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Artist: The Weary Boys
Artist: Weary Hearts
Artist: Cotton Weary
Artist: Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash was one of the most imposing and influential figures in post-World War II country music. With his deep, resonant baritone and spare, percussive guitar, he had a basic, distinctive sound. Cash didn't sound like Nashville, nor did he sound like honky tonk or rock & roll. He created his own subgenre, falling halfway between the blunt... [+] Read More
Artist: Rammstein
Rammstein was formed in 1993 by an assembly of factory-weary proletarians raised in East Germany. They took their name (adding an "m") from the location of a German tragedy where 80 people were hurt and killed as the result of a crash during an American Air Force flight show. The literal translation of "ram stein" is a battering ram made of... [+] Read More
Artist: Sweet Thursday
A short-lived minor-league supergroup of sorts, Sweet Thursday featured supersessionman Nicky Hopkins on keyboards and Jon Mark (of Bluesbreakers fame) on vocals and guitar. Their sole, self-titled album (from 1969) was extremely derivative of Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde period, with hoarse vocals, piano-organ arrangements, and weary, slightly... [+] Read More
Artist: Jack Hayter
Hefner guitarist Jack Hayter had no intention to record his own songs until their singer, Darren Hayman, encouraged him to give it a try. After setting up in his own house, he put together the lo-fi acoustic effort Practical Wireless in 2002. Featuring his weary voice and sparse accompaniment, the album landed on Absolutely Kosher Records that... [+] Read More
Artist: The Bee Gees
No popular music act of the '60s, '70s, '80s, or '90s has experienced more ups and downs in its popularity, or attracted a more varied audience across the decades than the Bee Gees. Beginning in the mid- to late '60s as a Beatlesque ensemble, they quickly developed as songwriters in their own right and style, perfecting in the process a... [+] Read More
Artist: Metric
This world-weary and cultured duo honed their individual talents, Emily Haines at a Toronto art college and James Shaw at the Julliard School where he studied classical trumpet before traveling to Toronto. The group's new wave influences and homages became popular in certain important circles. The group, named for its metered approach to musical... [+] Read More
Artist: Willie Jones
When this Willie Jones sang and recorded "Willie's Weary Blues" in the '20s, he may have been expressing fatigue about being confused with so many other musicians with this same name. Another song from the same session, "Blue Buddies Blues," may have had something to do with friends of Jones not being able to figure out which Jones is which, a... [+] Read More
Artist: Ryan a.ka. Red Monkey a.k.a R.Y.N a.k.a King of da 845
So far...I been through hell and back and I'm still searchin 4 dat place dey call heaven. I stay on my grind and no one but GOD can stop me from fulfillin' my dreamz. Even though da road get weary at times...I'm confident dat everthing will come together in due time.
Every cd/mixtape I've put out has been hotter than the last one...and... [+] Read More
Artist: Shorty Mac
Fourteen-year-old Robert Leonard Wood was one of the most sobering gangsta rappers to arrive when his mean-spirited, grizzled Shorty Mac persona released a harrowing album of street stories in 1996. How much of his life was fictionalized is a point of contention, but Wood's rhymes were world-weary views into the ghetto from the eyes of a... [+] Read More
Artist: Smash TV
Smash TV (Holger Zilske and Michael Schmidt) began their career recording under the alias Mindlab, releasing one popular tech-house single on the Salo imprint (where fellow tech-house artists SCSI-9 also got their start). With a switch over to Berlin's Bpitch Control, the duo released Electrified and a slew of singles that gained critical... [+] Read More
Artist: Mario Matteoli
Mario Matteoli was born and raised in Eureka, California. He started playing guitar at age 14, listening to the likes of Hank Williams, Bob Dylan, and Clarence White. After playing in various bluegrass and rock and roll bands and a brief stint at the local university, Matteoli packed his bags with buddies Brian Salvi and Darren Hoff and moved... [+] Read More
Artist: Ozella Jones
Ozella Jones is known for only two tracks recorded by Alan Lomax and Zora Neale Hurston at the State Farm in Raiford, FL, in 1936 as part of the Archive of American Folk Song project. Her unaccompanied singing on the weary, wistful, and haunting "Prisoner Blues" (the song is sometimes listed as "I Been a Bad, Bad Girl," since it is a loosely... [+] Read More
Artist: The Trolls
Impossibly rare -- depriving listeners of an underground classic -- is the Trolls' pairing of "Walkin' Shoes" b/w "How Do You Expect Me to Trust You?" (Peatlore 23267, 1966). "Shoes," a harmonica-laced shuffle, features a hypnotic beat and compelling vocal (half sneer, half world-weary sigh), while "Trust" wraps that mystic voice in robes of... [+] Read More
Artist: Hum Machine
Formed in Madison, WI, Hum Machine began performing its brand of alternative rock in the mid-'90s around the Midwest. Speed Kills the Dying Beat was released in 1996, gaining them local exposure and some coverage in Chicago. They followed it with The Trance Voltage Solution, a guitar-heavy album that gained them a lot of college radio airplay.... [+] Read More
Artist: Billiken Johnson
Billiken Johnson is an interesting figure in early blues history, since he didn't sing or play an instrument, and yet he recorded at least six sides in the late '20s. Johnson's unique talent was his ability to imitate train whistles and provide other vocal effects, all of which made him a popular figure on-stage at the juke joints and taverns of... [+] Read More
Artist: Chris Jones
Chris Jones' vocals -- often earthy, always rich and deep, sometimes a bit country -- help contribute to his image as one of the finer modern bluegrass artists. He delivers a "low lonesome sound," as the magazine Bluegrass Now described it, distinguishing it from the genre's long-standing definition of the high-pitched "high lonesome sound."... [+] Read More
Artist: Panhandle Pete
A completely original one-man band, this North Carolina artist was born J. Howard Nash and began playing music at the tender age of seven. In his mid-twenties he developed a novelty act in which he would use dozens of instruments which were fastened to his body with all manner of straps, ropes, and rubber bands. These included not only the... [+] Read More
Artist: Robert Horton
There was once a trombonist from Birmingham, AL, named Robert Horton; a few miles upstream in Memphis, the most well-known musical Robert Horton is a singer, guitarist, and songwriter who has contributed plenty to the band Cooley's House. The band name refers to an Irish pub catering to relaxation and meditation, representing a move indoors for... [+] Read More
Artist: Marc Stretch
Some know him as Peter Parker, some as Squeeze, others as Go-Go. Most of us, though, have come to know him as Marc Stretch, one man mic wrecking crew, member of the crews, Foreign Legion and The Marvel Team Up.
Already road weary before his teens, Marc settled down in Vallejo, Ca. It was here were he immersed himself in basketball and... [+] Read More
Artist: Skitz O'Fuel
Danger is My Middle Finger!David Shannon Farren, better known as Skitz O\'Fuel, is a singer-songwriter from Texas, USA. Farren acquired the name Skitz O\'Fuel after forming the stoner rock band THICK ââ¬â the Kings of Texas Schwag Rock. O\'Fuel and the band quickly gained a reputation as agitators who would go out of their way to... [+] Read More
Artist: twinkranes
Somewhere over one third of the way into the first decade of the new millennia in the long dank winter of 2003/2004, three young world weary musicians T.Krane and his child-hood friends and companions The Rooster and Dr Raymond Krane, sat up and dusted themselves down. After some time spent floating in the stratosphere after the implosion of... [+] Read More
Artist: Heather Eatman
Heather Eatman grew up in a theatrical household -- her father directed plays at colleges in Texas, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, and she developed a strong affinity for the tragic, weary, memorable female characters of Tennessee Williams. She credits the theater with helping her overcome her shyness by demonstrating to her that she could create... [+] Read More
