“Statesboro Blues” is a Piedmont Blues song written by Blind Willie McTell, who recorded it in 1928. The title refers to the town of Statesboro, Georgia. Although McTell was born in Thomson, Georgia, in an interview he called Statesboro “my real home.” The eight sides he recorded for Victor, including “Statesboro Blues”, have been described […]
Dave Stewart
Dave Stewart is an English musician, songwriter and record producer. Born in Sunderland he began recording whilst still in his teens. After leaving Wearside Stewart spent several years living in squats in London. In late 1976, he was introduced to Annie Lennox by Paul Jacobs. Soon, Stewart and Lennox became romantically involved. By 1977, the […]
The Lemon Pipers
The Lemon Pipers were a short-lived 1960s American rock band from Oxford, Ohio. The Lemon Pipers comprised drummer William (Bill) E. Albaugh, guitarist Bill Bartlett, vocalist Dale “Ivan” Browne, keyboardist Robert G. Nave, and bassist Steve Walmsley, who replaced the original bass guitarist Bob “Dude” Dudek. The band played a mixture of blues, hard rock […]
Carl Davis
Carl Davis who died recently was an American-born British conductor and composer. He wrote music for more than 100 television programs. Davis was born in Brooklyn, New York City, to Jewish parents, Sara (née Perlmutter) and Isadore Davis. He studied composition with Paul Nordoff and Hugo Kauder, and subsequently with Per Norgard in Copenhagen. He […]
Visions of Atlantis
Visions of Atlantis is an Austrian symphonic metal band from Styria. Fascinated by the myth of Atlantis, Werner Fiedler, Thomas Caser, Christian Stani, and Chris Kamper decided in August 2000 to work out a concept inspired by the secret of Atlantis. Late in summer mezzo-soprano Nicole Bogner joined the project, and this was the birth […]
Sierra Hull
Sierra Hull is an American bluegrass singer-songwriter, mandolinist, and guitarist. She was born and raised in Byrdstown, Tennessee and attended Pickett County High School before accepting a Presidential Scholarship to study at the Berklee College of Music. Hull began playing the mandolin at the age of eight and put out the album Angel Mountain at […]
Foghat
Foghat are an English rock band formed in London in 1971. The band is known for the use of electric slide guitar in its music. The band initially featured Dave Peverett (“Lonesome Dave”) on guitar and vocals, Tony Stevens on bass and Roger Earl on drums, after all three musicians left Savoy Brown in 1971. […]
Char
Hisato Takenaka, known professionally as Char, is a Japanese musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. He is considered one of Japan’s greatest guitar players. Char started learning piano in elementary school, and playing guitar at age eight. Although he listened to various guitarists, it was Eric Clapton who got him hooked on the instrument. Char began […]
Landscape
Landscape were an English synth-pop band, best known for the 1981 hits “Einstein a Go-Go” and “Norman Bates”. Formed in London in 1975, the band toured constantly during the mid-to-late-1970s, playing rock, punk and jazz venues and releasing two instrumental EP’s on its own Event Horizon label. The group began experimenting with computer-programmed music and […]
Anneke van Giersbergen & Agua de Annique
Anneke van Giersbergen & Agua de Annique was the solo project of the former The Gathering vocalist, Anneke van Giersbergen. The project was announced in June 2007, the same day that both The Gathering and Anneke van Giersbergen issued separate announcements that van Giersbergen would leave the band in August. She wanted to have a […]