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The Black Keys
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The Black Keys are an American rock band formed in Akron, Ohio, in 2001. The group consists of Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney, the bands raw blues rock sound draws heavily from Auerbachs blues influences, including Junior Kimbrough, Howlin Wolf, and Robert Johnson. Friends since childhood, Auerbach and Carney founded the group after dropping out of college, after signing with indie label Alive, they released their debut album, The Big Come Up, which earned them a new deal with Fat Possum Records. Their third album, Rubber Factory, received acclaim and boosted the bands profile. The groups commercial breakthrough came in 2010 with Brothers, which along with its popular single Tighten Up, won three Grammy Awards. Their 2011 follow-up El Camino received strong reviews and peaked at two on the Billboard 200 chart, leading to the first arena concert tour of the bands career. The album and its hit single Lonely Boy won three Grammy Awards, in 2014, they released their eighth album, Turn Blue, their first number-one record in the US, Canada, and Australia. Guitarist/vocalist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney first met when they were eight or nine years old living in the same neighborhood of Akron. Auerbach and Carney both come from musical backgrounds, Auerbach is the cousin of guitarist Robert Quine, a veteran of New Yorks avant-rock scene. Carney is the nephew of saxophonist Ralph Carney, who performed on several Tom Waits albums, while attending Firestone High School, they became friends, though they were part of different crowds—Auerbach was captain of the high school soccer team, while Carney was a social outcast. Encouraged by their brothers, the duo began jamming together in 1996, as Auerbach was learning guitar at the time and Carney owned a four-track recorder, after graduating, both briefly attended the University of Akron before dropping out. Auerbach attempted to make a living performing at small bars in town. To record one, he asked for help from Carney, who agreed to recording equipment. However, none of Auerbachs backing band showed up on the recording date, instead, Carney and Auerbach jammed, eventually leading to the duo forming a band in mid-2001. Together, they recorded a demo consisting of old blues rip-offs. On March 20,2002, the duo played their first live show at Clevelands Beachland Ballroom and Tavern to an audience of approximately eight people. The bands debut album, The Big Come Up, was recorded entirely in Carneys basement on an 8-track tape recorder in lo-fi and was released in May 2002, three months after they signed to Alive. Two tracks, covers of the blues standard Leavin Trunk and The Beatles song She Said
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The Black Keys performing at
South by Southwest in 2010
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Auerbach with the Black Keys in December 2006
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Auerbach performing with The Black Keys in East London in March 2008
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The Black Keys performing at The Agora in January 2009
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Akron, Ohio
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Akron /ˈækrən/ is the fifth-largest city in the U. S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Summit County. It is located on the edge of the Glaciated Allegheny Plateau. As of the 2015 Census Estimate, the city proper had a population of 197,542. The Akron, OH Metropolitan Statistical Area covers Summit and Portage counties and it is also part of the larger Cleveland-Akron-Canton, OH Combined Statistical Area, which in 2013 had a population of 3,501,538, ranking 15th. Co-founded along the Little Cuyahoga River in 1825 by Simon Perkins and Paul Williams, it was done so being a point at the summit of the developing Ohio. The name derived from the Greek word ἄκρον signifying a summit or high point, due to Eliakim Crosby founding North Akron in 1833, South was added to its name until the two merged into an incorporated village in 1836. Neighboring settlements Kenmore and Ellet became annexed in 1929 and it is a setting for several movie films, television shows and novel stories, and is the origin of fictional characters. Residents of the city are called Akronites and it has had many nicknames, three of which are Rubber Capital of the World, Rubber City and City of Invention. Akron became a manufacturing center owing to its location on the canal, as well as being connected to numerous others and railroad lines. The city is home to the All-American Soapbox Derby, WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens, Akron City Hospital, the Goodyear Polymer Center, and Alcoholics Anonymous. Listed by Newsweek as one of ten Information Age high tech havens, it was awarded by the National Civic League, residents Frank and Charles Menches have a disputed claim of inventing the hamburger thus the annual national festival is hosted in the city. A creature often referred to as the Kenmore Grassman is reported through history, Notable historical events that occurred in the city includes the Akron School Law of 1847 creating the K-12 system, and Sojourner Truth giving her Aint I A Woman. Resident Ferdinand Schumacher supplied the Union Army with quaker oats during the American Civil War. Akron is known for the rubber, tire, and airship industries among others, including the trucking, stoneware, sewer pipe, fishing tackle, farming equipment, mining, match, zipper, and toy industries. With a population increase of 201. 8% during the 1910s, three major civil unrest events took place during the riot of 1900, rubber strike of 1936, and the Wooster Avenue riots of 1968. Du Bois and President Bill Clinton gave speeches on race relations in the city, while visiting during August 1914, Marcus Garvey founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association. In 1971, James R. Williams founded Alpha Phi Alpha Homes Inc. to build the Channelwood Village area of Akron. During a 2016 march on West Market Street, purple heart Vietnam War veteran, Notable criminal history includes mobster Rosario Borgio headquartering the areas black hand operations, and Pretty Boy Floyds Walker-Mitchell mobs activities
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Original town plot of Akron
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Quaker Square as it appeared in 1979
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Blues rock
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Blues rock is a fusion genre combining elements of blues and rock. It is mostly an electric ensemble-style music with similar to electric blues. From its beginnings in the early- to mid-1960s, blues rock has gone through several stylistic shifts and along the way inspired hard rock, Southern rock, Blues rock continues to be an influence, with performances and recordings by several popular artists. Blues rock started with rock musicians in the United Kingdom and the United States performing American blues songs. They typically recreated electric Chicago-style blues songs, such as those by Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed, Howlin Wolf, and Albert King, at faster tempos and with a more aggressive sound common to rock. In the UK, the style was popularized by such as the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and the Animals. In the US, Lonnie Mack, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, in the US, Johnny Winter, the Allman Brothers Band, and ZZ Top represented a hard rock trend. Although around this time, AllMusic commented, the lines between rock and hard rock were barely visible, there was a return to more blues-influenced styles. Groups, such as the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and the White Stripes, brought an edgier, more diverse style into the 2000s, Blues rock bands borrow the idea of an instrumental combo and loud amplification from rock & roll. It is also played at a fast tempo, again distinguishing it from the blues. The core blues rock sound is created by the guitar, bass guitar. Often bands also included a harmonica, usually called a harp, the electric guitar is usually amplified through a tube guitar amplifier or using an overdrive effect. While 1950s-era blues bands would still use the upright bass, the blues rock bands of the 1960s used the electric bass. Keyboard instruments, such as the piano and Hammond organ, are occasionally used. As with the guitar, the sound of the Hammond organ is typically amplified with a tube amplifier. Vocals also typically play a key role, although the vocals may be equal in importance or even subordinate to the guitar playing. As well, a number of rock pieces are instrumental-only. Blues-rock pieces often follow typical blues structures, such as blues, sixteen-bar blues
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Eric Clapton in
Barcelona, 1974
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Garage rock
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Garage rock is a raw and energetic style of rock and roll that flourished in the mid-1960s, most notably in the United States and Canada. The term derives from the perception that groups were made up of young amateurs who rehearsed in the family garage. The style, a precursor to rock, is characterized by aggressive and unsophisticated lyrics and delivery. In the US and Canada, surf rock—and later the Beatles, hundreds of acts produced regional hits, and some had national hits. Though largely associated with North America, counterparts were present elsewhere as part of the beat boom of the era. As critics of the period began to prescribe a scope for genre, they used the term punk rock. Garage rock has experienced various revivals in the years and continues to influence acts who prefer a back to basics. In the early- to mid-1980s, several garage revival scenes sprung up featuring acts that consciously attempted to replicate the look, in the 2000s, a wave of garage rock revival acts associated with the post-punk revival emerged, and a handful achieved airplay and commercial success. The term garage rock comes from the perception that its performers were young and amateurish, while numerous bands were made up of middle-class teenagers from the suburbs, others were from rural or urban areas or were composed of professional musicians in their twenties. The term garage band often refers to acts in this genre. Garage bands performed in a variety of venues, less-established groups typically played at parties, school dances, and teen clubs. For acts of legal age, bars, nightclubs, and college fraternity socials also provided regular engagements, occasionally, local groups had the opportunity to open at shows for famous touring acts. Some garage rock bands went on tour, particularly better-known acts, groups often competed in battles of the bands, which gave musicians an opportunity to gain exposure and a chance to win a prize, such as free recording time in a local studio. Battles of the bands were held, locally, regionally and nationally, and two of the most prestigious contests were held annually by the Tea Council of the U. S. A. and the Music Circus. Performances often sounded amateurish, naïve or intentionally raw, with typical themes revolving around the traumas of high school life, instrumentation was characterized by electric guitars often distorted through a fuzzbox, teamed with bass and drums. Guitarists sometimes played using aggressive-sounding bar chord riffs, sometimes referred to as power chords, organs such as the Farfisa were commonly used as well as mouth harmonicas or hand-held percussion such as tambourines. Occasionally, the tempo sped up in certain passages, sometimes referred to as raveups, Garage rock acts were diverse in both musical ability and in style, ranging from crude two- and three-chord music to near-studio musician quality. There were also variations in flourishing scenes, such as in California
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The D-Men (later
the Fifth Estate) in 1964
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Richard Berry, whose 1957 song "
Louie Louie " inspired
the Wailers,
the Kingsmen, and in turn thousands of other garage bands
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Paul Revere and the Raiders in 1967
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The Pleasure Seekers (Suzi Quatro at far right) pictured in 1966
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Psychedelic rock
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Many psychedelic groups differ in style, and the label is often used indiscriminately. Musically, the effects may be represented via novelty studio tricks, electronic or non-Western instrumentation, disjunctive song structures, some of the earlier 1960s psychedelic rock musicians were based in folk, jazz, and the blues, while others showcased an explicit Indian classical influence called raga rock. In the 1960s, there existed two main variants of the genre, the whimsical British pop-psychedelia, and the harder American West Coast acid rock. While acid rock is often deployed interchangeably with the psychedelic rock, it can also refer more specifically to the heavier. The genre bridged the transition from early blues- and folk-based rock to rock and hard rock. Since the late 1970s it has revived in various forms of neo-psychedelia. The term psychedelic was first coined in 1956 by psychiatrist Humphry Osmond as a descriptor for hallucinogenic drugs in the context of psychedelic psychotherapy. As the countercultural scene developed in San Francisco, the acid rock. In the popular music of the early 1960s, it was common for producers, songwriters, and engineers to freely experiment with form, arrangements, unnatural reverb. Some of the best known examples are Phil Spectors Wall of Sound production formula, there was no transition to be made. You go from things like Flying Purple People Eater to I Am the Walrus, music critic Richie Unterberger says that attempts to pin down the first psychedelic record are therefore nearly as elusive as trying to name the first rock & roll record. Some of the far-fetched claims include the instrumental Telstar and the Dave Clark Fives massively reverb-laden Any Way You Want It, the first mention of LSD on a rock record was the Gamblers 1960 surf instrumental LSD25. American folk singer Bob Dylan was an influence on mid 1960s rock music. He led directly to the creation of rock and the psychedelic rock musicians that followed. Molly Longman of mic. com writes that, in terms of bridging the relationship between music and hallucinogens, the Beatles and the Beach Boys were the eras most pivotal acts. The considerable success enjoyed by these two bands allowed them the freedom to experiment with new technology over entire albums. In Unterbergers opinion, the Byrds, emerging from the Californian folk scene, with their ominous minor key melodies, hyperactive instrumental breaks, and use of Gregorian chants. In the songs lyric, the requests, Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship
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A
sitar, much used on early records of the genre.
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Bob Dylan and
Allen Ginsberg in 1975
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Big Brother and the Holding Company, c. 1966–67:
Janis Joplin is seated in the foreground.
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Soul music
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Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It combines elements of African-American gospel music, rhythm and blues, Soul music became popular for dancing and listening in the United States, where record labels such as Motown, Atlantic and Stax were influential during the Civil Rights Movement. Soul also became popular around the world, directly influencing rock music, catchy rhythms, stressed by handclaps and extemporaneous body moves, are an important feature of soul music. Other characteristics are a call and response between the lead vocalist and the chorus and a tense vocal sound. The style also occasionally uses improvisational additions, twirls and auxiliary sounds, Soul music reflected the African-American identity and it stressed the importance of an African-American culture. The new-found African-American consciousness led to new styles of music, which boasted pride in being black, Soul music dominated the U. S. R&B chart in the 1960s, and many recordings crossed over into the pop charts in the U. S. By 1968, the music genre had begun to splinter. Some soul artists developed funk music, while other singers and groups developed slicker, more sophisticated, by the early 1970s, soul music had been influenced by psychedelic rock and other genres, leading to psychedelic soul. The United States saw the development of neo soul around 1994, there are also several other subgenres and offshoots of soul music. The term soul had been used among African-American musicians to emphasize the feeling of being an African-American in the United States, according to another source, Soul music was the result of the urbanization and commercialization of rhythm and blues in the 60s. The phrase soul music itself, referring to music with secular lyrics, is first attested in 1961. The term soul in African-American parlance has connotations of African-American pride, gospel groups in the 1940s and 1950s occasionally used the term as part of their name. The jazz style that derived from gospel came to be called soul jazz, important innovators whose recordings in the 1950s contributed to the emergence of soul music included Clyde McPhatter, Hank Ballard, and Etta James. Ray Charles is often cited as popularizing the genre with his string of hits starting with 1954s I Got a Woman. Singer Bobby Womack said, Ray was the genius and he turned the world onto soul music. Charles was open in acknowledging the influence of Pilgrim Travelers vocalist Jesse Whitaker on his singing style, little Richard and James Brown were equally influential. Sam Cooke and Jackie Wilson are also acknowledged as soul forefathers. Cooke became popular as the singer of gospel group The Soul Stirrers
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James Brown
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Al Green, influential soul performer
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Levi Stubbs singing lead with the Four Tops in 1966
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Isaac Hayes performing in 1973
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Blues
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Blues is a genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century. The genre developed from roots in African musical traditions, African-American work songs, spirituals, Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads. Blue notes, usually thirds or fifths flattened in pitch, are also a part of the sound. Blues shuffles or walking bass reinforce the trance-like rhythm and form a repetitive effect known as the groove, Blues as a genre is also characterized by its lyrics, bass lines, and instrumentation. Early traditional blues verses consisted of a single line repeated four times, Early blues frequently took the form of a loose narrative, often relating the troubles experienced in African-American society. Many elements, such as the format and the use of blue notes. The origins of the blues are closely related to the religious music of the Afro-American community. The first appearance of the blues is often dated to after the ending of slavery and, later and it is associated with the newly acquired freedom of the former slaves. Chroniclers began to report about blues music at the dawn of the 20th century, the first publication of blues sheet music was in 1908. Blues has since evolved from unaccompanied vocal music and oral traditions of slaves into a variety of styles and subgenres. Blues subgenres include country blues, such as Delta blues and Piedmont blues, as well as urban blues styles such as Chicago blues, World War II marked the transition from acoustic to electric blues and the progressive opening of blues music to a wider audience, especially white listeners. In the 1960s and 1970s, a form called blues rock evolved. The term blues may have come from blue devils, meaning melancholy and sadness, the phrase blue devils may also have been derived from Britain in the 1600s, when the term referred to the intense visual hallucinations that can accompany severe alcohol withdrawal. As time went on, the phrase lost the reference to devils, by the 1800s in the United States, the term blues was associated with drinking alcohol, a meaning which survives in the phrase blue law, which prohibits the sale of alcohol on Sunday. Though the use of the phrase in African-American music may be older, it has been attested to in print since 1912, in lyrics the phrase is often used to describe a depressed mood. The lyrics of traditional blues verses probably often consisted of a single line repeated four times. Two of the first published songs, Dallas Blues and Saint Louis Blues, were 12-bar blues with the AAB lyric structure. Handy wrote that he adopted this convention to avoid the monotony of lines repeated three times, the lines are often sung following a pattern closer to rhythmic talk than to a melody
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John Lomax (left) shaking hands with musician "Uncle" Rich Brown in Sumterville,
Alabama
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Charley Patton, one of the originators of the Delta blues style, playing with a
pick or a
bottleneck slide.
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Sheet music from "
Saint Louis Blues " (1914)
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Bessie Smith, an early blues singer, was known for her powerful voice.
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Fat Possum Records
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Fat Possum Records is an American independent record label based in Water Valley and Oxford, Mississippi. At first Fat Possum focused almost entirely on recording previously unknown Mississippi blues artists, recently, Fat Possum has signed younger rock acts to its roster. The label has been featured in The New York Times, New Yorker, The Observer, a Sundance Channel production, a piece on NPR, and a 2004 documentary, You See Me Laughin. Fat Possum was founded in 1991 by Living Blues editor Peter Lee—Used more often than Peter Redvers-Lee. --> was born July 2,1960, in Estcourt and he came to University of Mississippi for his MA studies in Journalism, and became editor of Living Blues in 1987. He planned on starting a label and picked the name with another student. Johnson, who grew up in the state was a student at the University of Mississippi, by 1994 or so Lee left, and freelance recording engineer Bruce Watson assumed his managerial role. An early investor was John Hermann of Widespread Panic, who also pitched Robert Palmers name as producer, the label initially specialised in discovering blues players from the North Mississippi region, many of whom had never recorded before. At Fat Possums behest some artists, particularly R. L. Burnside and this led to a fair amount of controversy among blues purists, a group in which Johnson was largely uninterested. Many of the artists for Fat Possum were picked with the aid of Palmer. Disputes between the artist and label resulted in Hoffman buying back the master and selling it to Evidence Records Fat Possum was perennially strapped for cash. Word of mouth and artist compilations, such as Not the Same Old Blues Crap 3 and All Men Are Liars, gradually pulled Fat Possum out of the red, even if only for brief periods of time. A legal fight with Capricorn Records, who were to be their distributor, drained Fat Possums funds, Burnside proved early on to be the labels biggest money maker. A remix of the R. L. Burnside song, Its Bad You Know, was featured prominently on The Sopranos. With time, many of the artists have died. Asie Payton, King Ernest, and Charles Caldwell died before their records could be released, kimbrough died in 1998 and Burnside 2005. T-Model Ford and Robert Belfour joined in the 2010s, responding to the first deaths, Fat Possum begun to release more archival records. They acquired the Al Green catalog including his 1975 Greatest Hits, the successful band The Black Keys released their second album Thickfreakness on Fat Possum, and left the label after their third album Rubber Factory. Solomon Burkes comeback album, Dont Give Up On Me, won the 2003 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album, in 2013, Fat Possum released Ready To Die by Iggy and the Stooges
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Fat Possum Records
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Nonesuch Records
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Nonesuch Records is an American record company and label owned by Warner Music Group, distributed by Warner Bros. Records, and based in New York City, founded by Jac Holzman in 1964 as a budget classical label, Nonesuch has developed into a label that records critically acclaimed music from a wide range of genres. Robert Hurwitz has been president of the company since 1984, Nonesuch was founded in 1964 by Jac Holzman to produce fine records at the same price as a trade paperback, which would be half the price of a normal LP. To achieve this he initially licensed European recordings of music as it would be too expensive to record new material. Originally the label concentrated heavily on chamber and baroque music, often with unique repertory, upon its formation, Nonesuch operated as a subsidiary label of Elektra Records, which Holzman had launched in 1950. In 1970, Holzman sold Elektra and Nonesuch to Kinney National Company, in 2004, Warner Music Group became an independently owned, publicly traded company. Sterne oversaw several firsts for the label, including early electronic releases, under Sterne, Nonesuch helped spark a ragtime revival in the United States with the release of a series of Scott Joplin piano rags performed by Joshua Rifkin. Sterne also launched the groundbreaking Explorer Series, building the foundation for the field of world music, Sterne was replaced by the founders younger brother, Keith Holzman, a production chief who, for the next five years, operated the label from Los Angeles. Records-distributed jazz label ECM Records, to run Nonesuch Records, within the first two years under Hurwitzs leadership, Nonesuch released albums by such new music pioneers as Steve Reich, John Adams, Philip Glass, John Zorn, and Kronos Quartet. Hurwitz established a roster at the label, which included Zorn, Wayne Horvitz. In 1994, Hurwitz hired David Bither, the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Elektra Records, bithers first signing, Emmylou Harris, signaled a new direction for the label. Harris, previously signed to Warner Bros. Records and Elektra Records, though she had long been a highly regarded interpreter of other writers’ songs, her Nonesuch debut was distinguished by being her first album to primarily feature self-penned compositions. In the decade that followed, k. d, laurie Anderson has put out three discs with the label, and Nonesuch reissued her seminal Big Science album, an avant-garde project that became an unlikely pop hit in 1982. That recounting of the life and loves of former Filipino leader Imelda Marcos, was turned into an Off-Broadway musical at The Public Theater in the spring of 2013. Forward-thinking traditional groups Carolina Chocolate Drops and Punch Brothers also joined the label, the Chocolate Drops, a group exploring the African-American roots of old-time music, won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album for its Nonesuch debut, Genuine Negro Jig. Mandolinist and composer Chris Thile of Punch Brothers was named a 2012 MacArthur Fellow, receiving one of 23 “genius” grant awards to extraordinary practitioners in a variety of creative fields. As a solo artist, he has joined the classical ranks of the label. Nonesuch has been building a catalog of Broadway cast recordings, including works by multiple Tony
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Nonesuch Records
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V2 Records
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V2 Records is a record label that was purchased by Universal Music Group in 2007, and then by PIAS Entertainment Group in 2013. The label was founded in 1996 by Richard Branson, five years after he sold Virgin Records to EMI, the label was owned 95% by Morgan Stanley, the chief financier of the company, and 5% by Branson. Over the years V2 acquired Gee Street Records, Junior Boys Own, Blue Dog Records, the label also distributed many labels, such as WichitaWichita, Luaka Bop, City Slang and Modular. Stereophonics were the first band to sign to the label, V2 now operates in Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Greece, Netherlands, Spain, Ireland, Sweden, United Kingdom, and United States. It was distributed in the US by BMG, however it left for WEA shortly after the formation of Sony BMG. Its headquarters were located at 14 East 4th Street in Manhattan, the former US home of Island Records, in 2006 Branson sold V2 North America to Sheridan Square Entertainment LLC for $15 million. SSE then merged its label Artemis Records into V2 North America, the new label was effectively divested from the Virgin Group. On 12 January 2007, V2 North America announced that it was undergoing restructuring to focus on its back catalogue, as a result, their employees were let go and their roster of artists left as free agents. V2 Benelux was founded by Richard Branson in 1997 as part of the V2 International group with affiliates in USA, UK, Scandinavia, Germany, France, Italy and Benelux. In February 2007 the directors of V2 Benelux, Chris Boog and Tom Willinck, rounded off a management buy out together with their distributor. In August 2007, V2 Music Group was sold for £7 million to Universal Music Group, Cooperative Music has had significant success with various acts such as Fleet Foxes, Phoenix and The Black Keys. In 2009, the newly formed IndieBlu Music Holdings LLC acquired SSEs business, including V2 North America, IndieBlu was acquired by Entertainment One in 2010. In early 2013, PIAS acquired Cooperative Music from Universal Music Group, since its formation, PIAS Cooperative has had success with albums from Factory Floor, Temples, Maximo Park, John Grant, The Eels, and Midlake. Acoustic 07, an album released by V2 List of record labels Official website Cooperative Music
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Jessica Lea Mayfield
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Jessica Lea Mayfield is an American singer-songwriter from Kent, Ohio. She is known for her ominous song writing, with a plaintive minimalist style that draws on both country and rock music, Mayfield first performed with her family bluegrass band One Way Rider at the age of 8. They began touring as a band, boarding a 1956 tour bus. At age 11, Mayfield began playing guitar and writing songs and she asked her brother David to show her a few chords, and then she started using those chords to write her own songs. Mayfield would accompany her brother David at open mic nights, often covering Foo Fighters songs, even today, she cites Dave Grohl as one of her major influences. At age 15, Mayfield recorded her first EP White Lies in her brothers bedroom, One of those copies fell into the hands of Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys. After an introduction, Mayfield and Auerbach hit the studio, laying the foundation of her debut album With Blasphemy So Heartfelt, mayfields first LP was the September 16,2008 release With Blasphemy So Heartfelt. The album was produced by Auerbach and recorded over a span in his home studio in Akron. With Blasphemy So Heartfelt features Mayfield on acoustic guitar and vocals, Auerbach on a variety of instrumentation, and Mayfield’s brother David on upright bass. Dr. Dog’s Scott McMicken and Frank McElroy provide vocal harmonies on the track “I’m Not Lonely Anymore. ”Says Auerbach of the experience, “I think she’s dark and moody in a mysterious way, not unlike Nick Cave. Pitchfork Media gave the record a rating of 8.2 out of 10, online magazine Blurt named With Blasphemy the Best Album of 2008 and gave Mayfield the title of Best New Artist of 2008. The albums opening track Kiss Me Again was featured on The CWs hit series Gossip Girl on February 2,2009, for Today is featured on the Starbucks compilation Have You Heard. Mayfields cover of the Buddy Holly song Words of Love is featured on the Starbucks compilation Sweetheart, Mayfield released her second LP Tell Me on February 8,2011. Mayfield Released her grunge-alternative rock album Make My Head Sing in 2014, the album is a nod to her roots and inspiration Dave Grohl. The album is her first without Auerbachs influence, Mayfield and Seth Avett of the Avett Brothers released an album of Elliott Smith cover songs in 2015. Mayfield collaborated with Auerbach again on his 2009 debut solo release Keep It Hid, White Lies EP With Blasphemy So Heartfelt Tell Me Make My Head Sing I Want to Love You Jessica Lea Mayfield Jessica Lea Mayfield on Facebook Flavorwires to 15 Nirvana Covers
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Jessica Lea Mayfield at
Bowery Ballroom, 2009
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Blakroc
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Blakroc is a studio album by American rock band The Black Keys, in collaboration with Damon Dash, co-founder and former co-owner of Roc-A-Fella Records, who oversaw the project. The album features guest appearances from hip hop and R&B acts, namely Mos Def, Nicole Wray, Pharoahe Monch, Ludacris. Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest, Jim Jones and NOE of ByrdGang, as well as Raekwon, RZA and the late Ol Dirty Bastard of Wu-Tang Clan. After Damon Dash began listening to Ohio-based rock duo The Black Keys, Dash suggested they enter the studio with his friend and associate, New York City-based rapper Jim Jones, with whom Dash had recently partnered to form Splash Records. While recording with co-producer and engineer Joel Hamilton at Studio G, Brooklyn-bred rapper Mos Def, interrupted the session, with new artists being called in to work on the album, it was completed after eleven weeks of recording. In order to release Blakroc, Dash founded an independent record label in conjunction with the band, Damon Dash, co-founder of the project has endorsed BlakRoc Camaros, limited edition Chevrolet Camaro automobiles to promote the album and brand. The Black Keys have stated they did not take part in the promotion, the song What You Do to Me was featured in a 2011 Zales Diamonds Valentines Day commercial and the fourth-season premiere of True Blood as well as the True Blood volume three soundtrack. The album was received well by critics. There are no plans for that, carney said that the trailer is actually an unauthorized video that was pieced together about two years ago. They recorded about eight songs two years ago, but the album was never completed, a publicist has confirmed that there is no release date set for Blakroc 2. The trailer was posted on the YouTube channel of Damon Dashs DD172 media collective, official website Interview with Blakroc co-producer and engineer Joel Hamilton
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Dr. John
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He performed a wildly theatrical stage show inspired by medicine shows, Mardi Gras costumes, and voodoo ceremonies. Rebennack has recorded more than 20 albums and in 1973 scored a hit with Right Place Wrong Time. The winner of six Grammy Awards, Rebennack was inducted into the Rock, in May 2013, Rebennack was the recipient of an honorary doctorate of fine arts from Tulane University. He was jokingly referred to by Tulanes president, Scott Cowen, born in New Orleans in 1940, Dr. John has said that his French lineage took root there some time in the early 1800s. Growing up in the Third Ward, he found musical inspiration in the minstrel tunes sung by his grandfather. He did not take lessons before his teens, and only endured a short stint in choir before getting kicked out. Throughout his adolescence his fathers connections enabled him access to the rooms of burgeoning rock artists such as Little Richard. From these exposures he advanced into clubs and onto the stage with varying local artists, most notably, and I thought, Wow, I never seen nobody dressed like this guy. Just everything about the man was totally hip, and he had gloves on him, too, beautiful silk gloves. At age 16 he was hired by Johnny Vincent as a producer at Ace Records, There, he worked with artists like James Booker and Earl King, his musical experience expanding notably. He struggled through intermittent years of high school, while a student at Jesuit High School, he was already playing in night clubs, something the Jesuit fathers disapproved of. They told him to stop playing in clubs or leave the school. According to lore, this was the seed of his classic, Right Place, eventually he focused entirely on music. Thereafter an entry into heavy narcotics use would fuel his desire to get out of New Orleans and move to California where his character and he had a regional hit with a Bo Diddley-influenced instrumental called Storm Warning on Rex Records in 1959. During these days he was an A&R man producing, with Charlie Miller, monophonic singles on 45s for Johnny Vincent and Joe Corona for such labels as Ace, Ron, Ric. For these sessions he oversaw A&R and the section while Miller wrote the horn arrangements. It was a team until Miller decided to move to New York. After the injury, Rebennack concentrated on guitar before making piano his main instrument
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Dr. John at the
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, 2007
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Dr. John at the 2006 Jazz à Vienne festival, in
Vienne,
France.
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Dr.John at the
Liri Blues Festival, Italy, July 2010.
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Lana Del Rey
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Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, better known by her stage name Lana Del Rey, is an American singer, songwriter, and model. Her music has been noted for its style, its preoccupation with themes of tragic romance and melancholia. Del Rey received further recognition after her major-label debut Born to Die peaked at two on the United States charts and was the fifth best-selling album of 2012. Three of the EPs tracks were featured in her short film Tropico, in 2014, Del Rey released her third studio album, Ultraviolence, which received positive critical and commercial reception, it became her first number-one record in the United States. In 2015, following a North American tour with Courtney Love and Grimes, Del Rey released her studio album. It also received critical and commercial response, the album had the fourth highest first week sales by a female artist in 2015. Del Rey is set to release her studio album, titled Lust for Life. She has one sister, Caroline Grant, and one brother. Her paternal grandfather, Robert England Grant, Sr. was a Kidder, Peabody & Co. investment banker, a president for Plough, Inc and Textron. Del Rey grew up in rural Lake Placid, New York, and attended a Catholic elementary school and for one year and she began singing in her church choir when she was a child, where she was the cantor. At age fifteen, she was sent to Kent School by her parents to deal with her rampant alcohol abuse, her uncle, before becoming a singer, Del Rey wanted to be a poet. As a child, her father wrote country songs for personal enjoyment, while her mother was interested in singing, during this time, Del Reys uncle taught her how to play guitar, and she realized could probably write a million songs with those six chords. Shortly after, she began writing songs and performing in nightclubs around the city under various names such as Sparkle Jump Rope Queen and Lizzy Grant, I was always singing, but didnt plan on pursuing it seriously, Del Rey said. The following fall, she enrolled at Fordham University where she majored in philosophy, Del Rey said she chose to study the subject because it bridged the gap between God and science. I was interested in God and how technology could bring us closer to finding out where we came from, according to Del Rey, she had trouble making friends in boarding school and college, and said, that was when my musical experience began. I kind of people for myself. After college, she moved to Brooklyn, where she resided for four years. On April 25,2005, a compact disc was registered under Elizabeth Woolridge Grant with the United States Copyright Office
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Del Rey performing during the Planeta Terra Music Festival in Brazil, 2013
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Del Rey performing at
Coachella in 2014
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Del Rey performing at the
Bowery Ballroom in 2011
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Del Rey at a fan meet promoting Born to Die in
Seattle, Washington, 2012
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Cage the Elephant
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Cage the Elephant is an American rock band from Bowling Green, Kentucky, that formed in 2006 and relocated to London, England in 2008 before their first album was released. Lincoln Parish served as the lead guitarist from their formation in 2006 until December 2013. Cage the Elephant are known for live performances and for possessing an eclectic sound. The bands first album is influenced by rock, funk. Cage the Elephants fourth album, Tell Me Im Pretty, produced by Dan Auerbach, was released on December 18,2015, the album won the award for Best Rock Album at the 59th Grammy Awards. Before Cage the Elephant, Matt worked in construction as a plumber, in an interview with the Rock It Out. Blog for Consequence of Sound, he said he felt if he did not quit that job. He left to work at a bar with Brad, who had previously worked in telemarketing. Daniel Tichenor held a job at Lowes and Jared worked in a pet store, Nick Bockrath is part of the band Nicos Gun and previously played bass with Morning Teleportation. Cage got to him through their friendship with that band. Matthan Minster formed a band called YOURS in 2010, members of Cage the Elephant had previously been involved in the band Perfect Confusion when they were in high school. Matt was also in a punk band in middle school called Left Nostril. The bands name, according to lead singer Matthew Shultz, came from an incident in 2006 where a mentally disturbed man approached the band after a show and he hugged Shultz and kept repeating the sentence You have to cage the elephant over and over. The band signed with Relentless Records after showcasing at the 2007 South by Southwest music festival and their first tour was as a support act for Queens of the Stone Age in Canada. They then moved to London, England, to the Leyton area on the outskirts of the city in order to avoid trouble. At the time, Lincoln was only 16 years old, so in order to be able to move, in 2008, they appeared on the British show Later. With Jools Holland with Coldplay, Sia, Glen Campbell, John Mellencamp and their single Aint No Rest for the Wicked reached number 32 on the UK Singles Chart and was featured in the Gearbox Software video game Borderlands, as well as in the 2010 movie The Bounty Hunter. It was also featured as ITunes free single of the week for the week of April 12,2009, Cage the Elephant appeared as a support act on tour with The Pigeon Detectives in early 2008, and for Silversun Pickups and Manchester Orchestra in 2009
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Cage the Elephant live in late 2013
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At London Barfly on March 18, 2008
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St. Vincent (musician)
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Anne Erin Annie Clark, better known by her stage name St. Vincent, is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. After studying at Berklee College of Music for three years, she began her career as a member of the Polyphonic Spree. Clark was also a member of Sufjan Stevenss touring band before forming her own band in 2006, St. Vincents work has received consistent praise for its distinct musical style, which blends soft rock, experimental rock, electropop, and jazz influences. Her debut album was Marry Me, followed by Actor and Strange Mercy and she released a collaborative album with David Byrne in 2012 titled Love This Giant. Clark also contributed backing vocals for Swans on their 2014 album, the album won her a Grammy for Best Alternative Album, her first Grammy award. She was the first solo female performer in 20 years to win a Grammy in that category, Annie Clark was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her mother is a social worker turned administrator for a non-profit organization, Clarks parents divorced when she was three years old, and she moved to Dallas, Texas when she was seven years old with her mother and two older sisters. From her parents blended families, Clark has eight siblings, four brothers and four sisters. She began playing the guitar at the age of 12 and, as a teenager, worked as a roadie for her uncle and aunt, Tuck Andress and Patti Cathcart, of the guitar-vocal jazz duo Tuck & Patti. She attended Lake Highlands High School, where she participated in theater and the jazz band. Clark graduated from Lake Highlands in 2001, Clark attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts for three years before dropping out. In retrospect, Clark said, I think that music school and art school, or school in any form, there has to be some system of grading. The things they can teach you are quantifiable, while all that is good and has its place, at some point you have to learn all you can and then forget everything that you learned in order to actually start making music. In 2003, during her time at Berklee, she released an EP with fellow students entitled Ratsliveonnoevilstar, while in Berklee, she worked with Heavy Rotation Records where she revealed a much more private and intimate rendering of Count for Dorm Sessions Vol.1. While attending Berklee, Clark studied with Professor of Guitar, Lauren Passarelli, shortly after leaving Berklee, Clark returned home to Texas where she joined The Polyphonic Spree just before their embarking on a European tour. In 2004, she joined Glenn Brancas 100 guitar orchestra for the Queens performance, Clark left The Polyphonic Spree and joined Sufjan Stevens touring band in 2006, bringing with her a tour EP entitled Paris is Burning. It contains three tracks, including a version of Jackson Brownes These Days. In 2006, Clark began recording an album, under the stage name St. Vincent
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St. Vincent performing at
Roskilde Festival in 2015
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Clark on stage in 2007
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St. Vincent performing in San Diego on May 30, 2009
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St. Vincent performing at The Button Factory, Dublin in November 2011
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Bombino (musician)
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Omara Bombino Moctar is an internationally acclaimed Tuareg guitarist and singer-songwriter from Agadez, Niger. His music frequently addresses Tuareg geopolitical concerns and is sung in the Tuareg language of Tamasheq, Bombino is the subject of the documentary film Agadez, the Music and the Rebellion. Bombino was born in 1980 in Tidene, Niger, a Tuareg encampment about 80 kilometers northeast of Agadez and he is a member of the Ifoghas tribe, which belongs to the Kel Air Tuareg federation. Following the outbreak of the Tuareg Rebellion in 1990, Bombino, during this time, visiting relatives left behind a guitar, and Bombino began to teach himself how to play. He later studied with renowned Tuareg guitarist, Haja Bebe, Bebe asked him to join his band where he gained the nickname Bombino, which is derived from the Italian word bambino, that means little child. While living in Algeria and Libya in his teen years, Bombino and his friends watched videos of Jimi Hendrix, Mark Knopfler and he worked as both a musician and a herder in the desert near Tripoli. By 1997, Bombino had returned to Agadez and began life as a professional musician, filmmaker Hisham Mayet managed to track down and record Bombino and his electric band Group Bombino in 2007 during a wedding performance. Those recordings, along with acoustic performances in the dry guitar style, can be heard on the Sublime Frequencies 2009 release, Group Bombino - Guitars from Agadez. Later in 2007, tensions grew again in Niger and ultimately erupted into another Tuareg Rebellion, the government, hoping to thwart the rebellion in all its forms, banned guitars for the Tuareg, as the instrument was seen as a symbol of rebellion. Bombino remarked in an interview, I do not see my guitar as a gun, additionally, two of Bombinos fellow musicians were executed, thus forcing him into exile. In January 2010 Bombino was able to return to his home in Agadez, so as to celebrate the end of the conflict, a large concert was organized at the base of the Grand Mosque in Agadez, having received the blessing of the Sultan. Bombino and his band played to over a people at the concert. While Bombino lived in exile in Burkina Faso, filmmaker Ron Wyman, having heard cassette recordings of his music, Wyman encouraged Bombino to properly record his music. Bombino agreed, and the two of them with the help of Chris Decato produced an album together in Agadez, the recordings culminated in his album Agadez, released in April,2011 which debuted at the top of the iTunes World Chart. The success of Agadez attracted many musical stars to Bombino including Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, in June 2012, Auerbach began producing Bombinos second international solo album titled Nomad. Nomad was released by Nonesuch Records on April 2,2013 and debuted at one on the iTunes World Chart. Bombino began a tour of the United States in May 2013. The tour includes appearances at music festivals, including Bonnaroo
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Bombino performing live on
Druga Godba Festival in
Ljubljana,
Slovenia, 30 May 2014
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Hanni El Khatib
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His 2013 sophomore full-length Head In The Dirt was produced by the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach. His most recent full-length album Moonlight was released on Jan. He was described by the Guardian as a “former skate-punk raised on rock and R&B is keeping the spirit of 76 alive with his primal raunch ‘n’ roll. ”Hanni El Khatib, a first-generation American, who was raised in San Francisco, California by a Palestinian father. He grew up skateboarding and listening to 60s soul, surf music, doo-wop and British invasion bands like the Beatles and he took piano lessons as a child and learned to play the guitar between age 11 and 12. He attended art school but dropped out before graduating, while employed as creative director for streetwear label HUF, he recorded himself singing and playing acoustic guitar as a hobby. He spent a year recording his songs with guitar and drums at the suggestion of friend. After participating in a 2009 art show in San Francisco, he began circulating a homemade CDR of his music and he was signed to Innovative Leisure in 2010. His debut was the 7” vinyl single “Dead Wrong, ” released on September 21,2010 and his second 7” vinyl single “Build. B/w “Loved One” was released on November 3,2010, during this time, he would perform live and begin touring extensively, including a tour with Florence and the Machine, as a duo with drummer and longtime friend Nicky Fleming-Yaryan. He quickly developed a substantial audience and his debut album Will The Guns Come Out was released on Innovative Leisure on September 27,2011. It was described by the Los Angeles Times as “a taut, muscular collection of rock ‘n’ roll” and by The Guardian as “if Joe Strummer came back as an angry young Filipino-Palestinian American. ”Much of this record consisted of the tracks recorded with Bianchi. The album’s final track “I Got A Thing, ” a cover of the 1970 Funkadelic single “I Got A Thing…” that was recorded by Josh Marcy, reached more than 2 million YouTube views in August 2011. It was licensed for a Nike advertising campaign to serve as what NPR called a surf, skate and all-around shredding anthem. ”In the spring of 2012. In 2012, El Khatib met Black Keys’ frontman Dan Auerbach by chance in a bar during a shared DJ set in Paris, later that year he recorded his second album Head In The Dirt in three weeks at Auerbach’s Nashville studio Easy Eye. Its track “Can’t Win ‘Em All” was featured in a popular Audi commercial that ran during 2013’s Superbowl XLVII and was reported to have reached 114 million Americans. In 2014, El Khatib spent 30 days recording his third full-length Moonlight with drummer Ron Marinelli, with the exception of drums, El Khatib played most of the instruments on Moonlight himself and also sampled and edited Marinelli’s drums. Moonlight also includes a recording of a funeral procession, recorded by El Khatib during a skateboarding trip through a Mexican village. A remix of the track featuring Wu-Tang Clan member GZA was released on Nov.18,2014
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Hanni El Khatib at
Rock am Ring, Germany, 2013
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The Arcs
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The Arcs is an American garage rock band formed by Dan Auerbach, the guitarist and vocalist of the Black Keys. Auerbach announced this project after performing on the Governors Ball in 2015. The groups first album, Yours, Dreamily, was released on September 4,2015, members include Leon Michels, Nick Movshon, Homer Steinweiss, Richard Swift, and Kenny Vaughan along with contributions from Mariachi Flor de Toloache. The Arcs performed at the 2016 Coachella Festival
The Arcs
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The Growlers
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The Growlers are an American band formed in Dana Point, California in 2006, now based in Costa Mesa. The band is composed of singer Brooks Nielsen, lead guitarist Matt Taylor. They have released five albums, three EPs and a number of singles, the bands sound has been described as a trademark style of music that somehow combines country, surf, pop, rock and beat which has been labelled Beach Goth. The band released their first album, Are You in or Out in 2009 and their second album, Hot Tropics, was released in 2010. The bands third album, Hung at Heart, the first to feature Anthony Braun Perry, chinese Fountain, their new more grown up, well polished album was released September 23,2014. Whilst touring the album, the expanded their live band with percussionist Nick Murray. The bands fifth album, City Club was released by Cult Records on September 30,2016. It was the first Growlers album to be credited solely to Brooks Nielsen and Matt Taylor and it was preceded by the title track as a single produced by Julian Casablancas, who also owns the label. Neither drummer Scott Montoya nor bass player Anthony Perry feature on the album, on September 25, the band confirmed Montoyas departure from the band and stated that Perry was set to return in the near future. The band toured for this album with Brad Bowers on bass, Adam Wolcott Smith on keyboard, whether their membership in the band is permanent is currently unclear. The Growlers have toured with such as The Black Keys, Devendra Banhart, Julian Casablancas, Night Beats. They have also appeared as numerous festivals including Burgerama III, Rock in Rio, the band has organized the annual Beach Goth festival since 2012. Held at the Observatory in Santa Ana, CA, the festival features performances by bands representing a variety of genres, including pop, rap, hip hop, heavy metal. Over the years, the event has included costume contests, amusement park rides, the Growlers have headlined both Saturday and Sunday night of the annual Beach Goth festival since its inception. The likes of Die Antwoord, Grimes, Julian Casablancas, Mac DeMarco, The Drums, Foxygen, White Arrows, the 2016 edition of Beach Goth took place at The Observatory in Santa Ana, CA on October 23–242016. It was originally scheduled to take place at the Oak Canyon Park but was moved last minute due to unexplained circumstances. The festivals lineup includes Bon Iver, TLC, James Blake,2 Live Crew, Violent Femmes, Future Islands, Reel Big Fish, The Faint, the Pharcyde, Leftover Crack, while it was hailed a success, the outdoor festival suffered from overcrowding and flooding. The latter caused the Growlers to delay their own set due to equipment damage, in the aftermath, the band issued an apology
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The Pretenders
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The Pretenders are an English-American rock band formed in Hereford, England, in March 1978. The original band consisted of initiator and main songwriter Chrissie Hynde, James Honeyman-Scott, Pete Farndon, Hynde launched a solo career in 2014, and the Pretenders were dormant as a band between 2012 and 2016. However, The Pretenders are once again active, having issued an album, Hynde, originally from Akron, Ohio, moved to London in 1973, working at the weekly music paper NME and at Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwoods clothes store. She was involved with early versions of the Clash and the Damned and played in short-lived bands such as Masters of the Backside, the Pretenders formed in 1978 after Dave Hill at Anchor Records heard some demos of Hyndes music. He arranged a studio in Denmark Street, where a 3-piece band consisting of Hynde, Mal Hart on bass. Dave Hill was impressed and arranged a day at Studio 51 to record another demo, although it was rough, he felt he had seen and heard enough star potential to suggest that Hynde form a more permanent band to record for his new label, Real Records. Hynde then formed a band composed of Pete Farndon on bass, James Honeyman-Scott on guitar and this band, then without a name, recorded five tracks at Regents Park Studio in July 1978, including Stop Your Sobbing. The bands first single, a cover of the Kinks song Stop Your Sobbing was released in January 1979 and gained critical attention. It was followed in June with Kid, and then in January 1980 the band got to No.1 in the UK with Brass in Pocket, which was also successful in the US, reaching No.14 on the Billboard Hot 100. Their self-titled debut album was released at the end of December 1979 and was a success in the United Kingdom, the band played at the Heatwave festival during August 1980 near Toronto. The second full-length album, Pretenders II, was released during August 1981, Pretenders II included the Extended Play singles, the MTV video success Day After Day, and popular album-radio tracks The Adultress, Birds of Paradise, Bad Boys Get Spanked, and The English Roses. On 18 September 1981 the Pretenders were the musical guest on the US late night comedy show Fridays. The band performed The Adulteress, Message of Love and Louie, Louie, Andy Kaufman was the guest host of the programme on that night. Farndons drug abuse escalated and he was fired after a meeting between Hynde, Honeyman-Scott and Chambers, on 14 June 1982, two days later, on 16 June 1982, James Honeyman-Scott died of heart failure as a result of cocaine intolerance. Farndon was in the midst of forming a new band with former Clash drummer Topper Headon, after taking heroin and passing out, Farndon drowned in his bathtub, leaving the Pretenders with two living members. The song was released in October and became their biggest success in the US, the singles B-side, My City Was Gone is now the theme music for The Rush Limbaugh Show. Hynde then set up a permanent lineup for the band, keeping Chambers and adding Robbie McIntosh on guitar. Middle of the Road was this line-ups first single, released in the US in November 1983, the US B-side,2000 Miles, was released as a single in the UK
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The Pretenders perform in
Dubai, February 2007
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The Pretenders (original line-up), Dominion Theatre, London, December 1981
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Harmony Company
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The Harmony Company was an American company that, in its heyday, was the largest musical instrument manufacturer in the USA. They made many types of stringed instruments, including ukuleles, acoustic and electric guitars, Harmony was founded in 1892 by Wilhelm Schultz. In 1916, Sears, Roebuck and Co. purchased it, at the time Harmony was led by Joe Kraus, who was chairman until 1940. In 1928, Harmony introduced the first of many Roy Smeck models and they sold 250,000 pieces in 1923 and 500,000 in 1930, including various models of guitars, banjos, and mandolins. In the late 1930s, the firm began making violins again after a 19-year hiatus and they also bought brand names from the bankrupt Oscar Schmidt Co. —La Scala, Stella, and Sovereign. They sold not only Harmony products, but instruments under the Sears name, Silvertone, and a variety of trade names—Vogue, Valencia, Johnny Marvin, Monterey, Stella, and others. In 1940, after Kraus had a conflict management, he left. The company peaked in 1964-1965, selling 350,000 instruments, between 1945 and 1975, the Chicago firm mass-produced about ten million guitars. The company reduced their output over the years, later focusing on student models sold through JCPenney, the pickups on almost all electric guitars and basses that Harmony produced were manufactured by Rowe Industries Inc. /H. N. Rowe & Company/Rowe DeArmond Inc. /DeArmond In. in Toledo, many of the instrument amplifiers badged with the Harmony name were manufactured by Sound Projects Company of Cicero, Illinois. The Harmony Guitar Company ceased in 1975, and sold the Harmony name, in the early 2000s, an unrelated company, the Westheimer Corp. based in Lake Barrington, Illinois briefly imported reissue Harmony guitars. Harmony Company models Oscar Schmidt Inc, related brands Stella Silvertone Airline Harmony Westheimer Guitars Company Website Harmony at National Music Museum
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A collection of Harmony guitars: SS Stewart gold acoustic, H73
Roy Smeck, H37 Hollywood, Silvertone 1446, H44 Stratotone
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1963 Sovereign (
Syd Barrett 's 1st guitar)
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Harmony acoustic
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Silvertone model 1219 Buck Owens "American" (1971) by Harmony Company
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Fender Telecaster
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The Fender Telecaster, colloquially known as the Tele /ˈtɛli/, is the worlds first commercially successful solid-body electric guitar. Its simple yet effective design and revolutionary sound broke ground and set trends in electric guitar manufacturing, the Fender Telecaster was developed by Leo Fender in Fullerton, California in 1950. In the period roughly between 1932 and 1949, several craftsmen and companies experimented with electric guitars, but none had made a significant impact on the market. Leo Fenders Telecaster was the design that made bolt-on neck, solid body guitars viable in the marketplace, players had been wiring up their instruments in search of greater volume and projection since the late 1920s, and electric semi-acoustics had long been widely available. That hand-built prototype, a white guitar, had most of the features of what would become the Telecaster. The initial single-pickup production model appeared in 1950, and was called the Esquire, fewer than fifty guitars were originally produced under that name, and most were replaced under warranty because of early manufacturing problems. In particular, the Esquire necks had no truss rod and many were replaced due to bent necks, later in 1950, this single-pickup model was discontinued, and a two-pickup model was renamed the Broadcaster. From this point onwards all Fender necks incorporated truss rods, the Esquire was reintroduced in 1951 as a single pickup Telecaster, at a lower price. The so-called Nocaster was a variant of Telecaster. Produced in early to mid-1951, it was the result of action from the Gretsch company over the guitars previous name. By the summer of 1951 the guitar was officially renamed as the Telecaster and has known as such ever since. The term Nocaster was originally coined by collectors to denote these transitional guitars that appeared without a name on the headstock. Since they were manufactured in this form for only a few very early in the Broadcaster/Telecasters history, original Nocasters are highly prized. There are no official numbers, but experts estimate that fewer than 500 Nocasters were produced. Fender has since registered Nocaster as a trademark to denote its modern replicas of this famous rarity, in 1951, Fender released the innovative and musically influential Precision Bass as a similar looking stable-mate to the Telecaster. This body style was released as the Fender Telecaster Bass in 1968 after the Precision Bass had been changed in 1957 to make it more closely resemble the Stratocaster guitar. Leo Fenders simple and modular design was geared to mass production, Guitars were not constructed individually, as in traditional luthiery. Rather, components were produced quickly and inexpensively in quantity and assembled into a guitar on an assembly line, the bodies were bandsawn and routed from slabs, rather than hand-carved individually, as with other guitars made at the time, such as Gibsons
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Fender Telecaster
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Valco
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Valco was an American manufacturer of guitars, guitar amplifiers, and other musical instruments from the 1940s through 1968. In the 1930s, Valco was formed by three partners and former owners of the National Dobro Company, Victor Smith, Al Frost. They also made amplifiers under contract for other companies such as Gretsch, Harmony. In the 1950s they began producing solid body electric guitars, Valco merged with Kay Musical Instrument Company in 1967, however the merged company quickly went out of business in 1968 because of financial difficulties. Since Valcos demise, a number of manufacturers have reissued several different reissues or derivatives of Valco instrument, eastwood Guitars currently produces a variety of reissue Airline guitars, as well as at least one Supro model. Several of Valcos earlier amplifier models are currently reissued by Vintage47 Amps of Mesquite and these amps are somewhat unusual in modern times because they implement octal preamp tubes, whereas later amplifiers leading right up to present times use miniature noval preamp tubes. In late 2013, it was announced that Absara Audio of Port Jefferson Station, Zinky himself had used the Supro name for a series of amps beginning in 2005 from his company, Zinky Electronics. Absara announced in January 2014 that a series of new Supro amps would debut at the Winter 2014 NAMM Show in Anaheim, the new Supro amps are cosmetically reminiscent of their progenitors from the 1960s. National Dobro Corporation Airline Kay Musical Instrument Company Wright, Michael, Supro Guitars and Amplifiers Part I - Supro Part 1. Article about Valcos Supro brand Wright, Michael, article about Supros resonator guitars ADMIN. National Westwood and Glennwood - 60s Alt-materials Make Short run, article about Nationals map guitars Ray, Will. Resurrecting a 1957 Supro Dual Tone
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1940s Valco amplifier, made for McKinney School of Music
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1939 National New Yorker (Memphis Minnie model)
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National archtop guitar (played by Christoffer Johansson)
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National electric guitar (played by Yonder)
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Guild Guitar Company
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The brand name currently exists as a brand under Córdoba Music Group. The first Guild workshop was located in Manhattan, New York, rapid expansion forced the company to move to much larger quarters, on Newark St. in Hoboken, New Jersey, in the old R. Neumann Leathers building. The company continued to expand, and was sold to the Avnet Corporation, as the folk scene quieted, a new generation of folk-rockers took Guild guitars on stage. The most notable Guild performance of that era was on the D-40 that Richie Havens played when he opened the Woodstock Festival in 1969, during the 1960s, Guild moved aggressively into the electric guitar market, successfully promoting the Starfire line of semi-acoustic and semi-solid guitars and basses. Alembic started their transition from sound and recording work to instrument building by modifying Lesh & Casadys Starfire basses, the rare S-200 Thunderbird solid body electric was used by Muddy Waters and The Lovin Spoonfuls Zal Yanovsky. Inspired by seeing Muddy Waters, Australian guitarist Ross Hannaford also acquired a Thunderbird, Guild also successfully manufactured the first dreadnought acoustic guitar which incorporates a cut-away in the lower shoulder of the instrument, known as the Guild D40-C. In 1972, under Guilds new president Leon Tell, noteworthy guitarist/designer Richard Rick Excellente conceptualized and initiated the first dreadnought guitar with a cut-away, the cut-away feature enables a player to have a more usable higher fret range. Upon the success of the Guild D-40C, other manufacturers followed suit. Today, Guild continues to manufacture the D-40C, and now and these guitars were the first Guild instruments to bear slim pointed headstocks, sometimes called pointy droopy, duck foot and cake knife for their distinctive shape. After several changes in management and ownership, Guild was eventually purchased by the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation in 1995, in late 2001, Fender decided to move all Guild production to its factory in Corona, California. To ease the Corona facility into making archtop and acoustic guitars and these kits were near-complete production guitars that only needed finishing and final assembly before being sent to retailers. The New Hartford Guild facility began production in early 2009, starting with the D-55, production quickly ramped up to include most of the popular Traditional Series acoustic guitar models. Acoustic-Electric versions of models are also available. Starting with 2012 models, all US-built Guild Traditional Series guitars were available in right-, in 2011, Traditional Series models were improved by means of a new DTAR pickup system, which allows blending between an internal microphone element and an under-saddle transducer. Previous DTAR configurations only included an under-saddle transducer, also, hard shell case material has been upgraded to a high-end, faux alligator skin material with crushed velvet interior padding. In late 2010, Guild released its Standard Series acoustic guitars and these guitars have high-end features, but differences in ornamentation and instrument finish options make them more affordable. Standard Series models include the F-30, F-30R, F-50, D-40, D-50, in 2011, cutaway acoustic-electric versions of all Standard Series models were released. These guitars featured venetian cutaways and a DTAR 18V under-saddle pickup system and these models can be identified by the CE suffix at the end of the guitars model number
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Beatles's 1966 Guild Starfire XII, one of
John Lennon 's guitars.
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A 1979 Guild D25M.
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A-150 Savoy.
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Patrick Carney
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Patrick James Carney is an American musician and producer best known as the drummer for The Black Keys, a blues rock band from Akron, Ohio. He also has a rock band called Drummer. Carneys father, Jim, was a reporter until his retirement from the Akron Beacon Journal in Ohio and his mother, Mary Stormer, is an Akron Municipal Court deputy clerk and is a former member of the Akron Board of Education. His stepfather, Barry Stormer, owns B. A. Stormer Construction Services and his uncle, Ralph Carney, is a professional sax player, and has played with Tom Waits, among others. Dan Auerbach also lived in this neighborhood, and the two met and played tag football with Auerbachs friends, although they did not become friends until high school, as a teenager, Carney was musically influenced by bands such as Pavement, Captain Beefheart and fellow Akron band Devo. In 2001 Carney and Auerbach, lead singer and guitarist, formed The Black Keys and this was followed by Thickfreakness in 2003 and Rubber Factory in 2004. The bands fourth album Magic Potion was released in 2006, attack & Release, their critically acclaimed fifth album was released in 2008, with a follow up in 2010 titled Brothers. In 2011, the released the album El Camino. The bands latest album is Turn Blue, released in 2014, both Carney and Auerbach record with Nonesuch Records. In 2009, Carney joined the 9th annual Independent Music Awards judging panel to support independent musicians careers, Carney has produced records for Beaten Awake, Houseguest, Churchbuilder, and The Black Keys. He is the founder of Audio Eagle Records, in 2009, while fellow Black Keys member Dan Auerbach was on his solo tour, Carney formed a new band called Drummer in which he played bass. Each of the members had played drums in another band. They released Feel Good Together, their album in the same year. In 2012, he produced the album for Canadian rockers The Sheepdogs. Atlantic Records released it on September 4 of that year, in 2011, he produced the second studio album by Tennis, titled Young & Old, which was released on Fat Possum Records on February 14,2012. Carney also contributed the title music to the 2014 Netflix show BoJack Horseman. Carney is the drummer on The Rentals 2014 album Lost in Alphaville, in 2005, Carney created Audio Eagle Records, an independent record label. It signed acts such as Houseguest, Royal Bangs and Carneys own side-project Drummer, Carney shut the label down in 2010
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Carney playing with The Black Keys in 2010
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Patrick Carney, playing at the House of Blues in New Orleans, LA, on September 21, 2010.
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Grammy Award
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A Grammy Award, or Grammy, is an honor awarded by The Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in the mainly English-language music industry. The annual presentation ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and the presentation of awards that have a more popular interest. It shares recognition of the industry as that of the other performance awards such as the Emmy Awards, the Tony Awards. The first Grammy Awards ceremony was held on May 4,1959, to honor, following the 2011 ceremony, The Academy overhauled many Grammy Award categories for 2012. The 59th Grammy Awards, honoring the best achievements from October 2015 to September 2016, was held on February 12,2017, the Grammys had their origin in the Hollywood Walk of Fame project in the 1950s. The music executives decided to rectify this by creating a given by their industry similar to the Oscars. This was the beginning of the National Academy of Recording Arts, after it was decided to create such an award, there was still a question of what to call it, one working title was the Eddie, to honor the inventor of the phonograph, Thomas Edison. They finally settled on using the name of the invention of Emile Berliner, the gramophone, for the awards, the number of awards given grew and fluctuated over the years with categories added and removed, at one time reaching over 100. The second Grammy Awards, also held in 1959, was the first ceremony to be televised, the gold-plated trophies, each depicting a gilded gramophone, are made and assembled by hand by Billings Artworks in Ridgway, Colorado. In 1990 the original Grammy design was revamped, changing the traditional soft lead for a stronger alloy less prone to damage, Billings developed a zinc alloy named grammium, which is trademarked. The trophies with the name engraved on them are not available until after the award announcements. By February 2009,7,578 Grammy trophies had been awarded, the General Field are four awards which are not restricted by genre. Album of the Year is awarded to the performer and the team of a full album if other than the performer. Record of the Year is awarded to the performer and the team of a single song if other than the performer. Song of the Year is awarded to the writer/composer of a single song, Best New Artist is awarded to a promising breakthrough performer who releases, during the Eligibility Year, the first recording that establishes the public identity of that artist. The only two artists to win all four of these awards are Christopher Cross, who won all four in 1980, and Adele, who won the Best New Artist award in 2009 and the other three in 2012 and 2017. Other awards are given for performance and production in specific genres, as well as for other such as artwork. Special awards are given for longer-lasting contributions to the music industry, the many other Grammy trophies are presented in a pre-telecast Premiere Ceremony earlier in the afternoon before the Grammy Awards telecast
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El Camino (The Black Keys album)
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El Camino is the seventh studio album by American rock duo the Black Keys. It was co-produced by Danger Mouse and the group, and was released on Nonesuch Records on December 6,2011, the record was the bands follow-up to their commercial breakthrough, Brothers, and was their third collaboration with Danger Mouse. El Camino draws from genres of the 1950s to 1970s, such as rock and roll, glam rock, rockabilly, surf rock. Danger Mouse contributed as a co-writer on each of the 11 songs alongside guitarist Dan Auerbach, the album was recorded from March to May 2011 in Nashville, Tennessee, at Easy Eye Sound Studio, which Auerbach opened the year prior. The band approached writing and recording differently than on previous albums, as they entered the studio without having written any material, after struggling to translate the slower songs from Brothers to a live setting, the band wrote more uptempo, hook-laden tracks for El Camino. The albums cover art depicts a similar to one the group toured in early in their career. A faux newspaper advertisement and parody car commercial playing on this joke were used to promote the record prior to release. Lonely Boy was released as the single in October 2011 and became the groups highest-charting single in several countries, including the United States, Australia. The album received reviews from critics and was ranked by many publications as one of the years best albums. It debuted at two on the US Billboard 200 and reached the top five of the album charts in Australia, Canada, Belgium. The album was certified platinum in France, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the US, as well as multi-platinum in Australia, Canada, the Black Keys supported the album with the El Camino Tour, their first headlining arena tour. Four additional singles were released, including Gold on the Ceiling and Little Black Submarines, among other accolades, El Camino won the award for Best Rock Album at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards, while Lonely Boy received honors for Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song. The album has sold 1.4 million copies in the US, from 2001 to 2009, the Black Keys experienced underground success, but after the release of their critically acclaimed sixth studio album, Brothers, the group achieved a commercial breakthrough. The album debuted at three on the Billboard 200 chart and sold 1.5 million copies worldwide, including 870,000 copies in the US. The band also gained exposure by continuing to license their songs in popular media. At the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards in February 2011, the band won awards for Best Alternative Music Album, the bands sudden success proved overwhelming, as they found themselves booking additional promotional commitments and facing demand for additional touring dates. In January 2011, the group canceled concerts in Australia, New Zealand, drummer Patrick Carney said, Weve been touring long enough to know when were about to hit our breaking point. The desire to record another album soon after Brothers also led to the decision, Carney spoke of how the success of Brothers impacted the follow-up record, For me, there were physical jitters about everything that was going on
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Danger Mouse co-produced the record and contributed as an equal songwriter with the band.
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The Clash were one of the groups cited by the Black Keys as a musical influence on El Camino.
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The vehicle on the cover is not the album's namesake, a
Chevrolet El Camino (top), but rather a
Plymouth Grand Voyager (bottom) similar to the one the duo used to tour in.
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Yours, Dreamily,
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Yours, Dreamily, is the debut album by The Arcs, a side-project by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys. The album was released on September 4,2015, the album originated as an Auerbach solo project but morphed into a collaborative effort, with musicians Leon Michels, Richard Swift, Homer Steinweiss, and Nick Movshon. All members of the band share songwriting credit for the album and it was recorded over two weeks at the Sound Factory in Los Angeles, Electric Lady Studios in New York, Auerbachs Easy Eye Sound in Nashville, and the Sound Mine in New York. Auerbach and Michels co-produced the album, and Tchad Blake mixed it, the New York-based all-female mariachi band Mariachi Flor de Toloache perform backing vocals on several album tracks and the lead vocals on Chains of Love. The first track released from the album was Stay in My Corner, Stay in My Corner was released as a special 7 vinyl record for the Mayweather-Pacquiao match and backed with the non-album track Tomato Can. On June 9,2015, the album was announced and Stay in My Corner was made available for download with pre-orders of the album via iTunes and the bands website. One month later, on July 10,2015, the track Outta My Mind was released for download as the single from the album. A video for the song Put a Flower in Your Pocket was released in mid-August 2015, all songs produced by Dan Auerbach and Leon Michels. Personnel adapted from Yours, Dreamily liner notes
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Action Bronson
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Arian Asllani, better known by the stage name Action Bronson, is an American rapper and former chef. In August 2012, he signed to Warner Bros, Records, but was later moved to Atlantic Records imprint, Vice Records. He released his label debut album, Mr. Wonderful. Bronson was born in Flushing, Queens, New York, the son of an Albanian Muslim father and he was raised in the Muslim tradition. Before embarking on a career as a rapper, which was originally just a hobby and he hosted his own online cooking show titled Action in the Kitchen. After breaking his leg in the kitchen, Bronson concentrated solely on his music career, Action Bronsons debut studio album Dr. Lecter was independently released under Fine Fabric Delegates on March 15,2011. The album, produced entirely by New York City-based music producer Tommy Mas, was available for digital download and also in CD-R. In November of that year, Bronson followed up with Well-Done, on March 12,2012, he released his second mixtape, titled Blue Chips, with Party Supplies. In August 2012, it was announced Paul Rosenberg signed Action Bronson to a management deal with Goliath Artists, which also houses names such as Eminem, The Alchemist, Blink-182 and Danny Brown. Also in August 2012, Bronson was featured on Odd Future-rapper Domo Genesis and American hip hop producer The Alchemists collaborative album No Idols, on tracks Elimination Chamber, later that year Action Bronson joined both Warner Bros. Records, via media company VICE, and concert booking agency NUE, on November 15,2012, Bronson released Rare Chandeliers, a collaborative mixtape with The Alchemist. In March 2013, Bronson performed at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and later that month was featured on XXL Magazines 2013 Freshman Class, a list of up-and-coming rappers. In May 2013, Action Bronson was moved to Atlantic Records, the EP was produced entirely by American music producer Harry Fraud and features guest appearances from fellow American rappers Raekwon, Wiz Khalifa, and Prodigy. Released as a download only, the EP was preceded by the single. In July 2013, he indicated wanting to get fellow Queens-bred rappers, Nas and Kool G Rap, also in July, Bronson announced his major-label debut album would be released in early 2014. On November 1,2013, Bronson released Blue Chips 2, on October 28,2013, Funkmaster Flex announced he would be hosting an upcoming Action Bronson mixtape. Production was revealed to be coming from Erick Sermon, Mike Will Made It, DJ Mustard, in a November 2013 interview with Rolling Stone, Bronson stated that he would have Kool G Rap and Mobb Deep, featured on his upcoming album. In February 2014, Action Bronson, J. Cole, Kendrick Lamar and 360 accompanied rapper Eminem, on a tour of Australia, South Africa
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Bronson performing in 2013.
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Mark Ronson
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Mark Daniel Ronson is an English musician, DJ, singer, songwriter and record producer. Although his debut album Here Comes the Fuzz failed to make an impact on the charts and this earned him a Brit Award for Best British Male Solo Artist in 2008. His third studio album, Record Collection, was released on 27 September 2010, in 2014, Ronson achieved his first UK and US number one single with Uptown Funk, which featured vocals from Bruno Mars. The song earned Ronson the 2015 Brit Award for British Single of the Year, and his fourth studio album, Uptown Special, was released in January 2015, and became his first UK number one album and also peaked at number 5 in the US. Ronson produced Cold Shoulder on Adeles first album,19 and he has won Record of the Year twice, in 2008 as a producer and in 2016 as a performing artist. One of the most successful musicians in contemporary British popular culture, Ronson was born at the Wellington Hospital, St Johns Wood, London, to Jewish parents, Laurence Ronson, a real-estate speculator and music manager, and Ann Dexter. His ancestors immigrated from Austria, Russia, and Lithuania, Ronson was brought up in Masorti Judaism and had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony. The family name was originally Aaronson, and was shortened by Marks grandfather Henry and he is the nephew of businessman Gerald Ronson. Through his mother, he is related to British Conservative politicians Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Leon Lord Brittan. He is not related to the late English guitarist Mick Ronson, after his parents divorced, his mother married Foreigner guitarist Mick Jones, which contributed to a childhood surrounded by music. Ronson has twin sisters who are two younger, Charlotte Ronson, a fashion designer, and Samantha Ronson, a singer. Ronson also has five younger half-siblings, Alexander and Annabelle, from his mothers marriage to Mick Jones, and Henrietta, David, Ronson – along with his mother, step-father and twin sisters – moved to New York City when he was eight years of age. Living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, he counted Sean Lennon – son of John Lennon, Ronson attended high school at the private Collegiate School in Manhattan before attending Vassar College and then New York University. While attending New York University, Ronson became a regular at downtown hip hop spots and made his name as a DJ on the New York club scene in 1993 and he soon became known for his diverse, genre-spanning selection. Influenced by funk, the hip hop scene of New York and he was soon a popular and sought after DJ in New York City, frequently booked for high-profile events and private parties. In 1999, Ronson was featured in an ad wearing Tommy Hilfiger denim in the studio for an ad campaign for the company. Mark made the leap from DJ to producer after Nikka Costas manager heard one of his sets, Ronson produced Costas song Everybody Got Their Something, and Ronson soon signed a record contract with Elektra Records. He had already produced tracks for Hilfiger ads and, in 2001, Ronsons debut album, Here Comes the Fuzz, was released in 2003
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Ronson in 2012
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Suicide Squad (film)
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Suicide Squad is a 2016 American superhero film based on the DC Comics antihero team of the same name. It is the installment in the DC Extended Universe series. By February 2009, a Suicide Squad film was in development at Warner Bros, Ayer signed on to write and direct in September 2014, and by October, the casting process had begun. Principal photography began on April 13,2015 in Toronto, Ontario with additional filming in Chicago, Illinois, and ended in August that year. Suicide Squad premiered in New York City on August 1,2016, following a strong debut that set new box office records, the film grossed over $745 million worldwide, making it the tenth highest-grossing film of 2016. It received generally negative reviews critics, who criticized its plot, directing and characters, although Robbie. The film was nominated for and won multiple awards across various categories, including hair and make-up, acting and they are placed under command of Colonel Rick Flag to be used as disposable assets in high-risk missions for the United States government. Each member has a bomb implanted in their neck, designed to detonate should any member rebel or try to escape. One of Wallers intended recruits is Flags girlfriend Dr. June Moone, Enchantress quickly turns on Waller, deciding to eradicate humankind with a mystical weapon for imprisoning her. She besieges Midway City by transforming its populace into a horde of monsters, Waller then deploys the squad to extract a high-profile mark from Midway, which is reported to be under a terrorist attack. Harleys homicidal lover, the Joker, finds out about her predicament, there, he blackmails Dr. Van Criss into disabling Harleys bomb. On approach, the helicopter is shot down, forcing them to proceed on foot to their target. They eventually manage to fight their way through to a room, where they learn that their mark is Waller herself. However, Wallers men shoot down the helicopter, and Harley falls out while the Joker is presumed dead, alerted to Wallers whereabouts, Enchantress minions arrive and kidnap her. Deadshot finds Wallers confidential files and learns the truth about Enchantress, Flag is then forced to confess the truth, causing the squad members to abandon him. With Waller compromised, Flag relieves the squad of the mission, realizing they have an opportunity to prove themselves, they soon rejoin him and locate Enchantress at a partially-flooded subway station. Killer Croc and a group of Navy SEALs, led by Lieutenant GQ Edwards, El Diablo embraces his abilities and manages to distract Incubus long enough for the bomb to detonate underneath, killing them both as well as Edwards. The remaining squad members battle Enchantress together, but are ultimately defeated, Enchantress offers to fulfill their deepest desires in exchange for their allegiance, and Harley feigns interest in order to get close enough to cut out Enchantress heart
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Cast of Suicide Squad at the 2015
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Filming of a helicopter crash on
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Polish Jewish
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The history of the Jews in Poland dates back over 800 years. For centuries, Poland was home to the largest and most significant Jewish community in the world, Poland was the centre of Jewish culture thanks to a long period of statutory religious tolerance and social autonomy. This ended with the Partitions of Poland which began in 1772, in particular, from the founding of the Kingdom of Poland in 1025 through to the early years of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth created in 1569, Poland was the most tolerant country in Europe. Known as paradisus Iudaeorum, it became a shelter for persecuted and expelled European Jewish communities, according to some sources, about three-quarters of the worlds Jews lived in Poland by the middle of the 16th century. With the weakening of the Commonwealth and growing religious strife, Polands traditional tolerance began to wane from the 17th century onward. Still, as Poland regained independence in the aftermath of World War I, Antisemitism was a growing problem throughout Europe in those years, from both the political establishment and the general population. At the start of World War II, Poland was partitioned between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, one-fifth of the Polish population perished during World War II, half of them were 3,000,000 Polish Jews murdered in The Holocaust, constituting 90% of Polish Jewry. Although the Holocaust occurred largely in German-occupied Poland, there was collaboration with the Nazis by its citizens. Collaboration by individual Poles has been described as smaller than in other occupied countries, statistics of the Israeli War Crimes Commission indicate that less than 0. 1% of Polish gentiles collaborated with the Nazis. Grouped by nationality, Poles represent the largest number of people who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, britain demanded Poland to halt the exodus, but their pressure was largely unsuccessful. Most of the remaining Jews left Poland in late 1968 as the result of the Soviet-sponsored anti-Zionist campaign. After the fall of the Communist regime in 1989, the situation of Polish Jews became normalized, Religious institutions were revived, largely through the activities of Jewish foundations from the United States. The first Jews arrived in the territory of modern Poland in the 10th century, by travelling along the trade routes leading eastwards to Kiev and Bukhara, Jewish merchants, known as Radhanites, crossed the areas of Silesia. In the summer of 965 or 966 Jacob made a trade and diplomatic journey from his native Toledo in Moslem Spain to the Holy Roman Empire, the first actual mention of Jews in Polish chronicles occurs in the 11th century. It appears that Jews were then living in Gniezno, at time the capital of the Polish kingdom of the Piast dynasty. Among the first Jews to arrive in Poland were those banished from Prague, the first permanent Jewish community is mentioned in 1085 by a Jewish scholar Jehuda ha-Kohen in the city of Przemyśl. The first extensive Jewish emigration from Western Europe to Poland occurred at the time of the First Crusade in 1098. Under Bolesław III, the Jews, encouraged by the tolerant regime of this ruler, settled throughout Poland, Bolesław III recognized the utility of Jews in the development of the commercial interests of his country
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Manx people
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The Manx are an ethnic group originating from the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea in northern Europe. They are primarily a Celtic people, though with significant Norse, according to the 2011 interim census, the Isle of Man is home to 84,655 people, of whom 26,218 reside in the islands capital Douglas. Manx people living in the UK were commonly grouped by the 2001 census under White British, the Isle of Man has had major settlement by English people from the 20th century onwards and to a lesser degree, Irish, Scottish and Welsh people. The extremely high proportion of come-overs to natives has brought with it changes in terms of culture, identity, Manx people have also made a significant contribution elsewhere through migration. The Manx have a tradition of moving to Liverpool for work hence a lot of Liverpool people have Manx ancestry. A lot of Manx people emigrated to the United States notably to Cuyahoga County and Lake County, Manx people have traditionally had three vernaculars, Manx, a Gaelic language. English language Anglo-Manx, the distinctive indigenous English dialect of the Manx, British English, the usual form of English used in the Isle of Man, especially for formal purposes. Both English and Manx are official languages in Tynwald, the Isle of Man is one of the six Celtic nations, and has been under Norse, Scottish and English control for much of the past thousand years. The earliest traces of people in the Isle of Man date to around 8000 BC, during the Mesolithic Period, small, nomadic family groups lived in campsites, hunting wild game, fishing the rivers and coastal waters and gathering plant foods. The Neolithic period was marked by important economic and social changes, by 4000 BC, people once reliant upon the uncultivated natural resources of the land and sea had adopted cereal growing and stock rearing, using imported species of grain and animals. Large scale clearance of natural woodland provided fields for crops and animal fodder, during the Iron Age, Celtic influences began to arrive on the island. This language has developed in isolation since, though it closely related to Irish. At the end of the 8th century, Viking settlers began to arrive and establish settlements, the Norse Kingdom of Mann and the Isles was created by Godred Crovan in 1079. In 1266, as dictated in the Treaty of Perth, Norways King Magnus VI ceded the isles to Scotland, for more than a century the Isle of Man, during the Anglo-Scottish wars, passed between Scotland and England. During this troubled period the Island was captured by the Scottish army of Robert the Bruce in 1313, later in the 14th century, when England once more seized the Island, the Lordship – indeed kingship – was given to the Montacute family, Earls of Salisbury. In 1405, the Lordship was granted to Sir John Stanley, the lordship passed through a female line to the Dukes of Atholl in 1736, and was eventually purchased by the British Crown in 1765. After 1866, when the Isle of Man obtained a measure of at least nominal home rule, the 20th century saw a revival of interest in Manx music, dance, and the Manx language, though the last native speaker of Manx died in the 1970s. The Manx government responded to this situation in the 1960s by changing the economy to make it an offshore financial centre
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Willard Van Orman Quine
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Willard Van Orman Quine was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition, recognized as one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. He filled the Edgar Pierce Chair of Philosophy at Harvard from 1956 to 1978, a 2009 poll conducted among analytic philosophers named Quine as the fifth most important philosopher of the past two centuries. This led to his famous quip that philosophy of science is philosophy enough, in philosophy of mathematics, he and his Harvard colleague Hilary Putnam developed the Quine–Putnam indispensability thesis, an argument for the reality of mathematical entities. According to his autobiography, The Time of My Life, Quine grew up in Akron, Ohio and his father, Cloyd R. was a manufacturing entrepreneur and his mother, Harriett E. was a schoolteacher and later a housewife. He received his B. A. in mathematics from Oberlin College in 1930 and his thesis supervisor was Alfred North Whitehead. He was then appointed a Harvard Junior Fellow, which excused him from having to teach for four years. During the academic year 1932–33, he travelled in Europe thanks to a Sheldon fellowship, meeting Polish logicians and members of the Vienna Circle and it was through Quines good offices that Tarski was invited to attend the September 1939 Unity of Science Congress in Cambridge. To attend that Congress, Tarski sailed for the USA on the last ship to leave Danzig before the Third Reich invaded Poland, Tarski survived the war and worked another 44 years in the USA. For the academic year 1964–1965, Quine was a fellow on the faculty in the Center for Advanced Studies at Wesleyan University, in 1980 Quine received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Humanities at Uppsala University, Sweden. Quine was an atheist when he was a teenager and he had four children by two marriages. Guitarist Robert Quine was his nephew, Quine was politically conservative, but the bulk of his writing was in technical areas of philosophy removed from direct political issues. Quines Ph. D. thesis and early publications were on formal logic, only after World War II did he, by virtue of seminal papers on ontology, epistemology and language, emerge as a major philosopher. By the 1960s, he had worked out his naturalized epistemology whose aim was to answer all questions of knowledge and meaning using the methods. Quine roundly rejected the notion that there should be a first philosophy and these views are intrinsic to his naturalism. Quine could lecture in French, Spanish, Portuguese and German, like the logical positivists, Quine evinced little interest in the philosophical canon, only once did he teach a course in the history of philosophy, on Hume. This distinction was central to logical positivism, like other Analytic philosophers before him, Quine accepted the definition of analytic as true in virtue of meaning alone. Unlike them, however, he concluded that ultimately the definition was circular, in other words, Quine accepted that analytic statements are those that are true by definition, then argued that the notion of truth by definition was unsatisfactory. Quines chief objection to analyticity is with the notion of synonymy, the objection to synonymy hinges upon the problem of collateral information
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Vinyl recording
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The groove usually starts near the periphery and ends near the center of the disc. The phonograph disc record was the medium used for music reproduction until late in the 20th century. It had co-existed with the cylinder from the late 1880s. Records retained the largest market share even when new formats such as compact cassette were mass-marketed, by the late 1980s, digital media, in the form of the compact disc, had gained a larger market share, and the vinyl record left the mainstream in 1991. The phonograph record has made a resurgence in the early 21st century –9.2 million records were sold in the U. S. in 2014. Likewise, in the UK sales have increased five-fold from 2009 to 2014, as of 2017,48 record pressing facilities remain worldwide,18 in the United States and 30 in other countries. The increased popularity of vinyl has led to the investment in new, only two producers of lacquers remains, Apollo Masters in California, USA, and MDC in Japan. Vinyl records may be scratched or warped if stored incorrectly but if they are not exposed to heat or broken. The large cover are valued by collectors and artists for the space given for visual expression, in the 2000s, these tracings were first scanned by audio engineers and digitally converted into audible sound. Phonautograms of singing and speech made by Scott in 1860 were played back as sound for the first time in 2008, along with a tuning fork tone and unintelligible snippets recorded as early as 1857, these are the earliest known recordings of sound. In 1877, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, unlike the phonautograph, it was capable of both recording and reproducing sound. Despite the similarity of name, there is no evidence that Edisons phonograph was based on Scotts phonautograph. Edison first tried recording sound on a paper tape, with the idea of creating a telephone repeater analogous to the telegraph repeater he had been working on. The tinfoil was wrapped around a metal cylinder and a sound-vibrated stylus indented the tinfoil while the cylinder was rotated. The recording could be played back immediately, Edison also invented variations of the phonograph that used tape and disc formats. A decade later, Edison developed a greatly improved phonograph that used a wax cylinder instead of a foil sheet. This proved to be both a better-sounding and far more useful and durable device, the wax phonograph cylinder created the recorded sound market at the end of the 1880s and dominated it through the early years of the 20th century. Berliners earliest discs, first marketed in 1889, but only in Europe, were 12.5 cm in diameter, both the records and the machine were adequate only for use as a toy or curiosity, due to the limited sound quality
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Edison wax cylinder phonograph c. 1899
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Emil Berliner with disc record gramophone
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Hungarian Pathé record, 90 to 100 rpm
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A multinational product: a duet sung in Italian, recorded in the U.S. in 1906 by the
Victor Talking Machine Company, manufactured c. 1908 in Hanover, Germany for
The Gramophone Company, Victor's affiliate in England
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Grateful Dead
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The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California. Their music, writes Lenny Kaye, touches on ground that most other groups dont even know exists and these various influences were distilled into a diverse and psychedelic whole that made the Grateful Dead the pioneering Godfathers of the jam band world. The band was ranked 57th by Rolling Stone magazine in its The Greatest Artists of All Time issue, the Grateful Dead have sold more than 35 million albums worldwide. The Grateful Dead was founded in the San Francisco Bay Area amid the rise of the counterculture of the 1960s, the founding members were Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Ron Pigpen McKernan, Phil Lesh, and Bill Kreutzmann. Members of the Grateful Dead had played together in various San Francisco bands, including Mother McCrees Uptown Jug Champions, Lesh was the last member to join the Warlocks before they became the Grateful Dead, he replaced Dana Morgan Jr. who had played bass for a few gigs. Drummer Mickey Hart and nonperforming lyricist Robert Hunter joined in 1967, with the exception of McKernan, who died in 1973, and Hart, who took time off from 1971 to 1974, the core of the band stayed together for its entire 30-year history. The other official members of the band are Tom Constanten, John Perry Barlow, Keith Godchaux, Donna Godchaux, Brent Mydland, pianist Bruce Hornsby was a touring member from 1990 to 1992, as well as guesting with the band on occasion before and after the tours. After the death of Jerry Garcia in 1995, former members of the band, along with musicians, toured as the Other Ones in 1998,2000, and 2002, and the Dead in 2003,2004. In 2015, the four surviving core members marked the bands 50th anniversary in a series of concerts that were billed as their last performances together. There have also been several spin-offs featuring one or more members, such as Dead & Company, Furthur, the Rhythm Devils, Phil Lesh & Friends, RatDog. The Grateful Dead began their career as the Warlocks, a group formed in early 1965 from the remnants of a Palo Alto, the bands first show was at Magoos Pizza located at 639 Santa Cruz Avenue in suburban Menlo Park, California, on May 5,1965. They were initially known as the Warlocks, coincidentally, the Velvet Underground was also using that name on the East Coast, the show was not recorded but the set list has been preserved. Gigging as a bar band, the group changed its name after finding out that another band of the same name had signed a recording contract. The first show under the new name Grateful Dead was in San Jose, California on December 4,1965, at one of Ken Keseys Acid Tests. Earlier demo tapes have survived, but the first of over 2,000 concerts known to have recorded by the bands fans was a show at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco on January 8,1966. Later that month, the Grateful Dead played at the Trips Festival, the name Grateful Dead was chosen from a dictionary. According to Phil Lesh, in his autobiography, picked up an old Britannica World Language Dictionary. In that silvery elf-voice he said to me, Hey, man, the definition there was the soul of a dead person, or his angel, showing gratitude to someone who, as an act of charity, arranged their burial
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The Grateful Dead in 1980. Left to right: Jerry Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh. Not pictured: Brent Mydland.
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The Grateful Dead in 1970, from a promotional photo shoot. Left to right: Bill Kreutzmann, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh.
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The
Mantra-Rock Dance promotional poster featuring the Grateful Dead
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Grateful Dead performing at
Red Rocks Amphitheatre in 1987: Jerry Garcia (guitar), Mickey Hart (drums).
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Bluegrass music
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Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and a related genre of country music. Settlers from Britain and Ireland arrived in Appalachia during the 18th century and these traditions consisted primarily of English and Scottish ballads—which were essentially unaccompanied narrative—and dance music, such as Irish reels, which were accompanied by a fiddle. Many older bluegrass songs come directly from the British Isles, several Appalachian bluegrass ballads, such as Pretty Saro, Barbara Allen, Cuckoo Bird and House Carpenter, come from England and preserve the English ballad tradition both melodically and lyrically. Others, such as The Two Sisters, also come from England, however, some bluegrass fiddle songs popular in Appalachia, such as Leather Britches, and Pretty Polly, have Scottish roots. The dance tune Cumberland Gap may be derived from the tune that accompanies the Scottish ballad Bonnie George Campbell and this is in contrast to old-time music, in which all instruments play the melody together or one instrument carries the lead throughout while the others provide accompaniment. Breakdowns are often characterized by rapid tempos and unusual instrumental dexterity, there are three major subgenres of bluegrass and one unofficial subgenre. Traditional bluegrass has musicians playing folk songs, tunes with traditional chord progressions, progressive bluegrass groups may use electric instruments and import songs from other genres, particularly rock & roll. Examples include Cadillac Sky and Bearfoot, another subgenre, Bluegrass gospel uses Christian lyrics, soulful three- or four-part harmony singing, and sometimes the playing of instrumentals. Bluegrass music has attracted a following worldwide. Bluegrass pioneer Bill Monroe characterized the genre as, Scottish bagpipes and its Methodist and Holiness and Baptist. Its blues and jazz, and it has a high lonesome sound, unlike mainstream country music, bluegrass is traditionally played on acoustic stringed instruments. The fiddle, five-string banjo, guitar, mandolin, and upright bass are often joined by the resonator guitar and this instrumentation originated in rural dance bands and is the basis on which the earliest bluegrass bands were formed. The guitar is now most commonly played with a style referred to as flatpicking, unlike the style of bluegrass guitarists such as Lester Flatt. Banjo players often use the three-finger picking style made popular by such as Don Reno. Fiddlers frequently play in thirds and fifths, producing a sound that is characteristic to the bluegrass style, bassists almost always play pizzicato, occasionally adopting the slap-style to accentuate the beat. A bluegrass bass line is generally a rhythmic alternation between the tonic and dominant of each chord, with walking bass excursions. Instrumentation has been a topic of debate. Traditional bluegrass performers believe the correct instrumentation is used by Bill Monroes band
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A
5-string banjo
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Bluegrass artists use a variety of
stringed instruments.
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Ralph Stanley on April 20, 2008 at The Granada Theater in
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Multiple
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Alison Krauss
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Marijuana
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Cannabis, also known as marijuana among several other names, is a preparation of the Cannabis plant intended for use as a psychoactive drug or medicine. The main psychoactive part of cannabis is tetrahydrocannabinol, one of 483 known compounds in the plant, Cannabis can be used by smoking, vaporization, within food, or as an extract. Cannabis is often used for its mental and physical effects, such as a high or stoned feeling, a change in perception, euphoria. Short term side effects may include a decrease in short-term memory, dry mouth, impaired motor skills, red eyes, long term side effects may include addiction, decreased mental ability in those who started as teenagers, and behavioral problems in children whose mothers used cannabis during pregnancy. Onset of effects is within minutes when smoked and about 30 to 60 minutes when cooked and they last for between two and six hours. Cannabis is mostly used recreationally or as a medicinal drug and it may also be used for religious or spiritual purposes. In 2013, between 128 and 232 million people used cannabis, in 2015, 43% of Americans had used cannabis, which increased to 51% in 2016. About 12% have used it in the past year, and 7. 3% have used it in the past month and this makes it the most commonly used illegal drug both in the world and the United States. The earliest recorded uses date from the 3rd millennium BC, since the early 20th century, cannabis has been subject to legal restrictions. The possession, use, and sale of cannabis is illegal in most countries of the world, Medical cannabis refers to the physician-recommended use of cannabis, which is taking place in Canada, Belgium, Australia, the Netherlands, Spain, and 23 U. S. states. Cannabis use started to become popular in the US in the 1970s, support for legalization has increased in the United States and several US states have legalized recreational or medical use. Medical cannabis, or medical marijuana can refer to the use of cannabis and its cannabinoids to treat disease or improve symptoms, however, the use of cannabis as a medicine has not been rigorously scientifically tested, often due to production restrictions and other federal regulations. There is limited evidence suggesting cannabis can be used to reduce nausea and vomiting during chemotherapy, to improve appetite in people with HIV/AIDS and its use for other medical applications is insufficient for conclusions about safety or efficacy. Short-term use increases the risk of minor and major adverse effects. Common side effects include dizziness, feeling tired, vomiting, long-term effects of cannabis are not clear. Concerns include memory and cognition problems, risk of addiction, schizophrenia in people. Cannabis has psychoactive and physiological effects when consumed, at higher doses, effects can include altered body image, auditory and/or visual illusions, pseudohallucinations and ataxia from selective impairment of polysynaptic reflexes. In some cases, cannabis can lead to states such as depersonalization and derealization
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A flowering cannabis plant
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A joint prior to rolling, with a paper handmade filter on the left
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Dried flower buds
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Kief
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University of Akron
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The University of Akron is a public research university in Akron, Ohio, United States. The university is part of the University System of Ohio, as a STEM-focused institution, it focuses on industries such as polymers, advanced materials, and engineering. The University of Akron offers about 200 undergraduate and more than 100 graduate majors and has an enrollment of approximately 27,000 students. The universitys College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering is housed in a 12-story reflective glass building near downtown Akron on the edge of the main campus. UA’s Archives of the History of American Psychology is an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, in addition, the university hosts nursing programs in affiliation with Lorain County Community College. It was announced that the location would be given to those who could find an appropriate location, john R. Buchtel, a prominent Akron businessman and Universalist, promptly contributed $25,000 to the endowment fund and $6,000 to the building fund. This led other Akronites to donate, setting the goal and securing Akron as the location for Buchtel College, john R. Buchtel continued to be the colleges most significant contributor, giving $500,000 over his lifetime, approximately equivalent to $16 million today. When the university opened in 1872 it was a single-building campus, george Washington Crouse donated $10,000 of the $20,000 needed to build a new gymnasium, completed in 1888. It was named Crouse Gymnasium in his honor, and was known as the finest gym west of the Alleghenies, tragedy struck the small college on December 20,1899, when Old Buchtel burned to the ground. Insurance only covered $65,000 of the estimated $100,000 in loss, while new campus buildings were being constructed, the Crouse Gymnasium was divided into seven classrooms and served as the college until a new Buchtel Hall was opened in 1901. The new Buchtel Hall, which itself was gutted by fire in 1971, in 1913, Buchtel College trustees transferred the institution and its assets to the city of Akron, and Buchtel College became the Municipal University of Akron. At this time, the enrollment was 198 students, tax money levied for the school and Akrons growing population led to strong growth for the university. Over the next decades the university continued to add new buildings to accommodate its growing student population, acquiring more land through purchases. In 1963, Governor Jim Rhodes approved the university as a state-assisted institution, enrollment in 1964 was 10,000 students. In 1967, it became a state university, providing its current name as The University of Akron. In 2015,25,117 students were enrolled at the University of Akron, during the tenure of its 15th president, Luis M. Proenza, the University of Akron underwent a $627 million construction project, called A New Landscape for Learning. A new football stadium, InfoCision Stadium-Summa Field, was constructed on campus. The new stadium opened for its first game on September 12,2009, the stadium replaced the Rubber Bowl, which is 3 miles from campus and was built in 1940
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John R. Buchtel, in front of Buchtel Hall
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The University of Akron
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University of Akron's Student union at night
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Bierce Library, the main campus library.
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Junior Kimbrough
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David Junior Kimbrough was an American blues musician. His best-known works are Keep Your Hands off Her and All Night Long, Kimbrough was born in Hudsonville, Mississippi, and lived in the north Mississippi hill country near Holly Springs. His father, a barber, played the guitar, and Junior picked his guitar as a child and he was apparently influenced by the guitarists Lightnin Hopkins, Mississippi Fred McDowell and Eli Green. In the late 1950s Kimbrough began playing the guitar in his own style, using mid-tempo rhythms and this style would later be cited as a prime example of hill country blues. His music is characterized by the tricky syncopation between his bass strings and his midrange melodies. His soloing style has been described as modal and features languorous runs in the middle, the result was described by music critic Robert Palmer as hypnotic. In solo and ensemble settings it is often polyrhythmic, which links it to the music of Africa, north Mississippi bluesman and former Kimbrough bassist Eric Deaton suggested similarities between Kimbroughs music and that of Fulani musicians such as Ali Farka Touré. In 1966 Kimbrough traveled to Memphis, Tennessee, to record for Goldwax Records, owned by the R&B, Claunch was a founder of Hi Records and is known as the man who gave James Carr and O. V. Wright their starts. Kimbrough recorded one session at American Studios, Claunch declined to release the recordings, deeming them too country. Some forty years later, Bruce Watson, of Big Legal Mess Records, approached Claunch to buy the original master tapes and these songs were released by Big Legal Mess Records in 2009 as First Recordings. Kimbroughs debut release was a version of Lowell Fulsons Tramp issued as a single on the independent label Philwood in 1967. On the label of the record his name was spelled incorrectly as Junior Kimbell, the B-side was You Cant Leave Me. Among his other recordings are two duets with his childhood friend Charlie Feathers in 1969. Feathers counted Kimbrough as an influence, Kimbrough gave Feathers some of his earliest lessons on the guitar. Kimbrough recorded little in the 1970s, contributing a version of Meet Me in the City to a European blues anthology. With his band, the Soul Blues Boys, he recorded again in the 1980s for High Water, the label recorded a 1988 session with Kimbrough and the Soul Blues Boys, releasing it in 1997 with his 1982 single as Do the Rump. In 1987 Kimbrough made his New York debut at Lincoln Center and this performance was recorded in 1990, in the Chewalla Rib Shack, a juke joint he opened in that year east of Holly Springs to divert crowds from his packed house parties. Beginning around 1992, Kimbrough operated Juniors Place, a joint in Chulahoma, near Holly Springs
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Junior Kimbrough, 1995
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Robert Johnson (musician)
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Robert Leroy Johnson was an American blues singer-songwriter and musician. His landmark recordings in 1936 and 1937 display a combination of singing, guitar skills, Johnsons shadowy and poorly documented life and death at age 27 have given rise to much legend. One Faustian myth says that he sold his soul to the devil at a crossroads of Mississippi highways to achieve success. As an itinerant performer who played mostly on street corners, in juke joints, after the reissue of his recordings in 1961, on the LP King of the Delta Blues Singers, his work reached a wider audience. Johnson is now recognized as a master of the blues, particularly of the Mississippi Delta blues style and he is credited by many rock musicians as an important influence, the blues and rock musician Eric Clapton has called Johnson the most important blues singer that ever lived. Johnson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in its first induction ceremony, in 1986, as an influence on rock. In 2010, David Fricke ranked Johnson fifth in Rolling Stone magazines 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, Johnson was born in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, possibly on May 8,1911, to Julia Major Dodds and Noah Johnson. Julia was married to Charles Dodds, a prosperous landowner and furniture maker. Charles Dodds had been forced by a mob to leave Hazlehurst following a dispute with white landowners. Julia left Hazlehurst with baby Robert but after two years sent the boy to Memphis to live with her husband, who had changed his name to Charles Spencer, about 1919, Robert rejoined his mother in the Mississippi Delta area around Tunica and Robinsonville, Mississippi. Julias new husband, known as Dusty Willis, was 24 years her junior, Robert was remembered by some residents as Little Robert Dusty, but he was registered at Tunicas Indian Creek School as Robert Spencer. In the 1920 census he is listed as Robert Spencer, living in Lucas, Arkansas, with Will, Robert was at school in 1924 and 1927. The quality of his signature on his marriage suggests that he was relatively well educated for a boy of his background. A school friend, Willie Coffee, who was interviewed and filmed in later life, recalled that as a youth Robert was already noted for playing the harmonica and jaw harp. Coffee recalled that Robert was absent for long periods, which suggests that he may have been living and studying in Memphis. After school, Robert adopted the surname of his natural father and she died in childbirth shortly after. Surviving relatives of Virginia told the blues researcher Robert Mack McCormick that this was a punishment for Roberts decision to sing secular songs. McCormick believed that Johnson himself accepted the phrase as a description of his resolve to abandon the life of a husband
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Robert Johnson records
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Studio portrait (circa 1935), one of only two or three verified photographs
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Johnson's recordings were released by several record companies: "Milkcow's Calf Blues" on Perfect (top), "Love in Vain Blues" on
Vocalion (middle), and "I Believe I'll Dust My Broom" by Conqueror (bottom)
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R.L. Burnside
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Robert Lee Burnside, known as R. L. Burnside was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He played music for much of his life but received little recognition before the early 1990s. In the latter half of the decade, Burnside recorded and toured with Jon Spencer, garnering crossover appeal and introducing his music to a new fan base in the punk and garage rock scene. His first name is given as R. L. Rl, Robert Lee, Rural. His father left the early on, and R. L. grew up with his mother, grandparents. He played the harmonica and dabbled with playing the beginning at the age of 16. He learned mostly from Mississippi Fred McDowell, who lived nearby since Burnside was a child and he first heard McDowell playing at age 7 or 8 and eventually joined his gigs to play a late set. Other local teachers were his uncle-in-law Ranie Burnette, who was a player from Senatobia, and the mostly unknown Henry Harden, Son Hibbler, Jesse Vortis. Burnside cited church singing and fife and drum picnics as elements of his childhoods musical landscape, in the late 1940s he moved to Chicago, where his father had lived since he separated from his mother, in the hope of finding better economic opportunities. He found jobs at metal and glass factories, had the company of Muddy Waters, but things did not turn out as he had hoped, within the span of one year his father, two brothers, and two uncles were all murdered in the city. Three years after coming to Chicago, Burnside went back south and he married Alice Mae Taylor in 1949 or 1950, his second marriage. He moved several times In the 1950s, between Memphis, Tennessee, the Mississippi Delta and the country of northern Mississippi. During his time in the Delta, he met bluesmen Robert Lockwood, Jr. and it seems it was around that time that Burnside killed a man, possibly at a craps game, was convicted of murder and incarcerated in Parchman Farm. He would later relate that his boss at the time had arranged to release him after six months and he spent the next 45 years, not unlike his early years, in Panola and Tate counties, in northern Mississippi. Later he moved closer to Holly Springs and his career boomed in the last twenty years of his life. His earliest recordings were made in 1967 by George Mitchell, then a student of journalism. Mitchell and his wife went on a 13-day summer trip in Mississippi and he came to Burnsides house near Coldwater on the advice of fife player and maker Othar Turner. Mitchell wrote that Fred McDowell had not told him about Burnside, six of the songs, played on an acoustic guitar lent by Mitchell, were released on Arhoolie Records after two years, nine others are on later records
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R.L. Burnside performing in
Knoxville, Tennessee, 1982
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Burnside at the
Liri Blues Festival, Italy, in 1992
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Burnside at the Double Door Inn in
Charlotte, N.C. in 1998
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Clarence White
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Clarence White, was an American bluegrass and country guitarist and singer. He is best known as a member of the ensemble the Kentucky Colonels. White was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Association Hall of Fame in 2016, Clarence Joseph LeBlanc was born on June 7,1944 in Lewiston, Maine. The LeBlanc family, who changed their surname to White, were of French-Canadian ancestry and hailed from New Brunswick. Clarences father, Eric LeBlanc, Sr. played guitar, banjo, fiddle, a child prodigy, Clarence began playing guitar at the age of six. In 1954, when Clarence was ten, the White family relocated to Burbank, California and soon after, Clarence joined his brothers Roland, the family group was occasionally augmented by the brothers sister Joanne on double bass. Although they initially started out playing contemporary music, the group soon switched to a purely bluegrass repertoire. Early on, the group won a talent contest on radio station KXLA in Pasadena and by 1957, with Maphiss help, the Three Little Country Boys made several appearances on the popular television program Town Hall Party. In 1957, banjoist Billy Ray Latham and Dobro player LeRoy Mack were added to the line-up, by 1961, the quartet had become well known enough to appear twice on the The Andy Griffith Show. That same year the Country Boys also added Roger Bush on double bass, as a replacement for Eric White, between 1959 and 1962, the Country Boys released three singles on the Sundown, Republic and Briar International record labels. In September 1962, the Country Boys recorded their album for Briar International. At Maphiss suggestion, the changed their name to the Kentucky Colonels, with their album being released in early 1963. Around this time, Clarences flatpicking guitar style was becoming a more prominent part of the groups music. At that time, the guitar was largely regarded as an instrument in bluegrass, with only a few performers, such as Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs and Don Reno. White soon began to integrate elements of Watsons playing style, including the use of strings and syncopation. His breathtaking speed and virtuosity on the instrument was largely responsible for making the guitar an instrument within bluegrass. Throughout 1964, the Kentucky Colonels continued to live appearances at various clubs. They were also signed to World Pacific Records by record producer Jim Dickson, following the recruitment of fiddle player Bobby Sloan, the Colonels released their second album, the purely instrumental Appalachian Swing. in July 1964 on World Pacific
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Clarence White
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Clarence White (third from left) on tour with The Byrds in the Netherlands, June 1970.
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Robert Nighthawk
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Robert Lee McCollum was an American blues musician who played and recorded under the pseudonyms Robert Lee McCoy and Robert Nighthawk. He was the father of the blues musician Sam Carr, born in Helena, Arkansas, he left home at an early age to become a busking musician. After a period wandering through southern Mississippi, he settled for a time in Memphis, Tennessee, a particular influence during this period was Houston Stackhouse, from whom he learned to play slide guitar and with whom he performed on the radio in Jackson, Mississippi. After further travels through Mississippi, he found it advisable to take his mothers name and, as Robert Lee McCoy, moved to St. Louis, Missouri, local musicians with whom he played included Henry Townsend, Big Joe Williams, and Sonny Boy Williamson. Kansas City Red was his drummer from the early 1940s to around 1946 and he recorded Kansas City Red’s song The Moon Is Rising. McCoy became a voice on local radio stations. Within a few years, he resurfaced as the slide guitarist Robert Nighthawk and began recording for Aristocrat and Chess Records. In 1949 and 1950, the two styles were close enough that they were in competition for promotional activity. Waters was the more marketable commodity, being reliable and a more confident stage communicator. Nighthawk continued to perform and record, taking up with United Records and States Records 1951 and 1952 and he continued giving live performances on Chicagos Maxwell Street until 1964. He had a stroke followed by an attack and died of heart failure at his home in Helena. He is buried in Magnolia Cemetery, in Helena, the Mississippi Blues Commission honored Nighthawk with a historical marker in Friars Point, Mississippi, on the Mississippi Blues Trail. The marker was placed at Friars Point because Nighthawk called the town his home at times in his itinerant career. He recorded the song Friars Point Blues in 1940
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Robert Nighthawk Blues Trail Marker
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T-Model Ford
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James Lewis Carter Ford was an American blues musician, using the name T-Model Ford. Unable to remember his exact date of birth, he began his career in his early 70s. His musical style combined the rawness of Delta blues with Chicago blues, according to records, Ford was born in Forest, Mississippi, between 1921 and 1925. Researchers Bob Eagle and Eric LeBlanc indicate June 24,1923, though at the time of his death his company gave his age as 94. Starting with a father who had permanently injured him at eleven, Ford lived his entire life in a distressed and violent environment. At this time, Ford was sentenced to ten years on a gang for murder. Allegedly, Ford was able to reduce his sentence to two years and he spent many of his years following his release in conflicts with law enforcement. Ford lived in Greenville, Mississippi and for a time wrote a column for Arthur magazine. Reportedly, he had twenty six children, according to music writer Will Hodgkinson, who met and interviewed Ford for his book Guitar Man, Ford took up the guitar when his fifth wife left him and gave him a guitar as a leaving present. Ford trained himself without being able to read music or guitar tabs, Hodgkinson observed that Ford could not explain his technique. He simply worked out a way of playing that sounded like the guitarists he admired — Muddy Waters, Ford toured juke joints and other venues, for a while opening for Buddy Guy. In 1995, he was discovered by Matthew Johnson of Fat Possum Records, in 1997 T-Model Ford was featured in a 26-minute documentary JUKE Directed by Mary Flannery and produced by Yellow Cat Productions. T-Model appeared along with Farmer John and John Horton, since 2008, Ford worked with the Seattle-based band, GravelRoad. The project began as an event, with Ford needing assistance to play the Deep Blues Festival in Minnesota in July 2008. GravelRoad, longtime fans of Ford and performers already scheduled for the festival, Ford had a pacemaker inserted at the end of that tour, but appeared on stage again with GravelRoad in 2008,2009 and 2010. He suffered a stroke in early 2010, but despite difficulty with right-hand mobility and this tour concluded with an appearance at Pickathon Festival. Ford and GravelRoad opened the day of the All Tomorrows Parties Festival, in New York over Labor Day weekend,2010. GravelRoad backed Ford on his 2010 and 2011 albums, The Ladies Man and Taledragger, Ford suffered a second stroke in the summer of 2012 that limited his public appearances
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T-Model Ford at Tea Bazaar in
Charlottesville, Virginia, on March 1, 2010
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Mississippi Fred McDowell
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Fred McDowell, known by his stage name Mississippi Fred McDowell, was an American hill country blues singer and guitar player. McDowell was born in Rossville, Tennessee and his parents, who were farmers, died when he was a youth. He started playing guitar at the age of 14 and played at dances around Rossville, wanting a change from plowing fields, he moved to Memphis in 1926, where he worked in the Buck-Eye feed mill, which processed cotton into oil and other products. He also had a number of jobs and played music for tips. In 1928 he moved to Mississippi to pick cotton and he finally settled in Como, Mississippi, about 40 miles south of Memphis, in 1940 or 1941, and worked steadily as a farmer, continuing to perform music at dances and picnics. Initially he played guitar, using a pocketknife and then a slide made from a beef rib bone. He played with the slide on his ring finger, although commonly regarded as a Delta blues singer, McDowell may be considered the first north hill country blues artist to achieve widespread recognition for his work. Musicians from the hill country – an area parallel to and east of the Delta region – produced a version of the blues somewhat closer in structure to its African roots and it often eschews chord change for the hypnotic effect of the droning single-chord vamp. His records were popular, and he performed at festivals. McDowell continued to perform blues in the north Mississippi style much as he had for decades, while he famously declared, I do not play no rock and roll, he was not averse to associating with younger rock musicians. He coached Bonnie Raitt on slide guitar technique and was flattered by the Rolling Stones rather straightforward version of his You Gotta Move on their 1971 album Sticky Fingers. In 1965 he toured Europe with the American Folk Blues Festival, together with Big Mama Thornton, John Lee Hooker, Buddy Guy, Roosevelt Sykes and others. McDowells 1969 album I Do Not Play No Rock n Roll, recorded in Jackson, Mississippi and it contains parts of an interview in which he discusses the origins of the blues and the nature of love. McDowells final album, Live in New York, was a performance from November 1971 at the Village Gaslight, in Greenwich Village. McDowell died of cancer in 1972, aged 66, and was buried at Hammond Hill Baptist Church, on August 6,1993, a memorial was placed on his grave by the Mt. Zion Memorial Fund. The ceremony was presided over by the blues promoter Dick Waterman, the memorial stone was a replacement for an inaccurate and damaged marker. The original stone was donated by McDowells family to the Delta Blues Museum, in Clarksdale. Give My Poor Heart Ease, Voices of the Mississippi Blues, the New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
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McDowell in 1972
