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Old Town, Maine
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Old Town is a city in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. The population was 7,840 at the 2010 census, the citys developed area is chiefly located on relatively large Marsh Island, though its boundaries extend beyond that. The island is surrounded and defined by the Penobscot River to the east, abenaki Indians called it Pannawambskek, meaning where the ledges spread out, referring to rapids and drops in the river bed. The French established a Jesuit Catholic mission here in the 1680s, nearly a century later after Great Britain took over French territory following its victory in the Seven Years War, the area was settled by English pioneers in 1774. The name Old Town derives from Indian Old Town, which was the English name for the largest Penobscot Indian village, located within the city limits but on its own island in the Penobscot River, the reservation is the current and historical home of the Penobscot Nation. In 1820, when the present city was set off from neighboring Orono, over time, the Penobscot village ceased to be called Old Town and the name migrated to the much newer American settlement across the river. Old Town may be best known for Old Town Canoe Co. a major manufacturer of canoes and kayaks, today many residents work for the University of Maine in Orono and the Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, the two largest employers in the area. Old Town is home to a former Georgia-Pacific paper mill, which is being redeveloped for adaptive reuse, the city of Old Town includes Treat-Webster Island, a. k. a. French Island, a residential neighborhood located on a small island in the middle of the Penobscot River. French Island is the land mass between Milford and Old Town, it is connected on either side by a bridge. Old Town is located at 44°56′35″N 68°40′35″W, according to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 43.28 square miles, of which,38.85 square miles is land and 4.43 square miles is water. With its business district located on an island, Old Town is drained by the Stillwater River, the city is crossed by Interstate 95, U. S. Route 2 and 2A, and state routes 16,43 and 116. It borders the towns of Orono to the south, Glenburn to the west, Hudson to the northwest, Alton and Argyle Township to the north, and is near Milford east, and Bradley to the southeast. This climatic region is typified by large temperature differences, with warm to hot summers. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Old Town has a continental climate. As of the census of 2010, there were 7,840 people,3,382 households, the population density was 201.8 inhabitants per square mile. There were 3,665 housing units at a density of 94.3 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 93. 1% White,0. 9% African American,1. 6% Native American,1. 8% Asian,0. 1% Pacific Islander,0. 3% from other races, and 2. 2% from two or more races
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Main Street
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Old toll bridge in 1907
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Public Library in 1909
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City Hall in 1914
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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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Folk rock
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Folk rock is a musical genre combining elements of folk music and rock music. In its earliest and narrowest sense, the referred to a genre that arose in the United States. The genre was pioneered by the Los Angeles band the Byrds, the term folk rock was coined by the U. S. music press to describe the Byrds music in June 1965, the month in which the bands debut album was issued. A distinct, eclectic style of folk was created in Britain and Europe in the late 1960s by Pentangle, Fairport Convention. In a broader sense, folk rock includes later similarly inspired musical genres, Folk rock is a musical genre combining elements of folk music and rock music. In its earliest and narrowest sense, the referred to a genre that arose in the United States. The style was influenced by the Beatles and other British bands. The term folk rock was coined by the U. S. music press to describe the Byrds music in June 1965, the month in which the bands debut album was issued. In a broader sense, folk rock includes later similarly inspired musical genres and movements in the English-speaking world and, to a lesser extent, as with any genre, the borders are difficult to define. Of these, the first two owed direct debts to protest folk singers such as Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, along with the leftist Popular Front culture of the 1930s. The Weavers mainstream popularity set the stage for the revival of the 1950s and early 1960s. By 1951, however, the group had fallen afoul of the U. S, red Scare of the McCarthy era, and as a result they disbanded in 1952. The group reformed in 1955, releasing the influential album The Weavers at Carnegie Hall in 1957, before disbanding for a time in 1964. The crystal-clear harmony singing and liberal outlook that characterized American folk rock during the mid-1960s sprang directly from the music, while this urban folk revival flourished in many cities across the U. S. Like the 1950s Beat Generation before them, the vast majority of the urban folk revivalists shared a disdain for the values of mainstream American mass culture, across the Atlantic, a parallel folk revival was occurring in the UK during the 1950s and early 1960s. However, it wasnt until 1956 and the advent of the skiffle craze that the British folk revival crossed over into the mainstream, skiffle was a blend of jazz, folk, and country blues, with roots in African-American folk music and the post-war British jazz scene. This renewed popularity of folk music forms in Britain led directly to the folk movement. Among the leading lights of the folk movement were Bert Jansch and John Renbourn
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Pete Seeger entertaining
Eleanor Roosevelt (center), at a racially integrated Valentine's Day party.
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Bob Dylan was the most influential of all the urban folk-protest songwriters.
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The Byrds performing "Mr. Tambourine Man" on
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Dylan in 1963.
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Alternative country
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Alternative country is a loosely defined subgenre of country music, which includes acts that differ significantly in style from mainstream or pop country music. It has been used to describe country music bands and artists that have incorporated influences ranging from rock, bluegrass, rockabilly, honky-tonk, alternative rock, folk rock. Attempts to combine punk and country were pioneered by Jason and the Scorchers, members and figures associated with Uncle Tupelo formed three major bands in the genre, Wilco, Son Volt and Bottle Rockets. Other influential bands included Blue Mountain, Whiskeytown, and Blood Oranges, lyrics may be bleak or socially aware, but also more heartfelt and less likely to use the clichés sometimes used by mainstream country musicians. No Depression, the magazine dedicated to the genre, declared that it covered alternative-country music. Another major influence was country rock, the result of fusing country music with a rock & roll sound, the artist most commonly thought to have originated country rock is Gram Parsons, although Michael Nesmith, Steve Earle and Gene Clark are frequently identified as important innovators. The third factor was punk rock, which supplied an energy, the bands Blue Mountain, Whiskeytown, Blood Oranges and Drive-By Truckers further developed this tradition before most began to move more in the direction of rock music in the 2000s. List of alternative country musicians Heartland rock Red Dirt Southern rock Texas country music Notes Bibliography Alden, Grant, & Blackstock, no Depression, An Introduction to Alternative Country Music. Modern Twang, An Alternative Country Music Guide and Directory, kasten, Roy, Fifteen Things You Might Not Know about The Bottle Rockets, on Their Fifteenth Birthday, Riverfront Times. Hogeland, William, Emulating the Real and Vital Guthrie, Not St. Woody, so what is insurgent country anyway. From American Studies at the University of Virginia
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Son Volt performing in 2005
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Blue Mountain on stage in 2008
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ATO Records
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ATO Records is an American independent record label based in New York City. The label was founded in 2000 by Dave Matthews and manager Coran Capshaw, ATO is currently distributed in the USA by Caroline Distribution and by PIAS Group in Europe. The first of ATOs successes was David Gray, in 2000, the label released his album White Ladder – which contained the hit single Babylon – through a joint venture with RCA Records. White Ladder was a critical and commercial success in the U. S. where it was certified Platinum for sales of one million units and it earned Gray a GRAMMY nomination in the Best New Artist category in 2002. ATO dissolved its relationship with RCA Records in 2006, becoming fully independent, during this period, the label hired in-house marketing, radio, and sales personnel and began working more closely with its sister company, Red Light Management. Released in April 2012, Alabama Shakes’ debut album, Boys & Girls, was named as one of the year’s best albums by many publications, including Rolling Stone, the band received three GRAMMY nominations including Best New Artist and Best Rock Performance. In addition, Boys & Girls was nominated for Best Recording Package, the album sold more than one million units in the U. S. achieving Platinum status. Following its success with Alabama Shakes, ATO branched out other genres, including indie-rock, singer-songwriter, punk, neo-soul. Old Crow Medicine Show won the GRAMMY for Best Folk Album in 2014, in 2015, Alabama Shakes’ second album, Sound & Color, debuted at No.1 on the Billboard 200. It earned the band three GRAMMY awards, including Best Alternative Music Album, and was certified Gold by the RIAA, selling over 500,000 units in the U. S. The rising sister trio Joseph hit No.1 at AAA radio and No.1 on Billboards Adult Alternative Songs radio airplay chart with its single “White Flag in October 2016. Their debut album I’m Alone, No You’re Not debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Heatseekers Chart, following performances on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show, ” “Later. with Jools Holland” and NPR’s “Tiny Desk. ”Later that year, Margaret Glaspy’s debut album Emotions and Math was recognized by several Year End lists, including Jon Pareles’ New York Times Best Albums of 2016. ATO Records has won six A2IM Liberia Awards and has been nominated for a total of 14 over the past five years, ATO Records also distributes releases by Phish, Jerry Garcia, and Ween
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Dixie Chicks
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The Dixie Chicks are an American country music band which has also crossed over into other genres, including pop and alternative country. The band is composed of founding members Martie Erwin Maguire and Emily Erwin Robison, Dixie Chicks were founded by Laura Lynch on upright bass, guitarist Robin Lynn Macy, and the multi-instrumentalist sisters Martie and Emily Erwin in 1989. The Erwin sisters have married and changed their names to Martie Maguire. The four took their name from the song Dixie Chicken by Lowell George of Little Feat, originally playing predominantly bluegrass. All four women played and sang, though Maguire and Robison provided most of the accompaniment for the band while Lynch. Maguire primarily played fiddle, mandolin, and viola, while Robisons specialties included five-stringed banjo and they paid $5,000 for the 14-track album. The album included two instrumental tunes, in 1987, Maguire had won second place, and in 1989, third place in the National fiddle championships held at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas. A Christmas single was released at the end of the year – a 45 RPM vinyl record titled Home on the Radar Range, with Christmas Swing on one side and the song on the flip side named The Flip Side. The record titles were significant, during period of time, the bandmates dressed up as cowgirls. However, even with an appearance at the Grand Ole Opry, with few exceptions, such as Garrison Keillors radio show A Prairie Home Companion, Robin Lynn Macy was not pleased with their change in sound, however. She left in late 1992 to devote herself to a bluegrass sound, remaining active in the Dallas. It was during this period that professional steel guitarist Lloyd Maines introduced them to his daughter, Natalie and her distinctive voice was a match for Maguires soprano and Robisons alto harmonies. If their show at the Birchmere last week was any indication, new manager Simon Renshaw approached music executive Scott Siman and he signed them to a developmental deal with Sony Music Entertainments Nashville division. The deal was finalized with Sony over the summer of 1995, the Chicks then replaced Lynch with singer Maines. Accounts of the departure have varied, at the time, the sisters stated that Lynch had been considering leaving the band for over a year, weary of touring, and hoping to spend more time with her daughter at home. She offered to stay for the first cuts on the new album for Sony, in a later interview, Lynch said, It cant really be characterized as a resignation. There are three Dixie Chicks, and Im only one, by her own account Lynch has noted that she had no regrets about leaving. With the addition of Natalie Maines, the new lineup had a contemporary sound, as well as a new look, leaving their cowgirl dresses with their past
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Dixie Chicks at
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Dixie Chicks at the Country for Kids concert in 1998 in Stafford, Virginia
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Maines, left, and Robison, right, at the
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Dixie Chicks performing at
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Emmylou Harris
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Emmylou Harris is an American singer and songwriter. She has released many albums and singles over the course of her career. Her work and recordings include work as a solo artist, a bandleader, an interpreter of other works, a singer-songwriter. Harris is from a military family. Her father, Walter Harris, was a Marine Corps officer and her father was reported missing in action in Korea in 1952 and spent ten months as a prisoner of war. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Harris spent her childhood in North Carolina and Woodbridge, Virginia and she married fellow songwriter Tom Slocum in 1969 and recorded her first album, Gliding Bird. Instead, Hillman recommended her to Parsons, who was looking for a female vocalist to collaborate with on his first solo album, Harris toured as a member of Parsonss band, the Fallen Angels, in 1973, and the pair shone during vocal harmonies and duets. Later that year, Parsons and Harris worked on a studio album, Parsons died in his motel room near what is now Joshua Tree National Park on September 19,1973, from an accidental overdose of drugs and alcohol. Parsonss Grievous Angel was released posthumously in 1974, and three tracks from his sessions with Harris were included on another posthumous Parsons album, Sleepless Nights. One more album of recorded material from that period was packaged as Live 1973, Warner Brothers A&R representative Mary Martin introduced Harris to Canadian producer Brian Ahern, who produced her major label debut album, Pieces of the Sky, released in 1975 on Reprise Records. It also featured Bluebird Wine, a composition by a young Texas songwriter, Rodney Crowell, two singles were released, Too Far Gone, which initially charted at No. 73, and Harriss first big hit, If I Could Only Win Your Love, a duet with Herb Pedersen, executives of Warner Bros. Records told Harris they would agree to record her if she would get a hot band. Harris did so, enlisting guitarist James Burton and pianist Glen Hardin, Burton was a renowned guitarist, starting in Ricky Nelsons band in the 1950s, and Hardin had been a member of the Crickets. Other Hot Band members were drummer John Ware, pedal steel guitarist Hank DeVito, singer-songwriter Crowell was enlisted as a rhythm guitarist and duet partner. Harriss first tour schedule originally dovetailed around Presleys, owing to Burton, the Hot Band lived up to its name, with most of the members moving on with fresh talent replacing them as they continued on to solo careers of their own. Elite Hotel, released in December 1975, established that the created by Pieces of the Sky was well-founded. Unusual for country albums at the time, which revolved around a hit single. Elite Hotel was a No.1 country album and also did well as a crossover success with the rock audience
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Emmylou Harris, San Francisco, 2005
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Hot Band member
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Harris playing in
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Harris performing with
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Buddy Miller
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Steven Paul Buddy Miller is an American singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist and producer, currently living in Nashville, Tennessee. Miller is married to and has recorded with singer-songwriter Julie Miller, Buddy was born in Fairborn, Ohio, near Dayton, and his family ended up settling in Princeton, New Jersey. His grandfather gave him the nickname Buddy, in 1975, he moved to Austin, Texas and played rockabilly music in Ray Campis band. He auditioned for and played in a band with Julie Griffin, in 1980, they moved to New York City, and Miller formed the Buddy Miller Band, which included singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin on vocals and guitar. He also performed with Jim Lauderdale and Larry Campbell, each Sunday, Miller performed in Kinky Friedmans band at the Lone Star Cafe. Miller moved to Nashville in the 1990s, after a stint in Los Angeles and he worked on recording sessions as a guitar player and vocalist, and began producing his own records in his living room studio named Dogtown. In 1995, Buddy along with the Sacred Cows recorded a gospel album and his first solo recording, Your Love and Other Lies, was released in 1995. It was followed by Poison Love in 1997 and Cruel Moon in 1999 and he and his wife, Julie Miller, released Buddy & Julie Miller in 2001, which won the Album of the Year Award from the Americana Music Association. In 2002, he released Midnight and Lonesome and in 2004 he released Universal United House of Prayer,2009 brought another Buddy and Julie duet album Written in Chalk and in 2011 Buddy collaborated with Bill Frisell, Marc Ribot, and Greg Leisz to release The Majestic Silver Strings. Miller has toured as lead guitarist and backing vocalist for Emmylou Harriss Spyboy band, Steve Earle on his El Corazon tour, in 2002, Miller toured as part of the Down from the Mountain Tour along with Alison Krauss and Union Station. In 2004, Miller toured with Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Gillian Welch, in 2008, Miller toured as part of the band on Robert Plant and Alison Krausss Raising Sand tour of the U. S. and Europe. In 2009, Buddy joined Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin and Shawn Colvin on tour as Three Girls, while on that tour, following a performance in Baltimore on February 19,2009, Miller suffered a heart attack. He underwent successful bypass surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital on February 20. In 2010, Miller again joined Robert Plant and Patty Griffin with Plants Band of Joy, touring the U. S. in 2012, Buddy toured with Jim Lauderdale on the Buddy and Jim Tour. In 2016, Buddy was part of the Lampedusa, Concerts for Refugees tour featuring Patty Griffin, Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, for the past decade, Buddy has often been a part of the Cayamo Cruise, which sails from Miami to St. Maarten and Tortola. Each year, prominent Americana musicians are on board, and Buddy often collaborates and he has co-produced records with Robert Plant, Jim Lauderdale and Jimmie Dale Gilmore. In 2006 Solomon Burke recorded his country album Nashville with Miller, Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Gillian Welch and Dolly Parton appear as duet partners. Miller produced Patty Griffins Downtown Church that was released in 2010, Miller has produced his own solo albums as well as recordings for and with his wife, singer-songwriter Julie Miller
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Miller at the
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Robert Plant
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Robert Anthony Plant, CBE is an English singer, songwriter, and musician, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band Led Zeppelin. A powerful and wide range has given him a successful solo career spanning over 30 years. Plant is regarded as one of the greatest singers in the history of rock and roll, he has influenced fellow rock singer-songwriters such as Freddie Mercury, Axl Rose, in 2006, Heavy Metal magazine Hit Parader named Plant the Greatest Metal Vocalist of All Time. In 2009, Plant was voted the greatest voice in rock in a poll conducted by Planet Rock, in 2008, Rolling Stone editors ranked him number 15 on their list of the 100 best singers of all time. In 2011, Rolling Stone readers ranked Plant the greatest of all lead singers, Robert Anthony Plant was born in the Black Country town of West Bromwich, Staffordshire to Robert C. Plant, a civil engineer who worked in the Royal Air Force during World War II, and Annie Celia Plant. He grew up in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, Plant gained an interest in singing and rock and roll music at an early age. When I was a kid I used to hide behind the curtains at home at Christmas and I used to try, there was a certain ambience between the curtains and the French windows, there was a certain sound there for a ten-year-old. That was all the ambience I got at ten years old, and I always wanted to be a curtain, a bit similar to that. I suppose I was quite interested in my collection and Romano-British history. I was a grammar school boy and I could hear this kind of calling through the airwaves. He abandoned training as an accountant after only two weeks to attend college in an effort to gain more GCE passes and to become part of the English Midlands blues scene. I left home at 16, he said, and I started my real education musically, moving from group to group, furthering my knowledge of the blues, Plants early blues influences included Johnson, Bukka White, Skip James, Jerry Miller, and Sleepy John Estes. Plant had various jobs while pursuing his career, one of which was working for the major British construction company Wimpey in Birmingham in 1967 laying tarmac on roads. He also worked at Woolworths in Halesowen town for a period of time. He cut three singles on CBS Records and sang with a variety of bands, including the Crawling King Snakes. They both went on to play in the Band of Joy, merging blues with newer psychedelic trends, a version of Somebody to Love by Jefferson Airplane was sung by Plant in front of Page, leading Page to the end of his search. As recalled by Plant and Page, Plant, I was appearing at this college when Peter and Jimmy turned up and asked me if Id like to join the Yardbirds
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Plant performing in 2010.
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Plant with Led Zeppelin
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Plant and Page performing an acoustic set in 1973
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Plant (left) with Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page in concert in Chicago, Illinois, 1977
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Joshua Radin
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Joshua Radin is an American singer-songwriter. He has recorded seven albums, and his songs have been used in numerous films. His most successful album, Simple Times, was released in 2008, joshua Radin was born and raised in Shaker Heights, Ohio, to a Jewish family of Polish, German, Austrian, and Russian background. He studied drawing and painting at Northwestern University, following his years with stints as an art teacher, screenwriter. Radin turned to music when he moved to New York City, his father bought him a guitar, according to Radin his musical career started in 2004, and he had learned to play the guitar only two years before that. His first song, Winter, appeared on his debut album We Were Here, since that time, Radin has been touring the United States, as well as much of the United Kingdom and Europe. In addition to his American following, Radin has enjoyed success with his 2008 release and his song Id Rather Be With You reached #11 on the UK Singles Chart and number two on the US Top Digital Chart. Radin has said much of the album was inspired by a bad break-up. It was released exclusively to iTunes for a month, before attracting attention from major labels, released on Columbia Records in May 2006, We Were Here presented the first batch of songs Radin ever wrote. The album drew acclaim and received a four-star review from Rolling Stone. The record hit number one on the iTunes Folk Album Chart and included a number of well known musicians, zach Braff hand-picked one of the tracks to be featured on the soundtrack for The Last Kiss. Radin played the song Today from the album, along with five songs, for Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi at their August 16,2008. Radins second album, Simple Times went straight to #1 on the overall chart upon its release. Radin enlisted highly regarded producer Rob Schnapf, the two spent seven weeks recording at L. A. Among the albums highlights are You Got Growin Up To Do, featuring guest vocalist Patty Griffin, lead single Id Rather Be with You. Radins Simple Times was released on Mom + Pop Music, Radins third studio album, The Rock and The Tide was released on October 12,2010 on Mom + Pop Music, his second release with the label. The album reached five on the iTunes albums chart upon its release. The Rock and The Tide was produced by Martin Terefe, a later EP released in 2011 used 6 of the albums tacks recorded in an acoustic session
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Band of Joy
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Band of Joy are a rock band from England. Various line-ups of the group performed from 1965 to 1968 and from 1977 to 1983, Robert Plant revived the bands name in 2010 for a concert tour of North America and Europe. Band of Joy was originally formed in 1966 in West Bromwich, near Birmingham, England by Chris Brown, Vernon Pereira, conflicts with the bands management led to Plant leaving the group after a few months. He quickly tried to form his own Band of Joy, a third incarnation of the band, including Plants friend John Bonham, lasted from 1967 to mid-1968. This line-up included Kevyn Gammond on guitar and Paul Lockey on bass and their brand of soul and blues was popular with Birmingham mods. This line-up recorded a number of recordings in early 1968. Albeit briefly, lead guitar duties were taken by Dave Pegg, Pegg rehearsed with Band of Joy but did not tour with them. For a 1968 tour of Scotland, Plant and Bonham co-opted bassist John Hill, in 1977 Gammond and Paul Lockey revived Band of Joy, rounding out the line-up with John Pasternak, Peter Robinson, and keyboardist Michael Chetwood. Gammond, Lockey, Pasternak and Robinson had previously played in Bronco and they invited Plant and Bonham to contribute to their 1978 self-titled album, but nothing came of it. The group released an album in 1983 before breaking up. Gammond later worked with Plant in his group Priory of Brion, in 2010 it was announced that Plant would form a new band, record an album and tour as Robert Plant & the Band of Joy. The album was number 8 on Rolling Stones list of the 30 Best Albums of 2010, in October 2010 the band appeared, alongside the London Oriana Choir at the Roundhouse, London for a special performance at the BBC Radio 2 Electric Proms. Band of Joy 24k Sixty Six to Timbuktu – Robert Plant retrospective album, includes some Band of Joy recordings, Hey Joe, Band of Joy British rock Music of the United Kingdom Hornby, Laurie. ISBN 0-9536951-5-8 Band of Joy interview – Achilles Last Stand, led Zeppelin, The Definitive Biography ISBN 0-86369-648-1
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Band of Joy fronted by
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Ellis Paul
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Ellis Paul is an American singer-songwriter and folk musician. His pop music songs have appeared in movies and on television, Paul grew up in a small Maine town. He attended Boston College on a scholarship, majoring in English. Injured during his year, Paul began playing guitar to help fill his free time. After graduating college Paul played at open mic nights in the Boston area while working with inner-city school children and he won a Boston Acoustic Underground songwriter competition and gained national exposure on a Windham Hill Records compilation which helped him choose music as a career. Paul had released 19 albums by the end of 2014 and received 14 Boston Music Awards and he has published a book of original lyrics, poems, and drawings and released a DVD that includes a live performance, guitar instruction, and a road-trip documentary. In 2014, his childrens CD Hero in You was published as a book by Albert Whitman & Company, Paul plays almost 200 live shows a year. Ellis Paul was born in Fort Kent, Maine, a small, Pauls family had strong connections to the potato industry — his father, Ed Plissey, was Executive Director of the Maine Potato Commission and his grandfather owned a 140-acre potato farm. Schools in the area closed for three each year so that school children could help with the potato harvest. Paul spent many working on his grandfathers farm. Pauls mother, the former Marilyn Bonney of Buckfield, Maine, is a University of Maine graduate and was an agent for northern Aroostook County. She and her often worked together on special projects for the service. In the 1960s, Mrs. Plissey produced her own television show The Aroostook Homemaker which aired every week on Presque Isle television station WAGM-TV. While attending high school in Presque Isle, Maine, Paul listened to Top-40 radio and he played trumpet in the schools stage band where he was introduced to the big band jazz music of Stan Kenton and Maynard Ferguson. He excelled in track, becoming the Maine State champion in five-kilometer distance running, having graduated high school with the class of 1983, Paul relocated to Boston, leaving small-town rural life behind. In an interview with Daniel Gewertz of the Boston Herald Paul stated, Paul was particularly moved when he heard Bob Dylan singing The House of the Rising Sun. It was then that he began to take music seriously. Paul was inducted into the Presque Isle High School Athletic Hall of Fame on Jan, Paul majored in English at Boston College where he continued to participate in track
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Paul performing at the University of Maine at Presque Isle May 18, 2014
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Paul performing "Home" on piano in
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Paul (left) with good friend and fellow musician
Vance Gilbert in
Houston, Texas. (November 8, 2003) Paul's title track from Translucent Soul speaks of their friendship and deals with the issue of racism.
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Paul performing at the 2002
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Children Running Through
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Children Running Through is Patty Griffins sixth commercially released album, and fifth studio album. It was released on 6 February 2007, the album features vocals from Emmylou Harris on Trapeze. Heavenly Day was the albums first single, the album debuted at number 34 on the Billboard 200 in mid-February, the highest chart position achieved by Griffin in her career. It sold about 27,000 copies in its first week, as of January 2010, the album had sold over 168,000 copies in the United States. Kelly Clarkson performed a cover version of Up To The Mountain with Jeff Beck on the Idol Gives Back special edition of American Idol on April 25,2007. Griffin is regarded as one of Clarksons musical inspirations and Clarkson also covered No Bad News during the Nashville concert on her My December Tour, pittsburgh Post-Gazette said the song Heavenly Day gives Griffin a chance to let that fine voice soar. According to Entertainment Weekly Griffin effortlessly slow-burns her way through an evocation of good times, the album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album. All songs written by Patty Griffin
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Downtown Church
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Downtown Church is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Patty Griffin, released on January 26,2010, by Credential Recordings, a Christian label distributed by EMI. The album was recorded in Downtown Presbyterian Church in Nashville and features different styles, Griffin has stated that she recorded the album to explore her feelings about religion. The album debuted at number 38 on the Billboard 200 and topped the Billboard Christian Albums, the critical response was generally favorable. On December 1,2010, the received a Grammy nomination for Best Traditional Gospel Album. On February 13,2011, Downtown Church won the Grammy for Best Traditional Gospel Album and this was Patty Griffins first Grammy award, after previously being nominated for Best Contemporary/Folk Americana Album for Children Running Through in 2007. Griffin has stated that she did not have a background in music before recording Downtown Church. She had appeared on the 2009 compilation Oh Happy Day, An All-Star Music Celebration in a duet with Mavis Staples. Peter York, president of the EMI Christian Music Group, suggested Griffin record a gospel album, Miller agreed and found the Downtown Presbyterian Church, Nashville, after which the album was named, and where the album was recorded in January 2009. The album was recorded in collaboration with Buddy Miller, Emmylou Harris, Shawn Colvin, gospel group The Fairfield Four, Jim Lauderdale, Raul Malo, Mike Farris, the recording took five days, one day rehearsal and four days playing, and was described as sometimes exhausting. Griffin stated that the album was an attempt to pop fans with gospel music. A Spanish hymn, Virgen de Guadalupe, was suggested by Michael Ramos and she told National Public Radio that she was working through complicated feelings about religion and recorded the album to explore them. Griffin described her original song Coming Home to Me as sharing a theme of her music, loneliness and connection. The final song, All Creatures of Our God and King is based on Francis of Assisi, the album was favorably reviewed by Slant Magazine reviewer Jonathan Keefe who praised Griffin as a natural fit for the songs and passionate that even a nonbeliever can get on board. Jim Caligiuri of The Austin Chronicle called the haunting and original. Michael McCall of the Associated Press described the album as a stunningly powerful, kyle Matthews of the Associated Baptist Press noted that the album was cohesive despite a variety of styles and praised the song selection as beyond stereotypes. Martin Bandyke of the Detroit Free Press called the album uplifting, Michael Corcora of the Austin American-Statesman praised Griffin as an amazingly athletic singer but criticized the album as often divinely stirring but lacking a deep spiritual core. Club remarked on the choice of unconventional songs I Smell A Rat, Deaths Got A Warrant, and Virgen De Guadalupe and described the album as heartfelt, gage Henry of Paste stated that the album had drastic turns and praised Griffins sentiment. Jewly Hight of American Songwriter praised the album and argued that the album had no flat performances, david Belcher of the New York Times described the album as a celebration that was subtle but sometimes foot-stomping
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Penobscot people
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The Penobscot are an indigenous people in North America with members who reside in the United States and Canada. They are organized as a recognized tribe in Maine and as a First Nations band government in the Atlantic provinces. The Penobscot Nation, formerly known as the Penobscot Tribe of Maine, is the federally recognized tribe of Penobscot people in the United States. They are part of the Wabanaki Confederacy, along with the Abenaki, Passamaquoddy, Maliseet and their main settlement is now the Penobscot Indian Island Reservation, located within the state of Maine along the Penobscot River. The word Penobscot originates from a mispronunciation of their name for themselves, the word means rocky part or descending ledges, and originally referred to their territory on the portion of the Penobscot River between present-day Old Town and Bangor. The Penobscot Nation is headquartered in Indian Island, Maine, the tribal chief is Kirk Francis. Little is known about the Penobscot people pre-contact, Native peoples are thought to have inhabited Maine and surrounding areas for at least 11,000 years. They had a society, with the men hunting beaver, otters, moose, bears, caribou, fish, seafood, birds. The women gathered and processed bird eggs, berries, nuts, the people practiced some agriculture but not to the same extent as that of indigenous peoples in southern New England, where the climate was more temperate. Food was potentially scarce only toward the end of the winter, in February, for the rest of the year, the Penobscot and other Wabanaki likely had little difficulty surviving because the land and ocean waters offered much bounty, and the number of people was sustainable. The bands moved seasonally, following the patterns of game and fish, during the 15th century the Penobscot had contact with Europeans through the fur trade. It was lucrative and the Penobscot were willing to trade pelts for European goods such as axes, guns. Hunting for fur pelts reduced the game, however, and the European trade introduced alcohol to Penobscot communities for the first time and it has been argued that the people are genetically vulnerable to alcoholism, which Europeans frequently tried to exploit in dealings and trade. Penobscot people and other nations made pine beer, which had vitamin C, in addition to being an alcoholic beverage, when Europeans arrived, they brought alcohol in quantity. The Europeans carried endemic infectious diseases of Eurasia that were new to the Native Americans, and their fatality rates from the introduction of measles, smallpox and other infectious diseases was high. The population also declined due to fighting between the Wabanaki Federation and the powerful Mohawk people of the Iroquois League, which struggled to control the fur trade. This catastrophic population depletion may have contributed to Christian conversion, the people could see that the European priests did not suffer from the pandemics, the latter said that the Penobscot had died because they did not believe in Jesus Christ. At the beginning of the 17th century, Europeans began to live year-round in Wabanaki territory, at this time, there were probably about 10,000 Penobscot
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Seal of the Penobscot Tribe of Maine
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Portrait of Sarah Molasses, daughter of
John Neptune and Molly Molasses, collection of
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Penobscot beaded
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Native American reservation
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Each of the 326 Indian reservations in the United States are associated with a particular Nation. Not all of the countrys 567 recognized tribes have a reservation—some tribes have more than one reservation, some share reservations and this jumble of private and public real estate creates significant administrative, political, and legal difficulties. The collective geographical area of all reservations is 56,200,000 acres, while most reservations are small compared to US states, there are 12 Indian reservations larger than the state of Rhode Island. The largest reservation, the Navajo Nation Reservation, is similar in size to West Virginia, Reservations are unevenly distributed throughout the country, the majority are west of the Mississippi River and occupy lands that were first reserved by treaty or granted from the public domain. Because tribes possess tribal sovereignty, even though it is limited and these laws can permit legal casinos on reservations, for example, which attract tourists. The tribal council, not the local or federal government, generally has jurisdiction over reservations, different reservations have different systems of government, which may or may not replicate the forms of government found outside the reservation. Most Native American reservations were established by the government, a limited number, mainly in the East. The name reservation comes from the conception of the Native American tribes as independent sovereigns at the time the U. S, the term remained in use even after the federal government began to forcibly relocate tribes to parcels of land to which they had no historical connection. A majority of Native Americans and Alaska Natives live somewhere other than the reservations, often in big cities such as Phoenix. In 2012, there were over 2.5 million Native Americans with about 1 million living on reservations, from the beginning of the European colonization of the Americas, Europeans often removed native peoples from lands they wished to occupy. The means varied, including voluntary moves based on agreement, treaties made under considerable duress, forceful ejection. The removal caused many problems such as tribes losing means of livelihood by being subjected to an area, farmers having inadmissible land for agriculture. In 1764 the “Plan for the Future Management of Indian Affairs” was proposed by the Board of Trade, additionally, this plan dictated that the Indians would be properly consulted when ascertaining and defining the boundaries of colonial settlement. For much of North America, the American Revolution was more of a battle against the Indians than a war against the British, the treaty was seen by Americans as a confirmation of their conquest of Indian land. The private contracts that once characterized the sale of Indian land to various individuals and this protocol was adopted by the United States Government after the America Revolution. On March 11,1824, John C. Calhoun founded the Office of Indian Affairs as a division of the United States Department of War, to solve the land problem with 38 treaties with American Indian tribes. The passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830 marked the systematization of a US federal government policy of forcibly moving Native populations away from European-populated areas, some of the lands these tribes were given to inhabit following the removals eventually became Indian Reservations. In 1851, the United States Congress passed the Indian Appropriations Act which authorized the creation of Indian reservations in modern-day Oklahoma, relations between settlers and natives had grown increasingly worse as the settlers encroached on territory and natural resources in the West
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Most Indian reservations, like the
Laguna Indian reservation in New Mexico (pictured here in 1943), are in the western United States, often in regions suitable more for ranching than farming.
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Indian reservations
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Wagon loaded with squash,
Rosebud Indian Reservation, ca. 1936
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Spring roundup of
Paiute -owned cattle begins at
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Nile Rodgers
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Nile Gregory Rodgers, Jr. is an American record producer, songwriter, musician, composer, arranger and guitarist. He is the lead guitarist and co-founding member with Bernard Edwards of the band Chic and he is famed for his chucking rhythm guitar style. On April 7,2017, Rodgers will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and his mother became pregnant at age 13, and gave birth to him in New York City. His parents and step-father were all Beat-niks, and heavy heroin users throughout his childhood, king, Betty Wright, Earl Lewis and the Channels, Parliament Funkadelic, and many other legendary R&B artists. In his teens Rodgers was a member of the Harlem chapter of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense and he remains friendly with numerous former Panthers, including Professor Jamal Joseph. Nile met bassist Bernard Edwards in 1970 while working as a musician for the Sesame Street stage show. Together they formed The Big Apple Band, and worked as musicians for the vocal group New York City. New York Citys one hit allowed them to tour extensively, even opening for The Jackson 5 on the American leg of their first world tour in 1973, the band continued playing mostly local bars. As the Big Apple Band, Rodgers and Edwards worked with Ashford & Simpson, Luther Vandross, since another New York artist, Walter Murphy, had a band also called The Big Apple Band, Rodgers and Edwards were forced to change their bands name to avoid confusion. Thus, in 1977 the band was renamed as Chic, between gigs, they recorded their first album with then-boss Luther Vandross, who provided background vocals on the groups early recordings. The band scored numerous top ten hits and helped propel disco to new levels of popularity, Chics chart-topping songs Le Freak, I Want Your Love, Everybody Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance, My Forbidden Lover, and Good Times became club/pop/R&B standards. Le Freak was composed after being turned away from Studio 54, Le Freak was Atlantic Records only triple platinum selling single for more than 35 years and Good Times shot to the No.1 spot in spite of the Disco Sucks backlash in 1979. The success of Chics first singles led Atlantic to offer Rodgers and they chose Sister Sledge, whose 1979 album, We Are Family, peaked at No.3 and remained on the charts well into 1980. The first two singles, Hes the Greatest Dancer and the title cut We Are Family both reached No.1 on the R&B chart, and No.6 and No,2, respectively on the Pop chart. Hes the Greatest Dancer was sampled in 1998 on Will Smiths Gettin Jiggy Wit It, as the Chic Organizations tight sound became increasingly sought-after, Rodgers and Edwards began record production with numerous artists, together or individually. In 1980, Rodgers and Edwards wrote and produced the album Diana for Diana Ross, yielding the smash hits Upside Down, the Chic Organization produced the smash hit Spacer for French disco act Sheila and B. Devotion and Deborah Harrys 1981 solo album Koo Koo, Chic dissolved in 1983 after its final Atlantic album on their contract, Believer and Soup For One. At that time Rodgers began a career producing his first album Adventures in the Land of the Good Groove
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Chic in 1970s: Luci Martin, Nile Rodgers, Bernard Edwards, Alfa Anderson (photo by
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Rodgers in 2012
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Nile Rodgers and Madonna performing at Live Aid in 1985.
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Nile Rodgers at his Le Crib Studios, 1999
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Acoustic music
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Acoustic music is music that solely or primarily uses instruments that produce sound through acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means. The retronym acoustic music appeared after the advent of electric instruments, such as the guitar, electric violin, electric organ. It has its origins in the music of the 1960s. The trend has also dubbed as acoustic rock in some cases. Navigating the Music Industry, Current Issues & Business Models, Music and the Modern Condition, Investigating the Boundaries
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A Spanish guitar
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Rock and roll
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While elements of rock and roll can be heard in blues records from the 1920s and in country records of the 1930s, the genre did not acquire its name until the 1950s. For the purpose of differentiation, this deals with the first definition. The beat is essentially a blues rhythm with an accentuated backbeat, classic rock and roll is usually played with one or two electric guitars, a double bass or string bass or an electric bass guitar, and a drum kit. Beyond simply a style, rock and roll, as seen in movies and on television, influenced lifestyles, fashion, attitudes. In addition, rock and roll may have contributed to the civil rights movement because both African-American and white American teens enjoyed the music and it went on to spawn various genres, often without the initially characteristic backbeat, that are now more commonly called simply rock music or rock. The term rock and roll now has at least two different meanings, both in common usage, the American Heritage Dictionary and the Merriam-Webster Dictionary both define rock and roll as synonymous with rock music. Encyclopædia Britannica, on the hand, regards it as the music that originated in the mid-1950s. In 1934, the song Rock and Roll by the Boswell Sisters appeared in the film Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round, in 1942, Billboard magazine columnist Maurie Orodenker started to use the term rock-and-roll to describe upbeat recordings such as Rock Me by Sister Rosetta Tharpe. By 1943, the Rock and Roll Inn in South Merchantville, in 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing this music style while popularizing the phrase to describe it. The origins of rock and roll have been debated by commentators. The migration of former slaves and their descendants to major urban centers such as St. The immediate roots of rock and roll lay in the rhythm and blues, then called race music, particularly significant influences were jazz, blues, gospel, country, and folk. The 1940s saw the use of blaring horns, shouted lyrics. In the same period, particularly on the West Coast and in the Midwest, similarly, country boogie and Chicago electric blues supplied many of the elements that would be seen as characteristic of rock and roll. Rock and roll arrived at a time of technological change, soon after the development of the electric guitar, amplifier and microphone. It was the realization that relatively affluent white teenagers were listening to music that led to the development of what was to be defined as rock. Because the development of rock and roll was a process, no single record can be identified as unambiguously the first rock. Other artists with rock and roll hits included Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis
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Sign commemorating the role of
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Cleveland, Ohio in the origins of rock and roll
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Chuck Berry in 1957
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Bill Haley and his Comets performing in the 1954 Universal International film Round Up of Rhythm
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Elvis Presley in a promotion shot for
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Live in the X Lounge
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Live in the X Lounge is a series of albums released by Birmingham, Alabamas former alternative rock radio station, WRAX. Though the station can no longer be found on the air, the station was later renamed and moved to The X @100.5, a change prompted by its acquisition by Citadel Broadcasting. Seven albums were produced in all, the last one released in 2004, all discs in the series were sold to benefit United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Birmingham, a group of associations raising money to create awareness and research for cerebral palsy. The first CD in this series was released in 1998, selling out all 10,000 copies in 10 days. According to Dave Rossi, a program director of WRAX107.7 The X. Each release produced several hundred dollars for the organization, with just over $500,000 raised as of the third discs release date. By the time the seventh disc in the series was released, over 85,000 copies were sold, with the contributions of over 70 bands, plans to release an eighth disc were canceled by program director Ken Wall. All of the Live In the X Lounge CDs were recorded live at Airwave Recording Studio, Homewood, music Produced and Engineered by Joel Bouchillon. E. M
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Live in the X Lounge (I-VII)
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Silver Bell (album)
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Silver Bell is an album by American singer-songwriter Patty Griffin, released on October 8,2013, by A&M Records through UMe. The album was recorded in New Orleans, Louisiana at Kingsway Studio, owned by producer Daniel Lanois. On the track Truth #2, Emmylou Harris contributed harmony vocals with Griffin, the album was newly mixed by producer Glyn Johns for release in 2013. The album debuted at No.64 on the Billboard 200, the album has sold 21,000 copies in the United States as of September 2015. All tracks written by Patty Griffin, except noted otherwise
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Silver Bell
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Dave Matthews
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David John Dave Matthews is an South African-born American singer-songwriter, musician and actor, best known as the lead vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist for the Dave Matthews Band. Matthews was born in Johannesburg, and lived in both South Africa and the United States while growing up, Matthews mainly plays acoustic guitar, which he started playing at the age of nine. From 1991 to 2003, Matthews predominantly focused on songwriting and performing with the Dave Matthews Band, since then, he has also done various solo performances and produced other records. During the period from 2000 to 2010, his band sold more tickets, the bands most recent album, Away from the World, released in 2012, made them the only group to have six consecutive studio albums debut at number one on the Billboard charts. In addition to music, Matthews has had acting roles. He has also won 2 Grammy Awards, one in 1997 for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group – So Much to Say, david John Matthews was born on January 9,1967 in Johannesburg, the third of four children of parents John and Valerie Matthews. At the age of two years, Matthews moved with his family to Yorktown Heights in Westchester County, New York, where his father, a physicist, started working for IBM. In 1974, the Matthews family moved to Cambridge, England for a year before returning to New York, biographer Nevin Martell argues that Daves fathers death may be an impetus for his carpe diem lyrics. At some point while residing in New York, Matthews attended his first concert, the family returned to Johannesburg in 1977. A Quaker, Matthews left South Africa to avoid service, in Charlottesville, he became part of the local music community. Pursuing various interests, Matthews acted in local productions. Although Matthews had started playing the guitar at age nine, it was only in Charlottesville that he started performing publicly. From time to time, local star Tim Reynolds had Dave join him on stage, in 1991, he hatched the idea to form his own band. Prior to recording his first demo, Matthews bartended at Millers in Charlottesville, the bands first show was on March 14,1991, as part of a benefit for the Middle East Childrens Alliance at Trax Nightclub in Charlottesville. In early 1994, Matthews older sister, Anne, who lived in South Africa, was murdered by her husband, the event had a profound effect on Matthews outlook on life and was referenced in a few of his songs. On January 29,1994, he performed with Tim Reynolds at The Wetlands in New York, Dave Matthews Bands Under the Table and Dreaming, released later that year, was dedicated to her. Anne Matthews was survived by her two children who, upon her death, traveled to America, where Dave and his sister, Jane. Matthews focused primarily on songwriting and performances with the Dave Matthews Band from 1990 to 2003, DMB is an artistic blend of acoustic guitar, bass, sax, drums and fiddle music
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Matthews at Virginia Tech in 2007
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L to R: Reynolds and Matthews in 2007 performing in Amherst, MA in one of many acoustic shows the two play as a duo.
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Matthews performing in 2009
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Message boards
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An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages. They differ from chat rooms in that messages are often longer than one line of text, also, depending on the access level of a user or the forum set-up, a posted message might need to be approved by a moderator before it becomes visible. Forums have a set of jargon associated with them, example. A discussion forum is hierarchical or tree-like in structure, a forum can contain a number of subforums, within a forums topic, each new discussion started is called a thread, and can be replied to by as many people as so wish. Depending on the settings, users can be anonymous or have to register with the forum. On most forums, users do not have to log in to read existing messages, the modern forum originated from bulletin boards, and so-called computer conferencing systems, and are a technological evolution of the dialup bulletin board system. From a technological standpoint, forums or boards are web applications managing user-generated content, early Internet forums could be described as a web version of an electronic mailing list or newsgroup, allowing people to post messages and comment on other messages. Later developments emulated the different newsgroups or individual lists, providing more than one forum, Internet forums are prevalent in several developed countries. Japan posts the most with two million per day on their largest forum, 2channel. China also has millions of posts on forums such as Tianya Club. Some of the very first forum systems were the Planet-Forum system, developed in the beginning of the 1970-s, the EIES system, first operational in 1976, one of the first forum sites, and still active today, is Delphi Forums, once called Delphi. The service, with four members, dates to 1983. Forums perform a similar to that of dial-up bulletin board systems. Early web-based forums date back as far as 1994, with the WIT project from W3 Consortium and starting from this time, a sense of virtual community often develops around forums that have regular users. Technology, video games, sports, music, fashion, religion, and politics are popular areas for forum themes, Internet slang and image macros popular across the Internet are abundant and widely used in Internet forums. Forum software packages are available on the Internet and are written in a variety of programming languages, such as PHP, Perl, Java. The configuration and records of posts can be stored in files or in a database. Each package offers different features, from the most basic, providing text-only postings, to more advanced packages, offering multimedia support, many packages can be integrated easily into an existing website to allow visitors to post comments on articles
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FUDforum, another Internet forum software package.
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An Internet forum powered by
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Forum (Fully Threaded display format)
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1000 Kisses (album)
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1000 Kisses is the third studio album by Patty Griffin. It was released on April 9,2002 on ATO Records, the album reached a peak of number 101 on the Billboard 200 chart resulting in a number one peak on the Top Heatseekers chart. According to Billboard the album has sold 151,000 copies in the US up to May 2004, in 2009, the album was ranked #15 on Paste Magazines The 50 Best Albums of the Decade list. All tracks written by Patty Griffin, except where noted, guerra – acoustic bass Carrie Rodriguez – violin Lyrics to the album on PattyNet. net
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A Kiss in Time
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A Kiss in Time is Patty Griffins fourth commercially released album, and her first live album. It was recorded on 30 January 2003, at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, the package includes a DVD which features behind the scenes footage of Griffin as well as videos of Chief and Rain. According to Billboard the album debuted at number 21 on the Top Heatseekers chart and has sold 34,000 copies in the U. S. up to May 2004, all songs were written by Patty Griffin. net
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Gillian Welch
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Gillian Howard Welch is an American singer-songwriter. She performs with her partner, guitarist David Rawlings. Welch and Rawlings have released five acclaimed albums under the name Gillian Welch. Their 1996 debut, Revival, and the 2001 release Time and their 2003 album, Soul Journey, introduced electric guitar, drums and a more upbeat sound to their body of work. After a gap of eight years, they released their studio album, The Harrow & The Harvest, in 2011. Welch was associate producer and performed on two songs of the O Brother, Where Art Thou. soundtrack, an album that won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2002. Welch has collaborated and recorded with distinguished musicians such as Alison Krauss, Ryan Adams, Jay Farrar, Emmylou Harris, the Decemberists, and Ani DiFranco. Gillian Howard Welch was born on October 2,1967 in New York City and her biological mother was a freshman in college, and her father was a musician visiting New York City. Welch has speculated that her father could have been one of her favorite musicians. Alec Wilkinson of The New Yorker stated that from an address they had been given, may have grown up in the mountains of North Carolina. When Welch was three, her parents moved to Los Angeles to write music for The Carol Burnett Show. They also appeared on The Tonight Show, as a youngster, Welch was introduced to the music of American folk singers Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Carter Family. She performed folk songs with her peers at the Westland Elementary School in Los Angeles, Welch later attended Crossroads School, a high school in Santa Monica, California. While in high school, a television program featured her as a student who excelled at everything she did. While a student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Welch played bass in a goth band and it was just as powerful as the electric stuff, and it was songs Id grown up singing. All of a sudden Id found my music, after graduating from UC Santa Cruz with a degree in photography, Welch attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she majored in songwriting. During her two years studying at Berklee, Welch gained confidence as a performer, Welch met her music partner David Rawlings at a successful audition for Berklees only country band. Upon finishing college in 1992, Welch and Rawlings moved to Nashville and she recalled, I looked at my record collection and saw that all the music I loved had been made in Nashville—Bill Monroe, Dylan, the Stanley Brothers, Neil Young—so I moved there
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Gillian Welch performing at
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Rawlings and Welch performing in Seattle in 2009
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Gillian Welch performing at the 2007 New Orleans
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David Rawlings, Gillian Welch and Alison Krauss performing at the 2008
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David Rawlings
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David Todd Rawlings is a professional guitarist, producer, and singer. He is best known as the longtime partner of singer-songwriter Gillian Welch. He has also released two albums under the name Dave Rawlings Machine, david attended the Berklee College of Music and studied with guitar professor Lauren Passarelli. He is known in his own right as a producer, having produced Welch and he has recently performed as the frontman of a band titled Dave Rawlings Machine. Other members of the band include Gillian Welch, Willie Watson, Paul Kowert and he has also contributed to the Bright Eyes album Cassadaga, the Ryan Adams album Heartbreaker, and the Robyn Hitchcock album Spooked. Rawlings co-wrote the tracks To Be Young and Touch, Feel and Lose, david Rawlings achieves his signature guitar sound flatpicking a small archtop guitar. The 1935 Epiphone Olympic that has been his primary instrument was a guitar for its time, with a carved arched solid sprucewood top, carved arched solid mahogany back. It sold for about $35 in 1935, the guitars lower bout measures 13 5/8 inches wide, and it has three piece f-holes. The Dave Rawlings Machine album A Friend of a Friend was released on November 17,2009, Rawlings recorded the album in Nashville, and produced it himself. Co-writers and musicians on the album include Welch as well as members of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Old Crow Medicine Show, Rawlings is also best friends with movie producer Douglas Wick. In 2015 Dave Rawlings Machine released a second album Nashville Obsolete
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David Rawlings performing in 2014
