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Ryan Adams (baseball)
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Ryan Scott Adams is a professional baseball second baseman, who is currently a free agent. He previously played in Major League Baseball with the Baltimore Orioles, Adams was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the 2nd round of the 2006 MLB draft out of Jesuit High School in New Orleans, Louisiana.236 in 67 games. In 2008, he hit.308 in 119 games with 11 homers and 57 RBI for the Delmarva Shorebirds of the South Atlantic League and in 2009, he hit.288 in 59 games for the Frederick Keys of the Carolina League. Adams was promoted to the AA Eastern League for 2010 and hit.298 with 15 homers and 68 RBI in 134 games for the Bowie Baysox. He began 2011 with the Norfolk Tides of the AAA International League and was called up to the majors for the first time on May 20,2011. He had one hit in four at-bats in his debut, with his hit being a single to left field off Jason Marquis of the Washington Nationals, in 29 games with the Orioles, he had 25 hits in 89 at-bats for a.281 batting average. He returned to Norfolk to finish the season and also spent most of 2012 there while battling injuries, in 159 games in AAA over the two seasons, he hit.224 in 65 games. He became an agent after the 2012 season. Shortly thereafter, Adams tested positive for amphetamines and was suspended for 25 games by Major League Baseball and he did not play at all in 2013. In January 2014, Adams signed a minor league deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers, despite strong numbers, Adams battled injuries throughout his time with the club, and the Dodgers released him on July 9. A week later, Major League Baseball announced another suspension, this time for 100 games, after Adams violated the Minor League drug prevention, after his suspension went into effect, Adams signed on with the New Jersey Jackals of the Canadian–American League. In a short stint, he sustained the strong numbers he had put up with the Lookouts, on June 28,2015, it was announced that Adams had signed with the Sugar Land Skeeters of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. Career statistics and player information from MLB, or Baseball-Reference, or Baseball-Reference
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Bryan Adams
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Bryan Guy Adams, OC OBC is a Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer, guitarist, photographer, philanthropist and activist. Adams also had the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles Heaven, Adams has sold over 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. In 2008, Adams was ranked 38th on the list of All-Time top artists in the Billboard Hot 100 50th Anniversary Charts. Bryan Guy Adams was born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, to British parents, Elizabeth Jane and Captain Conrad J. Adams, Adams travelled with his parents to diplomatic postings in Portugal and Vienna, Austria, during the 1960s, and to Israel during the early 1970s. Adams has a brother, Bruce. Before that at age 15–16 he fronted various pub bands like Sweeney Todd that released If Wishes Were Horses and was seen sitting in with other cover bands. He and his guitarist Keith Scott met during those club years, in 1978, at 18, Adams met Jim Vallance through a mutual friend in a Vancouver music store. Vallance was the drummer and principal songwriter for Vancouver-based rock band Prism and had recently quit that band to focus on a career as a studio musician. They agreed to meet at Vallances home studio a few days later, later in 1978, Adams signed to A&M records for one dollar. Some of the first demos written in 1978 have surfaced over the years, most notably Im Ready and Remember, both songs were covered by other artists even before his first album was released. Also recorded during time was the disco song Let Me Take You Dancing featuring Adamss vocal sped up to meet the 122BPM dance tempo. The song made the Canadian RPM chart in March 1979 along with its B-Side Dont Turn Me Away, straight From The Heart was also written during this period. The song was recorded for Adamss third album Cuts Like A Knife in 1983 and released as a single. Adamss self-titled debut album was released in February 1980, and marked the beginning of what was to become a long songwriting partnership between Adams and co-writer Jim Vallance. With the exception of Remember and Wastin Time, most of the album was recorded from 29 October up until 29 November 1979 at Manta Studios and co-produced by Adams, the album was certified gold in Canada in 1986. Adamss second album, You Want It You Got It, was recorded in two weeks and it marked Adamss first album co-produced by Bob Clearmountain. It was released in 1981 and contained the FM radio hit Lonely Nights, Adams also co-wrote songs for other artists during this time including Billboard charted songs like No Way to Treat a Lady for Bonnie Raitt and Dont Let Him Know for Prism. Cuts Like a Knife, which was released in January 1983, was Adamss breakout album due mainly to the lead singles, straight from the Heart was the most successful song, reaching number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100
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Jacksonville, North Carolina
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Jacksonville is a city in Onslow County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 United States census, the population stood at 70,145, Jacksonville is the principal city of Onslow County and is included in the Jacksonville, North Carolina metropolitan area. In 2014, Forbes magazine ranked Jacksonville as the fifth fastest-growing small city in the United States, demographically, Jacksonville is the youngest city in the United States with an average age of 22.8 years old, which can be attributed to the large military presence. The low age may also be in due to the population drastically going up over the past 80 years. It is the county seat of Onslow County, and the home of the United States Marine Corps Camp Lejeune, Jacksonville is located adjacent to North Carolinas Southern Outer Banks area. The resolution of adoption targets the prevention of the modern slavery epidemic in the form of trafficking, which includes forcing children to engage in labor, sex. In recognition of the history of African Americans, Jacksonville honored their heritage, the early history of Jacksonville starts with the end of the Tuscarora wars in 1713. The forced removal of Native American tribes was followed by permanent settlement of the regions between New Bern and Wilmington, the headwaters of the New River became a center of production for naval stores, particularly turpentine. The downtown waterfront park is built on the site of Wantlands Ferry, the area was later known as Onslow Courthouse. In 1842 the town was incorporated and renamed Jacksonville in honor of former U. S. President Andrew Jackson, the town was briefly captured and occupied in November 1862 by a raiding party led by U. S. Navy Lt. William B. Jacksonville and Onslow County continued to rely on stores, lumber. The map is believed to have fostered the interest of the War, congressman Graham Arthur Barden of New Bern lobbied Congress to appropriate funds for the purchase of approximately 100,000 acres along the eastern bank of the New River. The establishment in 1941 of Marine Barracks, New River, later renamed Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base led to the relocation of 700 families. While the landowners were compensated, many of the displaced were sharecroppers who did not own the land their houses were built on. Some African American families were able to purchase property from Raymond Kellum, other displaced families established communities in Georgetown, Pickettown, Bell Fork, and Sandy Run. The latter communities have since been absorbed by Jacksonville, colonel Gillette had planned to retire near the small village of Marine, ironically named after a local family whose surname was Marine, but lost his land to the acquisition as well. Construction of Camp Lejeune caused an explosion in the small town of about 800 inhabitants as new workers migrated to the area. Growth continued to be fueled by both young Marine families and military retirees, today, Jacksonvilles primary industry is retail sales and services
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North Carolina
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North Carolina is a state in the southeastern region of the United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west, Virginia to the north, North Carolina is the 28th most extensive and the 9th most populous of the U. S. states. The state is divided into 100 counties, the most populous municipality is Charlotte, which is the second largest banking center in the United States after New York City. The state has a range of elevations, from sea level on the coast to 6,684 feet at Mount Mitchell. The climate of the plains is strongly influenced by the Atlantic Ocean. Most of the falls in the humid subtropical climate zone. More than 300 miles from the coast, the western, mountainous part of the state has a highland climate. North Carolina is bordered by South Carolina on the south, Georgia on the southwest, Tennessee on the west, Virginia on the north, the United States Census Bureau places North Carolina in the South Atlantic division of the southern region. So many ships have been lost off Cape Hatteras that the area is known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic, the most famous of these is the Queen Annes Revenge, which went aground in Beaufort Inlet in 1718. The coastal plain transitions to the Piedmont region along the Atlantic Seaboard fall line, the Piedmont region of central North Carolina is the states most populous region, containing the six largest cities in the state by population. It consists of rolling countryside frequently broken by hills or low mountain ridges. The Piedmont ranges from about 300 feet in elevation in the east to about 1,500 feet in the west, the western section of the state is part of the Appalachian Mountain range. Among the subranges of the Appalachians located in the state are the Great Smoky Mountains, Blue Ridge Mountains, the Black Mountains are the highest in the eastern United States, and culminate in Mount Mitchell at 6,684 feet, the highest point east of the Mississippi River. North Carolina has 17 major river basins, the five basins west of the Blue Ridge Mountains flow to the Gulf of Mexico, while the remainder flow to the Atlantic Ocean. Of the 17 basins,11 originate within the state of North Carolina, but only four are contained entirely within the states border – the Cape Fear, the Neuse, the White Oak, and the Tar-Pamlico basin. Elevation above sea level is most responsible for temperature change across the state, the climate is also influenced by the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf Stream, especially in the coastal plain. These influences tend to cause warmer winter temperatures along the coast, the coastal plain averages around 1 inch of snow or ice annually, and in many years, there may be no snow or ice at all. North Carolina experiences severe weather in summer and winter, with summer bringing threat of hurricanes, tropical storms, heavy rain
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Raleigh, North Carolina
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Raleigh is the capital of the state of North Carolina, the seat of Wake County in the United States. Raleigh is known as the City of Oaks for its oak trees. The city covers a area of 142.8 square miles. The U. S. Census Bureau estimated the population as 451,066 as of July 1,2015. It is also one of the cities in the country. The city of Raleigh is named after Sir Walter Raleigh, who established the lost Roanoke Colony in present-day Dare County, Raleigh is home to North Carolina State University and is part of the Research Triangle area, together with Durham and Chapel Hill. The Triangle nickname originated after the 1959 creation of the Research Triangle Park, located in Durham and Wake Counties, partway between the three cities and their universities. The Research Triangle region encompasses the U. S. Census Bureaus Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Combined Statistical Area, the Raleigh Metropolitan Statistical Area had an estimated population of 1,214,516 in 2013. Most of Raleigh is located within Wake County, with a small portion extending into Durham County. Raleigh is an example in the United States of a planned city. It was chosen as the site of the capital in 1788. The city was laid out in a grid pattern with the North Carolina State Capitol in Union Square at the center. Raleigh is home to cultural, educational, and historic sites. The Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts in Downtown Raleigh features three venues and serves as the home for the North Carolina Symphony and the Carolina Ballet. Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek is a large music amphitheater located in southeast Raleigh, one U. S. president, Andrew Johnson, was born in Raleigh. Bath, the oldest town in North Carolina, was the first nominal capital from 1705 until 1722, the colony had no permanent institutions of government until the establishment at the new capital New Bern in 1743. In December 1770, Joel Lane successfully petitioned the North Carolina General Assembly to create a new county, on January 5,1771, the bill creating Wake County was passed in the General Assembly. The county was formed from portions of Cumberland, Orange, the county gets its name from Margaret Wake Tryon, the wife of Governor William Tryon
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Rock music
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It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by blues, rhythm and blues and country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of genres such as electric blues and folk. Musically, rock has centered on the guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar. Typically, rock is song-based music usually with a 4/4 time signature using a verse-chorus form, like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political in emphasis. Punk was an influence into the 1980s on the subsequent development of subgenres, including new wave, post-punk. From the 1990s alternative rock began to rock music and break through into the mainstream in the form of grunge, Britpop. Similarly, 1970s punk culture spawned the visually distinctive goth and emo subcultures and this trio of instruments has often been complemented by the inclusion of other instruments, particularly keyboards such as the piano, Hammond organ and synthesizers. The basic rock instrumentation was adapted from the blues band instrumentation. A group of musicians performing rock music is termed a rock band or rock group, Rock music is traditionally built on a foundation of simple unsyncopated rhythms in a 4/4 meter, with a repetitive snare drum back beat on beats two and four. Melodies are often derived from older musical modes, including the Dorian and Mixolydian, harmonies range from the common triad to parallel fourths and fifths and dissonant harmonic progressions. Critics have stressed the eclecticism and stylistic diversity of rock, because of its complex history and tendency to borrow from other musical and cultural forms, it has been argued that it is impossible to bind rock music to a rigidly delineated musical definition. These themes were inherited from a variety of sources, including the Tin Pan Alley pop tradition, folk music and rhythm, as a result, it has been seen as articulating the concerns of this group in both style and lyrics. Christgau, writing in 1972, said in spite of some exceptions, rock and roll usually implies an identification of male sexuality, according to Simon Frith rock was something more than pop, something more than rock and roll. Rock musicians combined an emphasis on skill and technique with the concept of art as artistic expression, original. The foundations of music are in rock and roll, which originated in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its immediate origins lay in a melding of various musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music, with country. In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing rhythm and blues music for a multi-racial audience, debate surrounds which record should be considered the first rock and roll record. Other artists with rock and roll hits included Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis
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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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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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Indie rock
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Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United States and the United Kingdom in the 1980s. Originally used to independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock. In the mid-1980s, the term began to be used to describe the music produced on punk and post-punk labels. Some prominent indie rock record labels were founded during the 1980s, during the 1990s, Grunge bands broke into the mainstream, and the term alternative lost its original counter-cultural meaning. The term indie rock became associated with the bands and genres that remained dedicated to their independent status, by the end of the 1990s indie rock developed subgenres and related styles including lo-fi, noise pop, emo, slowcore, post-rock and math rock. In the 2000s, changes in the industry and in music technology enabled a new wave of indie rock bands to achieve mainstream success. In the early 2000s, a new group of bands played a stripped-down. The commercial breakthrough from these scenes was led by four bands, The Strokes, The White Stripes, The Hives, emo also broke into mainstream culture in the early 2000s. By the end of the 2000s the proliferation of bands was being referred to as indie landfill. The term indie rock, which comes from independent, describes the small and relatively low-budget labels on which it is released, the influences and styles of the artists have been extremely diverse, including punk, psychedelia, post-punk and country. Allmusic identifies indie rock as including a number of varying musical approaches compatible with mainstream tastes, in fact, there is an everlasting list of genres and subgenres of indie rock. Many countries have developed a local indie scene, flourishing with bands with enough popularity to survive inside the respective country. However, there are still indie bands that start off locally, Indie rock has been identified as a reaction against the macho culture that developed in alternative rock in the aftermath of Nirvanas success. However, Cortney Harding pointed out that this sense of equality is not reflected in the number of women running indie labels. The BBC documentary Music for Misfits, The Story of Indie pinpoints the birth of indie as the 1977 self-publication of the Spiral Scratch EP by Manchester band Buzzcocks, Indie pop and indie were originally synonymous. In the mid-1980s, indie began to be used to describe the music produced on post-punk labels rather than the labels themselves. The indie rock scene in the US was prefigured by the rock that dominated college radio playlists. In the United States, the term was associated with the abrasive, distortion-heavy sounds of the Pixies, Hüsker Dü, Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Dinosaur Jr
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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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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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Piano
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The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings. The word piano is a form of pianoforte, the Italian term for the early 1700s versions of the instrument. The first fortepianos in the 1700s had a sound and smaller dynamic range. An acoustic piano usually has a wooden case surrounding the soundboard and metal strings. Pressing one or more keys on the keyboard causes a padded hammer to strike the strings. The hammer rebounds from the strings, and the continue to vibrate at their resonant frequency. These vibrations are transmitted through a bridge to a soundboard that amplifies by more efficiently coupling the acoustic energy to the air, when the key is released, a damper stops the strings vibration, ending the sound. Notes can be sustained, even when the keys are released by the fingers and thumbs and this means that the piano can play 88 different pitches, going from the deepest bass range to the highest treble. The black keys are for the accidentals, which are needed to play in all twelve keys, more rarely, some pianos have additional keys. Most notes have three strings, except for the bass that graduates from one to two, the strings are sounded when keys are pressed or struck, and silenced by dampers when the hands are lifted from the keyboard. There are two types of piano, the grand piano and the upright piano. The grand piano is used for Classical solos, chamber music and art song and it is used in jazz. The upright piano, which is compact, is the most popular type, as they are a better size for use in private homes for domestic music-making. During the nineteenth century, music publishers produced many works in arrangements for piano, so that music lovers could play. The piano is widely employed in classical, jazz, traditional and popular music for solo and ensemble performances, accompaniment, with technological advances, amplified electric pianos, electronic pianos, and digital pianos have also been developed. The electric piano became an instrument in the 1960s and 1970s genres of jazz fusion, funk music. The piano was founded on earlier technological innovations in keyboard instruments, pipe organs have been used since Antiquity, and as such, the development of pipe organs enabled instrument builders to learn about creating keyboard mechanisms for sounding pitches
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Harmonica
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There are many types of harmonica, including diatonic, chromatic, tremolo, octave, orchestral, and bass versions. A harmonica is played by using the mouth to direct air into or out of one or more holes along a mouthpiece, behind each hole is a chamber containing at least one reed. A harmonica reed is a flat elongated spring typically made of brass, stainless steel, or bronze, when the free end is made to vibrate by the players air, it alternately blocks and unblocks the airway to produce sound. Reeds are pre-tuned to individual pitches, tuning may involve changing a reeds length, the weight near its free end, or the stiffness near its fixed end. Longer, heavier and springier reeds produce deeper, lower sounds, an important technique in performance is bending, causing a drop in pitch by making embouchure adjustments. Such two-reed pitch changes actually involve sound production by the normally silent reed, the basic parts of the harmonica are the comb, reed plates and cover plates. The comb is the body of the instrument, which. The term comb may originate from the similarity between this part of a harmonica and a hair comb, Harmonica combs were traditionally made from wood but now are also made from plastic or metal. Some modern and experimental designs are complex in the way that they direct the air. There is dispute among players about whether comb material affects the tone of a harmonica, among those saying yes are those who are convinced by their ears. Few dispute, however, that comb surface smoothness and air-tightness when mated with the reedplates can greatly affect tone, the main advantage of a particular comb material over another one is its durability. In particular, a comb can absorb moisture from the players breath. This can cause the comb to expand slightly, making the instrument uncomfortable to play, various types of wood and treatments have been devised to reduce the degree of this problem. Much effort is devoted by serious players to restoring wood combs, some players used to soak wooden-combed harmonicas in water to cause a slight expansion, which they intended to make the seal between the comb, reed plates and covers more airtight. Modern wooden-combed harmonicas are less prone to swelling and contracting, players still dip harmonicas in water for the way it affects tone and ease of bending notes. The reed plate is a grouping of several reeds in a single housing, the reeds are usually made of brass, but steel, aluminium and plastic are occasionally used. Individual reeds are usually riveted to the plate, but they may also be welded or screwed in place. Reeds fixed on the side of the reed plate respond to blowing
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Bloodshot Records
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Bloodshot Records is an independent record label based in Chicago, Illinois that specializes in roots-infused indie rock, punk rock, and alternative country. Bloodshot Records was founded in 1993 by Nan Warshaw, Rob Miller, Warshaw and Miller met in 1992 when they bonded over a passion for country music and began to regularly deejay on Wednesday country nights at a Chicago bar called Crash Palace, now called Delilahs. Both Warshaw and Miller had played in bands, had deejayed at their local radio stations. Warshaw had booked tours for bands she was friends with and had worked as a publicist for the band KillBilly who released a record on Flying Fish Records, where co-founder Babcock worked. The record was self-distributed and sold on consignment, with success that the record was paid for. A year later, in 1995, the released their second compilation album Hell Bent, Insurgent Country Volume 2. The album included band from all over the country, and Bloodshot continued to put on showcasing the bands involved with the making of the record. Although well received by critics, Bloodshot had very tight financial constraints, also challenging was establishing Bloodshots brand, a mixture of country, punk, and folk that had no prior precedence. In 1997, co-founder Babcock left Bloodshot, eventually relocating to Nashville where he founded Catamount Records, in 2014, Bloodshot released their 20th anniversary album, While No One Was Looking, Toasting 20 Years of Bloodshot Records. The album is a 2-CD set with 38 artists that include bands like Andrew Bird, Blitzen Trapper, Superchunk, Bloodshot spent the year celebrating their success at surviving during a period when most independent record labels were going out of business. The label was run out of Warshaws basement. Singer Kelly Hogan was the first paid employee, working as the labels publicist, the Chicago twang, country, and punk scene, often described as a sort of an anti-Nashville, continued to expand, often led by various projects involving The Mekons Jon Langford. Bloodshot Records bands often participate in the Hideouts annual Block Party festival, musicians from Chicagos independent record labels have also supported each other, and have toured together. Some of the artists who started out on Bloodshot went on to sign with larger major record labels, specifically Old 97s. Ryan Adams had one of the labels best selling albums with the 2000 release Heartbreaker, neko Case had a licensing deal with Bloodshot Records in the United States and Mint Records in Canada before she signed with ANTI-. Bloodshot includes a roster of artists. The roster includes Andre Williams, who wrote Shake a Tail Feather, faced challenges, Bloodshot includes bands and projects by many members of The Mekons, including Jon Langford, Sally Timms, and Rico Bell. Listed alphabetically ‡ denotes active Bloodshot artists Bloodshot Records began its life as a label by releasing compilations, OCLC28536569 Gross, Jason, Eric Babcock, Rob Miller, Nan Warshaw, Angie Mead, Jon Langford
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Universal Music Group Nashville
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Universal Music Group Nashville is Universal Music Groups country music subsidiary. Some of the labels in this group include MCA Nashville Records, Mercury Nashville Records, Lost Highway Records, Capitol Records Nashville, in 1947, Cohen hired Owen Bradley as his assistant working in Nashville. The country music moved to Nashville in 1955 as much of the country music recording business was locating there. Bradley succeeded Cohen as head of Deccas Nashville division in 1958, Decca Nashville was renamed MCA Nashville in 1973. In 1979, MCA Nashville absorbed the country music roster and back catalogue of ABC Records including the Dot Records catalogue. In the early 1980s, MCA Nashville signed Reba McEntire and George Strait, while Decca resumed issuing country music in February 2008, the current Decca country music department has no connection with UMG Nashville. However, MCA Nashville continues to reissue past country releases from Decca, with the absorption of MCA Records into Geffen Records in 2003, MCA Nashville, apart from UMGs operations in the Philippines, is now the only unit of Universal Music to still use the MCA name. The still active Mercury Records was formed in Chicago in 1945 issuing recordings in a variety of genres including country music, the Nashville office of Mercury began as a joint venture between Mercury and Pappy Dailys established country music record label Starday Records in January 1957. In July 1958, the Mercury/Starday joint venture was dissolved and Starday record producer Shelby Singleton stayed on with Mercury in Nashville, Singleton left Mercury in 1966 to form his own company which bought Sun Records in 1969. In 1997, PolyGram, which owned Mercury, consolidated all its Nashville operations under the Mercury name, the consolidations in Nashville which created UMG Nashville kept the Mercury Nashville imprint active. Reissues of country music recordings first issued on the MGM, Polydor, Capitol Records Nashville is a major United States-based record label located in Nashville Tennessee operating as part of the Capitol Music Group. Capitol Nashville was formerly known as Liberty Records from 1991 until 1995 when it was changed back to Capitol, in 1993 Liberty opened a sister label, Patriot Records, but it was closed in 1995. In 1999 EMI launched Virgin Records Nashville but by 2001 Capitol absorbed the short-lived label, Capitol Nashville remained a stand- alone label until 2010 when it launched EMI Nashville. Capitol Nashville is also home to several successful artists who remain on their roster today. On March 23,2011, Alan Jackson signed with Capitols EMI Nashville division in conjunction with his own ACR Records label, in late 2012 Capitol Records Nashville became part of the Universal Music Group after a merger between EMI and UMG. EMI Records Nashville was formed in 2010 and served as a label to Capitol Records Nashville. Its flagship artist was Troy Olsen, other artists signed to EMI include Eric Church and Alan Jackson. Universal Music Group acquired EMI in 2012, EMI is currently a part of UMG along with sister label Capitol Records Nashville
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Blue Note Records
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Blue Note Records is an American jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards and it derives its name from the characteristic blue notes of jazz and the blues. Originally dedicated to recording traditional jazz and small group swing, from 1947 the label began to switch its attention to modern jazz, while the original company did not itself record many of the pioneers of bebop, significant exceptions are Thelonious Monk, Fats Navarro and Bud Powell. Historically, Blue Note has principally been associated with the hard bop style of jazz, but also recorded essential albums in the avant-garde and free styles of jazz. Horace Silver, Jimmy Smith, Freddie Hubbard, Lee Morgan, Art Blakey, Grant Green, Hank Mobley, Wayne Shorter, Bobby Hutcherson, the label is currently owned by the Universal Music Group. Lion first heard jazz as a boy in Berlin. The Blue Note label initially consisted of Lion and Max Margulis, musicians were supplied with alcoholic refreshments, and recorded in the early hours of the morning after their evenings work in clubs and bars had finished. Francis Wolff, a photographer, emigrated to the USA at the end of 1939 and soon joined forces with Lion. In 1941, Lion was drafted into the army for two years, Milt Gabler at the Commodore Music Store offered storage facilities and helped keep the catalog in print, with Wolff working for him. By late 1943, the label was back in recording musicians. Johnson, who was returning to a degree of musical activity after having largely recovered from a stroke suffered in 1940. Towards the end of the war, saxophonist Ike Quebec was among those who recorded for the label, Quebec would act as a talent scout for the label until his death in 1963. Although stylistically belonging to a generation, he could appreciate the new bebop style of jazz. Lion recorded several Monk sessions before he began to release the resulting sides, monks recordings for Blue Note between 1947 and 1952 did not sell well for some years, but have since come to be regarded as the most important of his career. The sessions by Powell are commonly ranked among his best, J. J. Johnson and trumpeter Miles Davis both recorded several sessions for Blue Note between 1952 and 1954, but by then the musicians who had created bebop were starting to explore other styles. The recording of musicians performing in a jazz idiom, such as Sidney Bechet and clarinettist George Lewis. In 1951, Blue Note issued their first vinyl 10 releases, the label was soon recording emerging talent such as Horace Silver and Clifford Brown. Meanwhile, Milt Jackson and the Jazz Messengers recorded for Blue Note, the Milt Jackson Quartet session was a one-off, but Blakeys various groups recorded for the label extensively, if intermittently, for the next decade
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Capitol Records
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Capitol Records, LLC is an American record label which operates as a division of the Capitol Music Group. The label was founded as the first West Coast-based record label in the United States in 1942 by three industry insiders named Johnny Mercer, Buddy DeSylva and Glenn Wallichs, in 1955, the label was acquired by the British music conglomerate EMI as its North American subsidiary. EMI was later acquired by Universal Music Group in 2012 and was merged with the company in 2013, making Capitol Records, Capitol Records circular headquarter building located in Los Angeles is a recognized landmark of California. Mercer first raised the idea of starting a company while golfing with Harold Arlen. By 1941, Mercer was a songwriter and a singer with multiple successful releases. Mercer next suggested the idea to Wallichs while visiting his record store, Wallichs expressed interest in the idea and the pair negotiated an agreement whereby Mercer would run the company and identify their artists, while Wallichs managed the business side. On February 2,1942, Mercer and Wallichs met with DeSylva at a Hollywood restaurant to inquire about the possibility of investment of the company from Paramount Pictures, while DeSylva declined the proposal, he handed the pair a check worth $15,000. On March 27,1942, the three men incorporated as Liberty Records, in May 1942, the application was amended to change the companys name to Capitol Records. On April 6,1942, Mercer supervised Capitols first recording session where Martha Tilton recorded the song Moon Dreams, on May 5, Bobby Sherwood and his orchestra recorded two tracks in the studio. On May 21, Freddie Slack and his orchestra recorded three tracks in the studio, one with the orchestra, one with Ella Mae Morse called Cow-Cow Boogie, on June 4,1942, Capitol opened its first office in a second-floor room south of Sunset Boulevard. On that same day, Wallichs presented the companys first free record to Los Angeles disc jockey Peter Potter, on June 5,1942, Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra recorded four songs at the studio. On June 12, the recorded five more songs in the studio. On June 11, Tex Ritter recorded Jingle Jangle Jingle and Goodbye My Little Cherokee for his first Capitol recording session, and the songs formed Capitols 110th produced record. 133 - Get On Board Little Chillun - July 31,1942 - is a Freddie Slack/Ella Mae Morse/Mellowaires recording that might be the first rock n roll record and she has sometimes been called the first rock n roll singer. A good example is her 1942 recording of song which, with strong gospel, blues, boogie. Bone Walker recorded Mean Old World a pioneering example of the use of electric guitar. The earliest recording artists included co-owner Mercer, Whiteman, Tilton, Morse, Margaret Whiting, Jo Stafford, the Pied Pipers, Johnnie Johnston, Tex Ritter, Capitols first gold single was Morses Cow Cow Boogie in 1942. Capitols first album was Capitol Presents Songs By Johnny Mercer, a three 78-rpm disc set with recordings by Mercer, Stafford and the Pied Pipers, all with Westons Orchestra
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Whiskeytown
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Whiskeytown was an alternative country band formed in 1994 from Raleigh, North Carolina. Fronted by Ryan Adams, the included members Caitlin Cary, Phil Wandscher, Eric Skillet Gilmore. They disbanded in 2000 with Adams leaving to pursue his solo career, Whiskeytown gradually expanded its sound outside the confines of alternative country while still maintaining its alternative roots. None of the feature a consistent lineup, with only Adams. Whiskeytown began in 1994 in Raleigh, North Carolina, Adams claimed that the reason for the re-release was the muddy sound of the original version and his distaste for Oklahoma, which was added to the album despite his objections. Whiskeytowns 1997 major-label debut, Strangers Almanac, helped to establish Adams reputation as a songwriter, in the midst of the albums recording, Gilmore and Grothman left, and Wandscher left soon after the albums release. The band cycled through numerous members throughout the year, including Brad Rice and Steven Terry. The bands reputation preceded it in the live setting, in a 1997 Detroit Free Press article titled Whiskeytown, half band, half soap opera, a June 1997 show at Macs Bar in Lansing, Michigan was described by fans as a half-baked performance. Despite the bands internal strife, Almanac was an album with critics, with the tracks 16 Days. In January 1998, the band taped a performance for Austin City Limits. During the tour for Strangers Almanac, the band was fired at a concert in Kansas City. The only people who started and finished the tour were Adams, Caitlin Cary, Mike Daly, the band managed to add a new core member in multi-instrumentalist Mike Daly, who contributed significantly to the bands sound on their third album, Pneumonia. The albums recording was a different affair from the first two—likely because of the bands constantly changing dynamic. The traditional country of the first two albums, especially Faithless, was replaced with a more sophisticated country-rooted pop sound. Also adding to the different flavor of the album was a cast of guest stars, including The Replacements Tommy Stinson, lost Highway Records, the roots-minded label imprint of Universal Music, picked up the album after signing Adams and released it in May 2001. Since the band dissolved, most core members have chosen to remain active in music, Cary, who married original drummer Eric Skillet Gilmore, has released three solo albums and created a female folk trio named Tres Chicas. In 2010 she formed a duo group called The Small Ponds with Matt Douglas of Raleigh band The Proclivities, between 2013 and 2014, the group has put out nine releases on their own label, as well as thru Redeye Distribution and Bloodshot Records. Adams has remained in the spotlight since the breakup, releasing numerous solo albums
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Ryan Adams & the Cardinals
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The Cardinals were an American rock band that were formed in 2004 by alternative country singer-songwriter Ryan Adams and fronted by him until 2009. The band was featured on Ryan Adams and the Cardinals albums, Cold Roses, Jacksonville City Nights, Follow the Lights, Cardinology, though credited as a solo Ryan Adams release, the 2007 album Easy Tiger also features the Cardinals. Regarding the bands name, Adams states that he suggested the Cardinals because it was my high school football team. The Cardinals first began as a duo when singer-songwriter Ryan Adams met J. P. Bowersock through his friend Ryan Gentles, manager of The Strokes, who were also Ryan Adams neighbors in New York in 2001. J. P. Bowersock and Ryan Adams rehearsed and performed in New York at various clubs under the name The Cardinals and were joined for a short time by G. E. Smith, of the SNL band fame during the late 1980s and 1990s, after recording the album,29, Adams suggested to J. P. Bowersock that they might form a touring band. Brad Pemberton was the first member to join reuniting Ryan Adams, following Pemberton, was Catherine Popper who initially played double bass for the band. The first touring lineup of Ryan Adams and the Cardinals consisted of Ryan Adams, Brad Pemberton, JP Bowersock, Catherine Popper, the band toured in 2004 and recorded Cold Roses. Jon Graboff was a replacement for the next two years until he became a full-time member for their final album as Ryan Adams and The Cardinals. The band toured worldwide without Cashdollar to promote Cold Roses, and during this period returned to the studio to record their second album, Bowersock left after the album was recorded, and was replaced by Neal Casal. In 2006 Ryan Adams produced Willie Nelsons album Songbird and he and The Cardinals served as Nelsons backing band on the recordings, in 2006, Popper left the band and was replaced by Chris Feinstein prior to a European tour in 2006. In 2007, The Cardinals joined Ryan Adams to record his new album, Easy Tiger, Follow the Lights appeared later in the year, once again produced by Candiloro. Their latest album, Cardinology, was released in October 2008, in January 2009, Adams announced that he would leave The Cardinals in order to step back from making music, citing hearing loss due to Ménières disease as part of the reason for his decision. This move made drummer Brad Pemberton the only remaining member of the band. On March 20,2009, The Cardinals played their show with Adams, at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta. In April 2009, when asked about the Cardinals future, guitarist Neal Casal stated, the Cardinals were the best band Ive ever been in, and I would love to play with them again. Only time will tell whats going to happen, ill certainly miss it a lot. In May 2009, drummer Brad Pemberton stated that, everyone was a bit fried, so it was the right time to step back for a minute
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Jason Isbell
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Michael Jason Isbell is a Grammy Award winning American singer-songwriter and guitarist from Green Hill, Alabama, in Lauderdale County. He is best known for his career and as a former member of the Drive-By Truckers for six years. Isbell was born in Green Hill, Alabama, two miles from the Alabama/Tennessee state line, the son of interior designer mother Angela Hill Barnett, Isbells mother was only 17 years old when he was born, and is the subject of a song, Children of Children. Isbells parents divorced, and he has two much younger half-siblings, Chantry Barnett and Emily Isbell, Isbell grew up in rural North Alabama. His grandparents lived on a farm down the road, next to the school that Isbell attended and his grandfather and uncle taught him to play various musical instruments, including the mandolin when he was 6 years old as it was easier for him to grip as a small child. They enjoyed gospel, bluegrass, and the Grand Ole Opry, in high school he played trumpet and French horn. Isbells family would get together and play every week, sometimes twice a week, which Isbell said has a lot to do with where he comes from. Isbells paternal grandfather, who came from a family, was a Pentecostal preacher who played guitar in church. He spent his childhood attending both the Pentecostal church and the stricter Church of Christ, which permitted only singing and he started playing in a garage band and a country cover band when he was 14 or 15 years old with his friend songwriter Chris Tompkins. They played at Grand Ole Opry when he was 16, Isbell attended University of Memphis, studying English and Creative Writing. When he was a teenager, many took him under their wing. By this time, Patterson and Cooley were older and had moved out of town, Isbell would go watch Hood and others perform. It took a while but once he finally got up the nerve to them he played, theyd have him sit in with them. Isbell submitted demos and eventually got a deal with FAME Studios of Muscle Shoals, Alabama. He stayed working for FAME until he joined the Drive-by Truckers, after working as a songwriter, in 2001 at the age of 22, Isbell joined the rock band Drive-By Truckers while they toured in support of their album Southern Rock Opera. The band operates out of Athens, Georgia, where Isbell lived while with the Drive-By Truckers, Patterson Hood recalls that he met Isbell through Dick Cooper, a mutual friend from Muscle Shoals. Hood already knew Shonna Tucker, and invited Isbell to join the Drive-by Truckers after he sat in with the group at a house party when guitarist Rob Malone didnt show up. Isbell recorded and contributed songs to the Drive-by Truckers for their next three albums, 2003s Decoration Day, 2004s The Dirty South, and 2006s A Blessing
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Heartbreaker (Ryan Adams album)
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Heartbreaker is the debut solo studio album by alternative country musician Ryan Adams, released September 5,2000 on Bloodshot Records. The album was recorded over fourteen days at Woodland Studios in Nashville and it was nominated for the 2001 Shortlist Music Prize. The album is said to be inspired by Adams break-up with music industry publicist Amy Lombardi, a Deluxe Edition, featuring bonus recording session takes and pre-album demos, was released on May 6,2016 on PAX-AM records. Heartbreaker was considered by critics to be a start for Ryan Adams after the demise of his previous band Whiskeytown. Clubs Keith Phipps wrote, Adams has recorded an intimate, largely quiet record that indisputably establishes his identity as an independent singer-songwriter, Pitchfork Medias Steven Byrd called it an album of astonishing musical proficiency, complete honesty and severe beauty. Rolling Stones Anthony DeCurtis was less enthusiastic, stating that Adams songs too often fail to rise above their plain-spoken details to take on the power he yearns for. Robert Christgau of The Village Voice selected To Be Young as a choice cut, the album was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die and was placed at #23 on Paste Magazines The 50 Best Albums of the Decade list. All tracks written by Ryan Adams, except where noted, oh My Sweet Carolina has been covered at least twice. The song can be heard on the edition of Zac Brown Bands 2010 album You Get What You Give. English DJ Mark Ronson remixed the song Amy for his 2007 album Version, the song To Be Young is featured in the 2006 film Accepted, the 2002 film The Slaughter Rule, and the 2003 film Old School. A version of song was also released in 2009 by David Rawlings on the Dave Rawlings Machine album A Friend of a Friend. Come Pick Me Up is featured in the film Elizabethtown and in a Series 2 episode of Skins and it was also named #285 on Pitchfork Medias Top 500 songs of the 2000s. Joan Baez would cover In My Time of Need in 2003
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Shortlist Music Prize
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The Shortlist Music Prize, stylized as, was an annual music award for the best album released in the United States that had sold fewer than 500,000 copies at the time of nomination. The recipient is chosen by a panel of entertainment industry members, over 50 of the best albums of the previous 12 months are picked before being narrowed down to the eponymous Shortlist, from which a winner is chosen. Since 2003, a statuette, nicknamed The Shorty, has been given out in conjunction with the cash prize. In 2005, the Shortlist Music Prize was renamed the New Pantheon award for a following a dispute between the prizes founders. No nominees or winners have been announced since the presentation of the 2007 award, modeled on the British Mercury Prize, the Shortlist Music Prize was conceived to honor the most adventurous and creative albums of the year across all genres of music. At the end of 2001, Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós became the first recipients following a ceremony at the Hollywood Knitting Factory, virgin Megastores sponsored the award during the inaugural year. The Shortlist Music Prizes format continued in similar fashion the following years, tower Records opened an online store for the award, which included CD samplers of each years nominated acts. Three winning albums eligible at the time of nomination—N. E. R. Ds In Search of, rices O, and Feists The Reminder—went on to sell over 500,000 copies in America and achieved gold certification. N. E. R. D received the accolade between the time of nomination and the award ceremony, the Shortlist Music Prize quickly became an anticipated event and a coveted award. It provided an artistic and independent music focus in contrast to the Grammys major label or chart rankings affiliations, the 2003 and 2004 Shortlist Music Prize ceremonies were shown on MTV2 in recorded format. In 2005, Sarig started using the New Pantheon name after co-founder Spotts left to focus on politics, the award ceremony continued to be held in the early part of years until the last given prize for 2007. Mercury Prize Australian Music Prize Choice Music Prize Polaris Music Prize Prix Constantin Nordic Music Prize
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Gold (Ryan Adams album)
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Gold is the second studio album by Ryan Adams, released September 25,2001 on Lost Highway Records. The album remains Adams best-selling album, certifying Gold in the UK, Adams noted that with Gold, I was trying to prove something to myself. I wanted to invent a modern classic, Adams intended for the album to be a double album, but his record label, Lost Highway, condensed the album into a single disc. According to Adams, the label took the last five songs, made it a bonus disc and put it on the first hundred, fucking my fans over and making them pay extra for a record I wanted to be a double album. They counted that as one record and this bonus disc is known as Side Four, the discs title reflects the fact that the bonus material makes up the fourth side of the double LP edition of the album. The album includes When the Stars Go Blue, which has covered by artists such as The Corrs and Bono, Tyler Hilton, Bethany Joy Galeotti. New York, New York became a notable MTV and VH1 favorite following the September 11 attacks, the Rescue Blues was featured in the end credits of the 2001 film Behind Enemy Lines. Adams friend and former roommate Adam Duritz lends background vocals to several tracks, Adams received three Grammy Award nominations in 2002, Best Rock Album, Best Male Rock Vocal Performance for New York, New York, and Best Male Country Vocal Performance for Lovesick Blues. Stephen Kings 2006 book Liseys Story includes part of the lyrics to When the Stars Go Blue, also, the song The Rescue Blues was featured in an episode of Scrubs. In 2011, Answering Bell was featured in the film and on the soundtrack to Bridesmaids, Q listed Gold as one of the best 50 albums of 2001. Kludge included it on their list of the 25 best albums of 2001, Rolling Stone ranked Gold the 81st best record of the 2000s. NME ranked Gold at number 193 on its list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, All tracks written by Ryan Adams except where noted. Notes, D1 indicates Disk 1, S4 indicates Side 4 Ryan Adams – vocals acoustic guitar. C, white – background vocals, choir, solo vocals Rolling Stone Interview Gold at Metacritic
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New York, New York (Ryan Adams song)
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For other songs of the same name, see New York, New York New York, New York is a song written and performed by American alt-country musician Ryan Adams. It appeared on his 2001 album Gold, the song earned Adams a Grammy Award nomination for Best Male Rock Vocal, and the single reached #53 in the UK charts in December 2001. In 2009, the song was included in The Guardians 1000 Songs Everyone Must Hear, the songs lyrics mention several lower Manhattan geographic references, including the intersection of Avenue A and 10th Street, Houston Street, and Avenue B. As a result, a message was placed at the end of the video, dedicating it to those who lost their lives, profits from the video were donated to a September 11 charity. Adams had previously filmed and finished an entirely different video for the song, the original video was not lost, it was dubbed over and reused for When the Stars Go Blue. The song peaked at #18 on the U. S. Billboard Adult Top 40 for the week ending February 2,2002, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Rock (album)
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Rock is the third studio album by French nu metal band Pleymo. Released on October 27,2003, the sees the band shifting towards a more melodic musical style which is less aggressive than their previous releases. Rock is an album about a four-year-old blind boy and his imaginary twin. WIth the recording of Rock, Pleymo sought to shift their music toward a more melodic, the band also wrote the songs to form a concept album about a boy, blind and four years of age, and his imaginary double. A music video for the title track was released in 2005. A variant edition of the album contained a bonus DVD featuring live concert footage, the songs Divine Excuse, Polyester Môme,1977, Modaddiction, Rock, and Cherubin were included on the bands 2005 live album, Ce Soir CEst Grand Soir. Le Voyage de Rock Rock 1977 Divine Excuse Linsolent Modaddiction Sommes Nous
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Rock n Roll (Ryan Adams album)
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Rock n Roll is the fourth studio album by Ryan Adams, released on November 4,2003. Adams describes the album as the most rock thing I have ever done, the album was recorded in two weeks, in response to Lost Highways refusal to release Love is Hell. The ensuing standoff was resolved by being very diplomatic, according to Adams, rock n Roll became the primary product, while Love is Hell was released quietly as two separate EPs, and eventually combined into a single release. The album was recorded at Stratosphere Sound, guitarist James Ihas studio in Chelsea, Manhattan, the album so far has a score of 66 out of 100 from Metacritic based on generally favorable reviews. Spin gave it a score of seven out of ten and said, Everywhere the guitars are cranked, some reviews are average, mixed or negative, Yahoo. Music UK gave it a score of six out of ten and said, Adams can undoubtedly pen this classic rawk stuff with his ears closed and, as a result. Chicago Tribune gave it a review and said that Adams devotes himself almost entirely to his rock impulses. The problem is that his writing and vocals arent as consistently distinctive or convincing in the rock arena and he aims for the intensity of Kurt Cobain and Paul Westerberg on some tracks and croons like Jon Bon Jovi on another. Its not until the melancholy Wish You Were Here that Adams slows the tempo and delivers the intimacy that characterized his earlier solo work, most of which was four-star quality. The Guardian gave it a score of two out of five and said that Adams is too busy winking, smirking and showing off to convey anything approaching an emotion. All tracks written by Ryan Adams, unless otherwise noted
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Love Is Hell (Ryan Adams album)
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Love Is Hell is the fifth studio album by alternative country artist Ryan Adams, released on May 4,2004. The album was released as two EPs, Love Is Hell pt.1 and Love Is Hell pt. 2, at the insistence of Lost Highway, who deemed that the album was not commercially viable, a full-length version of the album was released when the EPs proved to be more of a commercial success than anticipated. The Oasis cover, Wonderwall, was released as a single in the UK on June 28,2004, a shorter version of Anybody Wanna Take Me Home originally appeared on Rock N Roll. However, the version of the song on Love Is Hell does not fade-out/back-in as it does on Rock N Roll. Love Is Hell was released in Japan on June 27,2007 with a disc of tracks recorded during the same sessions as the album. Adams describes the album as sounding a lot like Heartbreaker, but better and its complex and its damaged, and states that it was the record needed to make. Love Is Hell features guest contributions from Marianne Faithfull and Greg Leisz, Ryan Adams version of Wonderwall can be downloaded for the video game Guitar Hero World Tour. The track The Shadowlands was written backstage in Belfast on 26th November 2002, all tracks written by Ryan Adams, unless otherwise stated
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Cardinology
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Cardinology is the tenth studio album by Ryan Adams, and fourth album with his backing band The Cardinals, released on October 28,2008. The album completed Adams contract with Lost Highway Records, and marks his final recording session with The Cardinals, following the albums release and subsequent tour, Adams disbanded the band and entered a self-imposed hiatus until the release of Ashes & Fire, in 2011. According to Adams, the album about the moment when you recognise the difference between ego and pride and your sense of service to friends, family or yourself. Once youve had that epiphany, you cant really turn around and pretend that you havent, the album was placed at #14 on Rolling Stones 50 Best Albums of 2008 list. The magazine also placed Magick at #13 on the 100 Best Singles of 2008 list, the album has sold over 250,000 copies worldwide. In April 2011, Adams released an EP, Class Mythology, Cardinology was written and recorded in the aftermath of Adams break-up with girlfriend Jessica Joffe, with Adams stating, Theres a lot of disappointment on this record. Theres the pain of lost love and the brutality of unrequited love and it was a dark place to go, but this time I managed to go there with a bit of balance. I tried to make sure there were at least one or two lines in every song that, should someone be listening who is having a bad time, I wanted to find that hope. I didnt fully find it, but I was trying, a vinyl version included a bonus 7, a comic book, and a digital download code. The albums first single, Fix It, was released on vinyl, in 2014, Adams reflected upon the album, and the final line-up of The Cardinals, stating, That wasn’t the creative band. The proof of that is, listen to Cardinology, then go listen to Cold Roses and you fucking tell me where the power is. The album so far has a score of 72 out of 100 from Metacritic based on generally favorable reviews, silent Sound Waves gave it a score of five sound waves out of six and said it was brave and successful in its flow and creativity. A must have for Ryan Adams fans and something worthwhile for curious listeners, hot Press gave it a favorable review and called it an album worthy of high praises. Club gave it a B and stated, Even at his slightest--and Cardinology is pretty slight--Adams always turns out likeable ear candy. Tiny Mix Tapes gave it three-and-a-half stars out of five and said, The new attention to cleanly produced and perfectly played and arranged backdrops function as both a blessing and a curse. Other reviews are average or mixed, Uncut gave it a score of three out of five and said it ultimately serves as another minor indictment of Adams’ famously lackadaisical internal editor. Neveretheless, it is still, almost infuriatingly, a better than most people at their best. Music UK gave the only five stars out of ten and said
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Ashes & Fire
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Ashes & Fire is the 13th studio album by Ryan Adams, released on October 11,2011, on PAX AM and Capitol. Recorded with producer Glyn Johns, Ashes & Fire marks Adams return to recording following the disbandment of his band the Cardinals in 2009, regarding the album, Adams noted, The record is obsessed with time. I believe that there is a view of the self. Im passing through my own life as a ghost, and looking at these pieces and places in my life, im looking at California, and the idea of being lost and found at the same time. On October 16,2011, the album entered the UK Albums Chart at number 9, in the US, it debuted at number 7, making Ashes & Fire his second top 10 album since Easy Tiger. The album was preceded by the single Lucky Now, Adams first release with Capitol Records, in January 2009, while touring in support of Cardinology, Adams announced that he was planning to retire from music, due to ongoing problems with Ménières disease. Posting on his website, Adams wrote, I am excited to finish this wonderful time I have had with the Cardinals, I am grateful for the time we have had, and maybe someday we will have more stories to tell together. I am, however, ready for quieter times, as I think it is very evident I am struggling with some balance and hearing issues. Maybe we will play again sometime, and maybe I will work my way back into some kind of music situation, at this time, Adams had written a planned studio album, entitled Dear Impossible, which was subsequently abandoned. The band played their show on March 20,2009 at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta. Drummer Brad Pemberton noted, Everyone was a bit fried, so it was the time to step back for a minute. I encouraged Ryan to go and get married, and have a life and find peace, the guy hasn’t really slowed down in ten years. Adams later commented on the bands break-up, stating I wasnt being true to myself, I loved being in that band with Catherine Popper. So when she split it was difficult for me. We carried on because we had to, I had made a commitment to shows and records but my heart wasnt in it. Actually werent very nice to me by the end, I dont think we were friends anymore. On December 15,2009, Cardinals bassist Chris Feinstein was found dead in his New York City apartment, during his hiatus from music, Adams married singer and actress Mandy Moore and relocated from New York City to Los Angeles. Adams released two books of poetry, Infinity Blues and Hello Sunshine, and, in late 2009, began issuing unreleased recordings through his label, two studio albums, Orion and III/IV, an EP, Class Mythology, and various singles, were released between 2009 and 2010
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Billboard 200
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The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists, often, a recording act will be remembered by its number ones, those of their albums that outperformed all others during at least one week. The chart is based mostly on sales of albums in the United States, the weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but since July 2015, tracking week begins on Friday and ends on Thursday. A new chart is published the following Tuesday with an issue post-dated to the Saturday of the following week, the charts streaming schedule is also tracked from Friday to Thursday. Example, Friday January 1 – sales tracking week begins Thursday January 7 – sales tracking week ends Tuesday January 12 – new chart published, New product is released to the American market on Fridays. Digital downloads of albums are included in Billboard 200 tabulation. Albums that are not licensed for sale in the United States are not eligible to chart. As of the issue dated April 15,2017, the album on the Billboard 200 is More Life by Drake. Billboard began an album chart in 1945, initially only five positions long, the album chart was not published on a weekly basis, sometimes three to seven weeks passing before it was updated. A biweekly, 15-position Best-Selling Popular Albums chart appeared in 1955, the position count varied anywhere from 10 to 30 albums. The first number-one album on the new weekly list was Belafonte by Harry Belafonte, the chart was renamed to Best-Selling Pop Albums later in 1956, and then to Best-Selling Pop LPs in 1957. Beginning on May 25,1959, Billboard split the ranking into two charts Best-Selling Stereophonic LPs for stereo albums and Best-Selling Monophonic LPs for mono albums and these were renamed to Stereo Action Charts and Mono Action Charts in 1960. In January 1961, they became Action Albums—Stereophonic and Action Albums—Monophonic, three months later, they became Top LPs—Stereo and Top LPs—Monaural. On August 17,1963 the stereo and mono charts were combined into a 150-position chart called Top LPs, on April 1,1967, the chart was expanded to 175 positions, then finally to 200 positions on May 13,1967. In 1960, Billboard began concurrently publishing album charts which ranked sales of older or mid-priced titles and these Essential Inventory charts were divided by stereo and mono albums, and featured titles that had already appeared on the main stereo and mono album charts. In January 1961, the Action Charts became Action Albums—Monophonic, Albums appeared on either chart for up to nine weeks, then were moved to an Essential Inventory list of approximately 200 titles, with no numerical ranking. This list continued to be published until the consolidated Top LPs chart debuted in 1963, in 1982, Billboard began publishing a Midline Albums chart which ranked older or mid-priced titles. The chart held 50 positions and was published on a bi-weekly basis, on May 25,1991, Billboard premiered the Top Pop Catalog Albums chart
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Ryan Adams (album)
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Ryan Adams is the fourteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Ryan Adams, released on 9 September 2014 on PAX AM. The album features an atmospheric rock-based aesthetic, in comparison to its acoustic predecessor. The album earned two nominations at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards in Best Rock Song for Gimme Something Good, following the release of Ashes & Fire, and its successful accompanying tour, Adams returned to the studio in 2012 to record its follow-up with producer Glyn Johns. The planned album was set to include more orchestral flourishes than its primarily stripped-back predecessor, in March 2013, Adams debuted two new songs, “Where I Meet You In My Mind” and “In The Shadows”, at a one-off live performance. The concert was Adams first with a band since the dissolution of The Cardinals in 2009. The band included Ashes & Fire session musicians, Benmont Tench and Jeremy Stacey, former Cardinals member Cindy Cashdollar, Adams regular collaborator Ethan Johns and this performing line-up were reported to be the musicians performing on Adams forthcoming studio album. News of the recording and eventual release began to fade, with Adams recording albums for other artists at his studio. During this time, Adams produced Fall Out Boys PAX AM Days, Ethan Johns The Reckoning, in 2013, Adams also formed a punk rock band entitled Pornography, releasing a limited edition EP,7 Minutes in Heaven, for Record Store Day 2013. The planned album had been influenced by the death of Adams grandmother. Regarding his decision to halt the release, Adams noted. It just didn’t feel to me the way Ashes & Fire did, by the time it was done, I had this impression like, this is a record that sounds like it was produced by somebody. Someone else’s vision of my songs, Ryan Adams was recorded at Adams home analogue studio, PAX AM, which he described as like the Millennium Falcon. The difference is, that’s right next door to my studio, so I really didn’t feel like making that record, but I wanted to give Glyn and myself the benefit of the doubt to try another record. After working with producers on each of his previous studio albums, there was always somebody somewhere with some fucking idea that I should work with some producer, or there was always some producer that I was working with who I knew. People felt like they could frame my music in a way that somehow shined the correct amount of light. Adams recorded the album with his PAX AM recording partner and now bandmate Mike Viola, it’s collaborative, but Mike and I were already on that train anyway. Mike was more like a partner in crime toward a sound he knew would work for me and we recorded in my studio all week, every week, every fucking day. I want to come here, you know, guys you could just tell they’re grabbing a guitar, they’re just lost in a moment that’s urgent and they’re finding chords that reflect that urgency
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1989 (Ryan Adams album)
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1989 is the fifteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Ryan Adams, released digitally through his own PAX AM record label on September 21,2015. The album is a cover of Taylor Swifts album of the same name. It debuted at number 7 on the US Billboard 200 chart, one ahead of Swifts 1989. Adams first became interested in Taylor Swifts album while coping with the collapse of his marriage to Mandy Moore, on what attracted him about Swifts album, Adams stated Theres just a joy to 1989, describing the album as its own alternate universe. Adams initially described the album as being in the style of The Smiths, when recording the album, Adams said he found a sound somewhere between Bruce Springsteens Darkness on the Edge of Town and The Smiths Meat Is Murder. My favorite part of his style of creating music is his ability to bleed aching vulnerability into it, when I first heard that Ryan was going to be covering my entire album, I couldn’t believe it. It’s such an honor that he would want to take my stories and lyrics, he’s gotten some of the best musicians together to record this album and if the clips he’s released are any indication, this is going to be something really special. They’re reimaginings of my songs, and you can tell that he was in a different place emotionally when he put his spin on them than I was when I wrote them. There’s this beautiful aching sadness and longing in this album that doesn’t exist in the original, in the same interview, she also admitted that some of Adams melodies were beginning to pervade her songs during touring performances. Adams interpretation of 1989 received mostly positive feedback from music critics, but its also the best kind--one that brings two divergent artists together in smart, unexpected ways, and somehow manages to reveal the best of both of them. Jim Beviglia of American Songwriter also complimented the album, stating It is 1989 reimagined, on a similar note, The A. V. Clubs Annie Zaleski said of the album in her review, What his version of 1989 does best is illustrate the strength of the source material, with the radio-ready gloss stripped away, these songs compare to the best moments in Swift’s back catalog. Jon Caramanica of The New York Times, however, called the album, a letter from an indie idol to a pop queen. In a similarly negative review, Mark Richardson of Pitchfork Media declared, credits are adapted from liner notes of 1989. Taylor Swifts 1989, in its 48th week on the chart, was in the number 8 position
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Taylor Swift
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Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. One of the most popular contemporary female recording artists, she is known for songs about her personal life. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Swift moved to Nashville, Tennessee at age 14 to pursue a career in country music and she signed with the independent label Big Machine Records and became the youngest artist ever signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house. Her eponymous debut album in 2006 peaked at five on Billboard 200. The albums third single, Our Song, made her the youngest person to single-handedly write, Swifts second album, Fearless, was released in 2008. Buoyed by the pop success of the singles Love Story and You Belong with Me. The album won four Grammy Awards, with Swift becoming the youngest Album of the Year winner, Swift was the sole writer of her 2010 album, Speak Now. It debuted at one in the United States and the single Mean won two Grammy Awards. Her fourth album, Red, yielded the successful singles We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, with her fifth album, the pop-focused 1989, she became the first act to have three albums sell a million copies within one week in the United States. Its singles Shake It Off, Blank Space and Bad Blood reached number one in the US, Australia, the album received three Grammy Awards, and Swift became the first woman and fifth act overall to win Album of the Year twice. The 2015 eponymous concert tour for 1989 became one of highest-grossing of the decade, as a songwriter, Swift has received awards from the Nashville Songwriters Association and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Swift is one of the artists of all time, having sold more than 40 million albums—including 27.1 million in the US—and 130 million single downloads. She has appeared in Times 100 most influential people in the world, Forbes top-earning women in music, Forbes 100 most powerful women and she was the youngest woman to be included in the third of these and ranked first in Celebrity 100. Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13,1989, in Reading and her father, Scott Kingsley Swift, was a financial advisor, and her mother, Andrea Gardner Swift, was a homemaker who worked previously as a mutual fund marketing executive. She has a brother named Austin. Swift spent the years of her life on a Christmas tree farm in Cumru Township. She attended preschool and kindergarten at the Alvernia Montessori School, run by Franciscan nuns, the family then moved to a rented house in the suburban town of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, where she attended Wyomissing Area Junior/Senior High School. At the age of nine, Swift became interested in musical theater and she also traveled regularly to New York City for vocal and acting lessons
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Mandy Moore
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Amanda Leigh Mandy Moore is an American actress, singer, and songwriter. Moore first came to prominence with her 1999 debut single, Candy, after signing with Epic Records, she released her first album, So Real, in 1999. It went on to receive a Platinum certification from the RIAA and her 2000 single, I Wanna Be with You, became her first Top 30 song in the US, peaking at number 24 on the Hot 100 chart. As of 2009, Moore has sold more than 10 million albums worldwide, in 2012, Moore was ranked #96 on VH1s list of 100 Greatest Women in Music, as well as #63 on their Sexiest Artists of All Time List. Outside of her career, Moore has also branched out into acting. She made her debut in the 2001 comedy film Dr. Dolittle 2. Later that year, she appeared as Lana Thomas in the comedy film The Princess Diaries and she had her first starring role as Jamie Sullivan in the 2002 romantic drama film A Walk to Remember, which was based on Nicholas Sparks novel. Moore later voiced Rapunzel in the 2010 animated feature Tangled, in 2016, she began starring as Rebecca Pearson in the NBC family comedy-drama series This Is Us for which she received a Golden Globe Award nomination. Amanda Leigh Moore was born on April 10,1984 in Nashua and her mother, Stacy, is a former news reporter who once worked for the Orlando Sentinel, and her father, Donald Moore, is a pilot for American Airlines. Moore was raised Catholic, but has developed a hodgepodge of things that she believes. Moores ancestry is Russian Jewish, English, and Irish and she is the second among the three children with an older brother, Scott, and a younger brother, Kyle. When she was two old, Moore and her family moved to Longwood, Seminole County, Florida, outside of Orlando. She attended Bishop Moore Catholic High School in Orlando, Florida from 1998 to 2002, Moore became interested in acting and singing at a young age, and cited her British grandmother, Eileen Friedman, a professional ballerina in London, as one of her inspirations. Moore stated My parents thought It was just a phase Id grow out of, but I stuck to it and begged them for acting lessons, for voice lessons. Moore began starring in numerous productions, as well as performing the National Anthem at numerous Orlando based events. She was only twelve years old when she attended the Stagedoor Manor theater camp, production director Konnie Kittrell said of Moore She was a quiet, sweet girl, and stated that even though she earned numerous solos She wasnt a spotlight seeker. When Moore was thirteen, she working on music by herself. One day, while working in an Orlando studio, she was overheard by a FedEx delivery man, the delivery man, named Victor, later sent this friend a copy of Moores unfinished demo, and Moore went on to sign with the label
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Willie Nelson
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Willie Hugh Nelson is an American musician, singer, songwriter, author, poet, actor, and activist. He was one of the figures of outlaw country, a subgenre of country music that developed in the late 1960s as a reaction to the conservative restrictions of the Nashville sound. Nelson has acted in over 30 films, co-authored several books, and has involved in activism for the use of biofuels. Born during the Great Depression, and raised by his grandparents, Nelson wrote his first song at age seven, during high school, he toured locally with the Bohemian Polka as their lead singer and guitar player. After graduating from school in 1950, he joined the Air Force but was later discharged due to back problems. After his return, Nelson attended Baylor University for two years but dropped out because he was succeeding in music, during this time, he worked as a disc jockey in Texas radio stations and a singer in Honky-tonks. Nelson moved to Vancouver, Washington, where he wrote Family Bible, in 1958, he moved to Houston, Texas after signing a contract with D Records. He sang at the Esquire Ballroom weekly and he worked as a disk jockey, during that time, he wrote songs that would become country standards, including Funny How Time Slips Away, Hello Walls, Pretty Paper, and Crazy. In 1960 he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, and later signed a contract with Pamper Music which allowed him to join Ray Prices band as a bassist. In 1962, he recorded his first album. And Then I Wrote, due to this success, Nelson signed in 1964 with RCA Victor and joined the Grand Ole Opry the following year. After mid-chart hits in the late 1960s and the early 1970s, Nelson retired in 1972 and moved to Austin, the ongoing music scene of Austin motivated Nelson to return from retirement, performing frequently at the Armadillo World Headquarters. In 1973, after signing with Atlantic Records, Nelson turned to country, including albums such as Shotgun Willie. In 1975, he switched to Columbia Records, where he recorded the acclaimed album. The same year, he recorded another outlaw country album, Wanted, the Outlaws, along with Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter, and Tompall Glaser. In 1990, Nelsons assets were seized by the Internal Revenue Service, the difficulty of paying his outstanding debt was aggravated by weak investments he had made during the 1980s. In 1992, Nelson released The IRS Tapes, Wholl Buy My Memories, the profits of the double album—destined to the IRS—and the auction of Nelsons assets cleared his debt. During the 1990s and 2000s, Nelson continued touring extensively, reviews ranged from positive to mixed. He explored genres such as reggae, blues, jazz, Nelson made his first movie appearance in the 1979 film The Electric Horseman, followed by other appearances in movies and on television
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Jenny Lewis
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Jennifer Diane Jenny Lewis is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress. She was the singer and rhythm guitarist for the indie rock band Rilo Kiley. She performed as part of the duo Jenny & Johnny with then boyfriend Johnathan Rice and is currently a member of the rock trio Nice as Fuck, Lewis was born in Las Vegas, Nevada. Her mother, Linda, was a singer, and her father. Lewis made her debut in a Jell-O commercial. She was featured in the short-lived 1986 Lucille Ball sitcom Life With Lucy, where she was cast as one of Lucys grandchildren. She also had roles on TV shows, such as Murder She Wrote, The New Twilight Zone, Baywatch, The Golden Girls, Growing Pains, Just the Ten of Us, Roseanne, Mr. Belvedere. She appeared on a Kids week episode of the game show Card Sharks on August 6,1987, at age 11, Lewis appeared in over a dozen teen movies, such as Troop Beverly Hills and The Wizard in 1989. She was featured in the 1996 made-for-TV movie Talk to Me with Yasmine Bleeth, as well as the films Foxfire and she played Beverly DAngelos daughter in the 1996 made-for-TV film Sweet Temptation. She continued acting until 1998, although the last released film – Dons Plum, in 1998, Lewis and friends Pierre De Reeder, Dave Rock and then-boyfriend Blake Sennett formed the band Rilo Kiley. In an interview with NPRs All Songs Considered, Lewis remarked that she wanted to name the group Loves Way, originally asked to sing back-up vocals by Sennett, Lewis refused to join the band unless she was able to sing lead vocals. Critics such as Pitchfork attributed this to the decision to emphasize Lewiss voice and presence more so than in previous albums. The song Portions for Foxes was a hit, Rilo Kileys 2007 album Under the Blacklight was released directly by Warner Bros. In 2011, Sennett made comments that indicated that Rilo Kiley had disbanded, Lewis confirmed the bands split in 2014. A retrospective of Lewiss career by Jessica Roy in 2016 commented that Lewis was an icon to music-loving young people in the 2000s. Roy commented, For a particular brand of suburban girl who fancied herself cooler than her peers, in 2004, Conor Oberst invited Lewis to record a solo record for record label Team Love. Described by Lewis as a kind of record, Rabbit Fur Coat features contributions from Oberst, M. Ward. Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie guests on a cover of The Traveling Wilburys Handle With Care, the Watson Twins provide accompaniment on the album, billed as Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins
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Fall Out Boy
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Fall Out Boy is an American rock band formed in Wilmette, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, in 2001. The band consists of lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Patrick Stump, bassist Pete Wentz, lead guitarist Joe Trohman, the band originated from Chicagos hardcore punk scene, with which all members were involved at one point. The group was formed by Wentz and Trohman as a pop side project of the members respective hardcore bands. The group went through a succession of drummers before landing Hurley and recording the debut album. The album became a success and helped the band gain a dedicated fanbase through heavy touring. Take This to Your Grave has commonly cited as an influential blueprint for pop punk music in the 2000s. Fall Out Boy received a Best New Artist nomination at the 2006 Grammy Awards, the bands 2007 follow-up, Infinity on High, landed at number one on the Billboard 200 with 260,000 first week sales. It produced two hit singles, This Aint a Scene, Its an Arms Race and Thnks fr th Mmrs. Folie à Deux, the fourth album, created a mixed response from fans. Following the release of Believers Never Die – Greatest Hits, the took a hiatus from 2009 to 2012 to decompress. The band regrouped and recorded Save Rock and Roll, which gave the band its second number one. 1, making it the bands third No.1 album, Fall Out Boy was formed in 2001 in the Chicago suburb of Wilmette, Illinois by friends Pete Wentz and Joe Trohman. Wentz was growing dissatisfied with the mores of the community. With enthusiasm in Arma Angelus waning, he created a pop side project with Trohman as an easy. Trohman met Patrick Stump, then a drummer for grindcore band Xgrinding processX, while discussing Neurosis with a friend, Stump interrupted the conversation to correct their classification of the band in a conversation that soon shifted to the new band. Stump, viewing it as an opportunity to try out with local hardcore celebrity Wentz, directed Trohman to his MP3. com page, which contained sung-through acoustic recordings. Stump intended to try out as a drummer, but Trohman urged him to bring out his acoustic guitar, while Wentz wanted Racetraitor bandmate Andy Hurley in the group as drummer, Hurley appeared uninterested and too busy. The bands first public performance came in a cafeteria at DePaul University alongside Stilwell, Wentz and Stump argued over band names, the former favored verbose, tongue-in-cheek names while the latter desired to reference Tom Waits in name
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Counting Crows
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Counting Crows is an American rock band from Berkeley, California, formed in 1991. The band consists of Adam Duritz, David Bryson, Charlie Gillingham, Dan Vickrey, David Immerglück, Jim Bogios, Counting Crows gained popularity following the release of its debut album, August and Everything After, which featured the hit single Mr. Jones. They have sold more than 20 million albums worldwide and received a 2004 Academy Award nomination for their song Accidentally in Love, the bands influences include Van Morrison, Jellyfish, R. E. M. Mike + The Mechanics, Bob Dylan, and The Band, singer Adam Duritz and guitarist David Bryson began playing San Francisco coffeehouses together, performing under the name Counting Crows. The name was taken from One for Sorrow, a British divination nursery rhyme about the counting of magpies. Duritz heard the rhyme in the film Signs of Life, which starred his close friend, developing a following in the Bay Area and deciding to expand the band, Duritz and Bryson kept the name as they added new members. The most common version of the rhyme, One for sorrow, Two for joy, Three for a girl, Four for a boy, Five for silver, Six for gold. The rhyme is featured in the verse of the song A Murder of One on the bands début album August. Adam Duritz, former member of the Bay Area band The Himalayans and they began as an acoustic duo, playing gigs in and around Berkeley and San Francisco. Another friend, guitarist David Immerglück, played them from time to time, though he was not an official member of the group. As the emerging band recorded demos, and as other musicians joined the duo to make a full band. He declined joining the band at the time, because of his membership in two other popular bands, Monks of Doom and Camper Van Beethoven. The same year, the band signed to Geffen Records, on January 16,1993, the band, still relatively unknown, filled in for Van Morrison at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony, and was introduced by an enthusiastic Robbie Robertson. At the ceremony, they played a cover of Van Morrisons Caravan, before signing to Geffen, the band recorded demo versions of a number of songs, known as the Flying Demos. These later surfaced among the Counting Crows fanbase, some songs from the tape later resurfaced on the bands debut album August and Everything After. From the beginning, Counting Crows focused on live performances, the bands debut album August and Everything After, produced by T-Bone Burnett, was released in January of 1993. The first single, Mr. Duritz sang the song in fun, however, he did not realize that just months later, in December 1993, MTV would begin playing the video for the song. It was a hit song, drawing massive radio play
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Weezer
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Weezer is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1992, consisting of Rivers Cuomo, Patrick Wilson, Brian Bell, and Scott Shriner. Weezer has sold 9.2 million albums in the US, after signing to Geffen Records in 1993, the band released its debut self-titled album, also known as the Blue Album, in 1994. Backed by successful music videos for the singles Buddy Holly, Undone – The Sweater Song and Say It Aint So, both the Blue Album and Pinkerton are now frequently cited among the best albums of the 1990s. Following the tour for Pinkerton, bassist Matt Sharp left the band, in 2001, Weezer returned with another self-titled album, also known as the Green Album, with new bassist Mikey Welsh. With a more pop sound, and promoted by singles Hash Pipe and Island in the Sun, after the albums release, Welsh left the band and was replaced by current bassist Scott Shriner. Weezers fourth album, Maladroit, was released in May 2002 to mostly positive reviews, in June 2008, Weezers third self-titled album, also known as the Red Album, featuring TR-808s, synths, Southern rap, and baroque counterpoint, was released to mixed reviews. Its lead single, Pork and Beans, became the third song to top the Modern Rock Tracks chart. Weezers seventh and eight albums Raditude and Hurley, featuring more pop production and songs co-written with other artists, achieved further mixed reviews. The bands ninth and tenth albums, Everything Will Be Alright in the End, vocalist and lead guitarist Rivers Cuomo, drummer Patrick Wilson, bassist Matt Sharp and guitarist Jason Cropper formed Weezer in 1992. The band had its first practice on February 14 of that year, Weezer signed with Geffen Records on June 25,1993 and the group recorded its debut album with producer Ric Ocasek at Electric Lady Studios in New York City. During the recording, Cropper left the band and was replaced by guitarist Brian Bell, Weezer was released in May 1994. Geffen originally did not wish to release a single, to see what sales could be generated by word-of-mouth alone, DJ Marco Collins of the Seattle radio station The End started playing Undone – The Sweater Song, leading Geffen to release it as the first single. The music video was directed by Spike Jonze, filmed in an unbroken take, it featured Weezer performing on a sound stage with little action, bar a pack of dogs swarming the set. The video became an instant hit on MTV, Jonze also directed the bands second video, Buddy Holly, splicing footage from the 1970s television sitcom Happy Days with Weezer performing in a remade Arnolds Drive-In. The video achieved heavy rotation on MTV and went on to win four MTV Video Music Awards, including Breakthrough Video and Best Alternative Music Video, the video was also featured on the companion CD for the Microsoft Windows 95 computer operating system. A third single, Say It Aint So, followed, Weezer is certified triple platinum in the United States, making it Weezers best-selling album. It is certified platinum in Canada. In 1994, Weezer took a break from touring for the Christmas holidays, Cuomo traveled to his home state of Connecticut and began recording demos for Weezers next album
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Norah Jones
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Norah Jones is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Throughout her career, Jones has won awards and has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide. Billboard named her the top jazz artist of the 2000–2009 decade and she has won nine Grammy Awards and was 60th on Billboard magazines artists of the 2000–2009 decade chart. In 2002, Jones launched her music career with the release of Come Away with Me. It was certified diamond, selling over 26 million copies, the record earned Jones five Grammy Awards, including the Album of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best New Artist. They were also well received by critics. Jones fifth studio album, Little Broken Hearts, was released on April 27,2012, Jones is the daughter of Indian sitar player and composer Ravi Shankar, and half-sister of fellow musician Anoushka Shankar. Jones was born Geetali Norah Shankar on March 30,1979 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York, to American concert producer Sue Jones, after her parents separated in 1986, Shankar lived with her mother, growing up in Grapevine, Texas. She attended Colleyville Middle School and Grapevine High School before transferring to Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing, while in high school, she sang in the school choir, participated in band, and played the alto saxophone. At the age of sixteen, with parents consent, she officially changed her name to Norah Jones. Jones always had an affinity for the music of Bill Evans and Billie Holiday and she once said, My mom had this eight-album Billie Holiday set, I picked out one disc that I liked and played that over and over again. As a child, Jones began singing in church and also took piano and she considers herself spiritual and appreciates the rituals of her church but does not consider herself deeply religious. She attended Interlochen Center for the Arts during the summers, while at high school, she won the Down Beat Student Music Awards for Best Jazz Vocalist and Best Original Composition. Jones attended the University of North Texas, where she majored in jazz piano, during this time, she had a chance meeting with future collaborator Jesse Harris. She gave a ride to a band playing at the university whose members happened to be friends of Harris and he was on a cross-country road-trip with friend and future Little Willies member Richard Julian, and stopped to see the band play. After meeting Jones, Harris started sending her lead sheets of his songs, in 1999, Jones left Texas for New York City. Less than a later, she started a band with Harris. As artist Peter Malick states in the notes, I started looking for a singer who could record for me
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