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Artist: Ginty
Artist: David McGinty
Artist: Paddy McGinty
Artist: Central Figures
Central Figures was originally formed in 1982 around the emerging songwriting of singer/guitarist Jim McGinty. For four years and through many changes in the line up, Jim McGinty and steadfast drummer Rusty Crowe played for small but enthusiastic crowds throughout the Philadelphia area. When the band split again during the summer of 1986, Rusty... [+] Read More
Artist: The Woodentops
Taking punk's D.I.Y. ideals and applying it to stripped-down acoustic pop, the Woodentops achieved a great deal of critical success in the short time they were together. Formed in the early '80s in Northhampton, England, the group consisted of Rolo McGinty (vocals, guitar), Frank de Freitas (bass), Simon Mawby (guitar), Benny Staples (drums),... [+] Read More
Artist: Kustard Kings
The Kustard Kings are the brainchild of Dave Terhune, a multi-instrumentalist and singer that has been a regular in the New York club scene for years. The band first came about in 1992 as a variation on the classic instrumentalists of the '60s. He recruited bassist Joe Katz, organist Joe McGinty, guitarist Kris Woolsey, and drummer Clem Waldmann... [+] Read More
Artist: Wiser Time
Wiser Time originated in the small town of Millington, NJ by singer/songwriter/guitarist, Carmen Sclafani in the spring of 2002. Sclafani had been a fixture in the local music scene, performing in bars and clubs during the evenings, while working as a commercial artist during the days. He had been performing with various incarnations under the... [+] Read More
Artist: Robert Randolph
Robert Randolph set the music world on fire in late 2000 and early 2001 when he began to play his first club dates in New York City. These were a result of being discovered playing his pedal steel guitar at the first Sacred Steel Convention in Florida in the spring of 2000. Randolph started playing the pedal steel as a teenager and started... [+] Read More
Artist: The Duke of Paducah
There were two great Whitey Fords during the 20th century. One was a left-handed pitcher for the New York Yankees, inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974, and the other, Benjamin "Whitey" Ford, known as the Duke of Paducah, was one of country music's first hillbilly comedians. A longtime member of the Grand Ole Opry, the Duke of... [+] Read More
Artist: Bibi Farber
Born in New York, Bibi Farber is the daughter of conservative radio pundit and commentator Barry Farber and the sister of rock journalist Celia Farber. Both sisters spent their teen years in Orbero, Sweden, raised there by their mother. It was in Sweden that Bibi Farber became enamored of punk and New Wave rock and she started out in music... [+] Read More
Artist: Neal Casal
If you believe in reincarnation then some of the melodic artistry of country-rocker Gram Parsons must have found its way into Neal Casal since his birth in Denville, New Jersey on the 2nd November 1968. A restless childhood that visited Georgia, California, Michigan and Florida before upstate New York was given a musical impetus at age 13 by the... [+] Read More
Artist: Todd Sheaffer
Todd Sheaffer, former frontman for New Jersey roots rockers From Good Homes, proved himself a full-throated tenor fit for an interesting acoustic folk solo career beginning in 2000. After From Good Homes played its farewell concert at Waterloo Village in Stanhope, NJ, in August 1999, Sheaffer embarked on a solo career. First he performed locally... [+] Read More
Artist: Tom Flannery
A lifelong resident of the anthracite-coal region of Northeastern Pennsylvania and a descendant of Irish-famine refugees, singer/songwriter Thomas Flannery developed an acute comprehension of his own and the region's often bitter and tragic coal mining heritage. But he also developed a journalistic eye for the minute details of quotidian life... [+] Read More
