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Artist: CW Vibe
Artist: Run C&W
As you might guess, Run C&W is a novelty country project, but it has nothing to do with the rap group its name comes from; instead, group members Crashen Burns, Wash Burns, Side Burns, and Rug Burns transform vintage soul classics into bluegrass-style twang. Of course, the Burns Brothers are fictional creations; the group is actually composed of... [+] Read More
Artist: CW Cooper & Desert Express
C. W. Cooper was born and raised in Odessa Texas. He started playing the violin at age four, guitar at age five. He gave up the violin and pursued his love of the guitar and country music.At age nineteen C. W. started a band named "Silverado". C. W. spent the next ten years touring the Southern United States, playing venues such as Billy Bob's... [+] Read More
Artist: C.W. Gatlin
Artist: C.W. Vrtacek
Born in 1953, Charles Vrtacek began playing guitar at the age of 11. He has been the guitarist in Forever Einstein since their inception. He also has released several solo albums. Before Forever Einstein, he played with Forever Einstein drummer John Roulat in a group called Dancing Lessons. ~ Gary Hill, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: C.W. McCall
Essentially a character created by advertising executive William Fries, C.W. McCall was the instrumental figure behind the truck-driving craze that swept America in the mid-'70s. Fries was born November 15, 1928, in Audubon, IA, and while he displayed musical promise as a child, he was more interested in graphic design. While attending the... [+] Read More
Artist: Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley may be the single most important figure in American 20th century popular music. Not necessarily the best, and certainly not the most consistent. But no one could argue with the fact that he was the musician most responsible for popularizing rock & roll on an international level. Viewed in cold sales figures, his impact was... [+] Read More
Artist: Joe Perry
Producer Joe Perry worked with a selection of performers contracted to the Decca label, Decca eventually transformed into aspects of both the Verve and MCA catalogs. He had a good feel for several genres, turning out marvelous work by Texas C&W innovator Ernest Tubb as well as, on the other side of the stylistic rainbow, some of the best... [+] Read More
Artist: Forever Einstein
Forever Einstein is a three-piece, instrumental band whose music is based on composition and instrumental interplay. The group's songs tend to be short, catchy, and dynamic, with a playful attitude and an abundance of musical ideas. Formed in 1989, Forever Einstein consists of John Roulat on drums and percussion, Mark Sichel on bass, and C.W.... [+] Read More
Artist: Christopher Williams
Contemporary soul singer Christopher Williams released his CW debut in 1987. Four years later, he acted in New Jack City; his single from the soundtrack, "Dreamin'," turned gold and reached number one. His 1993 album (Changes) featured the hits "Every Little Thing" and "Come Go with Me." 1995's Not a Perfect Man brought a new direction for... [+] Read More
Artist: Peterson Tusubira Mutebi
Mutebi was one of the few active Ugandan musicians during the Idi Amin era. He was influenced by local stars such as Tabu Ley and Franco as well as foreign acts like the Beatles, Jim Reeves, and Cliff Richard, developing a style he called "kadonkam," a fusion of native rhythms with C&W. His band also played a number of popular dance band styles.... [+] Read More
Artist: Willie Neal Johnson
Known throughout the gospel circuit as "The Country Boy" for his rootsy, blues-driven style, singer Willie Neal Johnson was born and raised in Tyler, TX; he began performing with his five siblings while still a child, and was still in his teens when he was tapped to join Rev. C.W. Jackson's group the Five Ways of Joy Gospel Singers. A few years... [+] Read More
Artist: Brian Ahern
Canadian native Brian Ahern first made his mark in the music industry by discovering the placid sounds of fellow Canadian Anne Murray. He had met her earlier when the young singer performed on a TV show in Halifax, but it was only after Ahern had moved to Toronto was he able to pursuade the young singer to join him in the studio. The... [+] Read More
Artist: Rory Michael Bourke
Highly successful songwriter Rory Michael Bourke has won more than 45 ASCAP awards, including Writer of the Year in 1975, 1979, and 1983. He has written or co-written a long list of hit songs, including the 1973 worldwide blockbuster for Charlie Rich, "Most Beautiful Girl," which he co-wrote with Billy Sherrill and Norro Wilson. Bourke, a 1989... [+] Read More
Artist: Spiderman Harrison
Although best known as the Indianapolis market's premier soul and funk DJ during the late 1960s and early 1970s, Spider Harrison also enjoyed a brief career making music of his own. Born and raised in Hempstead, New York, Harrison began promoting local concerts as a teen, later taking broadcasting courses at CW Post College and interning at... [+] Read More
Artist: Russell Smith
Russell Smith followed up a successful run as vocalist and guitarist with the Amazing Rhythm Aces with an even more thriving business as a Nashville songwriter. Additionally, a variety of country and pop recording artists have utilized Smith's finely honed vocal stylings in a background or guest vocalist capacity. Smith has also kept his... [+] Read More
Artist: Thomas DiMuzio
San Francisco-based Dimuzio is one of those unsung artistic figures whose influence and abilities have substantially outstripped his visibility. Composer, multi-instrumentalist, sound designer, experimental electronic musician, sideman and recording studio owner-Dimuzio has been busy doing his thing(s) since the late 1980's, but is still only... [+] Read More
Artist: Red Wootten
Wootten started his career playing country & western, moved to big band jazz, then back to country and won an Academy of Country Music Award as Best Bassist in 1982. While still in his teens, Wootten landed a six-dollar-a-week gig on Archie "Grandpappy" Campbell's C&W show on radio station WDOD in Chattanooga, TN; the band included future Sons... [+] Read More
Artist: Richmond Fontaine
Playing brittle and evocative alt-country with lyrics that draw powerful and sometimes troubling portraits of life along the margins of the contemporary American West, Richmond Fontaine is the brainchild of singer, guitarist, and songwriter Willy Vlautin, who was born in Reno, NV. When Vlautin was in his early teens, his older brother moved to... [+] Read More
Artist: Angela Deniro
Although she had been in jazz for a few years, Angela DeNiro's "break" came when she met her husband-to-be, Ron Aprea. Aprea, already a veteran of such big bands as Woody Herman, Les Elgart, Tito Puente and Frank Foster, was performing with the Skitch Henderson Orchestra when he got a call to work with the band DeNiro was performing with. The... [+] Read More
Artist: Eugene Chadbourne
A seemingly endless -- and endlessly eclectic -- series of releases made the innovative guitarist Eugene Chadbourne one of the underground community's most well-known and well-regarded eccentrics. Born January 4, 1954 in Mount Vernon, NY, Chadbourne was raised in Boulder, CO, by his mother, a refugee of the Nazi death camps. At the age of 11,... [+] Read More
Artist: Hub Sutter
To most musicians, a hub would most likely bring to mind somewhere one is forced to change planes, or part of a wheel that has to be removed in order to change a tire. There is almost a total lack of people in the music business with this name, with the Texas country and rockabilly artist Hub Sutter perhaps the only one other than the Amsterdam... [+] Read More
Artist: Mannheim Steamroller
The alias of composer Chip Davis, Mannheim Steamroller was among the pioneers of neo-classical electronic music, emerging as one of the driving forces behind the New Age phenomenon. Born in Sylvania, Ohio, Davis' father was a high school music teacher, while his mother was a trombonist with Phil Spitalny's All Girl Orchestra. His grandmother was... [+] Read More
Artist: Linda Hargrove
Linda Hargrove was a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who forever seemed to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. In the mid-'70s, she was one of the first Nashville artists to blend country sounds with a modern pop/rock sheen; by the time that such a hybrid came to dominate the charts a decade later, however, Hargrove was... [+] Read More
Artist: Chip Davis
The driving force behind Mannheim Steamroller, Chip Davis was among the pioneers of neo-classical electronic music, and with his own independent label American Gramaphone helped give rise to the new age phenomenon. Born Louis Davis, Jr. in Sylvania, Ohio, his father was a high school music teacher, while his mother was a trombonist with Phil... [+] Read More
