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Mark Heard (album)
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Mark Heard is the first solo album by Mark Heard, originally released in 1975, and re-released as On Turning to Dust on both AB Records and Solid Rock Records in 1978. A limited edition CDR reissue of the original Mark Heard album was released to fans in 1998 through Fingerprint Records, all songs written by Mark Heard, except Cabin in Gloryland by O. A. Parris, writer /Cpl. Greensleeves interlude is a 16th-century English melody, there is a Fountain is an early American melody, words by William Cowper,1771. Passion Chorale is by Hans Leo Hassler,1601, harmony by J. S. Bach,1729, words by Bernard of Clairvaux, dinner at Grandmas - by Mark Heard, Pat Terry, Jeff Vansant, Wayne King. Photography and cover design by Mark and Janet Sue Heard, recorded at Lemco Studios, Lexington, Kentucky
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Macon, Georgia
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Macon /ˈmeɪkən/ is a city located in the state of Georgia, United States. Macon lies near the center of the state, approximately 85 miles south of Atlanta. Settled near the line of the Ocmulgee River, Macon is the county seat of Bibb County and had a 2014 estimated population of 153,691. Macon is the city of the Macon metropolitan area, which had an estimated population of 231,259 in 2014. In a 2012 referendum, voters approved the consolidation of Macon and Bibb County, the two governments officially merged on January 1,2014. Macon is served by three highways, I-16, I-75, and I-475. The city has several institutions of education, as well as numerous museums. The area is served by the Middle Georgia Regional Airport and the Herbert Smart Downtown Airport, the mayor of Macon is Robert Reichert, a former Democratic member of the Georgia House of Representatives. Reichert was elected mayor of the consolidated city of Macon–Bibb. Macon lies on the site of the Ocmulgee Old Fields, where the historic Creek Indians lived in the 18th century and their prehistoric predecessors, the Mississippian culture, built a powerful chiefdom based on an agricultural village and constructed earthwork mounds for ceremonial, burial and religious purposes. The areas along the rivers in the Southeast had been inhabited by varying cultures of indigenous peoples for 13,000 years before Europeans arrived. Macon developed at the site of Fort Benjamin Hawkins, built from 1806–1809 at the line of the Ocmulgee River to protect the new frontier. The fort was named in honor of Benjamin Hawkins, Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Southeast territory south of the Ohio River for more than two decades and he lived among the Creek and had a Creek wife. This was the most inland point of navigation on the river from the Low Country, president Thomas Jefferson forced the Creek to cede their lands east of the Ocmulgee River and ordered the fort built. A gathering point of the Creek and American cultures for trading, it was also a center of state militia, the fort served as a major military distribution point during the War of 1812 against Great Britain and also during the Creek War of 1813. Afterward, the fort was used as a trading post for years and was garrisoned until 1821. It was decommissioned about 1828 and later burned to the ground, a replica of the southeast blockhouse was built in 1938 and stands today on a hill in east Macon. Part of the site is occupied by the Fort Hawkins Grammar School
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Georgia (U.S. state)
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Georgia is a state in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1733, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies, named after King George II of Great Britain, Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2,1788. It declared its secession from the Union on January 19,1861 and it was the last state to be restored to the Union, on July 15,1870. Georgia is the 24th largest and the 8th most populous of the 50 United States, from 2007 to 2008,14 of Georgias counties ranked among the nations 100 fastest-growing, second only to Texas. Georgia is known as the Peach State and the Empire State of the South, Atlanta is the states capital, its most populous city and has been named a global city. Georgia is bordered to the south by Florida, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean and South Carolina, to the west by Alabama, the states northern part is in the Blue Ridge Mountains, part of the Appalachian Mountains system. Georgias highest point is Brasstown Bald at 4,784 feet above sea level, Georgia is the largest state entirely east of the Mississippi River in land area. Before settlement by Europeans, Georgia was inhabited by the mound building cultures, the British colony of Georgia was founded by James Oglethorpe on February 12,1733. The colony was administered by the Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America under a charter issued by King George II. The Trustees implemented a plan for the colonys settlement, known as the Oglethorpe Plan. In 1742 the colony was invaded by the Spanish during the War of Jenkins Ear, in 1752, after the government failed to renew subsidies that had helped support the colony, the Trustees turned over control to the crown. Georgia became a colony, with a governor appointed by the king. The Province of Georgia was one of the Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution by signing the 1776 Declaration of Independence, the State of Georgias first constitution was ratified in February 1777. Georgia was the 10th state to ratify the Articles of Confederation on July 24,1778, in 1829, gold was discovered in the North Georgia mountains, which led to the Georgia Gold Rush and an established federal mint in Dahlonega, which continued its operation until 1861. The subsequent influx of white settlers put pressure on the government to land from the Cherokee Nation. In 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act into law, sending many eastern Native American nations to reservations in present-day Oklahoma, including all of Georgias tribes. Despite the Supreme Courts ruling in Worcester v. Georgia that ruled U. S. states were not permitted to redraw the Indian boundaries, President Jackson and the state of Georgia ignored the ruling. In 1838, his successor, Martin Van Buren, dispatched troops to gather the Cherokee
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Chicago
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Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third-most populous city in the United States. With over 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the state of Illinois, and it is the county seat of Cook County. In 2012, Chicago was listed as a global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Chicago has the third-largest gross metropolitan product in the United States—about $640 billion according to 2015 estimates, the city has one of the worlds largest and most diversified economies with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce. In 2016, Chicago hosted over 54 million domestic and international visitors, landmarks in the city include Millennium Park, Navy Pier, the Magnificent Mile, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Campus, the Willis Tower, Museum of Science and Industry, and Lincoln Park Zoo. Chicagos culture includes the arts, novels, film, theater, especially improvisational comedy. Chicago also has sports teams in each of the major professional leagues. The city has many nicknames, the best-known being the Windy City, the name Chicago is derived from a French rendering of the Native American word shikaakwa, known to botanists as Allium tricoccum, from the Miami-Illinois language. The first known reference to the site of the current city of Chicago as Checagou was by Robert de LaSalle around 1679 in a memoir, henri Joutel, in his journal of 1688, noted that the wild garlic, called chicagoua, grew abundantly in the area. In the mid-18th century, the area was inhabited by a Native American tribe known as the Potawatomi, the first known non-indigenous permanent settler in Chicago was Jean Baptiste Point du Sable. Du Sable was of African and French descent and arrived in the 1780s and he is commonly known as the Founder of Chicago. In 1803, the United States Army built Fort Dearborn, which was destroyed in 1812 in the Battle of Fort Dearborn, the Ottawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi tribes had ceded additional land to the United States in the 1816 Treaty of St. Louis. The Potawatomi were forcibly removed from their land after the Treaty of Chicago in 1833, on August 12,1833, the Town of Chicago was organized with a population of about 200. Within seven years it grew to more than 4,000 people, on June 15,1835, the first public land sales began with Edmund Dick Taylor as U. S. The City of Chicago was incorporated on Saturday, March 4,1837, as the site of the Chicago Portage, the city became an important transportation hub between the eastern and western United States. Chicagos first railway, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, and the Illinois, the canal allowed steamboats and sailing ships on the Great Lakes to connect to the Mississippi River. A flourishing economy brought residents from rural communities and immigrants from abroad, manufacturing and retail and finance sectors became dominant, influencing the American economy. The Chicago Board of Trade listed the first ever standardized exchange traded forward contracts and these issues also helped propel another Illinoisan, Abraham Lincoln, to the national stage
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Illinois
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Illinois is a state in the midwestern region of the United States, achieving statehood in 1818. It is the 6th most populous state and 25th largest state in terms of land area, the word Illinois comes from a French rendering of a native Algonquin word. For decades, OHare International Airport has been ranked as one of the worlds busiest airports, Illinois has long had a reputation as a bellwether both in social and cultural terms and politics. With the War of 1812 Illinois growth slowed as both Native Americans and Canadian forces often raided the American Frontier, mineral finds and timber stands also had spurred immigration—by the 1810s, the Eastern U. S. Railroads arose and matured in the 1840s, and soon carried immigrants to new homes in Illinois, as well as being a resource to ship their commodity crops out to markets. Railroads freed most of the land of Illinois and other states from the tyranny of water transport. By 1900, the growth of jobs in the northern cities and coal mining in the central and southern areas attracted a new group of immigrants. Illinois was an important manufacturing center during both world wars, the Great Migration from the South established a large community of African Americans in Chicago, who created the citys famous jazz and blues cultures. Three U. S. presidents have been elected while living in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, additionally, Ronald Reagan, whose political career was based in California, was the only U. S. president born and raised in Illinois. Today, Illinois honors Lincoln with its official slogan, Land of Lincoln. The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum is located in the capital of Springfield. Illinois is the spelling for the early French Catholic missionaries and explorers name for the Illinois Native Americans. American scholars previously thought the name Illinois meant man or men in the Miami-Illinois language and this etymology is not supported by the Illinois language, as the word for man is ireniwa and plural men is ireniwaki. The name Illiniwek has also said to mean tribe of superior men. The name Illinois derives from the Miami-Illinois verb irenwe·wa he speaks the regular way and this was taken into the Ojibwe language, perhaps in the Ottawa dialect, and modified into ilinwe·. The French borrowed these forms, changing the ending to spell it as -ois. The current spelling form, Illinois, began to appear in the early 1670s, the Illinois name for themselves, as attested in all three of the French missionary-period dictionaries of Illinois, was Inoka, of unknown meaning and unrelated to the other terms. American Indians of successive cultures lived along the waterways of the Illinois area for thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans, the Koster Site has been excavated and demonstrates 7,000 years of continuous habitation
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Folk rock
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It has also been influential in those parts of the world with close cultural connections to Britain and gave rise to the genre of folk punk. By the 1980s the genre was in decline in popularity. When English bands of the late 1960s and early 1970s defined themselves as electric folk they were making a distinction with the existing folk rock. Folk rock was what they had already been producing, American or American style singer-songwriter material played on instruments, as undertaken by Bob Dylan. They drew the distinction because they were focusing on indigenous songs, the result of this hybridisation was an exchange of specific features drawn from Traditional music and Rock music. For example, electric folk groups, while using traditional material as their source for lyrics and tunes. In the same year, The Beatles began incorporating overt folk influences into their music, the Beatles and other British Invasion bands, in turn, influenced the Californian band The Byrds, who began playing folk-influenced material and Bob Dylan compositions with rock instrumentation. The Byrds recording of Dylans Mr Tambourine Man was released in April 1965 and reached #1 on the U. S. and UK singles charts, setting off the mid-1960s folk rock movement. The Beatles late 1965 album, Rubber Soul, contained a number of songs clearly influenced by the American folk rock boom, such as Nowhere Man and If I Needed Someone. Folk rock became an important genre among emerging English bands, particularly those in the London club scene towards the end of the 1960s. Like the American revival, it was often overtly left wing in its politics, most important among their responses were the foundation of folk clubs in major towns, starting with London where MacColl began the Ballads and Blues Club in 1953. These clubs were usually urban in location, but the songs sung in them often hearkened back to a rural pre-industrial past, in many ways this was the adoption of abandoned popular music by the middle classes. This meant that there were, by the later 1960s, a group of performers with musical skill and knowledge of a variety of traditional songs. The result was an interpretation of the song A Sailors Life. The rapid expansion of electric folk that followed in the wake of Liege, five Hand Reel a band formed out of the remnants of Spencers Feat proved to be one of the more successful and influential folk rock bands. Releasing 4 albums with Topic/RCA records they were popular in Europe. He then quit that and eventually formed the Albion Country Band, later the Albion Band, a much smaller group of English bands were formed in emulation of existing electric rock bands. Fiddlers Dram were often dismissed as one hit wonders for their single Day Trip to Bangor, most of their career, from that point until they disbanded in 1979, was one of declining profile and sales
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Singing
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Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist, Singers perform music that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir of singers or a band of instrumentalists, Singers may perform as soloists, or accompanied by anything from a single instrument up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Singing can be formal or informal, arranged or improvised and it may be done as a form of religious devotion, as a hobby, as a source of pleasure, comfort, or ritual, as part of music education, or as a profession. Excellence in singing requires time, dedication, instruction, and regular practice, if practice is done on a regular basis then the sounds can become more clear and strong. Professional singers usually build their careers around one specific genre, such as classical or rock. They typically take voice training provided by teachers or vocal coaches throughout their careers. Though these four mechanisms function independently, they are coordinated in the establishment of a vocal technique and are made to interact upon one another. During passive breathing, air is inhaled with the diaphragm while exhalation occurs without any effort, exhalation may be aided by the abdominal, internal intercostal and lower pelvis/pelvic muscles. Inhalation is aided by use of external intercostals, scalenes and sternocleidomastoid muscles, the pitch is altered with the vocal cords. With the lips closed, this is called humming, humans have vocal folds which can loosen, tighten, or change their thickness, and over which breath can be transferred at varying pressures. The shape of the chest and neck, the position of the tongue, any one of these actions results in a change in pitch, volume, timbre, or tone of the sound produced. Sound also resonates within different parts of the body and an individuals size, Singers can also learn to project sound in certain ways so that it resonates better within their vocal tract. This is known as vocal resonation, another major influence on vocal sound and production is the function of the larynx which people can manipulate in different ways to produce different sounds. These different kinds of function are described as different kinds of vocal registers. The primary method for singers to accomplish this is through the use of the Singers Formant and it has also been shown that a more powerful voice may be achieved with a fatter and fluid-like vocal fold mucosa. The more pliable the mucosa, the more efficient the transfer of energy from the airflow to the vocal folds, Vocal registration refers to the system of vocal registers within the voice. A register in the voice is a series of tones, produced in the same vibratory pattern of the vocal folds
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Songwriter
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A songwriter is an individual who writes the lyrics, melodies and chord progressions for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music. A songwriter can also be called a composer, although the term tends to be used mainly for individuals from the classical music genre. The pressure from the industry to produce popular hits means that songwriting is often an activity for which the tasks are distributed between a number of people. For example, a songwriter who excels at writing lyrics might be paired with a songwriter with a gift for creating original melodies, pop songs may be written by group members from the band or by staff writers – songwriters directly employed by music publishers. Some songwriters serve as their own publishers, while others have outside publishers. The old-style apprenticeship approach to learning how to write songs is being supplemented by university degrees and college diplomas, a knowledge of modern music technology, songwriting elements and business skills are necessary requirements to make a songwriting career in the 2010s. Several music colleges offer songwriting diplomas and degrees with music business modules, the legal power to grant these permissions may be bought, sold or transferred. This is governed by international copyright law, song pitching can be done on a songwriters behalf by their publisher or independently using tip sheets like RowFax, the MusicRow publication and SongQuarters. Skills associated with song-writing include entrepreneurism and creativity, songwriters who sign an exclusive songwriting agreement with a publisher are called staff writers. In the Nashville country music scene, there is a staff writer culture where contracted writers work normal 9-to-5 hours at the publishing office and are paid a regular salary. This salary is in effect the writers draw, an advance on future earnings, the publisher owns the copyright of songs written during the term of the agreement for a designated period, after which the songwriter can reclaim the copyright. In an interview with HitQuarters, songwriter Dave Berg extolled the benefits of the set-up, unlike contracted writers, some staff writers operate as employees for their respective publishers. Under the terms of work for hire agreements, the compositions created are fully owned by the publisher. In Nashville, young writers are often encouraged to avoid these types of contracts. Staff writers are common across the industry, but without the more office-like working arrangements favored in Nashville. All the major publishers employ writers under contract, songwriter Allan Eshuijs described his staff writer contract at Universal Music Publishing as a starter deal. His success under the arrangement eventually allowed him to found his own publishing company, so that he could. keep as much as possible, songwriters are also often skilled musicians. In addition to selling their songs and musical concepts for other artists to sing, songwriters need to create a number of elements for a song
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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu
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Guitar
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The guitar is a musical instrument classified as a fretted string instrument with anywhere from four to 18 strings, usually having six. The sound is projected either acoustically, using a wooden or plastic and wood box, or through electrical amplifier. It is typically played by strumming or plucking the strings with the fingers, the guitar is a type of chordophone, traditionally constructed from wood and strung with either gut, nylon or steel strings and distinguished from other chordophones by its construction and tuning. There are three types of modern acoustic guitar, the classical guitar, the steel-string acoustic guitar, and the archtop guitar. The tone of a guitar is produced by the strings vibration, amplified by the hollow body of the guitar. The term finger-picking can also refer to a tradition of folk, blues, bluegrass. The acoustic bass guitar is an instrument that is one octave below a regular guitar. Early amplified guitars employed a body, but a solid wood body was eventually found more suitable during the 1960s and 1970s. As with acoustic guitars, there are a number of types of guitars, including hollowbody guitars, archtop guitars and solid-body guitars. The electric guitar has had a influence on popular culture. The guitar is used in a variety of musical genres worldwide. It is recognized as an instrument in genres such as blues, bluegrass, country, flamenco, folk, jazz, jota, mariachi, metal, punk, reggae, rock, soul. The term is used to refer to a number of chordophones that were developed and used across Europe, beginning in the 12th century and, later, in the Americas. The modern word guitar, and its antecedents, has applied to a wide variety of chordophones since classical times. Many influences are cited as antecedents to the modern guitar, at least two instruments called guitars were in use in Spain by 1200, the guitarra latina and the so-called guitarra morisca. The guitarra morisca had a back, wide fingerboard. The guitarra Latina had a sound hole and a narrower neck. By the 14th century the qualifiers moresca or morisca and latina had been dropped, and it had six courses, lute-like tuning in fourths and a guitar-like body, although early representations reveal an instrument with a sharply cut waist
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Electric mandolin
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The electric mandolin is an instrument tuned and played as the mandolin and amplified in similar fashion to an electric guitar. As with electric guitars, electric mandolins take many forms, Most common is a carved-top eight-string instrument fitted with a pickup in similar fashion to many arch top guitars. Solid body mandolins are common in 4-, 5-, and 8-string forms, acoustic electric and semi-acoustic mandolins also exist in many forms. Electric mandolins were built in the United States as early as the late 1920s, among the first companies to produce them were Stromberg-Voisinet, Electro, Vivi-Tone, and National Reso-Phonic. Gibson and Vega introduced their electric mandolins in 1936, in the United States, luthier/inventor Paul Bigsby began building solidbody electric mandolins in 1949. His first one had 10 strings and was built for Al Giddings, other Bigsby electric mandolin players were multi-instrumentalist Paul Buskirk, Johnny Muessig, and Eschol Cosby. Bigsbys most famous mandolin, built in 1952, was owned and played by Western swing musician Tiny Moore, Gibson and Rickenbacker introduced solidbody 8-string mandolins in the 1950s, while Fender followed the single-course idea with its 4-string version. A related instrument, the Bahian guitar, was developed in Brazil beginning in the 1940s, Bahian guitars typically have a solid body and 4 or 5 single-course strings tuned in fifths, but are considered to be electric versions of the cavaquinho rather than the mandolin. Both four string single course and eight string double course solid body mandolins have been produced by several makers, from 1956 to 1976, Fender produced a four string version which they simply called the Fender Electric Mandolin. Its body shape was based on a version of the Stratocaster body. They currently produce an eight string electric mandolin with a very similar body shape. They also currently produce a version of the Fender Electric Mandolin concept, called Mando-Strat. Gibson manufactured the EM-200 solid body electric mandolin from 1954 to 1971 and they currently produce a solid body mandolin known as the Mandobird, based on a smaller version of the Gibson Firebird body and sold under the Epiphone label. Both four and eight string versions are available, the Mid-Missouri Mandolin Company produced two models, the EM-4 and EM-8, with carved top bodies and four and eight strings respectively. Blue Star produces four and five string models under the name Mandoblaster, jbovier produces four and five string EMC electric mandolins, which resemble the Fender electric mandolins, and a four string ELS electric mandolin. EMC stands for Electric Mandocaster and ELS stands for Electric Leo Smith, the Eastwood Guitars manufactures solid body eight string electric mandolin under the name Mandocaster. It has Telecaster resembling body, two single coil pickups and a pickup switch known from Stratocaster guitars and they also make Mandocaster 12 which is actually an octave guitar. It is tuned the same as any standard guitar, E-E, Mandocaster at the Eastwood Guitars website
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Home Sweet Home Records
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Home Sweet Home Records is a record label, based in Dallas, Texas. Home Sweet Home was founded in 1981, in Nashville, Tennessee, since its introduction into the music industry, the label has released over one hundred projects, including over 60 number one records - and over 30 top ten singles nationally. In 1983 Home Sweet Home released what is believed to be the first ever Contemporary Christian Music Video with Steve Archers Through His Eyes of Love, dan Peeks single All Things Are Possible was the first Contemporary Christian release that reached the pop Billboard Charts reaching the Top Ten. Perhaps its most well-known artist would turn out to be Mark Heard, Christian decided to sign Heard because of his deep lyrics and on the edge music that no other Christian label would sign or release at the time. After Heards death in 1992, the label re-issued edited versions of his albums, since 2005, Home Sweet Home has been known as CC Entertainment and YMC Records. The label also began reissuing the catalog in CDs and its parent company, YMC Productions, is owned by Chris Smith, Savannah Smith, Casey Smith, Courtney Smith and Preston Smith
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Sam Phillips (musician)
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Sam Phillips is an American singer-songwriter. Her albums include the critically acclaimed Martinis and Bikinis in 1994 and she has also composed scores for the television shows Gilmore Girls and Bunheads. Phillips was born in Glendale, California, the second of three children, and has a brother and a sister and she began her musical career in the early 1980s, singing background vocals for Christian artists Mark Heard and Randy Stonehill. Several became Top 10 singles on Christian radio and Myrrh records promoted her as the Christian Cyndi Lauper, Phillips was never comfortable with this image, and it was a bone of contention between her and her label. She began using the name Sam professionally in 1988 when she left Myrrh Records, with The Indescribable Wow Philips moved into mainstream music. The album featured the orchestrations of Van Dyke Parks, cruel Inventions was released in 1991, and included a guest performance by Elvis Costello. 1994s Martinis and Bikinis was widely praised by critics and was nominated for a Grammy Award. In 1995, Phillips made her acting debut as the mute terrorist Katya in the Bruce Willis blockbuster Die Hard with a Vengeance. In 1996, Phillips released Omnipop, which featured a song co-written by R. E. M, Phillips made a cameo appearance in the 1997 Wim Wenders film The End of Violence, singing part of the song Animals on Wheels from Omnipop. After releasing a contractually obligated best of album in 1999, Virgin Records dropped Phillips from its roster, in 2001, Phillips signed with Nonesuch Records and released a stripped-down acoustic album called Fan Dance, which featured some of her most critically acclaimed songwriting. Phillips also began writing music for and scoring the television series Gilmore Girls, in 2004, she released A Boot and a Shoe, another collection of acoustic cabaret songs. After the release of A Boot and a Shoe, Phillips and T Bone Burnett and her album Dont Do Anything was self-produced and released in 2008. In October 2009, Phillips launched The Long Play, a subscription service offering digital releases without a record label. In Spring of 2011 she issued Solid State, a public CD release comprising 13 of the best songs from her subscription service, in 2012, it was announced that she would be reunited with Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino by scoring music for the short-lived American TV show Bunheads. Phillips described her album, Pretty Time Bomb, as being a nostalgic sort of dream of being a pop star in the 60s. Its a sweet kind of album and I dont know where it came from, I dont know what compelled me to make it. Its probably a bad idea, but every time I listen to what Ive done, so I figure, that must mean something and I should go ahead and put it out there. Push Any Button was released on August 13,2013, Phillips has described Push Any Button in as ‘an impressionistic version of the AM pop radio playing inside her head’—a way of ‘looking at the future through the past
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Phil Keaggy
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He is a seven-time recipient of the GMA Dove Award for Instrumental Album of the Year, and was twice nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Gospel Album. He has frequently listed as one of the worlds top-three finger-style, as well as finger-picking. Keaggy was raised in a farmhouse in Hubbard, Ohio with nine brothers and sisters. Keaggy went to school at nearby Austintown Fitch High School. He is missing half of the finger on his right hand due to a childhood accident at age four involving a water pump. Reflecting on the incident, Keaggy says, We lived on a farm in Hubbard, Ohio, which had a big water pump, as I was kneeling on top of the platform, it broke and the faucets came crashing down on my finger and cut it off. I can remember it very vividly—as if it happened yesterday, and I can see my dad running down the hill, rescuing me, I can recall having a white cast and bandage, it was gigantic. They tried to sew it on, but it didnt take, as a young kid, I was embarrassed about it a lot, especially when I was beginning to get into guitar. These were all really heavy things for my mom and dad to go through, initially, it was not the guitar that attracted Keaggy to playing music. I didnt know how to tune the guitar, as it was when it came, thats how I thought it was supposed to be. So for about nine months I learned funny little melodies with my guitar tuned out. Finally, my brother Dave said Here, let me show you how to tune this thing properly, I said, Well, O. K. but I gotta learn all over again. One day, Nick took me to a music store loaded with all these great guitars the British groups were using, I pointed out a 1962 Stratocaster and he bought it for me. He got me my first professional gig at Artesia Hall—just me and my guitar and amp. I paid him back by sweeping driveways, I had that guitar for quite a while and put a lot of time and effort into playing it. Keaggy was a member of a garage rock band called the Squires, one of their songs. In 1966 he joined Volume IV, which in 1967 became New Hudson Exit, the band appeared frequently in Youngstown clubs and also released a Keaggy composition, Come With Me, as a single on the Date label. At one point, New Hudson Exit had considered Joe Walsh as its lead guitarist, Walsh would later establish himself as guitarist for the James Gang before embarking on a solo career and work with the Eagles. In 1968, Keaggy and longtime friend drummer John Sferra, along with bassist Steve Markulin, the band gigged in and around the Youngstown, Ohio, area and found work at school dances and clubs. This incarnation of the band recorded demos, and released the single Where Did My World Come From
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Peter Buck
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Peter Lawrence Buck is an American musician and songwriter who is best known as co-founder and lead guitarist of the alternative rock band R. E. M. Throughout his career with R. E. M. as well as during his subsequent solo career, Buck has also been at various times an official member of numerous side project groups. These groups included Hindu Love Gods, The Minus 5, Tuatara, The Baseball Project, Robyn Hitchcock, richard M. Nixon consists of Buck, Scott McCaughey and Bill Rieflin, the same three musicians who comprise The Venus 3. After spending time in Los Angeles and San Francisco, the Buck family moved to Atlanta, after graduating with honors from Crestwood High School in 1975, Buck attended Emory University and joined Delta Tau Delta fraternity. He eventually dropped out of Emory, Buck moved to Athens, Georgia, and attended the University of Georgia as well. While in Athens, Buck worked at the Wuxtry Records store, Bucks style of guitar playing is simple and yet distinctive. He makes wide use of strings while chording to create chiming. His sound, especially on mid-period R. E. M, albums that saw the band break through to international popularity, has been associated with Rickenbacker guitars, particularly a Jetglo model 360. He has also used a variety of other instruments as the group has continued to experiment. Releases prior to Accelerate, his guitar parts have been less prominent, when Peter plays guitar, theres a strong sense of fuck off that comes from his side of the stage. And you feel that he wants to be in a band because he likes what they do, but thats all, explained U2s lead singer Bono in 2003. And its almost like performing and having to deal with all of that is a bit of a compromise for him, and I like that energy a little bit, and that gives them their aggression. Buck has produced bands, including Uncle Tupelo, Dreams So Real, The Fleshtones, Charlie Pickett. Buck also has made contributions on other musicians albums, including The Replacements, Billy Bragg, The Decemberists, Robyn Hitchcock. Peter, Mike Mills, Bill Berry and Warren Zevon recorded an album under the band name Hindu Love Gods, bandmates and Zevon were recording tracks for Zevons 1987 album Sentimental Hygiene. Hindu Love Gods is one of names the members of R. E. M. have used performing around the Athens area. The three instrumentalists from R. E. M. all performed on Nikki Suddens 1991 album The Jewel Thief, Buck also coproduced the 1992 Vigilantes of Love album, Killing Floor, with songwriter Mark Heard. He co-wrote, produced, and performed on Mark Eitzels 1997 album West and he recorded an EP with Keith Streng of The Fleshtones as Full Time Men in 1985, and along with R. E. M
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R.E.M.
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R. E. M. was an American rock band from Athens, Georgia, that was formed in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, lead guitarist Peter Buck, bassist/backing vocalist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe. Released its first single—Radio Free Europe—in 1981 on the independent record label Hib-Tone, the single was followed by the Chronic Town EP in 1982, the bands first release on I. R. S. Following years of success, R. E. M. Achieved a mainstream hit in 1987 with the single The One I Love, the group signed to Warner Bros. Records in 1988, and began to espouse political and environmental concerns while playing large arenas worldwide. By the early 1990s, when alternative rock began to experience mainstream success, R. E. M. was viewed by subsequent acts such as Nirvana. The band then released its two most commercially successful albums, Out of Time and Automatic for the People, which veered from the established sound. R. E. M. s 1994 release, Monster, was a return to a more rock-oriented sound, the band began its first tour in six years to support the album, the tour was marred by medical emergencies suffered by three of the band members. Re-signed with Warner Bros. for a reported US$80 million, at the time the most expensive recording contract in history and its 1996 release, New Adventures in Hi-Fi, though critically acclaimed, fared worse commercially than expected. The following year, Bill Berry left the band, while Stipe, Buck, in 2007, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in their first year of eligibility. Disbanded amicably in September 2011, announcing the split on its website, in January 1980, Michael Stipe met Peter Buck in Wuxtry Records, the Athens record store where Buck worked. The pair discovered that they shared similar tastes in music, particularly in rock and protopunk artists like Patti Smith, Television. Stipe said, It turns out that I was buying all the records that was saving for himself, Stipe and Buck soon met fellow University of Georgia students Mike Mills and Bill Berry, who had played music together since high school and lived together in Georgia. The quartet agreed to collaborate on songs, Stipe later commented that there was never any grand plan behind any of it. Their still-unnamed band spent a few months rehearsing and played its first show on April 5,1980, at a friends birthday party held in a converted Episcopal church in Athens. After considering names like Twisted Kites, Cans of Piss, and Negro Wives, the band members eventually dropped out of school to focus on their developing group. They found a manager in Jefferson Holt, a store clerk who was so impressed by an R. E. M. performance in his hometown of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. R. E. M. s success was almost immediate in Athens and surrounding areas, the band drew progressively larger crowds for shows, over the next year and a half, R. E. M. Toured throughout the Southern United States, touring was arduous because a touring circuit for alternative rock bands did not then exist
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Randy Stonehill
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Randall Evan Randy Stonehill is an American singer and songwriter from Stockton, California, best known as one of the pioneers of contemporary Christian music. His music is primarily folk rock in the style of James Taylor, but some of his albums have focused on new wave, pop, pop rock, roots rock, Randy Stonehill was born in Stockton, California. The son of Leonard N. Stonehill and his wife, Pauline Correia and is the brother of Jeffrey Dean Stonehill. He graduated from Leigh High School, in San Jose, California, then moved to Los Angeles where he stayed with Christian rock singer, Stonehills first album, Born Twice was released in 1971, with financial help from Pat Boone. The album—one side a live performance, the other side recorded in a studio—was recorded for a mere $US800, a year later, Stonehill made his film acting debut in The Blob sequel, Beware. The Blob, with Cindy Williams where he performed the unreleased song Captain Coke and he also made a cameo appearance in the 1973 Billy Graham film Time to Run, performing his song I Love You. In 1976, Stonehill released the Larry Norman-produced Welcome to Paradise and this became a landmark album for the songwriter and was voted the third most important contemporary Christian album in a mid-1980s poll of Christian music critics. In the late 1970s, Stonehill would join forces with rock band Daniel Amos for the Amos n Randy Tour, Daniel Amos would go on to be Stonehills band for his next two releases, and Stonehill would later provide backing vocals on a number of Daniel Amos projects. 1984s Celebrate This Heartbeat teamed Stonehill with longtime friend Phil Keaggy for the song Who Will Save The Children, the two later formed The Keaggy/Stonehill Band in 1989 with Daniel Amos bassist Tim Chandler and The Swirling Eddies David Raven on drums. His second marriage produced one daughter, Heather, Time to Run, World Wide Pictures. K. Stonehill, Randy, in Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music, 377-378, official site Randy Stonehill interviews 1978–1998
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Michael Been
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Michael Kenneth Been was an American rock musician who achieved critical attention and rotation play on MTV in the 1980s with his band The Call. He later released an album of his work and toured with his sons band Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. His song Let the Day Begin was the campaign song of Al Gores 2000 U. S. presidential campaign. Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Been later lived in Park Forest, south of Chicago, after graduation, he moved to Chicago, where he was a member of the band Aorta at the time of their second album Aorta 2, in 1970. He then joined Lovecraft, the band to the psychedelic rock group H. P. He also played with former Moby Grape members Jerry Miller and Bob Mosley in the band Fine Wine, been formed his band The Call in the 1970s in Northern California with Tom Ferrier on guitar, bassist Greg Freeman and drummer Scott Musick. Motion Pictures aka the Call were discovered by Tulsas Phil Seymour and they released a self-titled album in 1982 with Mercury Records. The bands 1983 album Modern Romans led to a tour opening for Peter Gabriel. Been participated in composing and performing the music to Paul Schraders 1992 film Light Sleeper, the film also features two of his songs, To Feel This Way and World On Fire. In 1994, he recorded an album, On the Verge of a Nervous Breakthrough. Been appeared as a sideman in bands fronted by actor Harry Dean Stanton, Stanton having played harmonica on Let the Day Begin track and he played the apostle John in Martin Scorseses 1988 feature film The Last Temptation of Christ and had some film credits. Beens son, Robert Levon Been, is the frontman for Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Michael Been was heavily involved in BRMC as their sound engineer and toured with them. Been died at the age of 60 on August 19,2010, in Hasselt, Belgium, Light Sleeper On the Verge of a Nervous Breakthrough Michael Been at the Internet Movie Database Michael Been memorial page via The Call official site
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The Call (band)
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The Call was an American rock band from Santa Cruz, California active from 1980 to 2000. The Call formed in Santa Cruz in 1980 by vocalist/guitarist Michael Been, drummer/percussionist Scott Musick, bassist Greg Freeman, steve Huddleston played keyboards early on for the band. Been and Musick were originally from Oklahoma, been was previously a member of Chicago band Aorta, and then, between 1969 and 1971, of Lovecraft, the successor band to the psychedelic rock group H. P. Beginning with their debut in 1982, The Call went on to produce 10 albums by 2000. The eponymous premiere album was recorded in England, and Been later recalled that the band was in an exploratory phase at this point, been noted in a 1988 interview, The Call was a compassionate album, but it probably came out as anger. Peter Gabriel liked the band so much that he called them the future of American music, the next album, Modern Romans, was notable for its political content. Been later stated, There was a deal happening politically – Grenada, Lebanon, or the government saying the Russians are evil. That kind of thinking inspired me to write the last lines of Walls Came Down and this was followed by Scene Beyond Dreams. Been referred to it as The Calls metaphysical album, with a strong poetic sense to the lyrics and a change in instrumentation, the change in sound is notable. Garth Hudson of The Band played keyboards on these first three records, Reconciled was recorded during the summer of 1985. At this point, the band had not had a contract for two years, due to what Been described as legal bickering between The Calls former record label and their management company. However, when the deal was signed with Elektra Records, the band resumed playing, peter Gabriel, Simple Minds Jim Kerr, and Hudson and former Band mate Robbie Robertson all guested the album which was released in 1986. Several tracks from the album became hits on the Mainstream Rock Chart, next came the bands 1987 release Into The Woods, which Been referred to as his favorite album. In 1989 they released Let the Day Begin, whose title track reached No.1 on the US Mainstream Rock chart, Red Moon, which included background vocals by U2s Bono on the track Whats Happened to You, was released in 1990. Released The Best of The Call, which featured a selection of old favorites and few new songs. Two of the songs, Us and To Feel This Way, were different versions of later to be seen on Beens solo album, and in the case of To Feel This Way. In 1997 To Heaven and Back, was released by Fingerprint Records, followed by an album, Live Under the Red Moon. The Call disbanded that same year, after disbanding Scott Musick returned to Tulsa, Oklahoma where he plays regular shows with other local musicians and local legends
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Olivia Newton-John
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Olivia Newton-John, AO, OBE is a British-Australian singer, songwriter and actress. She is a four-time Grammy award winner who has amassed five number-one and ten other Top Ten Billboard Hot 100 singles, eleven of her singles and fourteen of her albums have been certified gold by the RIAA. She has sold an estimated 100 million records worldwide, making her one of the worlds best-selling artists of all time and she starred in Grease, which featured one of the most successful soundtracks in Hollywood history. Newton-John has been a long-time activist for environmental and animal rights issues, since surviving breast cancer in 1992, she has been an advocate for health awareness becoming involved with various charities, health products and fundraising efforts. Her business interests have included launching several product lines for Koala Blue and she is the mother of one daughter, Chloe Rose Lattanzi, with her first husband, actor Matt Lattanzi. Her second husband is John Easterling, Newton-John was born in Cambridge, England, to Irene Helene, the eldest child of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Max Born and Welsh father, Brinley Bryn Newton-John. Her mothers family had left Germany before World War II to avoid the Nazi regime and she is a third cousin of comedian Ben Elton. Her maternal great-grandfather was jurist Victor Ehrenberg and her matrilineal great-grandmothers father was jurist Rudolf von Jhering. Newton-John is the youngest of three children, following brother Hugh, a doctor, and sister Rona, an actress who was married to Grease co-star Jeff Conaway from 1980 until their divorce in 1985. Newton-Johns father was an MI5 officer on the Enigma project at Bletchley Park who took Rudolf Hess into custody during the Second World War. In 1954, when she was six, Newton-Johns family emigrated to Melbourne, Australia and she attended Christ Church Grammar School, and then University High School, adjacent to Ormond College. At fourteen, Newton-John formed a short-lived all-girl group, Sol Four and she became a regular on local Australian radio and television shows including HSV-7s The Happy Show where she performed as Lovely Livvy. She also appeared on the Go Show where she met future partner, Pat Carroll. Newton-John was initially reluctant to use the prize she had won, a trip to Britain, Newton-John recorded her first single, Till You Say Youll Be Mine Forever, in Britain for Decca Records in 1966. While in Britain, Newton-John missed her then-boyfriend, Ian Turpie, with whom she had co-starred in the Australian telefilm, Newton-John repeatedly booked trips back to Australia that her mother subsequently cancelled. Newton-Johns outlook changed when Pat Carroll also moved to the UK, the two formed a duo called Pat and Olivia and toured nightclubs in Europe. After Carrolls visa expired forcing her to return to Australia, Newton-John remained in Britain to pursue solo work until 1975 and she became engaged to The Shadows guitarist Bruce Welch, but they never married. Newton-John was recruited for the group Toomorrow formed by American producer Don Kirshner, in 1970, the group starred in a science fiction musical film and recorded an accompanying soundtrack album both named after the group
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L'Abri
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LAbri is an evangelical Christian organization founded by Francis Schaeffer and his wife Edith in Huémoz-sur-Ollon, Switzerland, on June 5,1955. They opened their home as a ministry to curious travellers and as a forum to discuss philosophical. Schaeffer became an evangelical Christian as a teenager, in 1947, Francis and Edith moved to Switzerland to work as missionaries for the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions in Europe. Following a spiritual crisis in 1951, and disagreements with theologians such as Carl McIntire, Schaeffer and his wife left IBPFM in 1955 and they moved to Huémoz, where they established LAbri, without assurance that it would be successful. Word-of-mouth soon led to a stream of visitors, with one period in the summer of 1956 averaging 31 visitors per week. International distribution of tapes of Schaeffers lectures also helped to raise awareness of Schaeffers work, as it grew, the LAbri organization came to own and operate several buildings in Huémoz. Schaeffer died in 1984, but the ministry he founded has continued to grow, now, LAbri has operations in a number of different countries, each staffed by workers who encourage visitors to study and consider their religious and philosophical beliefs. As of 2011, LAbri has residential Study Centres in the United States, Canada, South Korea, Australia, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and it also has non-residential Resource Centres, run by friends of the organisation, in Brazil and Germany. A LAbri centre is not a retreat, a commune, or a seminary, visitors are referred to as students, and personal study remains central to LAbris work, but there are no fixed classes or courses. A students day is divided into time and work time. During work time, a student will help with the activities of the community – cooking meals, cleaning. The importance of Schaeffers belief in the relevance of Christianity to all of life can be seen in aspects of LAbri. Even so, some articles have suggested there is less of an emphasis on serving philosophical skeptics, the LAbri day revolves around communal meals, often used as an opportunity for formal open discussion, and students are encouraged to pursue interests in art, music and literature. Apart from Francis and Edith Schaeffer and their children, several notable Evangelical authors have influenced by working with LAbri. Bradshaw, Wade, By demonstration, God – Fifty years, burson, Scott R. and Walls, Jerry L. C. S. Lewis & Francis Schaeffer, Lessons for a new century from the most influential apologists of our time, InterVarsity Press, ISBN 0-8308-1935-5. Hankins, Barry, Francis Schaeffer and the Shaping of Evangelical America, parkhurst, Louis Gifford, Francis and Edith Schaeffer, Minneapolis, MN, Bethany House Publishers. Schaeffer, Edith, LAbri, Wheaton, IL, Tyndale House, revised and expanded, Westchester, IL, Schaeffer, Edith, The Tapestry, Waco, TX, Word Books. Schaeffer, Frank, Crazy for God, Cambridge, MA, world Magazine, March 26,2005 Worthen, Molly
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Francis Schaeffer
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Francis August Schaeffer was an American Evangelical Christian theologian, philosopher, and Presbyterian pastor. He is best known for establishing the LAbri community in Switzerland, Schaeffers wife, Edith Schaeffer, became a prolific author in her own right. Schaeffer was the father of the author, film-maker, and painter Frank Schaeffer, Schaeffer was born on January 30,1912, in Germantown, Pennsylvania, to Franz A. Schaeffer III and Bessie Williamson. He was of German and English ancestry, in 1935, Schaeffer graduated magna cum laude from Hampden–Sydney College. The same year he married Edith Seville, the daughter of parents who had been with the China Inland Mission founded by Hudson Taylor. Schaeffer then enrolled at Westminster Theological Seminary in the fall and studied under Cornelius Van Til, in 1937, Schaeffer transferred to Faith Theological Seminary, graduating in 1938. Schaeffer was the first student to graduate and the first to be ordained in the Bible Presbyterian Church and he served pastorates in Pennsylvania and St. Louis, Missouri. In 1948, the Schaeffer family moved to Switzerland and in 1955 established the community called LAbri, in 1954, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Highland College in Long Beach, California. In 1971, he received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Gordon College in Wenham, Schaeffer died of lymphoma on May 15,1984, in Rochester, Minnesota. He enjoyed watching people, engaging them in conversation and showing his children the joy and he laid out for them the philosophic foundations of societies without being idealistic about any of them. In Crazy for God, Schaeffers son Frank presents a portrait of his father that is far more nuanced and he states, for example, that Schaeffers primary passions in life were not the Bible and theology but rather art and culture. And what moved him was not theology but beauty, Schaeffers son claims he had frequent bouts with depression and a verbally and physically abusive relationship with his wife, Edith. Those in the circle at LAbri challenge Franks account. His approach to culture was influenced by his friendship with Hans Rookmaaker. On the other hand, evidentialists are right to assert that between Christian and anti–Christian systems of thought there is always a point of contact in the shape of reality itself. Thus, illogically, he wrote, men have in their accepted worldviews various amounts of that which is ours, but, illogical though it may be, it is there and we can appeal to it. Schaeffer came to use this middle path as the basis for his method of evangelism which he called Taking the roof off, an example of Taking the roof off in written form can be found in Schaeffers work entitled Death in the City. He also describes his apologetics method, which combined elements of both evidentialism and presuppositionalism, Schaeffer later lost this fervor because Rushdoony was a postmillennialist while Schaeffer was a premillennialist
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Larry Norman
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Larry David Norman was an American musician, singer, songwriter, record label owner, and record producer. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of Christian rock music, Larry Norman was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the oldest son of Joe Hendrex Joe Billy Norman, and his wife, Margaret Evelyn Marge Stout. Joe Norman had served as a sergeant in the US Army Air Corps during World War II, after Normans birth, the family joined the Southern Baptist church. In 1950 the family moved to San Francisco, where attended a Black American Pentecostal church and then a Baptist church. In 1959, Norman performed on the television show The Original Amateur Hour. In 1960, Normans father began teaching in San José, California, Norman graduated from Campbell High School in 1965 and won an academic scholarship to major in English at San Jose State College. After one semester, Norman flunked out of college and lost scholarship, although Norman was able to play a variety of musical instruments, he never learned to read or write musical notation. While still in school, Norman formed a group called The Back Country Seven. After graduating, Norman continued performing and opened at local concerts for The Doors, in 1966 Norman opened a concert for People. At the Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove, California and he later became the bands principal songwriter, sharing lead vocals with his Back Country Seven bandmate Gene M. Mason. The bands cover of The Zombies I Love You became a hit single, selling one million copies. Before Capitol released the bands first album in the summer of 1967, according to rock historian Walter Rasmussen, Pete Townshend once said that The Whos 1969 album Tommy was inspired by the rock opera Epic by People. However, Townshend has since denied the connection and he had a powerful spiritual encounter that threw him into a frenzy of indecision about his life for the first time in his life, he received what he understood to be the Holy Spirit. In July 1968, following a job offer to write musicals for Capitol Records, Norman moved to Los Angeles, where he spent time sharing the gospel on the streets. As he described in 2006, I walked up and down Hollywood Boulevard several times a day. witnessing to businessmen and hippies, I spent all of my Capitol Records royalties starting a halfway house and buying clothes and food for new converts. He was initially associated with the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood, and its Salt Company coffee shop outreach ministry, in 1968 Norman wrote several songs for the rock musicals Alison and Birthday for Shakespeare, both of which were performed in Los Angeles. In 1969, Capitol Records released Normans first solo album, Upon This Rock, Norman was denounced by various television evangelists, and Capitol deemed the album a commercial flop and dropped Norman from the label. However, his gained a large following in the emerging countercultural movements
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Glendale, California
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Glendale /ˈɡlɛndeɪl/ is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Its estimated 2014 population was 200,167, making it the third largest city in Los Angeles County and it is located about 8 miles north of downtown Los Angeles. Glendale lies on the end of the San Fernando Valley, bisected by the Verdugo Mountains. The Golden State, Ventura, Glendale, and Foothill freeways run through the city, Glendale has one of the largest communities of Armenian descent in the United States. In 2013, Glendale was named LAs Neighborhood of the Year by the readers and editors of Curbed. com, Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery contains the remains of many noted celebrities and local residents. Grand Central Airport was the point for the first commercial west-to-east transcontinental flight flown by Charles Lindbergh. The area was inhabited by the Tongva people, who were later renamed the Gabrieleños by the Spanish missionaries. Rancho San Rafael was a Spanish concession, of which 25 were made in California, unlike the later Mexican land grants, the concessions were similar to grazing permits, with the title remaining with the Spanish crown. In 1860, his grandson Teodoro Verdugo built the Verdugo Adobe, the property is the location of the Oak of Peace, where early Californio leaders including Pio Pico met in 1847 and decided to surrender to Lieutenant Colonel John C. Verdugos descendants sold the ranch in various parcels, some of which are included in present-day Atwater Village, Eagle Rock, in 1884, residents gathered to form a townsite and chose the name Glendale. Residents to the southwest formed Tropico in 1887, the Pacific Electric Railway brought streetcar service in 1904. Glendale incorporated in 1906, and annexed Tropico 12 years later, Brand loved to fly, and built a private airstrip in 1919 and hosted fly-in parties, providing a direct link to the soon-to-be-built nearby Grand Central Airport. The grounds of El Miradero are now city-owned Brand Park and the mansion is the Brand Library, Brand partnered with Henry E. Huntington to bring the Pacific Electric Railway, or the Red Cars, to the area. Today, he is memorialized by one of the main thoroughfares. The citys population rose from 13,756 in 1920 to 62,736 in 1930, the Forest Lawn Cemetery opened in 1906 and was renamed Forest Lawn Memorial-Park in 1917. Pioneering endocrinologist and entrepreneur Henry R. Harrower opened his clinic in Glendale in 1920, the American Green Cross, an early conservation and tree preservation society, was formed in 1926. In 1964, Glendale was selected by George Lincoln Rockwell to be the West Coast headquarters of the American Nazi Party and its offices, on Colorado Street in the downtown section of the city, remained open until the early 1980s. In 1977 and 1978,10 murdered women were found in, the murders were the work of Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, the latter of whom resided at 703 East Colorado Street, where most of the murders took place
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Fingerprint (album)
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Fingerprint is an album by Mark Heard, released in Europe in 1980 on Palmfrond Communications. Heard later named his label, Fingerprint Records, and home studio, Fingerprint Recorders. Jon Linn, electric and acoustic lead and slide guitars and this is a homemade album for European release. Recorded at Peace in The Valley Studios, Los Angeles, California, live concert taping by Kir, Basel, Switzerland, June 14,1980. Photographs by Mark and Janet Sue Heard, deutsche Übersetzung, Wolfgang Küng, Jean-Daniel v. Lerber. Thanks to Terry Laughlin for use of his studio and home, to Peter, Jon and Tom for dropping by, to Jean-Daniel and Hansruedi for Birchermuesli
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Victims of the Age
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Victims of the Age is an album by Mark Heard, released in 1982 on Home Sweet Home Records. This album was listed at #32 in the book CCM Presents, heart of Hearts later became a hit on Christian Radio when it was covered by Leslie Phillips. All songs written by Mark Heard, love to the Circle of Cynics, Pat and Pam Terry, the Strat Brothers. Chuck and Sandra Perefit, Jon and Diane, Jean and the Screaming Cheese Band in Zurich, the LAbri folks in Huemoz and Chesieres, Calhoun, Peter and Becky, and my folks
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Eye of the Storm (Mark Heard album)
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Eye of the Storm is an album by Mark Heard, released in 1983 on Home Sweet Home Records. According to the notes, This album is a special. It was recorded on 24 track equipment one instrument at a time, all songs written by Mark Heard
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Tribal Opera
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Tribal Opera is an album by Mark Heard, released in 1987 on What. It is a solo project, put together by Heard in his home studio using samples. The band name iDEoLA has no meaning, of it Heard said, Its not supposed to be mysterious or anything, I just put a band together. The album was a step away from the country/folk-rock atmosphere of much of Heards prior. Both Rich Mullins and Olivia Newton-John later covered How To Grow Up Big, americana artist John Austin covered Go Ask the Dead Man. All songs written by Mark Heard
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Dan Russell (artist manager)
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Dan Russell is a musician and songwriter in addition to an artist manager and advocate, musician, songwriter, concert promoter, record producer and music supervisor for television and film. Russell is the president of New Sound Artist Management and NewSound International, in 1994 he received a Grammy nomination for producing Fingerprints compilation album Strong Hand of Love, A Tribute to Mark Heard, to which he also contributed the song, I Just Wanna Get Warm. After years of contributing to the careers of artists, Russell has decided to record his debut album, Feel the Echoes. In 1998, Russell co-founded the first Soulfest, a social justice music festival originally held at Loon Mountain in Lincoln. Russell produces concert films and has expanded into music supervision for film,1994 – Best Rock Gospel Album – Strong Hand of Love This is a partial list of recordings on which Dan Russell has played a role. O. L. R. M. C. Robert Levon Bean – Producer with Robert Been and The Call
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Cornerstone Festival
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Cornerstone Festival was a Christian music festival put on by Jesus People USA and held annually around July 4 near Bushnell, Illinois, drawing some 20,000 attendees each year. In a given year, many artists that played at Cornerstone also played at events such as Creation Festival and mainstream festivals. The final festival was held in 2012, Cornerstone Festival was a member of the Christian Festival Association. From 1984 to 1990, Cornerstone was held at the Lake County Fairgrounds near Grayslake, in 1991, Cornerstone moved near the town of Bushnell where the organizers of the festival purchased a large piece of land, which is now called Cornerstone Farm. Tens of thousands of people attended Cornerstone Farm each year and saw over 300 bands play many styles of music, including rock, metal, punk, hardcore and pop music. In addition to the musicians, Cornerstone Festival also presented guest speakers, and featured independent/foreign film screenings, writers seminars. In 2010 the festivals main stage moved to the Midway, which is about 0.7 miles northeast of its previous location in the bowl, on May 15,2012 it was announced that the 2012 Festival will be the last. The final song performed at Cornerstone, on July 7,2012, was To Bid Farewell performed by Derri Daugherty, young, Shawn David, Hippies, Jesus Freaks, and Music. ISBN 1-59399-201-7 Official website Brian Edward Johnston, constructing Alternative Christian Identities, An Ethnography of Jesus People USAs Cornerstone Festival
