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Artist: Bo Nari
Artist: Arthur McNary
Arthur McNary born in Santa Paula, California started playing the piano at age seven and took up the guitar at age thirteen. Currently he resides in Santa Barbara, California. Some of his influences are Leo Kottke, John Fahey, Bert Jansch, Keola Beamer and Ry Cooder. This release features all original music recorded with no edits or overdubs. [+] Read More
Artist: Adam Greenberg
Adam Greenberg is a graduate student in psychology at the University of Washington in Seattle. He has studied music and music cultures extensively, with the greatest expertise in the areas of traditional world musics, funk (there's nary a Parliament album he hasn't tracked down), classic rock, classic jazz, and old school hip hop. He plays a... [+] Read More
Artist: Da King & I
This jazz and dancehall-influenced Brooklyn duo consisting of Izzy, the MC, and Majesty, the DJ made some rumblings in 1993 with their one and only LP, Contemporary Jeep Music, primarily on the strength of two singles, "Flip Da Script" and "Tears." Conceived and produced by Atlanta hip-hop mogul, Dallas Austin, the duo's sound is jazzy East... [+] Read More
Artist: The Cottars
Precocious Canadian Celtic quartet the Cottars formed in late 2000 on the Nova Scotian island of Cape Breton. Comprised of siblings Ciarán and Fiona MacGillivray and Jimmy and Roseanne MacKenzie, the small collective of 15- to 17-year-old multi-instrumentalists, singers, and step dancers burst onto the traditional music scene in 2001 with nary... [+] Read More
Artist: Savage Aural Hotbed
A '90s industrial band with nary a heavy-metal riff nor computer-oriented beat to be seen, Savage Aural Hotbed formed in 1986 playing the same electronic body music as their contemporaries. The influence of Japanese Taiko drumming, however, led percussionists Mark Black, Stuart DeVaan, David Sarrazin and Valts Treibergs (plus bassist/vocalist... [+] Read More
Artist: The Young Divines
Atlanta, GA's the Young Divines made small local flames but nary a spark anywhere else. An initial release, "Ain't That Sharp," for Note Records in 1976 misspelled their name the Young Devines. The members were Donald Render (lead tenor), John Dawson (tenor and baritone), John Johnson (baritone/second tenor), and Jimmy Robertson (baritone/bass).... [+] Read More
Artist: Apartment Three
Formed in the mid-'90s, this band from the Boston suburbs was created by the core trio of vocalist Dan Macmillan, drummer Francis Castagnetti Jr., and guitarist Nik Chisholm. After creating a jam rock and pop style that resembled Phish, Hootie & the Blowfish, as well as Vertical Horizon, Apartment Three released its debut album, Many Miles to... [+] Read More
Artist: Holly Knight
Holly Knight managed to make an impact on the rock scene in the 1980s as a prolific songwriter, writing a string of songs that managed to blend muscle with melody. Rarely the recipient of critical acclaim, Knight still helped define the sound of rock radio of the time with Top Ten singles like Pat Benatar's "Love Is a Battlefield, Scandal's "The... [+] Read More
Artist: Walter Jackson
Walter Jackson was '60s Chicago soul at its sweetest and, occasionally, most mainstream. In the mid-'60s, he had a brace of solid R&B hits -- "Suddenly I'm All Alone," "It's an Uphill Climb (To the Bottom)," "Speak Her Name," "Welcome Home," "A Corner in the Sun" -- without ever rising higher than the lower reaches of the Top 100. Recording for... [+] Read More
Artist: Bob Roberts
The existence of country blues artists more obscure than Bob Roberts is a fact in itself; to be more obscure than Roberts would imply not having left any sort of trace, whereas the mighty Roberts has "Persian Lamb Rag" and perhaps a few other recordings floating around, all done prior to the Second World War recording ban. "Persian Lamb Rag" is... [+] Read More
Artist: Jackdaw
Of all the entries in the All Music Guide, this could be the most unique. After all, it can be assumed that all the other entries are for human beings, at least technically. The jackdaw, however, is a bird. It is a member of the crow family, capable of making ghastly amounts of noise, more so than even some of its larger cousins. Like the noise... [+] Read More
Artist: Kick Axe
Canadian mainstream metal band Kick Axe was formed in Regina, Saskatchewan, in 1976 by brothers Victor Langen (bass) and Gary Langen (drums), along with guitarist Larry Gillstrom. The band started out playing biker festivals around their home province, and soon added second guitarist Raymond Arthur Harvey in January 1978. Kick Axe relocated to... [+] Read More
Artist: John Flywheel
Reading, PA's John Flywheel were a three-piece rock outfit that dependably produced tough, three-chord rock for over a decade, with nary a lineup change. The band's sole national offering, 1995's indie-released John Flywheel, is a rollicking blast of the trio's Cheap Trick-by-way-of-AC/DC garage rock, but unfortunately did little to carry the... [+] Read More
Artist: Sam Lovett
The stage name of Baby Lovett sounds like the idle cooing of new parents; this drummer was also credited as Sam Lovett plenty of times during a career that began in one jazz mecca and ended in another, New Orleans and Kansas City, respectively. Lovett went to the latter city originally as a percussionist for silent films, but quickly became... [+] Read More
Artist: Iron and Wine
The last that we heard form Iron and Wine was the six songs comprising Woman King released in 2005. (This doesn’t include the collaborative In the Reins EP which featured songs by Iron and Wine’s Sam Beam and performances by both Iron and Wine and Calexico together.) What distinguished Woman King from its predecessors was the... [+] Read More
Artist: J.A. Deane
There was a time -- ancient history in terms of his career -- that it would have been easy to look at J.A. Deane on-stage and determine what instrument he was playing. Standing in the horn section of the Ike & Tina Turner revue, for example, blowing that long brass instrument with the slide on the end, Deane seemed to be a trombone player, most... [+] Read More
Artist: The Danderliers
The Danderliers (not to be confused with the Danleers) called themselves by this made-up name, supposedly an offshoot of the dandelion flower, hoping to differentiate themselves from all the car and bird-named groups on the doo wop scene at the time. The original members -- James Campbell (lead on slow sides), Dallas Taylor (lead on fast sides),... [+] Read More
Artist: Front 242
One of the most consistent industrial bands of the 1980s, even though they regularly pursued a more electronic variant of the sound that swept into vogue during the '90s, Front 242 were the premier exponent of European electronic body music. Initially, the group was just a duo when formed in October 1981 in Brussels; programmers Patrick Codenys... [+] Read More
Artist: Marty Robbins
No artist in the history of country music has had a more stylistically diverse career than Marty Robbins. Never content to remain just a country singer, Robbins performed successfully in a dazzling array of styles during more than 30 years in the business. To his credit, Robbins rarely followed trends but often took off in directions that... [+] Read More
Artist: Louis Philippe
Louis Philippe may still be best known as a purveyor of creamy pop confections for Mike Alway's wonderfully eccentric él label, yet his work continued to deepen and develop long after él bit the dust in 1989. He once described his music as "covering the range from pure bubblegum to symphonic sweep, with detours via jazz and soul along the way.... [+] Read More
Artist: Luther Vandross
Luther Vandross was one of the most successful R&B artists of the 1980s and '90s. Not only did he score a series of multi-million-selling albums containing chart-topping hit singles and perform in sold-out tours in the U.S. and around the world, but he also took charge of his music creatively, writing or co-writing most of his songs and... [+] Read More
