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Artist: Les Burness
The steady, dependable pianist Les Burness was initially known as a dance band player whose '40s allegiance to the Tony Pastor band had been preceded by some swing nibbling in the late '30s, feeding chords to trumpeter Bunny Berigan and clarinetist Artie Shaw. He recorded extensively with both of these bandleaders, from time to time hobbling... [+] Read More
Artist: Roy Burness
If this legendary drummer wielded his sticks with the inaccuracy displayed by the spelling of his name over the decades then he wouldn't be able to keep a beat at all. Roy Burns would not be on just about every list of great drummers and certainly wouldn't be writing and publishing self-improvement texts for other drummers. That spelling will... [+] Read More
Artist: Ian Burness
Artist: August Fredin Burs
Artist: David Childers
Burly North Carolinian David Childers, who happens to be an attorney by trade, is an acclaimed Americana artist who writes tough, literary tunes informed by heartland rock, country music, folk music, small towns, and lonesome highways. He also draws passionate inspiration and imagery from the Bible. 1999's Hard Time County and 2001's A Good Way... [+] Read More
Artist: John Fogerty
John Cameron Fogerty achieved fame as the lead singer/songwriter and guitarist in Creedence Clearwater Revival and has since gone on to a chart-topping solo career. Born in Berkeley, CA, Fogerty and his brother Tom organized the group that would become Creedence as the Golliwogs in the late '50s. As Creedence, they released nine Top Ten singles,... [+] Read More
Artist: Simon St. Pierre
An ex-lumberjack, this burly resident of Maine learned to play the fiddle, and the French-American repertoire that went along with the instrument, in the lumbering camps of Northern Canada. The earliest recordings of Acadian music made by artists such as the great fiddler Isidore Soucy were the bedrock sources of much of this material and Simon... [+] Read More
Artist: Johnny Grimes
While not generally that well known, trumpeter Johnny Grimes has had a remarkably long career in which it has been more than possible for him to pay tribute retrospectively to some musical landmark that he was involved with in the first place. More importantly, he has been invited to just about everyone's party, at least in his on-disc identity... [+] Read More
Artist: The Big Three Trio
For the legendary Willie Dixon, the Big Three Trio was an important launching pad for a fantastic career. Pianist Leonard "Baby Doo" Caston and guitarist Bernardo Dennis (replaced after a year by Ollie Crawford) joined upright bassist Dixon to form the popular trio in 1946. Caston was just out of the service (where he'd played on U.S.O. tours... [+] Read More
Artist: Horseshoe
An acid rock-loving quintet with a distinct country twang, Horseshoe rose from the debris of Tab Jones, a band that somehow fused rootsy authenticity with the twisted gospel of Pink Floyd's crazed former leader, Syd Barrett. After that group sputtered in 1992, lead singer Greg Wood, drummer Eddie Hawkins, and guitarist Scott Daniels launched... [+] Read More
Artist: Jackyl
Boogie rockers Jackyl were instantly lumped into the hair metal category upon their debut in 1992, but their sound was only vaguely reminiscent of the genre. Still, this label stuck with them after the sound became un-hip and their loud rock & roll was largely ignored by the mainstream. But due to the well-rounded Southern rock they were... [+] Read More
Artist: Amon Düül II
Amon Düül preferred the commune life to the hurly-burly of the music business, releasing several albums edited from recordings of a single extended jam session conducted in 1968. Several commune members with greater musical ambitions formed Amon Düül II -- they saw no reason to struggle for a new name, or argue over the original. The new... [+] Read More
Artist: Irving Burgie
Irving Burgie (pronounced; Bur' jee) is best known as the writer of such classic Calypso tunes as "Day-O" and "Jamaica Farewell". The composer of eight songs on Harry Belafonte's ground-breaking 1956 album, "Calypso", the first album in the United States, to sell one million copies, Burgie went on to write another twenty-eight songs recorded by... [+] Read More
Artist: Don Charles
The famed British record producer Joe Meek considered his collaboration with singer Don Charles his greatest creative achievement: "You are my only legit artist," the eccentric Meek told him. "All the others are yugga-dugs." Born Walter Schuffham in Hull, England, on December 10, 1933, he acquired the nickname Don as a toddler, later adopting... [+] Read More
Artist: Northwest Company
Known originally as the Bad Boys, this vastly-underrated Canadian quintet consisted of Rick McCartey (lead vocals), Ray O'Toole (lead guitar/vocals), Vidor Skofteby (rhythm guitar), Gowan Jurgensen (bass), and Richard Stepp (drums, vocals) -- the successor to Jerry Ringrose. The band hailed from Haney, BC -- a Vancouver suburb. Local radio... [+] Read More
Artist: Brother
Brothers Angus and Hamish Richardson grew up in the Australian town of Bathurst. Their home was always filled with music, whether someone was practicing an instrument or playing a record on the stereo. The Richardsons took up instruments associated with rock & roll, as well as those related to traditional music. Angus began playing the... [+] Read More
Artist: Kenny Vance
Singer, songwriter, and producer Kenny Vance had a long and varied career in music that began in the late 1950s and was still going strong in the early years of the 21st century. The core of his interest in music was vocal harmony, from the doo wop groups with which he started out to his long tenure as a member of Jay and the Americans in the... [+] Read More
Artist: Muddy Waters
A postwar Chicago blues scene without the magnificent contributions of Muddy Waters is absolutely unimaginable. From the late '40s on, he eloquently defined the city's aggressive, swaggering, Delta-rooted sound with his declamatory vocals and piercing slide-guitar attack. When he passed away in 1983, the Windy City would never quite recover.... [+] Read More
Artist: McKinley Morganfield
A post-war Chicago blues scene without the magnificent contributions of McKinley Morganfield, better known as Muddy Waters, is absolutely unimaginable. From the late '40s on, he eloquently defined the city's aggressive, swaggering, Delta-rooted sound with his declamatory vocals and piercing slide guitar attack. When he passed away in 1983, the... [+] Read More
