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Stoughton, Massachusetts
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Stoughton /ˈstoʊtən/ is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 26,962 at the 2010 census, the town is located approximately 17 miles from Boston,25 miles from Providence, and 35 miles from Cape Cod. Stoughton was settled in 1713 and officially incorporated in 1726, from the portion of the large town of Dorchester. At its founding, it included the current towns of Sharon, Canton and Avon and it was named after William Stoughton, who was the first chief justice of Colonial Courts and the notorious chief justice of the Salem Witch Trials. The Suffolk Resolves were written in Old Stoughton at Dotys Tavern and they are thought to be the basis for the Declaration of Independence. The meeting included the Rev. Samuel Dunbar and Paul Revere, originally an agricultural community, Stoughton developed into an important shoemaking center. In 1874, the Stoughton Public Library was established, the oldest choral society in the United States is located in Stoughton. Founded in 1786 as The Stoughton Musical Society, it is now known as the Old Stoughton Musical Society and it has the oldest constitution of any musical society in the United States, written in 1787, only a few weeks after the United States Constititution. In 1893, this musical society distinguished itself by performing concerts at the Worlds Columbian Exposition in Chicago. In 1986, the society celebrated its bicentennial with a series of concerts. In 1940 artist Jean Watson painted the mural, A Massachusetts Countryside as a project of the WPA, the artwork is currently on display in the attic at the Stoughton Historic Society. The Save Our Stoughton campaign attracted attention in the 1980s for their work picketing a local adult book store. Most recently, Stoughton became the first municipality in Massachusetts to declare itself a No Place for Hate town, stoughtons train station was built in 1888, and is the only one in Massachusetts to house a clock tower. The station is unique in ways as it was built out of stones from a West Street quarry that belonged to Stoughton resident Myron Gilbert. In 1974 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, over a million dollars was raised to restore the station to its original luster in time for the 100th anniversary. In 2009, however, the MBTA permanently closed the station, the building still stood but remained closed to the public as of 2015. In 2015, members of Town Meeting voted to purchase the station from the state. Plans for use of the property are being developed by the Community Preservation Committee, on August 15,1908, Stoughton was hit by a moderate earthquake
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Town center
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Stoughton Square in 1908
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Public library in 1908
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Railway Station c. 1918
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Folk music
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Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival. The term originated in the 19th century, but is applied to music older than that. Some types of music are also called world music. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways, as music transmitted orally, music with unknown composers and it has been contrasted with commercial and classical styles. Starting in the century, a new form of popular folk music evolved from traditional folk music. This process and period is called the revival and reached a zenith in the 1960s. This form of music is called contemporary folk music or folk revival music to distinguish it from earlier folk forms. Smaller, similar revivals have occurred elsewhere in the world at other times and this type of folk music also includes fusion genres such as folk rock, folk metal, electric folk, and others. Even individual songs may be a blend of the two, a consistent definition of traditional folk music is elusive. The terms folk music, folk song, and folk dance are comparatively recent expressions and they are extensions of the term folklore, which was coined in 1846 by the English antiquarian William Thoms to describe the traditions, customs, and superstitions of the uncultured classes. Traditional folk music also includes most indigenous music, however, despite the assembly of an enormous body of work over some two centuries, there is still no certain definition of what folk music is. Some do not even agree that the term Folk Music should be used, Folk music may tend to have certain characteristics but it cannot clearly be differentiated in purely musical terms. One meaning often given is that of old songs, with no known composers, the fashioning and re-fashioning of the music by the community that give it its folk character. Such definitions depend upon processes rather than abstract musical types, one widely used definition is simply Folk music is what the people sing. For Scholes, as well as for Cecil Sharp and Béla Bartók, Folk music was already. seen as the authentic expression of a way of life now past or about to disappear, particularly in a community uninfluenced by art music and by commercial and printed song. In these terms folk music may be seen as part of a schema comprising four types, primitive or tribal, elite or art, folk. Music in this genre is often called traditional music. Although the term is only descriptive, in some cases people use it as the name of a genre
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Béla Bartók recording Slovak peasant singers in 1908
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Indians always distinguished between classical and folk music, though in the past even classical Indian music used to rely on the unwritten transmission of repertoire.
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Armenian traditional musicians
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Assyrians playing
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Country music
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Country music is a genre of United States popular music that originated in the southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from the genre of United States, such as folk music. Blues modes have been used throughout its recorded history. The term country music is used today to many styles and subgenres. In 2009 country music was the most listened to rush hour radio genre during the evening commute, immigrants to the Southern Appalachian Mountains of North America brought the music and instruments of Europe and Africa along with them for nearly 300 years. Country music was introduced to the world as a Southern phenomenon, Bristol, Tennessee, has been formally recognized by the U. S. Congress as the Birthplace of Country Music, based on the historic Bristol recording sessions of 1927. Since 2014, the city has been home to the Birthplace of Country Music Museum, historians have also noted the influence of the less-known Johnson City sessions of 1928 and 1929, and the Knoxville sessions of 1929 and 1930. Prior to these, pioneer settlers, in the Great Smoky Mountains region, had developed a musical heritage. The first generation emerged in the early 1920s, with Atlantas music scene playing a role in launching countrys earliest recording artists. Okeh Records began issuing hillbilly music records by Fiddlin John Carson as early as 1923, followed by Columbia Records in 1924, many hillbilly musicians, such as Cliff Carlisle, recorded blues songs throughout the 1920s. The most important was the Grand Ole Opry, aired starting in 1925 by WSM in Nashville, during the 1930s and 1940s, cowboy songs, or Western music, which had been recorded since the 1920s, were popularized by films made in Hollywood. Bob Wills was another musician from the Lower Great Plains who had become very popular as the leader of a hot string band. His mix of country and jazz, which started out as dance hall music, Wills was one of the first country musicians known to have added an electric guitar to his band, in 1938. Country musicians began recording boogie in 1939, shortly after it had played at Carnegie Hall. Gospel music remained a component of country music. It became known as honky tonk, and had its roots in Western swing and the music of Mexico. By the early 1950s a blend of Western swing, country boogie, rockabilly was most popular with country fans in the 1950s, and 1956 could be called the year of rockabilly in country music. Beginning in the mid-1950s, and reaching its peak during the early 1960s, the late 1960s in American music produced a unique blend as a result of traditionalist backlash within separate genres
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Jimmie Rodgers
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Vernon Dalhart
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Roy Acuff
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Publicity photo of Roy Rogers and Gail Davis, 1948
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Warner Bros. Records
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Warner Bros. Records was established on March 19,1958, as the recorded-music division of the American film studio Warner Bros. For most of its existence it was one of a group of labels owned and operated by larger parent corporations. The sequence of companies that controlled Warner Bros. and its allied labels evolved through a series of corporate mergers. Over this period, Warner Bros. Records grew from a minor player in the music industry to become one of the top recording labels in the world. In 2003, these assets were divested by their then owner Time Warner. This independent company traded as the Warner Music Group before being bought by Access Industries in 2011, WMG is the smallest of the three major international music conglomerates and the worlds last publicly traded major music company. Cameron Strang serves as CEO of the company, artists currently signed to Warner Bros. At the end of the silent movie period, Warner Bros, pictures decided to expand into publishing and recording so that it could access low-cost music content for its films. This new group controlled valuable copyrights on standards by George and Ira Gershwin and Jerome Kern, the label signed rising radio and recording stars Bing Crosby, Mills Brothers, and Boswell Sisters. In December 1931, Warner Bros. offloaded Brunswick to the American Record Corporation for a fraction of its former value, in a lease arrangement which did not include Brunswicks pressing plants. Warner Bros. sold Brunswick a second time, this time along with the old Brunswick pressing plants Warner owned, to Decca Records in exchange for a financial interest in Decca. The studio stayed out of the business for more than 25 years. Warner Bros. reëntered the record business in 1958 with the establishment of its own recording division, by this time, the established Hollywood studios were reeling from multiple challenges to their former dominance - the most notable being the introduction of television in the late 1940s. Legal changes also had a impact on their business—lawsuits brought by major stars had effectively overthrown the old studio contract system by the late 1940s. Pictures sold off much of its library in 1948 and, beginning in 1949. Semenenko in particular had a professional interest in the entertainment business. With the record business booming - sales had topped US$500 million by 1958 - Semnenko argued that it was foolish for Warner Bros, another impetus for the labels creation was the brief music career of Warner Bros. actor Tab Hunter. In 1958, the studio signed Hunter as its first artist to its newly formed record division, to establish the label, the company hired former Columbia Records president James B
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The gold, black and red label design used for Warner Bros. stereo albums from 1958 to 1968 and mono albums from 1964 to 1968.
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The grey, black, white and yellow label design used for Warner Bros. mono albums from 1958 to 1964 when it switched to the same gold label as the stereo version.
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"Cream Puff War" (1967), the first Warner Bros. single by
The Grateful Dead, showing the orange label with chevron border used on WBR's American 45s for much of the 1960s.
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Beginning in 1968, Warner LP and single label designs became identical. From 1968 to 1970, the label was called Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Records. The basic design and colour scheme of the W7 label were retained after the company name reverted to Warner Bros. Records and the "WB" shield in 1970 and remained in use until 1973.
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Universal Music Publishing Group
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Universal Music Publishing Group is a North American music publishing company and is part of the Universal Music Group. It was formerly known as MCA Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing is the worlds second largest music publishing company, behind Sony/ATV Music Publishing. UMPG owns or administers more than 3 million copyrights and they are one of the largest music publishing businesses in the world with more than 43 offices in 36 countries. Jody Gerson serves as chairman/CEO of the company, on December 3,2015, she was named Executive of the Year by Billboard Magazine in its Women in Music issue. Sony/ATV Music Publishing overtook Universal Music Publishing as the worlds largest music publisher in 2013 after acquiring EMI Music Publishing, blige, Florence and the Machine, Basement Jaxx, Imagine Dragons, Massive Attack, New Order, Shawn Mendes, J. T. The Pink Panther, Jaws, among many others, sesame Street, Forerunner Music, Epitaph, Greenwich/Barry, Momentum Publishing, and John Philips. UMPG also owns or administers the works of Leonard Bernstein and Henry Mancini, and Dsign Music
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UMPG headquarters in
Santa Monica, California.
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Hunter Hayes
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Hunter Easton Hayes is an American country music singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He can play more than 30 instruments and is signed to Atlantic Records Nashville, Hayes released his self-titled debut album in 2011. It reached number seven on the Billboard 200 and number one on the Top Country Albums and its most successful single, Wanted, has sold over 3.5 million copies and made Hayes the youngest male act to ever top the Billboard Hot Country Songs. His second studio album, Storyline, was released on May 6,2014 and was led by its first single, Invisible, Hayes commercial success and his talent both as a songwriter and instrumentalist has prompted Billboard to call him the Leader of Country Musics Youth Revolution. He has been nominated for five Grammy Awards, including Best New Artist and won the CMA Award for New Artist of the Year in 2012, along with three BMI Awards. Hayes was born on September 9,1991, at Larniurg Hospital in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, as the child to Lynette. His parents both have Cajun ancestry, along with English, Scots-Irish, and German, Hayes grew up singing songs in both English and French. He began his career at age two, when his grandmother gave him a toy accordion. American Songwriter writes that Hayes received his first guitar from actor Robert Duvall at age six At age seven, at thirteen, he appeared on Americas Most Talented Kids, a show hosted by Dave Coulier, he performed the hit Hank Williams song, Hey Good Lookin. In 2008, he moved from Breaux Bridge to Nashville, Tennessee, in 2010, co-wrote Play for the Rascal Flatts album Nothing Like This. In September, he was signed to Atlantic Records Nashville and began working on what would become his major-label debut. Hayes appeared as the act of ten dates of country star Taylor Swifts Speak Now World Tour throughout the summer of 2011 and concluded his leg of the tour in St. Louis. In April 2011, he had gone on his own tour where he debuted songs that would appear on his debut album. His debut headlining tour was the Most Wanted Tour, the first leg of the tour began on October 8,2011 in Beaumont and ended on December 4,2011 in San Bernardino. Hayes and singer Victoria Justice contributed a duet to the soundtrack of 2011s Footloose remake, recording a cover of Mike Renos, Hayes made a sneak appearance on the compilation album Now Thats What I Call Music. 41 with his song Somebodys Heartbreak, from January to February 2012, Hayes was the opening act on the Rascal Flatts Thaw Out tour. Where We Left Off is a song, written by Hayes. During the 2012 O Music Awards, The Flaming Lips broke a Guinness World Record for most concerts played in cities in a 24-hr
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Hayes performing in
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Faith Hill
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Faith Hill is an American singer, actress and record producer. She is one of the most successful artists of all time. Hill is married to American singer Tim McGraw, with whom she has recorded several duets, Hills first two albums, Take Me as I Am and It Matters to Me, were major successes and placed a combined three number ones on Billboards country charts. She then achieved mainstream and crossover success with her two albums, Faith and Breathe. It had massive sales worldwide and earned Hill three Grammy Awards, in 2001, she recorded There Youll Be for the Pearl Harbor soundtrack and it became an international hit and her best-selling single in Europe. Hill has won five Grammy Awards,15 Academy of Country Music Awards, six American Music Awards and her Soul2Soul II Tour 2006 with McGraw became the highest-grossing country tour of all time. In 2001, she was named one of the 30 Most Powerful Women in America by Ladies Home Journal, in 2009, Billboard named her as the No.1 Adult Contemporary artist of the 2000 decade and also as the 39th best artist. From 2007 to 2012, Hill was the voice of NBC Sunday Night Footballs intro song, Hill was born in Ridgeland, Mississippi, north of Jackson, Mississippi. She was adopted as an infant, and named Audrey Faith Perry and she was raised in the nearby town of Star,20 miles outside of Jackson. Her adoptive parents, Edna and Ted Perry, raised her with their two sons in a devout Christian environment. Hills vocal talent was apparent early, and she had her first public performance, at a 4-H luncheon, in 1976, a few days before her 9th birthday, she attended a concert by Elvis Presley at the State Fair Coliseum, in Jackson, which impressed her deeply. By the time she was a teenager, Hill was a performer at area churches. At 17, Hill formed a band played in local rodeos. She graduated from McLaurin Attendance Center in 1986, and briefly attended college at Hinds Junior College in Raymond, at times, she sang for prisoners at the Hinds County Jail, her song of choice being Amazing Grace. At age 19 she quit school to move to Nashville and pursue her dream of being a country singer, in her early days in Nashville, Hill auditioned to be a backup singer for Reba McEntire, but failed to secure the job. After a stint selling T-shirts, Hill became a secretary at a publishing firm. Additionally, Hill also landed a job at a local McDonalds restaurant franchise, fries, burgers, cash register – I did it all, I hated it, she has said. In 1988, she married music publishing executive Daniel Hill, a co-worker heard Hill singing to herself one day, and soon the head of her music publishing company was encouraging her to become a demo singer for the firm
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Hill at a tribute concert for America's armed forces for
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Little Big Town
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Little Big Town is an American country music group. Founded in 1998, the group has comprised the four members since its foundation, Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Jimi Westbrook. Their musical style relies heavily on vocal harmonies, with all four members alternating as lead singers, Westbrook. After a recording deal with the Mercury Nashville Records label which produced no singles or albums and it produced two minor country chart singles before the group left the label. By 2005, the group had signed to Equity Music Group. Their second album, The Road to Here, was released that year, a Place to Land, their third album, was released via Equity, then re-released via Capitol Nashville after Equity closed in 2008. Five more albums have followed for Capitol, The Reason Why, Tornado, Pain Killer, Wanderlust, in the mid-90s, Karen Fairchild sang with the Christian vocal group Truth and was featured as a lead singer in a few of their songs. She also formed a duo called KarenLeigh with Leigh Cappillino, KarenLeigh produced the singles, Save it For a Rainy Day and This Love Has. In 1997, while attending Samford University in Alabama, she met Kimberly Roads, eventually, they moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where they reunited and began singing together. Jimi Westbrook joined Roads and Fairchild in 1998, followed by Phillip Sweet, Little Big Towns first record deal was with Mercury Nashville Records, although the band was dropped from the labels roster without releasing a single or album. In 2001, they sang backing vocals on Collin Rayes album Cant Back Down, while Sweet, a second contract, this time with Monument Records Nashville, began in 2002. The bands first album, Little Big Town, was released that year and it produced the singles Dont Waste My Time and Everything Changes, which peaked at 33 and 42 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Westbrooks father died in 2002, just after the groups first album was released, Fairchild and Sweet both divorced their spouses shortly afterward, and the group exited Monument when the labels Nashville branch was dissolved. The four members all took up day jobs to earn additional money, in 2005, Little Big Town was signed to Equity Music Group, a label started and partially owned by country music singer Clint Black. Their third single, Boondocks, was released in May, peaking at No.9 on the charts in January 2006. It served as the first of four singles from the second album, The Road to Here. Bring It On Home, the single from the album. It was followed by Good as Gone and A Little More You, by the end of 2006, The Road to Here had been certified Platinum in the United States
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Little Big Town performing live on February 28, 2008. (L-R: Jimi Westbrook, Karen Fairchild, Phillip Sweet, Kimberly Schlapman)
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Tim McGraw
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Samuel Timothy Tim McGraw is an American singer, songwriter and actor. He has been married to singer Faith Hill since 1996, and is the son of the baseball player Tug McGraw. McGraw has released fourteen studio albums,10 of those albums have reached number 1 on the Top Country Albums charts, with his 1994 breakthrough album Not a Moment Too Soon being the top country album of 1994. All of these albums have produced 65 singles,25 of which have reached number 1 on the Hot Country Songs or Country Airplay charts. Three of these singles — Its Your Love, Just to See You Smile, and Live Like You Were Dying — were the top songs of 1997,1998. He has also won three Grammy Awards,14 Academy of Country Music awards,11 Country Music Association awards,10 American Music Awards, and three Peoples Choice Awards. His Soul2Soul II Tour with Faith Hill is one of the highest grossing tours in music history. McGraw has ventured into acting, with supporting roles in The Blind Side, Friday Night Lights, The Kingdom, Tomorrowland, and Four Christmases and he was a minority owner of the Arena Football Leagues Nashville Kats. McGraw is of Italian and Irish descent on his mothers side, and of Scots-Irish, English, Scottish, Swiss, Dutch, Czech, and German descent on his fathers side. In 1966, Tug was a pitcher for the Jacksonville Suns, and he lived in an apartment above Betty DAgostino, the pair had a relationship, and when Betty became pregnant, her parents sent her to Louisiana to live with relatives and to have the baby. Raised by his mother in Start, also in Richland Parish, east of Monroe, McGraw grew up believing his stepfather, from the time of his mothers marriage until the time he met his biological father, his last name was Smith. At age 11, McGraw discovered his birth certificate while searching his mothers closet to look for Christmas presents, after his discovery, his mother revealed that his biological father was Tug McGraw, and took Tim to meet him for the first time. For seven years, Tug denied being Tims father, Tim was 18 years old when Tug first realized how much Tim looked like him at that age, and he acknowledged paternity. They remained close until Tugs death in 2004, as a child, McGraw loved to play competitive sports, including baseball, even though he did not know his biological father was a professional athlete. He was also a member of the FFA, a knee injury sustained while playing baseball prevented him from pursuing a career in sports and therefore, he decided to drop out of college and move to Nashville. During his college period, he learned to play guitar, and would perform and sing for tips. His mother, Betty, returned to Jacksonville, Florida in 1987 and he attended Florida Community College at Jacksonville for one term, and occasionally sat in with local bands. In 1989, on the day his hero Keith Whitley died, McGraw dropped out of college to head to Nashville, McGraw came to the attention of Curb Records in 1990
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McGraw performing for the United States Air Force in 2003
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Start, Louisiana, welcome sign notes that McGraw once resided there.
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Tim McGraw's star on the
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McGraw performing during the
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Jimmy Wayne
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Jimmy Wayne Barber is an American country music singer and songwriter. He released his debut album in 2003 on the DreamWorks Records label. Four singles were released from it, including Stay Gone and I Love You This Much, which both reached Top Ten on the Billboard country charts. A second album, Do You Believe Me Now, was released in August 2008 via Big Machine Records subsidiary Valory Music Group, Jimmy Wayne was born on October 23,1972 in Kings Mountain, North Carolina. His biological father abandoned him at an early age and he and his sister were sometimes raised in foster homes or were left with other people when their mother would leave them or go to jail. She served four months in prison in 1985 when Wayne was 12, after entering a county home, Wayne ran away and lived with his mother for a brief time before living on the streets and with his sister, Patricia, for a short while. He eventually moved in with a couple, Russell and Bea Costner, after being hired to mow their lawn. After finishing high school, he worked as a guard at the Gaston Correctional Facility and he earned an associates degree in criminal justice at a community college. Afterwards he worked as an officer for 4 years before moving to Nashville. In Nashville, Wayne worked as a songwriter for Acuff-Rose Music, collaborating with Dean Dillon, Sanger D. Shafer and others while practicing his guitar and songwriting skills. One of his first cuts as a songwriter was Put Your Hand in Mine, by 2001, Wayne had signed to a recording contract with DreamWorks Records Nashville division. Wayne released his single, Stay Gone, in 2003. This song was inspired by his sister, Patricia, who explained her marital troubles to him by saying everything would be if her husband would just stay gone. This song went on to peak at No.3 on the U. S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts that year and it was also the first release from his self-titled debut album, produced by Chris Lindsey and James Stroud. I Love You This Much, the single, went on to peak at No. 6, followed by You Are and Paper Angels, both at No.18, the album also included the song Blue and Brown, which Wayne wrote about a foster brother who ended up a prison inmate at the correctional facility Wayne worked. Paper Angels, written about the Salvation Armys Angel Tree program, after DreamWorks closed in 2005, Wayne was transferred to Big Machine Records. His first release for the label was Thats All Ill Ever Need and this song was slated to be the lead-off single to a second album with a projected release date of early 2007
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Wayne in
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Girl Crush
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Girl Crush is a song recorded by American country music group Little Big Town. It was released in December 2014 as the single from their sixth studio album. It was released by Interscope Records to Hot AC and top 40 radio, Bonaguro also adds, On the other hand, it could also be about a girl obsessing over the girl who is with the man that she wants but has never had. That mystery is unclear, which adds to the allure of this song. Group members Kimberly Schlapman and Karen Fairchild heard the song and asked that it be saved for them. Girl Crush is in the key of C major and a 6/8 time signature, with a tempo of 58 dotted quarter notes per minute. Karen Fairchilds lead vocals range from G3-A4, Girl Crush has received mainly positive reviews. CMTs Bonaguro adds, if anyone knows how to write a song thats never been written before. Billy Dukes of Taste of Country states, Karen Fairchilds lead on Little Big Towns new single Girl Crush may be the best vocal performance of the year. Her anguish drives through you like an engine, and afterward shes nothing. Its as if all the ideas have been used up. Little Big Town prove this is not the case on each album they release, a^ Girl Crush as performed by Little Big Town. Their performance was in honor of Little Big Town in recognition of CMTs selection of the group as a CMT Artist of the Year, Girl Crush sold 10,000 copies in its debut week of November 8,2014. The song reached more than two million in sales by early February 2016, as of March 2017, Girl Crush had sold 2,375,000 copies in the United States. It is Little Big Towns career top 20 single, having peaked at number 18 for the Billboard Hot 100 Chart Week ending May 9,2015 and it is also their highest showing on the Canadian Hot 100, besting the number 39 of Pontoon in 2012. It is also their number one single,13 weeks atop Hot Country Songs. It broke the record set by The Browns 1959 hit The Three Bells as the number one on Hot Country Songs by a group of three or more members. Some radio stations were reported to have pulled Girl Crush from their playlists, in response, Fairchild said, Thats just shocking to me, the close-mindedness of that, when thats just not what the song was about…But what if it were
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"Girl Crush"
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Open mic
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An open mic or open mike is a live show at a coffeehouse, nightclub, comedy club or pub where audience members who are amateur performers are given the opportunity to perform onstage. Typically, as the name suggests, the performer is provided with a microphone which is plugged into a PA system, often the performers sign up in advance for a time slot with the host or master of ceremonies, typically an experienced performer or the venue manager or owner. The master of ceremonies may screen potential candidates for suitability for the venue and these events are focused on performance arts like poetry and spoken word, music, and comedy. Less commonly, small groups, such as a rock band duo/trio or a comedy duo may appear. Group performances are uncommon, because of the space and the logistics of loading in, Open mic nights may have no cover charge, or a very low cover charge, although the venue may have a gratuity jar or pass the hat for donations. Venues that have no charge make revenue from selling alcoholic beverages, the performers are not typically paid, although the venue may recompense the performers with a beverage or meal. The host or MC, as a professional, is usually paid for her/his services. The host or MC may perform at some point during the evening, Open mic events are somewhat related to jam sessions, in that in both cases amateur performers are given the opportunity to sing or play instruments. Poetry and spoken word open mics feature a host, who is normally a poet or spoken word artist, poets and spoken word artists, a sign-up is done before the show begins, so that the host has a list of names to call from. Some spoken word artists use pseudonyms or stage names when they perform, poetry/spoken word open mics range from laid back, serene settings to lively sessions where readers and/or performers compete for audience applause. They are usually held in libraries, coffee houses, cafes, each poet or spoken word artist is often asked to keep their performances to a minimum/specified time slot, giving each performer enough time to share some of their work with the audience. The host or MC acts as a gatekeeper, determining which performers are suitable for the venue, if a performer goes over their time limit, the host diplomatically thanks the performer for their contribution and asks them to yield the stage for the next performer. Comedy open mic nights can be held at established comedy clubs, such nights give newer or emerging comedians an opportunity to practice and improve, with a view to getting paid work in the future. More experienced comedians may use open mics as an opportunity to work out newer material or a new character, in a typical open mic night, newer acts will get three or maybe five minutes of stage time, but more experienced acts may get ten or more minutes. There are booked shows, regular open mics and bringer shows, a booked show is usually booked week in advance with some lottery spots selected by pulling candidates names from a hat. With a regular open mic, a person puts their name on the list, with a bringer show, each performer has to bring a certain number of people to get on stage. Open mic shows may have no charge, a reduced cover charge. Open mic comedy nights are most widespread in larger English-speaking cities with a well-established stand-up comedy scene, especially London, in these cities, with a plethora of aspiring comedians, the greatest challenge may be in attracting an audience
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A poet reads her work at the
Little Grill open mic in
Harrisonburg, Virginia
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A musician performs open mic at No Name Bar in
Sausalito, California.
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Open mic blue jam, 2015
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Boston
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Boston is the capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. Boston is also the seat of Suffolk County, although the county government was disbanded on July 1,1999. The city proper covers 48 square miles with a population of 667,137 in 2015, making it the largest city in New England. Alternately, as a Combined Statistical Area, this wider commuting region is home to some 8.1 million people, One of the oldest cities in the United States, Boston was founded on the Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by Puritan settlers from England. It was the scene of several key events of the American Revolution, such as the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, the Battle of Bunker Hill, and the Siege of Boston. Upon U. S. independence from Great Britain, it continued to be an important port and manufacturing hub as well as a center for education, through land reclamation and municipal annexation, Boston has expanded beyond the original peninsula. Its rich history attracts many tourists, with Faneuil Hall alone drawing over 20 million visitors per year, Bostons many firsts include the United States first public school, Boston Latin School, first subway system, the Tremont Street Subway, and first public park, Boston Common. Bostons economic base also includes finance, professional and business services, biotechnology, information technology, the city has one of the highest costs of living in the United States as it has undergone gentrification, though it remains high on world livability rankings. Bostons early European settlers had first called the area Trimountaine but later renamed it Boston after Boston, Lincolnshire, England, the renaming on September 7,1630 was by Puritan colonists from England who had moved over from Charlestown earlier that year in quest of fresh water. Their settlement was limited to the Shawmut Peninsula, at that time surrounded by the Massachusetts Bay and Charles River. The peninsula is thought to have been inhabited as early as 5000 BC, in 1629, the Massachusetts Bay Colonys first governor John Winthrop led the signing of the Cambridge Agreement, a key founding document of the city. Puritan ethics and their focus on education influenced its early history, over the next 130 years, the city participated in four French and Indian Wars, until the British defeated the French and their Indian allies in North America. Boston was the largest town in British America until Philadelphia grew larger in the mid-18th century, Bostons harbor activity was significantly curtailed by the Embargo Act of 1807 and the War of 1812. Foreign trade returned after these hostilities, but Bostons merchants had found alternatives for their investments in the interim. Manufacturing became an important component of the economy, and the citys industrial manufacturing overtook international trade in economic importance by the mid-19th century. Boston remained one of the nations largest manufacturing centers until the early 20th century, a network of small rivers bordering the city and connecting it to the surrounding region facilitated shipment of goods and led to a proliferation of mills and factories. Later, a network of railroads furthered the regions industry. Boston was a port of the Atlantic triangular slave trade in the New England colonies
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From top to bottom, left to right: the
Boston skyline viewed from the
Bunker Hill Monument; the
Museum of Fine Arts;
Faneuil Hall;
Massachusetts State House;
The First Church of Christ, Scientist;
Boston Public Library; the
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum;
South Station;
Boston University and the
Charles River;
Arnold Arboretum;
Fenway Park; and the
Boston Common
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State Street, 1801
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View of Boston from
Dorchester Heights, 1841
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Scollay Square in the 1880s
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Easton, Massachusetts
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Easton is a town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 23,112 at the 2010 census and it is part of the Greater Boston area, but is also part of the 6-county definition of the Providence MSA. Easton is governed by an elected Board of Selectmen, open Town Meeting acts as the legislative branch of the town. The Selectman choose a Town Administrator to run the operations of the town. Easton was first settled in 1694 and was incorporated in 1725. In 1694, the first settler, Clement Briggs, established his home near the Easton Green, in 1711, the Taunton North Purchase area became Norton, and in 1713, the sixty-nine families settled in Easton and hired Elder William Pratt as their first minister. Prior to the establishment, the area was occupied by Native Americans as a hunting area. During King Philips War, Metacom, also known as King Philip, there was no legal parish in Easton until 1722, when the East Precinct of Norton was recognized. In 1725, the area was incorporated as the Town of Easton, in 1803, the Ames Shovel Works was established and became nationally known as having provided the shovels which laid the Union Pacific Railroad and opened the west. In 1875, the production of the Ames plant was worth 1.5 million. The most notable of the Ames family were Oakes Ames, a key figure in the Crédit Mobilier of America scandal, in addition, there is a commercial building at 69 Main Street which designed and build in the nineteenth century by Richardsons office in a Richardsonian style. The Richardson buildings are all located within an area designated as the H. H. Richardson Historic District. The area also includes The Rockery, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, who also landscaped grounds of Oakes Ames Memorial Hall and the Ames Free Library. Within a few blocks of the H. H. Richardson Historic District is Unity Church, built by the Ames family in 1875, figure of Wisdom, completed in 1901, is the largest stained-glass work created by LaFarge. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an area of 29.2 square miles. All of the waterways are considered part of the Taunton River Watershed area. Easton forms the corner of Bristol County, where the county intersects with Plymouth County to the east. Easton is located in eastern Massachusetts, as of the census of 2000, there were 22,299 people,7,489 households, and 5,571 families residing in the town
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Oakes Ames Memorial Hall with Ames Free Library in background.
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View from The Rockery showing Oakes Ames Memorial hall (left), Ames Free Library (center), and 66 Main Street (right)
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Pieces of Me (Lori McKenna album)
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Pieces of Me is the second album by singer-songwriter Lori McKenna. She is supported on the album by a number of Boston area musicians, the bass playing of Mike Rivard and drumming of Billy Beard are particularly noteworthy. Ellis Paul, Richard Shindell and Kris Delmhorst all make appearances as vocalists
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Pieces of Me
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Bittertown
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Bittertown is the fourth album released by country/folk singer Lori McKenna. The album was first released in 2004 on Signature Sounds and it was produced by Lorne Entress and features prominently the guitar work of Kevin Barry. After country singer Faith Hill covered three of Lori McKennas songs for her album, Fireflies, Warner Bros. records signed McKenna to their label, all songs were written by McKenna. Bible Song was covered by country singer Sara Evans for her album Real Fine Place
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Sundance Film Festival
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The Sundance Film Festival, a program of the Sundance Institute, is an American film festival that takes place annually in Park City, Utah. With 46,660 attendees in 2016, it is the largest independent film festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the 2017 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 19 to January 29,2017. Sundance began in Salt Lake City in August 1978, as the Utah/US Film Festival in an effort to more filmmakers to Utah. It was founded by Sterling Van Wagenen, John Earle, the 1978 festival featured films such as Deliverance, A Streetcar Named Desire, Midnight Cowboy, Mean Streets, and The Sweet Smell of Success. The festival also highlighted the work of filmmakers who worked outside the Hollywood system. The jury of the 1978 festival was headed by Gary Allison, and included Verna Fields, Linwood G. Dunn, Katharine Ross, Charles E. Sellier Jr. Mark Rydell, and Anthea Sylbert. More than 60 films were screened at the festival that year, also that year, the first Frank Capra Award went to Jimmy Stewart. The festival also made a profit for the first time, in 1980, Catania left the festival to pursue a production career in Hollywood. Several factors helped propel the growth of Utah/US Film Festival, first was the involvement of actor and Utah resident Robert Redford, who became the festivals inaugural chairman. By having Redfords name associated with the festival, it received great attention, secondly, the country was hungry for more venues that would celebrate American-made films as the only other festival doing so at the time was the USA Film Festival in Dallas. Response in Hollywood was unprecedented as major studios did all they could to contribute their resources, in 1981, the festival moved to Park City, Utah, and changed the dates from September to January. It was called the US Film and Video Festival, in 1984, the now well-established Sundance Institute, headed by Sterling Van Wagenen, took over management of the US Film Festival. The branding and marketing transition from the US Film Festival to the Sundance Film Festival was managed under the direction of Colleen Allen, Allen Advertising Inc. by appointment of Robert Redford. In 1991 the festival was renamed the Sundance Film Festival, after Redfords character The Sundance Kid from the film Butch Cassidy. The majority of the screenings, including the festivals premieres. The 2013 Sundance London Festival was held April 25–28,2013, Sundance London 2014 took place on April 25–27,2014 at the O2 arena. The Sundance London 2015 Festival was cancelled in an announcement on January 16,2015, Sundance London will return to London in 2016 from June 10–12 at Picturehouse Cinema in Londons West End
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Sundance Film Festival
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Newport Folk Festival
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The Newport Folk Festival is an American annual folk-oriented music festival in Newport, Rhode Island, which began in July 1959 as a counterpart to the previously established Newport Jazz Festival. Newport was not strictly limited to folk performers, in the 1960s, Johnny Cash, Muddy Waters and Howlin Wolf were featured. The festival also included musicians from the pre-World War II country blues era who served to influence the American folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s. The festival in its initial guise ran from 1959 to 1970, many of the concerts have provided a rich source of recordings. Murray Lerner directed the 1967 film Festival based on the 1963-1965 festivals and it is usually said that the reason for the hostile reception by a small number of fans was Dylans abandoning of the folk orthodoxy, or poor sound quality on the night. The reaction of the crowd to Dylans performance, certainly from eyewitness accounts, was quite enthusiastic. This performance, Dylans first live set of his professional career, marked the shift in his artistic direction from folk to rock. The performance marked the first time Dylan performed Like a Rolling Stone in public, despite the musical transition, Dylans growing status within the larger counterculture ensured that his place in the expanding movement would remain secure. Furthermore, the festival has enlisted the aid of major sponsors, including Ben & Jerrys, in recent years, the folk festival has expanded to include performances from folk-influenced indie rock artists and acoustic rock bands, such as the Decemberists and the Low Anthem. 2010 was headlined by Levon Helm, John Prine, the Avett Brothers, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Rolling Stone described the festival, The venue featured plenty of high-energy performances from both old timers and young indie acts. There were veterans like Doc Watson, Ritchie Havens and John Prine alongside the manic ODeath and freak folk troupe Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. In January 2011 it was announced that the festival has returned to being an event which will be produced under the umbrella of Newport Festivals Foundation. The 2012 festival was headlined by My Morning Jacket and Jackson Browne, the 2013 festival was headlined by Beck, The Avett Brothers, and Feist. The 2016 festival was headlined by Flight of the Conchords, Patti Smith, the Newport Folk Festival takes place every year at Fort Adams State Park, in Newport, Rhode Island. The Friday evening before the festival kicks off for the weekend with a performance at the International Tennis Hall of Fame in downtown Newport, Fort Adams houses four stages, the main one of which sits looking out at Newport harbor and the famous Claiborne Pell Bridge. Look out from the towers and you’ll see hundreds of beautiful boats rocking along the water. My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James told Spin Magazine, Youve got the sun on your skin, brandi Carlile says Its one of my favorites so far if not my favorite. WMVY began streaming the festival in 2005 and was joined by NPR Music in 2008, wMVYs Archives contains both performances and interviews from Newport Folk and NPR music has recorded sets available for listening here, NPR at Newport Folk 2010
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Newport Folk Festival
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Baez and Dylan at
Washington, 1963. The photograph was made by
Rowland Scherman, on assignment for USIA to cover the
March on Washington.
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Mary Gauthier
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Mary Veronica Gauthier is an American folk singer-songwriter. Gauthier was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, born to a mother she never knew and left in St Vincents Women and Infants Asylum, Gauthier was adopted when she was a year old by an Italian Catholic couple from Thibodaux, Louisiana. At age 15, she ran away home, and spent the next several years in drug rehabilitation, halfway houses. Struggling to deal with being adopted, she used drugs and alcohol and these experiences provided fodder for her songwriting later on. Spurred on by friends, she enrolled at Louisiana State University as a philosophy major, after attending the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts, she opened a Cajun restaurant in Bostons Back Bay neighborhood, Dixie Kitchen. Mary ran, and cooked at, the restaurant for eleven years and she was arrested for drunk driving opening night, July 12,1990, and has been sober ever since. After achieving sobriety, she was driven to dedicate herself full-time to songwriting and she wrote her first song at age 35. She sold her share in the restaurant to finance her second album, Drag Queens in Limousines, the summer of the release of this album, she was invited to play 11 major folk festivals, including the Newport Folk Festival. Drag Queens in Limousines won in The 1st Annual Independent Music Awards for Folk/Singer-Songwriter Song and she was nominated for three Gay and Lesbian American Music Awards and won best country artist of the year. In 2002 her third album, Filth and Fire, was named Best Indy CD of the year by Jon Pareles of The New York Times. She moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 2001 and secured a deal with Harlan Howard Songs, then secured a record deal with Lost Highway. She was awarded New Artist of the Year by The Americana Music Association the same year, Mercy Now was voted the No.6 Record of the Decade by No Depression magazine. Her second Lost Highway release, Between Daylight and Dark, appeared in September 2007 and she has had her songs recorded by numerous artists, including Jimmy Buffett, Tim McGraw, Blake Shelton, Bill Chambers, Mike Farris and Candi Staton, Amy Helm and Bettye Lavette. Mike Farris and Bettye Lavette both received Grammy Nominations, and Mike Farris took home the 2015 Grammy for Best Roots Gospel Album and her songs have been used in several TV shows, including Nashville on ABC, Masterpiece Theatres Case Histories, Showtimes Banshee, and HBOs Injustice. Her 6th studio record The Foundling and was released by Razor & Tie Records in 2010, in 2013, she released a Live CD called LIVE at Blue Rock, recorded outside of Austin, TX. Her newest release, released in 2014, is called Trouble and she was nominated in 2015 for the GLAAD Outstanding Music Artist of the Year at the 26th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, held in L. A. Her songs are taught at universities, including Alice Randalls country music lyric in American literature class at Vanderbilt University. Her songs have appeared on Wally Lambs playlist, Tom Waitss playlist and she has a book deal with Yale University Press, and is currently writing a book about the Art of Songwriting
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Mary Gauthier
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Fireflies (Faith Hill album)
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Fireflies is the sixth studio album by country artist Faith Hill. The album was released on August 2,2005, in its first week, the album sold 329,000 copies, making it the #1 album on both the Billboard 200 and Top Country Albums chart. Fireflies is her third #1 album, and it has been certified 2× Multi-Platinum by the RIAA for US shipments of two million copies, Hill produced the album with Byron Gallimore and Dann Huff. This album has sold 3.8 million copies worldwide, singles from the album include, in order of release, Mississippi Girl, Like We Never Loved at All, The Lucky One, Sunshine and Summertime and Stealing Kisses. Of these, Mississippi Girl was a Number One on the US Billboard country charts, the other singles peaked at numbers 5,5,7 and 36 on that chart, respectively. Other backing vocalists on this album include Hills husband, Tim McGraw, Bekka Bramlett, Rhonda Vincent, to date, it has sold more than 3 million copies worldwide. On January 13,2006, it was certified 2x Platinum by the RIAA
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Fireflies
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ITunes Store
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ITunes Store is a software-based online digital media store operated by Apple Inc. It opened on April 28,2003, and has been the largest music vendor in the United States since April 2008, and the largest music vendor in the world since February 2010. It offers over 35 -40 million songs,2.2 million apps,25,000 TV shows, iTunes Stores revenues in the first quarter of 2011 totaled nearly US$1.4 billion, by May 28,2014, the store had sold 35 billion songs worldwide. On January 6,2009, Apple announced that DRM had been removed from 80% of its catalog in the US. As of June 2013, iTunes Store possesses 575 million active user accounts, before iTunes Store, most of the online music was download through websites like Napster. Steve Jobs expressed concern that people were illegally obtaining music because it was the option they had. In 2002, Steve Jobs made an agreement with the five major record labels to offer their content through iTunes, iTunes Store was introduced by Steve Jobs at a Worldwide Developers Conference to give music listeners a legal alternative to peer-to-peer file sharing networks. When it opened, it was the only legal digital catalog of music to songs from all five major record labels. At first, it was available on Mac OS X. Following the introduction of iTunes Store, individual songs were all sold for the same price, Music in the store is in the Advanced Audio Coding format, which is the MPEG-4-specified successor to MP3. Originally, songs were available with DRM and were encoded at 128 kbit/s. At the January 2009 Macworld Expo, Apple announced that all music would be made available without DRM. Previously, this model, known as iTunes Plus, had available only for music from EMI. Users can sample songs by listening to previews, ninety seconds in length, some Apps cost money and some are free. Developers can decide which prices they want to charge for apps, from a pre-set list of pricing tiers, when someone downloads an App,70 percent of the purchase goes to the developer, and 30 percent goes to Apple. At the Macworld 2008 keynote, Steve Jobs, who was Apples CEO at the time, movies are available for rent in iTunes Store on the same day they are released on DVD, though iTunes Store also offers for rental some movies that are still in theaters. Movie rentals are only viewable for 24 hours or 48 hours after users begin viewing them, iTunes Store also offers one low-priced movie rental a week, in the United States, this rental costs 99 cents. Movie rentals are not yet available in all countries but it is available in the United States, Mexico, there is a weekly promotion in which one to three songs are available to download for free to logged-in users
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Sales of iTunes songs, 2003—2010.
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The iTunes Store, as seen in iTunes 12.2
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iTunes Store availability. Green: full functionality (music, apps, videos, etc.) Red: available, but with limitations (only apps, iTunes U, etc.)
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A fifth-generation
iPod with
earphones. The only portable devices licensed to play protected music from the iTunes Store are
iPods, the
iPhone, the
iPod Touch, the
iPad and selected
Motorola mobile phones, such as the
ROKR.
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The Oprah Winfrey Show
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The Oprah Winfrey Show, often referred to simply as Oprah, is an American syndicated tabloid talk show that aired nationally for 25 seasons from September 8,1986 to May 25,2011 in Chicago, Illinois. Produced and hosted by its namesake, Oprah Winfrey, it remains the highest-rated talk show in American television history, the show has been highly influential, and many of its topics have penetrated into the American pop-cultural consciousness. Winfrey has used the show as a platform, featuring book clubs, interviews, self-improvement segments. Oprah is one of the daytime television tabloid talk shows in history. The show received 47 Daytime Emmy Awards before Winfrey chose to stop submitting it for consideration in 2000, in 2002, TV Guide ranked it at #49 on TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. In 2013, they ranked it as the 19th greatest TV show of all time, the show has its roots in A. M. Chicago, a morning talk show airing on WLS-TV, an ABC owned-and-operated station in Chicago. Winfrey took over as host on January 2,1984 and, within a month, for the premiere, the shows producers tried rigorously to book Miami Vices Don Johnson as the first guest, even trying to bribe him with Dom Pérignon and a pair of rhinestone sunglasses. All attempts to book Johnson failed and Winfrey decided to do what we do best, the topic for the premiere show was How to Marry the Man or Woman of Your Choice. Early in the 12th season of The Oprah Winfrey Show, Winfrey confessed she was exhausted and considered quitting. However, while making the 1998 movie Beloved, Winfrey then admitted that it brought her back to her responsibility as a black woman with a great deal of power. She realized that being in such a position within the media industry, Winfrey was once again inspired to continue to help people take better control of their destinies, hence her slogan, Live Your Best Life. In the midst of doing Beloved, in a 2008 interview with Larry King, Winfrey announced that in 2011, although there would be a full season of her shows in that year, she would not renew her contract, thus ending the show. Winfrey interviewed a plethora of public figures and everyday people during the shows 25-year history, Winfrey claims her worst interviewing experience was with Elizabeth Taylor in the shows second season. Just before the interview, Taylor asked Winfrey not to ask any questions about her relationships, Winfrey found this to be a challenge considering Taylor had been married seven times. Taylor returned to the show in 1992, apologized to Winfrey and told her that she was in excruciating back, on February 10,1993, Winfrey sat down with Michael Jackson for what would become the most-watched interview in television history. Jackson, a private entertainer, had not given an interview in 14 years. The event was broadcast live from Jacksons Neverland Ranch and was watched by 90 million people worldwide, Jackson discussed missing out on a normal childhood and his strained relationship with his father, Joe Jackson
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Winfrey on the first national broadcast of The Oprah Winfrey Show
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The Oprah Winfrey Show
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Tom Cruise jumps on the couch during the taping of an interview on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
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Two hundred men who were molested stand together during a 2010 episode
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Mark Erelli
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Erelli has released nine solo albums and three collaborative albums. His self-titled debut album was released in 1999, the year that he won the Kerrville Folk Festival’s New Folk Award. His first recording for the Signature Sounds label, Compass & Companion, Erelli has worked as a side musician for singer songwriters Lori McKenna and Josh Ritter. He has performed at music festivals and shared the stage with John Hiatt, Dave Alvin. Erellis song “People Look Around”, which he co-wrote with Catie Curtis, was the Grand Prize winner at the 2005 International Songwriting Competition and his songs have been recorded by Ellis Paul, Vance Gilbert, Antje Duvekot, and Red Molly. Erelli was born in Boston and grew up in the town of Reading, Erelli performed in numerous high school musicals and founded the band, Freddie and Slip. Later he was a member of the band Organic Ice Cube, Erelli was introduced to the music of Patty Larkin, Chris Smither, and other singer-songwriters by listening to the radio station WBOS. He formed the Mark Erelli Band and in 1997 released the album Long Way From Heaven, after attending the North East Folk Alliance Conference in 1997, Erelli signed a recording contract with Signature Sounds Recordings. He was awarded the Iguana Music Fund Fellowship award from Cambridges Club Passim, Erelli attended Bates College in Lewiston, Maine and in 1997 enrolled at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where he obtained a Master’s Degree in evolutionary biology in 1999. Erellis selt-titled debut CD was released on the Signature Sounds label in 1999 and he later won the Kerrville Folk Festival’s New Folk Award in the same year. The following year, Erellis sophomore recording for Signature Sounds, Compass & Companion was released, again produced by Entress, it features a title-song duet with country artist Kelly Willis. Duke Levine and Kevin Barry once again lent support on guitar along with Dave Dick on banjo and Entress on the jaw harp, the album charterd for ten weeks in the Top Ten of the Americana Music Chart. Later that year Erelli was nominated for two Boston Music Awards, Erellis next project was to forego the traditional studio and instead gather a group of musicians to play within the walls of the Civil War era Memorial Hall in Monson, Massachusetts. Over the course of four days in May 2001, Erelli sat down in a semi-circle on the stage of the hall with Lorne Entress, Joe Barbato, Kevin Barry, Jim Henry, the recording machines were turned on and everything was captured over the next four days. The recording sessions were also captured on film and later aired as a documentary on PBS, in 2004, Erelli hooked up with Boston-based country band The Spurs to delve into the worlds of Western swing, country, and rockabilly with the release of Hillbilly Pilgrim. Erin McKeown is a guest vocalist on Pretend, for folk fans, this disc may take some getting used to, but its pleasures are many. Erelli co-produced, with Lorne Entress, his fifth Signature Sounds album Hope & Other Casualties, when Erelli was asked if it was a concept album, he said, The country has been through a lot, since 2000 really. Before September 11, that election of 2000 was a major thing, so, all the songs come out of that context
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Erelli performing at the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival in July 2009.
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Peter Gabriel
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After leaving Genesis in 1975, Gabriel launched a solo career with Solsbury Hill as his first single. His 1986 album, So, is his release and is certified triple platinum in the UK. The albums most successful single, Sledgehammer, won a record nine MTV Awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards, Gabriel has been a champion of world music for much of his career. He co-founded the WOMAD festival in 1982 and he has continued to focus on producing and promoting world music through his Real World Records label. He has also pioneered digital distribution methods for music, co-founding OD2, Gabriel has also been involved in numerous humanitarian efforts. In 1980, he released the anti-apartheid single Biko and he has participated in several human rights benefit concerts, including Amnesty Internationals Human Rights Now. Tour in 1988, and co-founded the Witness human rights organisation in 1992, Gabriel developed The Elders with Richard Branson, which was launched by Nelson Mandela in 2007. He was made a BMI Icon at the 57th annual BMI London Awards for his influence on generations of music makers, AllMusic has described Gabriel as one of rocks most ambitious, innovative musicians, as well as one of its most political. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis in 2010, in March 2015 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of South Australia in recognition of his achievements in music. Peter Brian Gabriel was born in Chobham, Surrey and his father, Ralph Parton Gabriel, was an electrical engineer, and his mother, Edith Irene, who was from a musical family, taught him to play the piano at an early age. His great-great-great-uncle, Sir Thomas Gabriel, 1st Baronet, served as Lord Mayor of London from 1866 to 1877, Gabriel attended Cable House, a private primary school in Woking, St. Andrews Prep School in Horsell, and Charterhouse School in Godalming from 1963. He played drums in his first rock bands, and Mike Rutherford commented in 1985 that Pete was—and still is, Gabriel founded Genesis in 1967 with fellow Charterhouse School pupils Tony Banks, Anthony Phillips, Mike Rutherford, and drummer Chris Stewart. The name of the band was suggested by fellow Charterhouse alumnus, the pop music impresario Jonathan King, Gabriel has said to be influenced by many different sources in his way of singing, such as Family lead singer Roger Chapman. In 1970, he played the flute on Cat Stevenss album, the concerts made extensive use of black light with the normal stage lighting subdued or off. Early Genesis concerts were hampered by a bad public address system made it difficult for audiences to understand what Gabriel was singing. According to Mike Rutherford, this drove Gabriel to find ways to impress his personality on the audience. In an episode of the 2007 British documentary series Seven Ages of Rock and it was the dress-wearing, fox-headed entity immortalised on the cover of Foxtrot. Hackett and the rest of the band had no inkling that Gabriel was going to do this and it was a success, encouraging Gabriel to continue wearing stage clothes while singing
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Peter Gabriel at the Wikipedia 10th anniversary party in London in January 2011
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Gabriel performing, August 1978
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Gabriel performing in
Giants Stadium, New Jersey, June 1986.
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Peter Gabriel at WITNESS Gala 2007
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In Your Eyes (Peter Gabriel song)
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In Your Eyes is a song by English rock musician Peter Gabriel from his 1986 album So. It features Youssou NDour singing some choruses translated into his native Wolof, the track was featured in the 1989 teen drama film Say Anything. Starring Ione Skye and John Cusack, in Your Eyes was not released as a single in the UK but it was released in the US as the third single from So, achieving strong radio airplay and regular MTV rotation. It reached No.1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks on September,131986 and it also peaked at No.26 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the November. Gabriel released two extended versions of the song as a 12 vinyl single in the US, in Australia, In Your Eyes peaked at No.97 in November 1986. It was included on the US version of his 2003 compilation Hit, in 2005, the song brought Gabriel his first Gold single, certified in the US by the RIAA. In 1988, NBC Sports used In Your Eyes in for the prologue of the AFC Championship Game between the Denver Broncos and Cleveland Browns, similarly, Fox Sports used In Your Eyes for the prologue for the 1998 NFC Championship Game between the Atlanta Falcons and Minnesota Vikings. The theatrical trailer for the 1993 film Benny & Joon features In Your Eyes, in the 2005 Cold Case episode entitled Family, the song appears towards the end as a 1988 murder case is resolved. The song is featured in the 2008 film The Rocker when A. D. D, plays their first gig at a high school prom. Sampled portions of the song can be heard in the 2010 Girl Talk album All Day, the song was also featured at the end of the series premiere to Felicity in 1998 on The WB. The song was used twice in the 1989 US Cameron Crowe film Say Anything, as well as in its trailer. Repopularized by its usage in the film, the song reentered the US charts but narrowly failed to crack the top 40 in its second run, reaching as high as No.41. Crowe says that Rosanna Arquette, who is believed to be the inspiration for the song, Gabriel asked to see Crowes film and Crowe asked the production company to send Gabriel a rough cut. Gabriel approved the use of his song, but told Crowe that he was uneasy about the overdose of the character at the end. The songs use in that iconic scene has been parodied in popular satirical shows, in the South Park episode Raisins, when Wendy breaks up with Stan, Bebe tells him to hold up a boombox playing Peter Gabriel outside Wendys window, to try to win her back. Instead of playing In Your Eyes, he plays Gabriels decidedly unromantic Shock the Monkey, joseph Gordon-Levitt did a parody during an appearance on Saturday Night Live when he hosted on 21 November 2009. On Season 4 Episode 15 of Glee, Will Schuester serenaded Emma with this song, holding a boombox posed on his arms, ive talked to John Cusack about that. Were sort of trapped together in a moment of contemporary culture
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"In Your Eyes"
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Neil Young
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Neil Percival Young, OC OM, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, producer, director and screenwriter. Young began performing in a group covering Shadows instrumentals in Canada in 1960, in 1966, after a brief stint with the Rick James-fronted Mynah Birds, he moved to Los Angeles, where he formed Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Richie Furay and others. Young had released two albums by the time he joined Crosby, Stills & Nash in 1969, in addition to two as a member of Buffalo Springfield. From his early albums and those with his backing band Crazy Horse, Young has recorded a steady stream of studio and live albums. Youngs often-distorted electric guitar work, deeply personal lyrics and signature tenor singing voice transcend his long career, Young also plays piano and harmonica on many albums which frequently combine folk, rock, blues and other musical styles. Famed for emotional outbursts and ripping up live set lists, Young often plays acoustic versions of songs in one show and his gritty guitar work, especially with Crazy Horse, earned him the nickname Godfather of Grunge and led to his 1995 album Mirror Ball with Pearl Jam. More recently Young has been backed by Promise of the Real, Young directed films using the pseudonym Bernard Shakey, including Journey Through the Past, Rust Never Sleeps, Human Highway, Greendale, and CSNY/Déjà Vu. He also contributed to the soundtracks of the films Philadelphia and Dead Man, Young has received several Grammy and Juno awards. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducted him twice, as a solo artist in 1995, in 2000, Rolling Stone named Young the 34th greatest rock n roll artist. He has lived in California since the 1960s but retains Canadian citizenship and he was awarded the Order of Manitoba on July 14,2006, and was made an Officer of the Order of Canada on December 30,2009. Young was born on November 12,1945, in Toronto and his father, Scott Alexander Young, was a journalist and sportswriter who also wrote fiction. His mother, Edna Blow Ragland Rassy Young was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, although Canadian, his mother had American and French ancestry. Youngs parents married in 1940 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and their first son, shortly after Youngs birth in 1945, his family moved to rural Omemee, Ontario, which Young later described fondly as a sleepy little place. Young suffered from polio in 1951 during the last major outbreak of the disease in Ontario, after his recovery, the Young family vacationed in Florida. During that period, Young briefly attended Chisolm Elementary School in New Smyrna Beach, in 1952, upon returning to Canada, Young moved from Omemee to Winnipeg for a year, before relocating to Toronto and Pickering. Young became interested in music he heard on the radio. When Young was twelve, his father, who had several extramarital affairs and his mother asked for a divorce which was granted in 1960. Young went to live with his mother, who moved back to Winnipeg, during the mid-fifties, Young listened to rock n roll, rockabilly, doo-wop, R&B, country, and western pop
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Young in 1983
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The Last Waltz, Young (center on left microphone) performing with Bob Dylan and
The Band, among others in 1976.
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Young playing in
Barcelona, Spain, 1984
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Mandy Moore
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Amanda Leigh Mandy Moore is an American actress, singer, and songwriter. Moore first came to prominence with her 1999 debut single, Candy, after signing with Epic Records, she released her first album, So Real, in 1999. It went on to receive a Platinum certification from the RIAA and her 2000 single, I Wanna Be with You, became her first Top 30 song in the US, peaking at number 24 on the Hot 100 chart. As of 2009, Moore has sold more than 10 million albums worldwide, in 2012, Moore was ranked #96 on VH1s list of 100 Greatest Women in Music, as well as #63 on their Sexiest Artists of All Time List. Outside of her career, Moore has also branched out into acting. She made her debut in the 2001 comedy film Dr. Dolittle 2. Later that year, she appeared as Lana Thomas in the comedy film The Princess Diaries and she had her first starring role as Jamie Sullivan in the 2002 romantic drama film A Walk to Remember, which was based on Nicholas Sparks novel. Moore later voiced Rapunzel in the 2010 animated feature Tangled, in 2016, she began starring as Rebecca Pearson in the NBC family comedy-drama series This Is Us for which she received a Golden Globe Award nomination. Amanda Leigh Moore was born on April 10,1984 in Nashua and her mother, Stacy, is a former news reporter who once worked for the Orlando Sentinel, and her father, Donald Moore, is a pilot for American Airlines. Moore was raised Catholic, but has developed a hodgepodge of things that she believes. Moores ancestry is Russian Jewish, English, and Irish and she is the second among the three children with an older brother, Scott, and a younger brother, Kyle. When she was two old, Moore and her family moved to Longwood, Seminole County, Florida, outside of Orlando. She attended Bishop Moore Catholic High School in Orlando, Florida from 1998 to 2002, Moore became interested in acting and singing at a young age, and cited her British grandmother, Eileen Friedman, a professional ballerina in London, as one of her inspirations. Moore stated My parents thought It was just a phase Id grow out of, but I stuck to it and begged them for acting lessons, for voice lessons. Moore began starring in numerous productions, as well as performing the National Anthem at numerous Orlando based events. She was only twelve years old when she attended the Stagedoor Manor theater camp, production director Konnie Kittrell said of Moore She was a quiet, sweet girl, and stated that even though she earned numerous solos She wasnt a spotlight seeker. When Moore was thirteen, she working on music by herself. One day, while working in an Orlando studio, she was overheard by a FedEx delivery man, the delivery man, named Victor, later sent this friend a copy of Moores unfinished demo, and Moore went on to sign with the label
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Moore at the
83rd Academy Awards in 2011
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Moore performing in June 2009
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Moore performing at
The Grammy Museum on June 11, 2009
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Moore at the 2011 Hollywood Style Awards on November 12, 2011
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Wild Hope
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Wild Hope is the fifth studio album by American singer Mandy Moore, her first in four years. It was released via her new label, The Firm Music and it was released digitally in Australia on June 18 with the bonus track Swept Away. Counting her compilation and cover albums, it is Moores seventh album, Moore began writing new material for the album in 2004. She originally signed with Sire Records and released a single via her site entitled Hey. which was written by James Renald, the writer of her 2002 single Cry. In early 2006, Moore posted the cover of Beautiful Man on her MySpace, Moore then signed with EMI and a UK magazine assumed after hearing the song Slummin In Paradise that that would be the title of the album. Extraordinary, one of the tracks she co-wrote with The Weepies, was premiered via her MySpace profile on January 29,2007, Moore has also put another song on her MySpace profile called Nothing That You Are. The new track premiered on February 9,2007, Moore explained how the album helped her cope with depression and self-discovery. To date, critics have been positive on the album. Billboard stated that Wild Hope is the sound of a singer finally finding her comfort zone. Gone is the pop of Moores early career, replaced instead by thoughtful musings on love and life. an album full of subtle. Moore did a documentary for Oxygen entitled I am Mandy Moore that chronicled the writing and she also did one-off gigs promoting her album. The most popular is the MSN concert where Moore performed all songs off her album including three older songs, Moore also went on tour to help promote the album. Wild Hope debuted on the U. S. Billboard 200 at No,30, selling a mere 25,000 copies the first week of release, according to Billboard. It is Moores third highest debuting album, falling short of her 2003 album Coverage and her album also reached No.9 on The Top Internet albums. After 5 weeks, Wild Hope charted off the Billboard 200, however it returned on the chart, to date, Wild Hope has sold over 200,000 in the United States and 600,000 worldwide
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Wild Hope
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Amanda Leigh
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Amanda Leigh is the sixth studio album by American singer Mandy Moore, released by Storefront Recordings in May and June 2009. Marketed and distributed by Sony Music Entertainment, the album consists of eleven songs, most are contemporary folk style songs with country and pop influences. On March 17,2009, I Could Break Your Heart Any Day of the Week, in October 2008, Moore posted live videos of three new songs she had been working on with singer-songwriter, pianist and guitarist Mike Viola on her blog. Fans speculated about an album featuring both artists. Recording sessions for the album took place around December 2008 in Boston and it was announced in February 2009 that the new album was to be released in May by Storefront Recordings, a new label founded by Moores longtime manager John Leshay. Moore again worked with Lori McKenna, who co-wrote three songs on her 2007 album, Wild Hope, the albums music variously channels Todd Rundgren, Joni Mitchell, and Paul McCartney. According to Moore, The music is all a reflection of me now, the album opens with the song Merrimack River, which, according to Moore, she knew it was exactly the way to open the album, indicating the lyrics. The next song, Fern Dell, was among the first batch of songs recorded for the album, the song, according to the singer talks about first impressions and how they can change and affect your world. The third track is I Could Break Your Heart Any Day of the Week, about the song, Moore says its a way of owning and acknowledging your sense of worth in a rather tongue and cheek manner. The fourth song, Pocket Philosopher, is about the excitement of meeting someone new, the fifth song, Song About Home talks about the struggles that there might be between the definitions of home when you are a child and when you have your own family. Everblue, the song on the album, is the last survivor of the 6 or 7 songs written by Moore. The song, though being heavy, has a comfortable, resigned sadness, the seventh song, called Merrimack River is an instrumental interlude which resembles the first song of the album. The song was also the first song written by Moore along with Mike Viola and Inara Georgre, indian Summer, the ninth song is described by Moore as the one song that carried severe demo-itis for me. The tenth song of the record was the last song written for it, the song is about telling someone that maybe its time to move on and that you feel that the person deserves the best, and you are not it. According to Mandy, Viola was working on the melody for a few days, for the promotion of the album, Moore performed an exclusive concert for the winning town of the Love at First Sniff competition on Gains official site. The town that has the most stories placed on the website wins the competition, Moore visited many talk shows including The Ellen DeGeneres Show and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. On both shows she performed her new single I Could Break Your Heart Any Day of the Week to promote the album. On May 26,2009, she performed her new songs at Amoeba Music in Hollywood, together with Mike Viola, on March 17,2009, her first single for the record I Could Break Your Heart Any Day of the Week was released for digital download on iTunes
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Amanda Leigh
