For most intents and purposes, Aztec Camera is Roddy Frame, a Scottish guitarist/vocalist/songwriter. Several other musicians have passed through the band over the years -- including founding members Campbell Owens (bass) and Dave Mulholland (drums) -- but the one constant has been Frame. Throughout his career, he has created a sophisticated,... [+] Read More

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Bob Dylan's influence on popular music is incalculable. As a songwriter, he pioneered several different schools of pop songwriting, from confessional singer/songwriter to winding, hallucinatory, stream-of-conscious narratives. As a vocalist, he broke down the notions that in order to perform, a singer had to have a conventionally good voice,... [+] Read More

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While his tenure as the frontman for the legendary Roxy Music remained his towering achievement, singer Bryan Ferry also carved out a successful solo career which continued in the lush, sophisticated manner perfected on the group's final records. Born September 26, 1945 in Washington, England, Ferry, the son of a coal miner, began his musical... [+] Read More

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Without Chet Atkins, country music may never have crossed over into the pop charts in the '50s and '60s. Although he recorded hundreds of solo records, Atkins' largest influence came as a session musician and a record producer. During the '50s and '60s, he helped create the Nashville sound, a style of country music that owed nearly as much to... [+] Read More

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Han Uil (born on August 8th, 1976 in Groningen/Holland) is a singer-songwriter/(lead) guitarist and singer in the symphonic rock band Seven Day Hunt (three members are ex-Egdon Heath). His distinctive voice and playing the guitar attracts attention.

In the mid 90's Han started writing songs in cooperation with lyricist Philip Koning.... [+] Read More

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I have been playing fingerstyle guitar, and been writing and singing songs for 16 years. I was first influenced growing up listening to the songwriting of Bob Dylan and the guitar playing of Jimmy Page. I later grew a fascination with fingerstyle guitar after listening to players such as Jorma Kaukonen, Stephen Stills, John Fahey, Leo Kottke,... [+] Read More

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Marc, mainly a rock guitarist, started off on the Newport music scene at the age of sixteen as part of several heavy rock bands taking on the roles of lead guitar and vocals. Marc took to the stages of various local venues in Newport and Cardiff quickly building up a reputation for his outstanding dynamic guitar skills. A few years later Marc... [+] Read More

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Although a product of the New York punk scene, at heart Mink DeVille was a soul band with roots in R&B, the blues and even Cajun music. The group was a showcase for frontman Willy DeVille (born William Boray in 1953), a native New Yorker who in 1971 travelled to London to form a band; unable to find compatible musicians, he worked as a solo... [+] Read More

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Randy Newman was an anomaly among early-'70s singer/songwriters. Though he was slightly influenced by Bob Dylan, his music owed more to New Orleans R&B and traditional pop than folk. Newman developed an idiosyncratic style that alternated between sweeping, cinematic pop and rolling R&B, which were tied together by his nasty sense of humor. Where... [+] Read More

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Whether serving as a session musician, solo artist, or soundtrack composer, Ry Cooder's chameleon-like fretted instrument virtuosity, songwriting, and choices of material encompass an incredibly eclectic range of North American musical styles, including rock & roll, blues, reggae, Tex-Mex, Hawaiian, Dixieland jazz, country, folk, R&B, gospel,... [+] Read More

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Most rock & roll bands are a tightly wound unit that developed their music through years of playing in garages and clubs around their hometown. Steely Dan never subscribed to that aesthetic. As the vehicle for the songwriting of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, Steely Dan defied all rock & roll conventions. Becker and Fagen never truly enjoyed... [+] Read More

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After disbanding the Police at the peak of their popularity in 1984, Sting quickly established himself as a viable solo artist, one obsessed with expanding the boundaries of pop music. Sting incorporated heavy elements of jazz, classical, and worldbeat into his music, writing lyrics that were literate and self-consciously meaningful, and he was... [+] Read More

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Having started young playing the piano at age six and later the saxophone at 12, T.R. found his niche on the guitar late at 17 yrs of age. He toured and recorded with various groups all over the South Eastern U.S. until settling on the West Coast of Florida. T.R. currently plays lead guitar for a modern Praise & Worship band and has begun... [+] Read More

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Terry Gamwells and Mark Hornby
Terry and Mark have been working together on and off for about 20 years. Their career started in the eighties when they played in bands together touring with the likes of Human League and the Jags. Their songwriting partnership has been fruitful with covers for the reformed Animals in the eighties and Lisa... [+] Read More

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The most dynamic female soul singer in the history of the music, Tina Turner oozed sexuality from every pore in a performing career that began the moment she stepped onstage as lead singer of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue in the late '50s. Her gritty and growling performances beat down doors everywhere, looking back to the double-barreled attack... [+] Read More

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