Genre: Alternative/Indie
What started as a suspender-clad celebration of suds ended in a nearly forgotten shamble of ruined relationships, destroyed plush toys and a few hundred empty beer bottles.
Genre: Country
Decades Active: 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s
Music icon Anne Murray has sold more than 50 million albums in a distinguished career that spans four decades. On January 15th, Manhattan/EMI will release Anne Murray Duets: Friends & Legends, an exceptional 17-track collection of her top hits and favorites, newly recorded as duets with some of the world’s top female recording artists.
Genre: Country
Decades Active: 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s
Music icon Anne Murray has sold more than 50 million albums in a distinguished career that spans four decades. On January 15th, Manhattan/EMI will release Anne Murray Duets: Friends & Legends, an exceptional 17-track collection of her top hits and favorites, newly recorded as duets with some of the world’s top female recording artists.
Genre: Folk
Decades Active: 90s
Barry Dow is a California singer and songwriter, a winner at the 1991 Kerrville Folk Festival (Emerging Songwriting Award). Dow's music combines contemporary folk with occasional ventures around the edges of ragtime and blues, all finger-picked in an easy, rolling style. ~ Chip Renner, All Music Guide
Genre: Country
A pleasant mix of rock, country and a bit of folk. Sounding at times like Dan Fogleburg and Van Morrison, at times like Rascal Flats or Keith Urban, with intelligent, vivid lyrics. A nice blend.
Genre: Folk
Decades Active: 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s
Eric Andersen has maintained a career as a folk-based singer/songwriter since the 1960s. In contrast to such peers as Tom Paxton and Phil Ochs, Andersen's writing has had a romantic/philosophical/poetic bent for the most part, rather than a socially conscious one, though one of his best-known songs, "Thirsty Boots," has as its background the... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
"Southern Americana". Erik Viel coins the musical style as a mixture of rock, blues, folk and acoustic music. The songs on the album are performed by some of the finest, experienced musicians in the Southeast. Erik has been honing his craft for nearly 25 years and the songs on the album are a reflection of his diverse musical background. Erik... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s
When people use the term "singer/songwriter" (often modified by the word "sensitive") in praise or in criticism, they're thinking of James Taylor. In the early '70s, when he appeared with his introspective songs, acoustic guitar, and calm, understated singing style, he mirrored a generation's emotional exhaustion after tumultuous times. Just as... [+] Read More
Genre: Folk
Decades Active: 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s
The most accomplished interpretive folksinger of the 1960s, Joan Baez has influenced nearly every aspect of popular music in a career still going strong. Baez is possessed of a once-in-a-lifetime soprano, which, since the late '50s, she has put in the service of folk and pop music as well as a variety of political causes. Starting out in Boston,... [+] Read More
Genre: Folk
Decades Active: 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s
Judy Collins was one of the major interpretive folksingers of the '60s. A child prodigy at classical piano, she turned to folk music at the age of 15 and released her first album, A Maid of Constant Sorrow, in 1961 when she was 22. That album and its follow-up, The Golden Apples of the Sun, consisted of traditional folk material, with Collins's... [+] Read More
Genre: Folk
Decades Active: 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s
Although he's best known for his classic folk song staple "Streets of London," which first appeared on his Spiral Staircase album in 1969, Ralph McTell is a multi-dimensional guitarist and singer/songwriter who's influenced hundreds of folk singers in Great Britain, Europe and around the U.S. Fortunately, people in the U.S. and around Europe are... [+] Read More
Genre: Folk
Decades Active: 70s, 80s
Stan Rogers came from Hamilton, Ontario, a six-foot-four poet who started out as a rock bassist before turning to folk music. With his rich voice, he used his music to call to life all of the wonder and mysticism of his native Canada. His singing is occasionally mistaken for that of Gordon Lightfoot, but it's huskier and earthier than... [+] Read More
Genre: Country
Decades Active: 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s
Tony Rice is one of bluegrass' most inventive flatpicking guitar players. Although he's displayed a mastery of the genre's traditions, Rice set the standard for more contemporary styles. A former member of the Bluegrass Alliance, the David Grisman Quintet, J.D. Crowe's New South, and the Bluegrass Album Band, Rice has continued to reflect his... [+] Read More