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So Let's Go
''So Let's Go'' is the second solo album by Alan Doyle, released on January 20, 2015. Track listing Chart performance Singles The lead single off the album, "So Let's Go", was released November 6, 2014, by Universal Music Canada Universal Music Group (UMG) owns, or has a joint share in, many of the record labels listed here. According to the UMG official website, the main labels are Abbey Road Studios, Capitol Music Group, Decca Records, Def Jam Recordings, Deutsche Gra ... in Canada and Skinner's Hill Music Ltd. in the United States. References http://www.billboard.com/artist/1482044/alan-doyle/chart?f=309 {{Authority control 2015 albums Alan Doyle albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Doyle
Alan Thomas Doyle (born May 17, 1969) is a Canadian musician and founding member of the Canadian folk rock band Great Big Sea. Life and career Alan Doyle was born and raised in Petty Harbour–Maddox Cove, Petty Harbour, Newfoundland, in a Roman Catholic family. He attended Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. It is also there that he met Séan McCann, Bob Hallett and Darrell Power with whom he formed Great Big Sea. He primarily plays electric and acoustic guitars, and the bouzouki for live performances, but he has been known to play mandolin and banjo. He is married to Joanne; they have one son. Doyle has also been involved with a handful of stage, television and film productions. As a child, he appeared as an extra in the movie ''A Whale for the Killing'', based on Farley Mowat's book of the same name, which was filmed in his hometown. He has also hosted regional art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Folk Music
Folk music is a music genre that includes #Traditional folk music, traditional folk music and the Contemporary folk music, contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted orally, music with unknown composers, music that is played on traditional instruments, music about cultural or national identity, music that changes between generations (folk process), music associated with a people's folklore, or music performed by Convention (norm), custom over a long period of time. It has been contrasted with popular music, commercial and art music, classical styles. The term originated in the 19th century, but folk music extends beyond that. Starting in the mid-20th century, a new form of popular folk music evolved from traditional folk music. This process and period is called the (second) folk revival and reached a zenith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Music
Rock is a Music genre, genre of popular music that originated in the United States as "rock and roll" in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of styles from the mid-1960s, primarily in the United States and the United Kingdom. It has its roots in rock and roll, a style that drew from the black musical genres of blues and rhythm and blues, as well as from country music. Rock also drew strongly from genres such as electric blues and folk music, folk, and incorporated influences from jazz and other styles. Rock is typically centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar, drum kit, drums, and one or more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music with a Time signature, time signature and using a verse–chorus form; however, the genre has become extremely diverse. Like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political. Rock was the most p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Universal Music Canada
Universal Music Group (UMG) owns, or has a joint share in, many of the record labels listed here. According to the UMG official website, the main labels are Abbey Road Studios, Capitol Music Group, Decca Records, Def Jam Recordings, Deutsche Grammophon, EMI, Interscope-Geffen-A&M, Island Records, Mercury Records, Motown Records, Polydor Records, Republic Records, Universal Records, Verve Label Group, and Virgin Records, as well as other UMG divisions (Universal Music Enterprises, Music Corporation of America (formerly Universal Music Group Nashville), Universal Music Latin Entertainment, and Universal Music Publishing Group). Interscope Capitol Labels Group Interscope Geffen A&M Records * Interscope Records * Geffen Records * A&M Records * Aftermath Entertainment * AWGE * Billion Dollar Baby Entertainment * Cloud 9 * Tunechi * Kirby * Lost Highway Records * Shady Records * PGLang (Kendrick Lamar’s releases only) * F2 Records * Maloof Music * Top Dawg Entertainment * D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boy On Bridge
''Boy on Bridge'' is an album by Alan Doyle, released in 2012. It was his first solo album. Until then, he had not released a solo album in the 19 years he had been in Great Big Sea. The album title is a reference to Doyle's IMDb page in which he is credited as an actor in the 1981 TV movie '' A Whale for the Killing''. Track listing Chart performance Singles The lead single off the album, "I've Seen a Little", was released March 26, 2012, by Universal Music Canada Universal Music Group (UMG) owns, or has a joint share in, many of the record labels listed here. According to the UMG official website, the main labels are Abbey Road Studios, Capitol Music Group, Decca Records, Def Jam Recordings, Deutsche Gra ... in Canada and Skinner's Hill Music Ltd. in the United States. It is a digital-only release for sale at digital music outlets. The single version of the song is the same version that appears on ''Boy on Bridge''. References {{Authority control 2012 albums Alan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Week At The Warehouse
''A Week at the Warehouse'' is the third solo album by Alan Doyle. It released on October 13, 2017. Track listing The song "Bully Boys" was used in a scene in the film ''Robin Hood Robin Hood is a legendary noble outlaw, heroic outlaw originally depicted in English folklore and subsequently featured in literature, theatre, and cinema. According to legend, he was a highly skilled archer and swordsman. In some versions o ...'' (2010), in which Doyle starred as Allan A'Dayle. Charts References 2017 albums Alan Doyle albums {{2010s-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas "Tawgs" Salter
Thomas "Tawgs" Salter is a Canadian musician, songwriter, producer and recording engineer. His extensive body of musical work includes a vast array of artists ranging from Josh Groban, Lights and Lenka to Chantal Kreviazuk, Fefe Dobson, Dear Rouge, Midway State and USS. Salter has also worked alongside Grammy-winning writer/producer Walter Afanasieff. Salter's music, production and collaborations have been featured on television shows, including Vampire Diaries, Grey's Anatomy, American Idol and The Simpsons to films such as Prom Night and Joe Somebody (Tom Wilson). Career Salter's writing and production of the soaring pop ballad You Are Loved (Don't Give Up), Josh Groban's first single from his multi-platinum selling third studio album ''Awake'', reached #9 on the Adult Contemporary ''Billboard'' chart. The song was sung by Lisa Simpson on the television show The Simpsons in Season 20, Episode 9. On December 15, 2009, Canadian singer-songwriter LIGHTS was acknowledged with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donovan Woods (musician)
Donovan Woods is a Canadian folk and country singer-songwriter. He has released several albums of folk and roots music, including the Juno Award-winning ''Both Ways''. Early life Woods was born and raised in Sarnia, Ontario. He began playing guitar and writing songs as a teenager."Donovan Woods: He'd still like a Grey Cup ring" '''', November 10, 2010. Career Woods' first album, ''The Hold Up'', was released in 2007. His second album, ''The Widowmaker'', was released in 2010, and his third album, ''Don't Get Too Grand'', was released in 2013 and garnered Woods' first |
Ed Robertson
Lloyd Edward Elwyn Robertson (born October 25, 1970) is a Canadian musician, best known as the lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter of the band Barenaked Ladies. He, along with former member Steven Page, founded the group in 1988. As of Page's departure in 2009, Robertson and bassist Jim Creeggan are the only remaining band members from the time of their first studio album, along with drummer Tyler Stewart, and Kevin Hearn Biography Early and personal life Robertson was born in the Toronto suburb of Scarborough, Ontario. He is the youngest of five children, with two sisters, Lynn and Bonnie, and two brothers, Bill and Doug; He claims to have been named on a bet. His mother, Wilma, was a secretary for Imperial Oil, and his father, Earl, worked both as a shipping foreman for Honeywell, and as an egg grader. He believes that his conception was an "accident" because he is several years younger than his siblings, who were all born about one year apart. He credits this situation w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Grimes
Scott Christopher Grimes (born July 9, 1971) is an American actor and singer. Some of his most prominent roles include appearances in the TV series '' ER'' as Dr. Archie Morris, ''Party of Five'' as Will McCorkle, '' Band of Brothers'' as Technical Sergeant Donald Malarkey, and the animated sitcom ''American Dad!'', voicing Steve Smith. He is also well known by cult movie fans for his role as Bradley Brown in the first two '' Critters'' films as well as his roles in the 1984 Christmas TV movies '' The Night They Saved Christmas'' and '' It Came Upon the Midnight Clear''. From 2017 to 2022, he was a regular on the Fox/Hulu sci-fi comedy drama '' The Orville'' as Gordon Malloy. As a singer, Grimes is best known for co-writing and performing the soft rock single "Sunset Blvd", which peaked at number 18 on ''Billboard''’s Adult Contemporary chart in April 2005. He is also known for being one of the four singers in Russell Crowe's band Indoor Garden Party. Early life Grimes wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordie Sampson
Gordon Francis Sampson (born July 30, 1971) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and producer from Big Pond, Nova Scotia. Beginning his career as a performer on his hometown island of Cape Breton, both in bands and on his own, Sampson has gone on to achieve international success as a songwriter in Nashville. He has written songs for Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban, Faith Hill, LeAnn Rimes, Blake Shelton, Miranda Lambert, and Rascal Flatts. He has also released albums as a solo performer. Sampson has received a Grammy Award, a Juno Award, two ASCAP Awards, East Coast Music Awards, and honorary degrees from Cape Breton University and St. Francis Xavier University. Background Sampson was born in 1971 to Francis Xavier Sampson (1946–2007) and Florence Ley. Sampson's only musical training as a child were piano lessons he took from his mother. He remembers being surrounded by fiddlers, who were very common in Cape Breton. Initially, he had no interest in fiddle music, but only wanted t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Albums Chart
The ''Billboard'' Canadian Albums is the official record chart A record chart, in the music industry, also called a music chart, is a ranking of Sound recording and reproduction, recorded music according to certain criteria during a given period. Many different criteria are used in worldwide charts, ofte ... ranking the 100 most popular music albums and extended plays in Canada. It is compiled weekly (every Monday) by U.S.-based music sales tracking company Luminate, and published every Tuesday by American music and entertainment magazine ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard''. The albums are compared across all genres, ranked by album sales, audio on-demand streaming activity and digital sales of tracks from albums. History Prior to October 27, 2015, the Canadian albums charts were determined only by pure album sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan, and published by ''Jam!'' Canadian Online Explorer, Canoe, issued every Sunday. The move to the newly named Canadian Albums c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
