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Artist: Mary Janes
Bloomington, IN, band the Mary Janes sports a disparate range of influences, from country legends like Hank Williams and the Carter Family to indie rock godfathers the Velvet Underground. Singer/guitarist Janas Hoyt, who was born and raised in Indianapolis, leads the Mary Janes. After a stint in New York in the '80s, Hoyt returned to Indiana and... [+] Read More
Artist: Mary Jane
Artist: Mary-Jane
Artist: The Mary Jane Girls
Just as Vanity 6 and Apollonia 6 wouldn't have existed without Prince, the Mary Jane Girls were created by Rick James and were very much a product of the funkster's imagination. The group's name was coined in the late '70s, when James hired them as background singers for his Stone City Band. The Mary Jane Girls (whose name underscored James'... [+] Read More
Artist: MaryJane
Mary Jane is a 4 piece from Munich, BY. They play fast songs with catchy melodies and they love to play music together. Check out their brand new songs! [+] Read More
Artist: Mary Jane Leach
Composer Mary Jane Leach grew out of a strong grounding in the arts, singing at church as a child, playing clarinet in high school, writing theater pieces in college, and finally getting into New York City's performance art scene in the late '70s while studying music at Columbia. Leach decided in the early '80s that she wanted to make her name... [+] Read More
Artist: Mary Jane Hooper
New Orleans funk diva Mary Jane Hooper remains one of the most shadowy figures in Crescent City soul history. Famed for her collaboration with legendary producer Eddie Bo, many believe she is simply an alias employed by singer Inez Cheatham, although Bo himself disputes such assertions. Hooper is in fact the stage name of one Sena Fletcher, who... [+] Read More
Artist: Mary Jane Lamond
Though her initial leap into fame came with the release of Ashley MacIssac's hit song, "Sleepy Maggie," on which she provided vocals in Scottish Gaelic, Mary Jane Lamond had been immersing herself in the music of her grandparents for quite some time. Her own first album, Bho ThirNana Craobh (From the Land of the Trees) was released in the same... [+] Read More
Artist: Mary Jane Williams
Artist: Mary Jane Newman
Artist: Mary Jane Russell
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Artist: The Click Five
The title of The Click Fives sophomore album, MODERN MINDS AND PASTIMES, perfectly sums up the quintets raison detre. The title is a nod to Ray Charless classic 1962 album, Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, and, as bassist Ethan Mentzer explains: Our record is an eclectic mix of styles dating back to the 60s and... [+] Read More
Artist: Rinasanz
My style has been developed in many different areas of this country and parts of Europe. My name was developed through trial and error. I am a 31 year old man trying to make use of my gift. My verses contain no curses, but they do contain references to mary jane (I am the devil disguised as a Cherub). I am originally from New Jersey. I have... [+] Read More
Artist: William Tell & The Marksmen
Were it not for the Vancouver BC Record Collector's Association, this local quintet would have remained forever unheard by the world at large. Fortunately, the VRCA's History of Vancouver Rock and Roll, Vol. 4 (VRCA 004; 1991) rectifies that enormous injustice. The band included Jeff Edington (lead vocals), Lindsay Mitchell (lead guitar), Bill... [+] Read More
Artist: Girls Can't Help It
Billie Adams, Jacqueline Bucknell, and Samantha Spencer-Lane comprised Girls Can't Help It, a short-lived urban contemporary/dance-pop trio that was active in London in the early '80s. Because Girls Can't Help It consisted of three white females from England -- all of them gorgeous -- some people compared the obscure group to Bananarama. But the... [+] Read More
Artist: Baroques
A minor psychedelic band with a mixture of interesting and generic material, the Baroques recorded one LP for Chess in 1967, when the blues/R&B/soul-oriented label was considering breaking into the rock market. Popular only on a reginal level, the Milwaukee group (originally called "The Complete Unknowns," until someone probably realized how... [+] Read More
Artist: Crooked County
Crooked County's lineup is unusual, but it's one that works for the band's outlaw, rough-and-ready style. Rather than having just one drummer within its ranks, the group's hard-driving sound is backed by a pair of them, and lead vocals are contributed by three members. Toby Purnell and Kurt Squire co-founded Crooked County in 1998 in... [+] Read More
Artist: DJ Spinna
DJ Spinna's accomplishments surpass those of most DJs, yet he remained strictly an underground artist despite his astonishing talent. Though primarily known for his hip-hop work, Spinna also expanded his reach to include downtempo house music as well. The New York DJ remixed tracks for many artists such as Soulstice and Nightmares on Wax. He... [+] Read More
Artist: Ashley MacIsaac
Ashley MacIsaac is, in a sense, the musical representative of the pre-millennial generation of Atlantic Canada. An ardent traditionalist (and cousin of international Celtic performer Natalie MacMaster) with a penchant, nevertheless, for experimentation, this young Nova Scotian native has been taught to play the fiddle the working-class,... [+] Read More
Artist: Rick James
In the late '70s, when the fortunes of Motown Records seemed to be flagging, Rick James came along and rescued the company, providing funky hits that updated the label's style and saw it through into the mid-'80s. Actually, James had been with Motown earlier, though nothing had come of it. After growing up in Buffalo and running away to join the... [+] Read More
Artist: Shirley Alston
The aunt of vocalist Johnetta Alston, Shirley Alston (Owens) was also lead vocalist for the Shirelles, who were deemed the finest women's group ever prior to the emergence of the Supremes. Alston, Beverley Lee, Addie Harris, and Dorris Kenner all met during high school. They formed the Shirelles in 1958 in New Jersey and first recorded for... [+] Read More
Artist: Laurel MacDonald
The cousin of Mary Jane Lamond, Toronto-based singer and composer Laurel MacDonald has increasingly garnered acclaim on her own. MacDonald's albums -- Kiss Closed My Eyes, released in 1995, and Chroma, released in 1999, have been critical successes. While Billboard praised her songs as "densely textured and exquisitely woven", Venue Magazine... [+] Read More
Artist: Vincent Youmans
A famed composer of the '20s and '30s, Vincent Youmans wrote popular songs and became famous for his Broadway musical hits. Among his Broadway hit songs are "Who's Who With You," "Country Cousin" and "Oh Me, Oh My, Oh You."
Vincent Youmans' career began when he was four-years-old. He was born in New York to a hat chain owner and a housewife.... [+] Read More
