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Artist: Stephanie Meurer
Growing up in the tundras of Canada, and later, the green valleys of Wales, Stephanie Meurer is a vagabound. After a tumultous childhood, she soon ventured out to the land of silicone, California, earning a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
While in Cali, Stephanie has worked the whole gamut, from nannying to... [+] Read More
Artist: Coy "Hot Shot" Love
Coy "Hot Shot" Love was a renaissance man, of a kind, in blues: sign-painter, street denizen, and a magician with a harmonica, who liked to adorn his leather jacket and his bicycle, and other personal items with messages regarding his outlook on life. He lived on Gayoso Street in Memphis, an itinerant musician and sometime sign-painter who got... [+] Read More
Artist: Brian Briscoe
From Angleton, Texas (near Houston), Brian is a University of Texas graduate with a BS in Radio-TV-Film. He specialized in audio production, and spent three years working at KLRU in Austin on such programs as AUSTIN CITY LIMITS and THE LEGENDS OF COUNTRY MUSIC.
An avid music fan and musician, Brian has written for various music 'zines for more... [+] Read More
Artist: Jeff Golub
In the '90s, guitarist Jeff Golub's blend of jazz, R&B, and pop earned him a reputation for being one of the edgier, more tasteful players in the crossover jazz/NAC/smooth jazz field. Although some of Golub's recordings were played on smooth jazz stations extensively, he was quoted as saying that he refuses to play outright elevator music; and,... [+] Read More
Artist: Jerusalem
JerusalemJerusalem was an early 1970s British raunchy heavy rock five piece outfit. The band released one self-titled album worldwide in 1972 on Deram (UK catalogue number : SLD 6), produced by Ian Gillan of Deep Purple. Jerusalems only other release was a 45 rpm 7 inch single, the non-album Kamikaze Moth backed with Frustration from... [+] Read More
Artist: Bang on a Can
Technically, the name Bang on a Can refers not to a specific set of musicians but to a yearly festival of new music curated by avant-garde composer/performers Julia Wolfe, David Lang, and Michael Gordon. (Albums by the group are most often credited to the Bang on a Can All-Stars, a relatively stable group of six to eight performers and arrangers... [+] Read More
Artist: The Baptist Generals
Crafting lo-fi, acoustic indie-rock that draws comparisons to artists like Roky Erikson, the Band, Will Oldham and Howlin' Wolf, Denton, TX's the Baptist Generals feature main members singer/guitarist Chris Flemmons and drummer Steven Hill. Originally named the Poor Bastard Sons, the group formed in the late '90s and mixed folk and country... [+] Read More
Artist: Arthur Schutt
An important pianist during the 1920's, appearing on many key recordings, Arthur Schutt faded out of the spotlight during the swing era. He was taught piano by his father and started playing for silent movies when he was just 13 in 1915. It was at a movie theatre that Schutt was discovered in 1918 by bandleader Paul Specht who quickly hired him.... [+] Read More
Artist: Finis Henderson
Chicago vocalist Finis Henderson was the lead singer for Weapons of Peace before going solo after moving to Los Angeles in the early '80s. His father was a dancer and also vice-president of Sammy Davis Enterprises, as well as manager for such artists as Jerry Butler and Brook Benton. Henderson sang with The Dynamic 4 as a teen before joining... [+] Read More
Artist: Kan Mikami
When the Japanese reveal their affinity for the music of America, it is usually in the highly ordered music of jazz or techno. Kan Mikami, on the other hand, takes much of his inspiration from the school of singer/songwriters and blues vocalists. From the rural district of Tsugaru, Mikami's parched voice and plaintive electric guitar (sometimes... [+] Read More
Artist: Ben Kettlewell
Ben Kettlewell began his music journalism career in 1980, writing interviews, and reviews for SYNE Magazine and Music of The Spheres Magazine. In 1987 he wrote and published a 241 page sourcebook on electronic music composers, New Horizons, for New Leaf Press. Electronic Musician Magazine published an exclusive interview with German synth... [+] Read More
Artist: Howlin' Wolf
In the history of the blues, there has never been anyone quite like the Howlin' Wolf. Six foot three and close to 300 pounds in his salad days, the Wolf was the primal force of the music spun out to its ultimate conclusion. A Robert Johnson may have possessed more lyrical insight, a Muddy Waters more dignity, and a B.B. King certainly more... [+] Read More
Artist: Charlie Teagarden
Although he spent his career in his brother Jack Teagarden's shadow, Charlie Teagarden was an excellent trumpeter who sounded perfectly at home in Dixieland combos and big bands. Born eight years after Jack (who he outlived by 20 years), two years after pianist Norma and two before his brother drummer Cub, Charlie's mother Helen was a fine... [+] Read More
Artist: Billy Novick
Billy Novick is the penultimate woodwind and reeds player. Equally comfortable playing traditional Irish folk music (on the pennywhistle), New Orleans jazz (on clarinet and soprano sax), straight-ahead jazz, swing (on alto and soprano saxophones), and acoustic folk music (on clarinet and saxophone), Novick has maintained a seemingly impossible... [+] Read More
Artist: Bernie Marsden
Blues rock guitarist Bernie Marsden's hot licks helped launch the career of Whitesnake, as he played on the group's first eight releases, and lent a major hand in composing some of the band's most renowned songs. Initially inspired to play the guitar as a teenager due to such authentic blues players as Howling Wolf and Sonny Boy Williamson,... [+] Read More
Artist: Dreams of University
Dreams of University is opening for Fall Out Boy and The Academy Is on the Honda Civic Tour June 8th in Indianapolis. Young..Energetic..Melodic...Powerful..Dreams of University brings the intensity and songwriting craft of a seasoned major label act despite none of the members being over the age of 17. These musical prodigies create songs that... [+] Read More
Artist: Duran Duran
Duran Duran personified new wave for much of the mainstream audience. And for good reason, too. Duran Duran's reputation was built through music videos, which accentuated their fashion-model looks and glamorous sense of style. Without music videos, it's likely that the band's pop-funk -- described by the group as the Sex Pistols meets Chic --... [+] Read More
Artist: Rob Goldstein
Growing up a middle class white kid in Los Angeles, I idolized Michael Jackson. Age four was precisely when I knew I wanted to do something in music. Thriller was blaring from my "getoblaster" and I became inspired. So inspired that I marched right into the bathroom and decided I was going to BE the gloved one himself. I wanted to look like him,... [+] Read More
Artist: Buddy Woods
Oscar "Buddy" Woods was a Louisiana street musician known as "The Lone Wolf" and a pioneer in the style of lap steel bottleneck blues slide guitar; some experts believe he may have been the primary force behind the creation of this whole genre. Woods was born in the area around Natchitoches, Louisiana, and his unknown birth date is variously... [+] Read More
Artist: Robert Belfour
Robert 'Wolfman' Belfour is a little-known but very powerful blues guitarist and singer based in Memphis, Tennessee. Born to sharecropper parents on a farm in Holly Springs, Mississippi, he began playing guitar in the late '40s after the death of his father who left the instrument to him. He learned by emulating the sounds of such greats as John... [+] Read More
Artist: Ellis Hooks
Until the arrival of Ellis Hooks on the 21st century blues and soul scenes with his now-signature meld of R&B, blues and Southern gospel, it seemed that the great stories surrounding these musics had already been told and passed into antiquity with the great names assigned to them -- Otis Redding, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, James Carr, and Sam... [+] Read More
Artist: Sigmund Finman
Desert Island Picks
1. Betty Elders Peaceful Existence Flying Fish
2. Pierce Pettis Chase the Buffalo High Street
3. Bruce Cockburn Nothing but a Burning Light Columbia
4. Ferron Testimony Redwood
5. Dick Gaughan Handful of Earth Topic and Green Linnet
6. Keola Beamer Tales from the Dream Guitar Dancing Cat
7. Cisco Houston Sings Woody... [+] Read More
Artist: Johnny B. Moore
Very few young Chicago bluesmen bring the depth and knowledge of tradition to the table that Johnny B. Moore does. His sound is a slightly contemporized version of what's been going down on the West side for decades, emblazoned with Moore's sparkling rhythmic lead guitar lines and growling vocals.
Moore first met the legendary Jimmy Reed in... [+] Read More
Artist: Bonnie Raitt
Long a critic's darling, singer/guitarist Bonnie Raitt did not begin to win the comparable commercial success due her until the release of the aptly titled 1989 blockbuster Nick of Time; her tenth album, it rocketed her into the mainstream consciousness nearly two decades after she first committed her unique blend of blues, rock, and R&B to... [+] Read More
Artist: Dear Nora
The power pop/punk "cuddle-core" trio Dear Nora is comprised of Katy Davidson (vocals/guitar), Ryan Wise (bass), and Marianna Ritchey (drums). All three bandmembers had gone to college together at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, OR, where they had each played in various bands, including the Navins, Ring of Seventeen, and Junction City. Wise,... [+] Read More
