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Provogue Records
Provogue Records is a European record label and part of the Mascot Label Group. Founded by Jan Van Der Linden in the early 1990s, the label specializes in Rock music, rock and blues. Its catalog includes Gary Moore, Joe Bonamassa, Beth Hart, Eric Johnson (guitarist, born 1954), Eric Johnson, Robert Cray, Gov't Mule, Philip Sayce, and Warren Haynes. Roster * Gary Moore * Bernie Marsden * Beth Hart * Eric Johnson (guitarist, born 1954), Eric Johnson * Gov't Mule * Innes Sibun * Jay Hooks * JJ Grey & MOFRO * Joe Bonamassa * Jonny Lang * Kenny Wayne Shepherd * Leslie West * Matt Schofield * Michael Katon * Michael Landau * No Sinner * Omar Kent Dykes * Philip Sayce * Quinn Sullivan * Rob Tognoni * The Rides * Robben Ford * Robert Cray * Supersonic Blues Machine * Walter Trout * Warren Haynes References External links Official site {{Authority control Dutch record labels Blues record labels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mascot Label Group
Mascot Label Group is an independently-owned record label. Founded in 1989 in The Netherlands under the name Mascot Records, the company was renamed Mascot-Provogue in 1999 and since 2010 has been known as the Mascot Label Group. The company is based in the Netherlands and has offices in New York, Cologne, Stockholm, Milan, Paris and London. It was distributed by ADA and Warner Music Group until 2022; it is now serviced by FUGA. Mascot Label Group is the parent company of six record labels: Mascot Records, Provogue Records, Music Theories Recordings, Cool Green Recordings, The Funk Garage, and The Players Club. Mascot Label Group is also a label member of the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM). Labels * Mascot Records - a rock-focused label whose roster includes 10 Years, Black Stone Cherry, Black Label Society, Crobot, Dragged Under, Monster Truck, Otherwise, P.O.D., Shaman's Harvest, & VOLA, as well as newer acts such as The Georgia Thunderbolts, The Cold Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discogs
Discogs (short for discographies) is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. While the site was originally created with a goal of becoming the largest online database of electronic music, the site now includes releases in all genres on all formats. After the database was opened to contributions from the public, rock music began to become the most prevalent genre listed. , Discogs contains over 15.7 million releases, by over 8.3 million artists, across over 1.9 million labels, contributed from over 644,000 contributor user accounts – with these figures constantly growing as users continually add previously unlisted releases to the site over time. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc. and located in Portland, Oregon, United States. History The discogs.com domain name was registered in August 2000, and Discogs itself ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rides
The Rides are an American blues supergroup, featuring guitarists Stephen Stills, Kenny Wayne Shepherd and keyboardist Barry Goldberg. The group formed in 2013 following a performance by the trio at a benefit led by Stills. Stills called the band “the blues band of my dreams”. The band toured in support of their debut album ''Can't Get Enough'' in the fall of 2013 backed by bassist Kevin McCormick (who played with Crosby, Stills and Nash in 2012) and Shepherd's longtime drummer Chris Layton. Their second album ''Pierced Arrow'' followed in 2016, it peaked at number one in the ''Billboard'' Top Blues Albums Chart. Band members ;Main members * Stephen Stills - Guitar, Vocals * Kenny Wayne Shepherd - Guitar, Vocals * Barry Goldberg - Keyboards ;Touring musicians * Kevin McCormick - Bass * Chris Layton Christopher Layton (born November 16, 1955), also known as "Whipper", is an American drummer who rose to fame as one of the founding members of Double Trouble, a blues rock b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quinn Sullivan
Quinn Sullivan (born March 26, 1999) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist from New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States. He is known for his accomplishments at an early age, marked by appearances on media such as ''The Ellen DeGeneres Show'' from the age of six, performing with artists Buddy Guy and B.B. King, and the release of his first album at the age of twelve. Career Sullivan began taking guitar lessons at age three. He has studied with Brian Cass of The Overclock Orchestra and the Toe Jam Puppet Band as well as Stan Belmarce. The first original song he wrote with Chris Waters was titled "Sing, Dance, Clap Your Hands". Sullivan first gained national media attention at age six when he appeared on ''The Ellen DeGeneres Show''. He garnered more attention when Buddy Guy asked him to come on stage and play during a performance at the Zeiterion Theater in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 2007. Sullivan has since performed on stage with Guy as well as with B.B. King a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omar Kent Dykes
Omar Kent Dykes (born Kent Dykes, 1950, McComb, Mississippi, United States) is an American blues guitarist and singer, living in Austin, Texas. He began leading bands as an adolescent in McComb, Mississippi. In 1973 he formed the band, Omar & the Howlers. The band plays electric Texas blues, rock and roll and blues-rock. Dykes has also had a successful career as a solo artist, and regularly toured European countries. Among his solo albums are ''Blues Bag'' from 1991, and ''Muddy Springs Road'' from 1994. An Austin Music Hall of Fame inductee, he was afflicted in 2017 with a skin illness that wasted away the flesh of his arms, and he lost the ability to perform in public. In 2020 he published a memoir, ''OMAR DYKES: The Life and Times of a Poor and Almost Famous Bluesman.'' Discography * ''Big Leg Beat'' (1980, Stomp) * ''I Told You So'' (1984, Clyde Frog) * ''Hard Times in the Land of Plenty'' (1987, Columbia) * ''Wall of Pride'' (1988, Columbia) * ''Monkey Land'' (1990, A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Sinner
No Sinner is a blues rock quartet based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The group is led by singer-songwriter Colleen Rennison. History Rennison worked in New York City but returned to her hometown of Vancouver to begin writing with former associate, Parker Bossley. She started a rotating back-up band to fill her weekly Thursday night performances at Guilt and Company, which was then a club in Vancouver's Gastown district. Among the musicians playing in the band were current bandmates Eric Campbell (guitar) and Ian Browne (drums). No Sinner recorded their six-track debut album ''Boo Hoo Hoo'', which was released in 2012 on the Vancouver-based indie label, First Love Records. No Sinner later signed with Provogue Records, with whom they released ''Boo Hoo Hoo'' throughout North America. Following the release of their debut album, No Sinner went on a North American tour, during which they performed at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival and the WXPN "Triple-A Non-Comm C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Landau
Michael Christopher Landau (born June 1, 1958) is an American musician, audio engineer, and record producer. He is a session musician and guitarist who has played on many albums since the early 1980s with Boz Scaggs, Minoru Niihara, Joni Mitchell, Rod Stewart, Seal, Michael Jackson, James Taylor, Helen Watson, Luis Miguel, Richard Marx, Steve Perry, Pink Floyd, Phil Collins on " Two Hearts" and "Loco in Acapulco", Roger Daltrey, Stevie Nicks, Glenn Frey, Eros Ramazzotti, Whitney Houston, and Miles Davis. Landau, along with fellow session guitarists Dean Parks, Steve Lukather, Michael Thompson and Dann Huff, played on many of the major label releases recorded in Los Angeles from the 1980s–1990s. He has released music with several record labels, including Ulftone Music and Tone Center Records, a member of Shrapnel Label Group. In addition to his session work, Landau has led several bands, including Raging Honkies and Burning Water. In the early 1980s, he was also in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Katon
Michael Katon (born 1953) is an American blues-rock guitarist and vocalist. He grew up in Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States, in a musical family where he was early inspired to take up the guitar. Katon made his recording debut with his 1984 album, ''Boogie All Over Your Head''. His album ''Rip It Hard'' continued in the traditional blues-boogie vein, and while, like many blues men, major commercial success evades Katon, he remains a respected guitarist in the field. Katon released a live album in 1996. Valerie Potter of ''Metal Hammer'' said " Michael Katon plays some of the loudest, toughest, meanest rock & blues on the planet!". ''Living Blues'' also said of Katon: "Katon is a virtuoso guitar player with his roots in the right place... issound is a blazing blend of electric blues and roadhouse boogie". In June 2014, he was voted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Schofield
Matt Schofield (born 21 August 1977, Manchester, England) is an English blues guitarist and singer. His band, the Matt Schofield Trio, play their own material, a blend of blues, funk and jazz, as well as covers of blues classics such as Albert Collins' "Lights Are On, But Nobody's Home". Schofield is regarded as one of the most distinctive and innovative British blues guitarists, and has been rated in the top ten of British blues guitarists by ''Guitar & Bass Magazine''. Schofield's prowess has taken his band to twelve countries, seen him playing with musicians including Buddy Guy and Robben Ford, and brought a note in the ''Penguin Book of Blues Recordings'' as one of only two living British artists to gain the maximum four-star rating. In addition, he has been admitted to the British Blues Awards Hall of Fame. Influences Schofield's guitar playing is often likened to that of Robben Ford in its melodic and fluid style, and jazzy lines. Schofield has been influenced by B.B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie West
Leslie West (born Leslie Abel Weinstein; October 22, 1945 – December 23, 2020) was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. He was the co-founder, guitarist and co-lead vocalist of the rock band Mountain. Life and career Early years: 1945–1973 West was born on October 22, 1945, in New York City to Jewish parents, but grew up in Hackensack, New Jersey, and in East Meadow, New York, Forest Hills, New York, and Lawrence, New York. After his parents divorced, he changed his surname to West. His musical career began with the Vagrants, an R&B/blue-eyed soul-rock band influenced by the likes of the Rascals that was one of the few teenage garage rock acts to come out of the New York metropolitan area itself (as opposed to the Bohemian Greenwich Village scene of artists, poets, and affiliates of the Beat Generation, which produced bands like The Fugs and The Velvet Underground). The Vagrants had two minor hits in the Eastern United States; 1966's "I Can't Make a Friend" and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Kenny Wayne Shepherd (born Kenny Wayne Brobst; June 12, 1977) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He has released several studio albums and experienced significant commercial success as a blues artist. Life and career Shepherd was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. Retrieved January 2008. He graduated from Caddo Magnet High School in Shreveport. He is "completely self-taught", and does not read music. Growing up, Shepherd's father (Ken Shepherd) was a local radio personality and some-time concert promoter, and had a vast collection of music. Shepherd received his first "guitar" at the age of three or four, when his grandmother purchased a series of several plastic guitars for him with S&H Green Stamps, which Shepherd has said he would "go through like candy". Shepherd stated in a 2011 interview that he began playing guitar in earnest at age seven, about six months after meeting and being "pretty mesmerized" by Stevie Ray Vaughan, Labor Day weekend in 1984, at one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonny Lang
Jon Gordon Langseth Jr. (born January 29, 1981), known as Jonny Lang, is an American blues, gospel, and rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He has made five albums that have charted on the top 50 of the ''Billboard'' 200 chart and has won a Grammy Award for ''Turn Around''. Biography Jonny Lang was born in Fargo, North Dakota, United States, of Norwegian descent. He started playing the guitar for his friends at age 12. He played modern hits to the classics, even performing a rendition of Jimi Hendrix's take on the National Anthem. Soon after his father took him to see the Bad Medicine Blues Band, one of the few blues bands in Fargo, Lang started taking guitar lessons from Ted Larsen, the band's guitar player. Several months after Lang began, he joined the band, which was then renamed Kid Jonny Lang & The Big Bang. Two years later A&M Records, then home of Janet Jackson and Soundgarden, was invited to come see him at a live performance at Bunkers Bar in Minneapolis, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
