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Potato Hole
''Potato Hole'' is a 2009 album by Booker T. Jones, recorded with Drive-By Truckers as the backing band and guitar accompaniment by Neil Young. On January 31, 2010, ''Potato Hole'' won the Best Pop Instrumental Album award at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards. The track "Warped Sister" was also nominated, for Best Rock Instrumental Performance, but that award went to Jeff Beck for " A Day in The Life". Track listing All tracks written by Booker T. Jones; except as noted. # "Pound It Out" – 4:18 # "She Breaks" – 4:22 # "Hey Ya!" (André 3000) – 3:53 # "Native New Yorker" – 3:47 # "Nan" – 2:08 # " Warped Sister" – 4:47 # " Get Behind the Mule" (Tom Waits, Kathleen Brennan) – 4:10 # "Reunion Time" – 3:49 # "Potato Hole" – 6:50 # "Space City" ( Mike Cooley, Brad Morgan, Jason Isbell, Patterson Hood, Shonna Tucker) – 5:38 Personnel * Booker T. – organ, guitars (1, 5, 8) * Mike Cooley – guitars * Patterson Hood – guitars * John Neff – guitars, pedal st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl long-playing (LP) records played at 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 popularity of the cassette reached its peak during the late 1980s, sharply declined during the 1990s and had largely disappeared ... [...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 the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Organ (music)
Carol Williams performing at the United States Military Academy West Point Cadet Chapel.">West_Point_Cadet_Chapel.html" ;"title="United States Military Academy West Point Cadet Chapel">United States Military Academy West Point Cadet Chapel. In music, the organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more Pipe organ, pipe divisions or other means for producing tones, each played from its own Manual (music), manual, with the hands, or pedalboard, with the feet. Overview Overview includes: * Pipe organs, which use air moving through pipes to produce sounds. Since the 16th century, pipe organs have used various materials for pipes, which can vary widely in timbre and volume. Increasingly hybrid organs are appearing in which pipes are augmented with electric additions. Great economies of space and cost are possible especially when the lowest (and largest) of the pipes can be replaced; * Non-piped organs, which include: ** pump organs, also known as reed organs or harmoniums, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shonna Tucker
Shonna Tucker is a bassist and songwriter from Killen, Alabama, near Muscle Shoals. Background Tucker grew up in Killen, Alabama, receiving her first bass at age 12, a gift from her father. She describes her musical education as "mostly playing along with Creedence Clearwater Revival tapes". With the Drive-by Truckers Tucker joined the Athens, Georgia-based Drive-By Truckers in 2003, replacing original bassist Earl Hicks. Tucker had previously played upright bass on the Truckers' album '' Decoration Day''. She played bass on their next two records, '' The Dirty South'' and ''A Blessing and a Curse'', before contributing her first songs on 2008's '' Brighter Than Creation's Dark''. She wrote three songs on that record: "I'm Sorry, Huston", "Home Field Advantage", and "The Purgatory Line". She also joined the band backing up Booker T. Jones on his record '' Potato Hole'' and Bettye LaVette on her record ''The Scene of the Crime''. For most of her career in the band, she was m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patterson Hood
Patterson David Hood (born March 24, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter and co-founder of the band Drive-By Truckers. Early life Hood was born in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, the son of Jan Patterson Adams and David Hood, the longtime bassist of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section. He has a younger sister, Lilla Hood. His parents married young, and divorced when he was in college. His mother later remarried. Hood wrote the song "18 Wheels of Love" about their relationship. Hood began writing songs at the age of eight, and by the time he was 14 he was playing guitar in a local rock band. While attending college in 1985, he formed the band Adam's House Cat with his friend Mike Cooley, and the group won '' Musician Magazines Best Unsigned Band competition three years later. However, the band's regional acclaim didn't translate into significant commercial success, and its sole full-length album wasn't released until September 21, 2018. Career After Adam's House Cat split up, Hood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Isbell
Michael Jason Isbell (; born February 1, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is known for his solo career, his work with the band The 400 Unit, and as a member of Drive-By Truckers for six years, from 2001 to 2007. Isbell has won four Grammy Awards. Early life Isbell was born in Green Hill, Alabama, two miles from the Alabama/Tennessee state line, the son of interior designer mother Angela Hill Barnett and house painter Mike Isbell. Isbell's mother was only 17 years old (and his father 19 years old) when he was born and is the subject of a song, "Children of Children". Isbell's parents divorced, and he has two much younger half-siblings. Isbell grew up in North Alabama. His grandparents lived on a farm down the road next to the school that Isbell attended; they looked after him while his parents were at work. His grandfather and uncle taught him to play various musical instruments, including the mandolin when he was six years old, as it was easier for hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Cooley (American Musician)
John Michael Cooley (born September 14, 1966) is an American songwriter, singer, and guitarist from Tuscumbia, Alabama, near Muscle Shoals. He is a member of the band Drive-By Truckers. Background Cooley received his first guitar at age 8, spending time with a local bluegrass musician to pick up the instrument. In 1985, he formed the punk-influenced band Adam's House Cat with Patterson Hood. The band was chosen as a top ten Best Unsigned Band by a Musician contest in the late 1980s. After the end of Adam's House Cat, Cooley and Hood performed as a duo under the name " Virgil Kane." While living in Auburn, Alabama they started a new band, "Horsepussy," before splitting for a few years. It was during this split that Hood moved to Athens, Georgia and began forming what would become Drive-By Truckers with the intent of luring Cooley back into the fold. With the Drive-by Truckers Hood and Cooley formed Drive-By Truckers in 1996. Cooley contributed one song to their debut record ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathleen Brennan
Kathleen Patricia Brennan (born 1955) is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and artist. She is known for her work as a co-writer, producer, and influence on the work of her husband Tom Waits. Biography Brennan was born in Cork, Ireland and grew up in Johnsburg, Illinois in the US, after her family moved there when she was young. Brennan and Waits first met in 1978 when Waits made his acting debut in '' Paradise Alley'' while Brennan was a scriptwriter, and then again during production of the Francis Ford Coppola film '' One from the Heart.'' At the time, Brennan worked at the American Zoetrope studio as a script analyst, while Waits composed the score for ''One from the Heart''. According to Waits, they met on New Year's Eve. Waits dedicated his 1980 song Jersey Girl to Brennan, and they were married later that year in the Always Forever Wedding Chapel. After they married, Brennan encouraged Waits to become his own producer. Brennan is generally regarded as th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Waits
Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American musician, composer, songwriter, and actor. His lyrics often focus on the underbelly of society and are delivered in his trademark deep, gravelly voice. He worked primarily in jazz during the 1970s, but his music since the 1980s has reflected greater influence from blues, rock, vaudeville, and experimental genres. Waits was born and raised in a middle-class family in California. Inspired by the work of Bob Dylan and the Beat Generation, he began singing on the San Diego folk music circuit as a young man. He relocated to Los Angeles in 1972, where he worked as a songwriter before signing a recording contract with Asylum Records. His first albums were the jazz-oriented '' Closing Time'' (1973) and ''The Heart of Saturday Night'' (1974), which reflected his lyrical interest in nightlife, poverty, and criminality. He repeatedly toured the United States, Europe, and Japan, and attracted greater critical recognition and comme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mule Variations
''Mule Variations'' is the thirteenth studio album by American musician Tom Waits, released on April 16, 1999, on the ANTI- label. It was Waits' first studio album in six years, following ''The Black Rider'' (1993). The album was backed by an extensive tour in Europe and North America during the summer and autumn of 1999, which was Waits' first proper tour since 1987. Other promotional stops included a solo performance on VH1 Storytellers. ''Mule Variations'' won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album and was nominated for Best Male Rock Performance for the track "Hold On". It has sold more than 500,000 copies worldwide. In 2012, the album was ranked number 416 on ''Rolling Stone'''s list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Reception Upon its release, ''Mule Variations'' received widespread critical acclaim. AllMusic reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine stated that "the album uses the ragged cacophony of ''Bone Machine'' as a starting point, and proceeds to bring in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warped Sister
''Potato Hole'' is a 2009 album by Booker T. Jones, recorded with Drive-By Truckers as the backing band and guitar accompaniment by Neil Young. On January 31, 2010, ''Potato Hole'' won the Best Pop Instrumental Album award at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards. The track "Warped Sister" was also nominated, for Best Rock Instrumental Performance, but that award went to Jeff Beck for " A Day in The Life". Track listing All tracks written by Booker T. Jones; except as noted. # "Pound It Out" – 4:18 # "She Breaks" – 4:22 # "Hey Ya!" (André 3000) – 3:53 # "Native New Yorker" – 3:47 # "Nan" – 2:08 # " Warped Sister" – 4:47 # " Get Behind the Mule" (Tom Waits, Kathleen Brennan) – 4:10 # "Reunion Time" – 3:49 # "Potato Hole" – 6:50 # "Space City" ( Mike Cooley, Brad Morgan, Jason Isbell, Patterson Hood, Shonna Tucker) – 5:38 Personnel * Booker T. – organ, guitars (1, 5, 8) * Mike Cooley – guitars * Patterson Hood – guitars * John Neff – guitars, pedal st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André 3000
André Lauren Benjamin (born May 27, 1975), better known as André 3000, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer and actor. He is best known for being a part of southern hip hop duo Outkast alongside fellow rapper Big Boi. Benjamin has also acted in films and television series such as '' Families'', '' The Shield'', '' Be Cool'', ''Revolver'', '' Semi-Pro'', '' High Life'', '' Four Brothers'', and in the lead role of Jimi Hendrix in ''All Is by My Side''. He currently plays Fredwynn on the AMC series ''Dispatches from Elsewhere''. He is also known for his Cartoon Network animated series ''Class of 3000'' (2006–2008). He has additionally been an entrepreneur and an advocate for animal rights. In the spring of 2008, he launched a clothing line called Benjamin Bixby. Benjamin has been ranked as one of the greatest rappers of all time by publications including ''Billboard'', '' Complex'', ''The Source'', and About.com. Early life André Lauren Benjamin was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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