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Living In The City (Northern Lights Album)
''For the similarly titled 1974 Stevie Wonder song, see "Living for the City"'' ''Living in the City'' is an album by the progressive bluegrass Bluegrass music is a genre of American roots music that developed in the 1940s in the Appalachian region of the United States. The genre derives its name from the band Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys. Like mainstream country music, it lar ... band Northern Lights. After this album two members left the band, Jake Armerding and Jeff Horton, both to pursue their own music. Album review at www.allmusic.com/ref> Track listing Personnel * Taylor Armerding - mandolin, guitar, vocals * Jeff Horton - bass, vocals * Bill Henry - vocals, guitar * Mike Kropp - banjo, guitar * Jake Armerding - violin, mandolin, vocals References External links Official site {{DEFAULTSORT:Living In The City (Northern Lights Album) 1996 albums Northern Lights (bluegrass band) albums Red House Records albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living For The City
"Living for the City" is a 1973 single by Stevie Wonder from his ''Innervisions'' album. It reached number 8 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart and number 1 on the R&B chart. ''Rolling Stone'' ranked the song number 104 on their 2004 list of the " 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". Story and production Born into a poor family in Mississippi, a young black man experiences discrimination in looking for work and eventually seeks to escape to New York City (alluding to the Second Great Migration) in hopes of finding a new life. Through a series of background noises and spoken dialogue, the man reaches New York by bus, but is then promptly framed for a crime, arrested, convicted and sentenced to ten years in prison. Wonder played all the instruments on the song and was assisted by Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff for recording engineering and synthesizer programming. Tenley Williams, writing in ''Stevie Wonder'' (2002), feels it was ''"one of the first soul hits to include both a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual Phonograph record#78 rpm disc developments, 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at revolutions per minute, rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the populari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Lights (bluegrass Band)
Northern Lights was an American progressive bluegrass band formed in 1975 in New England, which musical career spanned more than three decades. Known for a progressive style of bluegrass playing, the band went through a number of line-up changes through the years and included such personalities as Alison Brown or multiinstrumentalist Jake Armerding, son of founding member Taylor Armerding, who started playing with the band full-time at age of 14, but played occasionally when he was 12. As of 2009, there is no founding member left in the group. Guitarist Bill Henry, who joined the band in 1982 assumed the leadership role and Northern Lights continue to play without interruption as a quintet, consisting of two generation of musicians - Bill Henry, John Daniel and Alex MacLeod as well as young players Eric Robertson and Mike Barnett. The band has issued 10 studio and 1 live recording with Vassar Clemonts. Most of which are, unfortunately, out of print today. From 1990's " Take You to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bluegrass Music
Bluegrass music is a genre of American roots music The term American folk music encompasses numerous music genres, variously known as ''traditional music'', ''traditional folk music'', ''contemporary folk music'', ''vernacular music,'' or ''roots music''. Many traditional songs have been sung ... that developed in the 1940s in the Appalachian region of the United States. The genre derives its name from the band Bill Monroe, Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys. Like Country music, mainstream country music, it largely developed out of Old-time music, old-time string music, though in contrast, bluegrass is traditionally played exclusively on Acoustic music, acoustic instruments and also has roots in traditional English, Scottish, and Irish Ballads, Irish ballads and dance tunes as well as in blues and jazz. Bluegrass was further developed by musicians who played with Monroe, including 5-string banjo player Earl Scruggs and guitarist Lester Flatt. Monroe characterized the genr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Progressive Bluegrass
Bluegrass music is a genre of American roots music that developed in the 1940s in the Appalachian region of the United States. The genre derives its name from the band Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys. Like mainstream country music, it largely developed out of old-time string music, though in contrast, bluegrass is traditionally played exclusively on acoustic instruments and also has roots in traditional English, Scottish, and Irish ballads and dance tunes as well as in blues and jazz. Bluegrass was further developed by musicians who played with Monroe, including 5-string banjo player Earl Scruggs and guitarist Lester Flatt. Monroe characterized the genre as: " Scottish bagpipes and ole-time fiddlin'. It's a part of Methodist, Holiness and Baptist traditions. It's blues and jazz, and it has a high lonesome sound." Bluegrass features acoustic stringed instruments and emphasizes the off-beat. Notes are anticipated, in contrast to laid back blues where notes are behind the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red House Records
Red House Records is an independent folk and Americana record label in St. Paul, Minnesota. The label was founded in 1983 by Bob Feldman after seeing a performance by Iowa folk singer Greg Brown. Origin The label is named for a farmhouse in Iowa where Brown was living when he started it. After Brown's albums ''44 & 66'' and ''The Iowa Waltz'' were released in 1981 and 1982, it briefly went dormant until he met Bob Feldman in 1983. Feldman took over operation of the record label, while Brown focused on his musical endeavors, as he had just signed on to regularly perform on the radio program ''A Prairie Home Companion''. Feldman was known for his business philosophy of wanting "to provide a home and environment in which creative artists can make albums in total freedom—without interference from mogul types just looking for the next hit single." The first album released on the newly restarted label was Brown's ''In the Dark with You''. Over the next few years, the label focus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wrong Highway Blues
''Wrong Highway Blues'' is the sixth studio album by the progressive bluegrass band Northern Lights. The band plays as a quintet for the first time on this album as Jake Armerding, son of mandolinist Taylor Armerding, joins the band on violin and harmony vocals. He has played as a full member of the band since 1992, joining at the young age of 14, but started performing gigs with the Northern Lights at the age of 12. Track listing # Living Without You (Armerding) 4:19 # Climb a Tall Mountain (Pennell) 3:26 # Guns of November (Mellyn) 5:32 # Sunny Side of Blue (Henry) 3:39 # Fisherman's Lament (Henry) 3:46 # Walking Away (Henry) 4:58 # Wrong Highway Blues (Armerding) 4:01 # Holding On (Henry) 4:05 # Buss Stop (Kropp) 3:51 # Give Me Back Tomorrow (Pennell) 3:35 # Ray of Hope (Henry) 3:43 # Soldier of the Cross (L.Rowan) 3:42 Personnel * Taylor Armerding - mandolin, guitar, vocals * Jeff Horton - bass, vocals * Bill Henry - vocals, guitar * Mike Kropp - banjo, guitar * Jake Arme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three August Nights
''Three August Nights'' is a live album by the progressive bluegrass band Northern Lights. After the departure of Jake Armerding, the band plays as a quartet with guest fiddler Vassar Clements. This would be the last album for Taylor Armerding, the only founding member remaining in the group.[] Track listing # Goodbye Old Pal (Monroe) 2:37 # Midnight Moonlight (P.Rowan) 7:43 # John Hardy (trad.) 3:58 # Hold Whatcha Got (J.Martin) 2:48 # Dixie Breakdown (Lunceford, Reno) 3:03 # Kinfolks in Carolina (Travis) 3:06 # Rainmaker (Nicholson, P.Rowan) 5:46 # Northern Rail (T.Armerding) 4:56 # Wild Horses (Jagger, Richards) 4:31 # Got the Spirit (T.Armerding) 4:07 # Can't Buy Your Way (T.Armerding) 5:18 # Heartache Tonight (Frey, Henley, Souther) 3:32 # Dueling Banjos (Smith, Weissberg) 3:14 # T For Texas (Rodgers) 5:01 Personnel * Taylor Armerding - mandolin, guitar, vocals * Chris Miles - bass, vocals * Bill Henry - vocals, guitar * Mike Kropp - banjo, guitar with Vassar Clements ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 Albums
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Northern Lights (bluegrass Band) Albums
The Northern Lights most often refers to the aurora borealis. (The) Northern Light(s) may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Film * ''Northern Lights'' (1978 film), about the Nonpartisan League in North Dakota * ''Northern Lights'' (1997 film), a Disney movie * ''Northern Lights'' (2001 film), a Russian film * ''Northern Lights'' (2009 film), or ''Nora Roberts' Northern Lights'', a TV film * ''Northern Light'' (film), a 2006 Dutch film * '' Northern Lights: A Journey to Love'', a 2017 Filipino drama Television and radio * ''Northern Lights'' (TV series), a 2006 British comedy-drama series * "Northern Lights", a 2000 episode of ''Dawson's Creek'' * ''Northern Lights'' (radio show), a Canadian programme until 2007 Literature * ''Northern Lights'' (Pullman novel), by Philip Pullman, 1995 * ''Northern Lights'' (O'Brien novel), by Tim O'Brien, 1975 * ''Northern Lights'', a 2009 novel by Nora Roberts, on which the 2009 film is based * ''Severni sij'' ('Northern Ligh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
