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Artist: Walkin Dead
Artist: Walkin by Faith
Artist: Walkin' Large
Artist: Walkin' Out
Artist: The C.T. Walkin' Band
Artist: Snoop Dogg
As the embodiment of '90s gangsta rap, Snoop Dogg blurred the lines between reality and fiction. Introduced to the world through Dr. Dre's The Chronic, Snoop quickly became the most famous star in rap, partially because of his drawled, laconic rhyming and partially because the violence that his lyrics implied seemed real, especially after he was... [+] Read More
Artist: Chuck Davis
This artist recorded in the mid-'90s, appearing behind Gee Dawg 'n' Joe Boy, probably the safest place to be, on threatening numbers such as "Walkin' as a Menace" and "Death's Knockin'." North Carolina rocker Don Dixon helped engineer these sessions. ~ Eugene Chadbourne, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Crispin Hellion Glover
This wild-eyed actor (Back to the Future, River's Edge) stepped out with one of the more bizarre musical styles ever to emerge from Hollywood. He does a lot of recitations, a lot of atonal rambling, and a version of "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" that must be heard to be believed. ~ Dan Heilman, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Ying Yang Twins
Atlanta's party rap duo Ying Yang Twins scored a hit with the single "Whistle While You Twurk," which received nationwide airplay on urban and crossover radio stations. Their full-length debut album, Thug Walkin', appeared later in 2000. Alley...Return of the Ying Yang Twins from 2002 sold well down South but it was the duo's 2003 team-up with... [+] Read More
Artist: Norma Tanega
Singer/songwriter Norma Tanega is known only for her one hit, the novelty-tinged "Walkin' My Cat Named Dog," which made number 22 in early 1966. There was a slight folk-rock feel to the number, with its melancholy harmonica and backup harmonies, yet it was mixed with some New York pop-soul production. An upbeat number with whimsical lyrics, it... [+] Read More
Artist: Coo Coo Cal
Milwaukee rapper Coo Coo Cal mixes Midwestern slang with the unmistakable sound of South-inspired beats, resulting in a style that mixes a number of hip-hop influences together as one, as evidenced by 1999's Walkin' Dead and 2001's Disturbed, the latter of which was his first for the Tommy Boy label and featured a trade-off with Chicago rapper... [+] Read More
Artist: Patsy Cline
One of the greatest singers in the history of country music, Patsy Cline also helped blaze a trail for female singers to assert themselves as an integral part of the Nashville-dominated country music industry. She was not alone in this regard; Kitty Wells had become a star several years before Cline's big hits in the early '60s. Brenda Lee, who... [+] Read More
Artist: Bob Bailey
Gospel performer Bob Bailey was best known in country circles for his work as a backing vocalist, primarily on mainstream artists' excursions into spiritual and holiday territory. A popular session singer, he appeared on recordings for Reba McEntire (Rumor Has It, For My Broken Heart), Vince Gill (Let There Be Peace on Earth, High Lonesome... [+] Read More
Artist: Johnny Bragg
Johnny Bragg came to the music business by a stranger route than most other artists. When he formed his first group and began to write songs, he was doing serious time in a Tennessee prison for rape. Falsely accused of numerous counts of the crime at the age of 16 and convicted at 17, Bragg had already begun serving six sentences of 99 years... [+] 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: Robert Gordon
Robert Gordon writes for most major music publications, is publisher and editor of Asymptote literary magazine, and received the 1991 Handy Award, "Keeping the Blues Alive in Journalism." He directed and edited the blues documentary video All Day and All Night and has made music videos for Mojo Nixon, the Flat Duo Jets, and Tav Falco's... [+] Read More
Artist: Toby Keith
Toby Keith spent the '90s as a solid, workmanlike country star who met with considerable chart success, yet never quite broke free of the neo-traditionalist pack to become a household name like Garth Brooks or Alan Jackson. That all changed in 2002 when he recorded "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)," a response to... [+] Read More
Artist: Smash Mouth
A novelty rock band in the same vein as Presidents of the United States of America, but with surf and garage influences instead of the Presidents' punk/thrash background, Smash Mouth found a hit in 1997 with the '50s-influenced "Walkin' on the Sun." The group was formed in 1994 in San Jose, CA, by vocalist Steve Harwell, a former rapper with the... [+] Read More
Artist: The Prisonaires
The Prisonaires were just that, five African-American male singers who also happened to be inmates of the Tennessee State Penitentiary in Nashville. Despite what normally would be considered circumstances too onerous to start a pop music career, the Prisonaires were celebrities, albeit briefly, after the recording of the one and only hit record,... [+] Read More
Artist: Johnnie Wright
Singer/songwriter Johnnie Wright spent much of his career working with Jack Anglin in the popular duo Johnnie & Jack, and was also the husband of Kitty Wells. He was born in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, and first performed with Anglin in 1936. They teamed up full-time in the 1940s and, except for the time Anglin spent overseas during the war,... [+] Read More
Artist: Page Cavanaugh
A talented veteran pianist/vocalist, Page Cavanaugh and his trio (with guitarist Al Viola and bassist Lloyd Pratt) were quite popular during the latter half of the 1940s. Cavanaugh started taking piano lessons when he was nine. He picked up early experience playing with the Ernie Williamson band (1938-1939). While in the military, he first met... [+] Read More
Artist: Johnnie Ray
Although practically deaf, Johnnie Ray's tear-inflected delivery tabbed him as an early-'50s sensation. Leaving Oregon for Detroit, Ray found a gig at the Flame Club, an R&B and jazz institution. In 1951, Ray signed with Columbia's R&B subsidiary Okeh Records, although "Cry," his histrionic million-seller that year, was a pop entry all the way,... [+] Read More
Artist: Sonic Boom
Sonic Boom was the alias of Pete Kember, best known as the singer-guitarist in the legendary hypno-drone unit Spacemen 3. A native of Rugby, England, while attending art college Kember teamed with Jason Pierce to form Spacemen 3, recording a demo tape in 1986; after signing to Glass Records, the group recorded their debut LP Sound of Confusion,... [+] Read More
Artist: Barry White
Say the name Barry White and you'd be hard pressed to follow it with the name of any other recording artist with such a huge, cross-sectional following. He was at home appearing on Soul Train, guesting with a full band on The Today Show, and appearing in cartoon form in various episodes of The Simpsons. During the '70s, Dinah Shore devoted a... [+] Read More
Artist: Jim Hill
Country singer Merle Haggard has always had a reputation for generosity, and in the case of the Live at Billy Bob's Texas album it seems like credits were tossed out like rice at a wedding. Thus, Jim Hill gets an album credit for selling merchandise, one of the few times such a lowly part of the gig food chain has actually been identified by... [+] Read More
