990s the label was sold to Rounder Records. Bruce Kaplan, the label's founder, was a native of Chicago and the son of a president of Zenith Electronics. He studied anthropology at the University of Chicago and became president of the school's folklore society. He began Flying Fish in 1974 to concentrate on traditional and contemporary folk music, though the catalog grew to include blues, bluegrass, country, jazz, reggae, dancefloor and rock. When Kaplan started the label, most similarly oriented companies produced albums with decidedly "homemade" packaging (e.g. cover art, etc.) and marketed the albums to a relatively narrow audience of aficionados. Kaplan realized that music of this sort had the potential to reach a wider audience, but needed to be packaged in a professional manner; people not already devotees were unlikely to take a chance on somethin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rounder Records
Rounder Records is an independent record label founded in 1970 in Somerville, Massachusetts by Marian Leighton Levy, Ken Irwin, and Bill Nowlin. Focused on American roots music, Rounder's catalogue of more than 3000 titles includes records by Alison Krauss and Union Station, George Thorogood, Tony Rice, and Béla Fleck, in addition to re-releases of seminal albums by artists such as the Carter Family, Jelly Roll Morton, Lead Belly, and Woody Guthrie. "Championing and preserving the music of artists whose music falls outside of the mainstream," Rounder releases have won 54 Grammy Awards representing diverse genres, from bluegrass, folk, reggae, and gospel to pop, rock, Americana, polka and world music. Acquired by Concord in 2010, Rounder is based in Nashville, Tennessee. Beginnings Rounder was founded by Ken Irwin, Bill Nowlin, and Marian Leighton Levy. Nowlin and Irwin first met in 1962 as incoming freshman at Tufts University in the Boston suburb of Medford, Massachusetts. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blind Pig Records
Blind Pig Records is an American blues independent record label. Blind Pig was formed in 1977 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, by Jerry Del Giudice, owner of the Blind Pig Cafe, and his friend Edward Chmelewski. The label is now based in San Francisco. In the late 2000s the label started a reissue vinyl series, featuring reissues from its back catalog on 180-gram high quality vinyl. As of 2015, Blind Pig's catalogue is owned by The Orchard, a division of Sony Music. In 2017, a double compilation album, ''Blind Pig Records 40th Anniversary Collection'', was released featuring tracks by many artists who recorded for the label over the years. Roster * Altered Five Blues Band * Arthur Adams * Luther Allison * Reneé Austin * Big James and the Chicago Playboys * Carey Bell * Elvin Bishop * Nappy Brown * Savoy Brown * Norton Buffalo * Eddie C. Campbell * Chubby Carrier * Tommy Castro * Popa Chubby * Joanna Connor * James Cotton * Albert Cummings * Debbie Davies * Damon Fowler * The Go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boogie Bill Webb
Boogie Bill Webb (March 24, 1924 – August 22, 1990) was an American Louisiana blues and Rhythm and blues, rhythm-and-blues guitarist, singing, singer and songwriter. His music combined Mississippi country blues with New Orleans rhythm and blues, New Orleans R&B. His best-known sound recording and reproduction, recordings are "Bad Dog" and "Drinkin' and Stinkin'". Despite a lengthy (albeit intermittent) career, Webb released only one album. Biography Webb was born in Jackson, Mississippi. His got his first guitar at the age of eight, made from a Cigar box guitar, cigar box and strung with screen wire. His greatest influence was Tommy Johnson (blues musician), Tommy Johnson. With a real guitar obtained when he was a teenager, he won a talent show in 1947. He subsequently appeared briefly in the musical film ''The Jackson Jive''. He moved to New Orleans in 1952. In New Orleans Webb became friends with Fats Domino and was thus introduced to Dave Bartholomew and obtained a reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonnie Koloc
Bonnie Koloc (born February 6, 1946) is an American folk music singer-songwriter, actress and artist. She was considered one of the three main Illinois-based folk singers in the 1970s, along with Steve Goodman and John Prine forming the "trinity of the Chicago folk scene". Her music continues to be recognized and valued by historians of Chicago folk music as well as by her long standing fan base in that area. But her voice, which may be considered crystalline in its clarity, is remembered as well. Life and career Koloc was born in Waterloo, Iowa, to a working-class family. She told ''The Chicago Tribune'', "I guess you could say we were poor; we lived in a cement block house outside the city limits of Waterloo, Iowa, and my dad worked in the John Deere factory. Money was very tight. I wore a lot of hand-me-downs, and I thought that people who had indoor johns must be rich. I had a really unstable childhood, because my parents were divorced when I was 12, and there was a lot of ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Franke
Bob Franke (born July 25, 1947, in Hamtramck, Michigan) is an American folk singer-songwriter. Biography He began his career in 1965, while a student at the University of Michigan, and performed at The Ark, a coffeehouse in Ann Arbor. After graduating from Michigan in 1969 with a degree in English literature, he moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts to attend Episcopal Theological School. He left school to pursue a musical career, and has lived in New England New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. It is bordered by the state of New York to the west and by the Canadian provinces ... ever since, currently residing in Peabody, Massachusetts. In addition to his performing career, he teaches songwriting workshops and in 1990, wrote a set of songs for a ballet based on ''The Velveteen Rabbit''. In 1999, the young adult novel ''Hard Love'' by Ellen Wittlinger, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Riddim Band
The Blue Riddim Band was a Kansas City, Missouri-based reggae band and the first US-based group to play at Jamaica's Reggae Sunsplash festival, which they did in August 1982. (6). The recording of the group's 1982 Sunsplash performance was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album in 1986. (2) History Blue Riddim emerged from the group Rhythm Funkshun in Miami in the mid-70s under the direction of instrumentalist and composer Bob Zohn and drummer Steve "Duck" McLane. (3) Zohn and McLane began regular trips to Jamaica in 1973. During an early trip to Kingston, they visited the Turntable Club and met members of the Soul Syndicate band, a highly sought studio ensemble. Drummer "Santa" Davis and bassist George "Fully" Fullwood befriended Zohn and McLane and exchanged musical information with them for years to come. These relationships were vital to Blue Riddim's later success. (3) Rhythm Funkshun added horn players Scott Korchak and Jack Blackett in 1977, and briefly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Twist And The Mellow Fellows
Big Twist and the Mellow Fellows was an American blues and rhythm and blues group. The frontman was the singer and harmonica player Larry "Big Twist" Nolan ''(né'' Lawrence Millard Nolan; 23 September 1937, Terre Haute, Indiana – 14 March 1990, Broadview, Illinois). He began singing in church at the age of six. During the 1950s he sang and played drums in a bar band, the Mellow Fellows, performing everything from R & B, blues and country music. At the beginning of the 1970s he joined with guitarist Pete Special and tenor saxophonist Terry Ogolini, and the band put out albums on Flying Fish Records and Alligator Records. Over the decade, the group earned a loyal following and moved from private parties to the big stages. The band's repertoire was a mixture of soul, rhythm and blues, and rock, a mixture that was equally popular among young and old. Larry Nolan died in March 1990 of a heart attack. The group played on, with new singer Martin Allbritton, from Carbondale, Illinois. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benny Martin
Benny Edward Martin (May 8, 1928 – March 13, 2001), was an American bluegrass fiddler who invented the eight-string fiddle. Throughout his musical career he performed with artists such as the Bluegrass Boys, Don Reno, the Smoky Mountain Boys and Flatt and Scruggs, and later performed and recorded with the Stanley Brothers, Hylo Brown, Jimmy Martin, Johnnie and Jack, and the Stonemans, among others. He was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2005. Biography Born in Sparta, Tennessee, United States, his father and two of his sisters played music professionally. From childhood, he learned the fiddle taught to him by Carl Alverson, Sr., of Sparta and ukulele, as well as the guitar and in his early teens left home to go to Nashville to pursue a full-time career as a country musician. Martin was working at radio station WLAC in Nashville, Tennessee in 1948 when he was asked to replace Bill Monroe's fiddler Chubby Wise, who was going to leave the Bluegr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Mitterhoff
Barry Mitterhoff is a musician who plays mandolin. He is a former member of Skyline, Silk City, Bottle Hill, and Hot Tuna. Played with Peter Rowan, Tex Logan and Lamar Greer in The Green Grass Gringos. Mitterhoff is also known as a film score producer, contributing to film soundtracks, including ''You've Got Mail''. He worked on the soundtrack for ''O Brother, Where Art Thou? ''O Brother, Where Art Thou?'' is a 2000 comedy drama film written, produced, co-edited, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. It stars George Clooney, John Turturro, and Tim Blake Nelson, with Chris Thomas King, John Goodman, Holly Hunter, and C ...'', but his work was not included in the released version. References American mandolinists Living people Hot Tuna members 1952 births American bluegrass mandolinists Flying Fish Records artists {{US-music-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aztec Two-Step
Aztec Two-Step is an American folk-rock band, formed by Rex Fowler and Neal Shulman at a chance meeting on open stage, at a Boston coffee house, the Stone Phoenix, Artist pageat AllMusic in 1971. Fowler grew up in Connecticut and Maine, and Shulman grew up in Manhattan. The band was named after a line from a poem that appeared in ''A Coney Island of the Mind'' by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Former Maine State Representative Chris Greeley once worked as a light man for the group. After two months in Boston, the duo moved to New York City, which remained their base. Within a year after meeting, they had a contract with Elektra Records to make their first album. This self-titled debut on Elektra was followed by three albums with RCA Records. They are noted for longevity as a duo, with a career of more than 40 years of performing together. Fowler once explained, "we've survived with pure guile, DIY's and the support of our fan base which we established by recording on two major labels (Ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austin Lounge Lizards
The Austin Lounge Lizards are a musical group from Austin, Texas, formed in 1980. The band includes founding members Hank Card and Conrad Deisler, along with Tim Wilson and Kirk Williams. The third founding member, Tom Pittman, retired from the band in the spring of 2011. The band started out experimenting with folk, but was still heavily country in its style, combining the bluegrass form with which Pittman was familiar with the progressive-themed folk rock to which Card and Deisler had been accustomed. Between the members, a large number of different instruments have been played, including a rich variety of string instruments such as the banjo, mandolin, and fiddle. The band got its name because, Deisler explained, "I think it was a slang term I'd heard my grandmother use to describe gentlemen of easy virtue who hung around in bars. When we started out, that's just what we were doing—hanging out and playing for beer and tips and stuff like that." The Austin Lounge Lizards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arlen Roth
Arlen Roth (born October 30, 1952) is an American guitarist, teacher, and author. From 1982 to 1992, he was a columnist for ''Guitar Player'' magazine. Those ten years of columns became a book, ''Hot Guitar''. His father Al Ross (Abraham Roth) was a cartoonist for The New Yorker Magazine and many other publications over a 75-year career. He lived to the age of 100, and was one of the 4 Roth Brothers: Al Ross, Irving Roir, Ben Roth and Salo, all of whom became cartoonists. Al Ross was also a great painter and fine artist, and he was the one who encouraged Arlen to become a guitarist when he saw Arlen playing along with the Flamenco records he would play in the Bronx apartment. Music career Roth attended the High School of Music and Art in New York City from 1966 to 1969 as an art student. He then studied at the Philadelphia College of Art from 1969 to 1971. His band Steel lived with him and would play in Woodstock, New York, on weekends, where he was discovered. In 1970, Steel p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |