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Up in the Air (2009 film)
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Up in the Air is a 2009 American comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman and written by Reitman and Sheldon Turner, based on the 2001 novel of the same name, written by Walter Kirn. The story is centered on corporate downsizer Ryan Bingham and his travels, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick and Danny McBride also star. Filming was primarily in St. Louis, Missouri, which substituted for a number of other cities, several scenes were filmed in Detroit, Omaha, Las Vegas and Miami. Reitman promoted Up in the Air with personal appearances at festivals and other showings. The Los Angeles premiere was at the Mann Village Theater on November 30,2009, Paramount scheduled a limited North American release on December 4,2009, broadening the release on December 11,2009, with a wide release on December 23,2009. The National Board of Review and the Washington D. C, area Film Critics Association named Up in the Air the Best Picture of 2009. It received six Academy Award nominations, but did not win in any category and he also gives motivational speeches, using the analogy Whats in Your Backpack. to extol the virtues of a life free of burdensome relationships with people as well as things. A frequent flyer, Ryan relishes his travels, and desires to become the seventh, during his travels, he meets another frequent flyer named Alex, and they begin a casual relationship. Ryan is called back to his companys offices in Omaha, Nebraska, Natalie Keener, a young and ambitious new hire, promotes a program designed to cut costs by conducting layoffs via videoconferencing. Ryan raises concerns that the program could be seen as detached and apathetic and he then plays the role of a fired employee to demonstrate her inexperience. Ryans boss assigns him to bring Natalie on his round of terminations to show her the ropes. As they travel together, Natalie questions Ryans philosophies on life, particularly on relationships and love, during the trip, Natalie is shattered when her boyfriend unceremoniously dumps her by text message, and Ryan and Alex try to comfort her. On the test run, the earlier concerns Ryan raised prove valid, one laid-off person breaks down in tears before the camera, instead of returning immediately to Omaha, Ryan convinces Alex to accompany him to his younger sisters wedding. He learns that the reason the couple had him take photos of a picture of them in various places was because they cannot afford a honeymoon. When the groom gets cold feet, Ryans older sister talks Ryan into using his skills to persuade the groom to go through with the wedding. Although this runs counter to Ryans personal philosophy, he argues that the important moments in life are rarely unshared. The wedding goes off without any further hitches, Ryan begins having second thoughts about his life and philosophies. As he starts delivering his Whats in Your Backpack, speech at a convention in Las Vegas, he realizes he no longer believes it, and walks off the stage
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Jacksonville, Florida
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Jacksonville is a seaport city and the seat of Duval County, Florida, United States. With an estimated 868,031 residents as of 2015, Jacksonville is the most populous city in both the state of Florida and the southeastern United States. It is estimated to be the 12th most populous city in the United States and is the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. The Jacksonville metropolitan area has a population of 1,603,497 and is the 34th largest in the United States and fourth largest in the state of Florida. The city is situated on the banks of the St. Johns River, in the First Coast region of North Florida, prior to European settlement, the Jacksonville area was inhabited by Native American people known as the Timucua. In 1564, the French established the colony of Fort Caroline at the mouth of the St. Johns River. In 1822, a year after the United States gained Florida from Spain, Jacksonville is the cultural, commercial and financial center of North Florida. A major military and civilian deep-water port, the citys riverine location supports two United States Navy bases and the Port of Jacksonville, Floridas third largest seaport. The two US Navy bases, Blount Island Command and the nearby Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Jacksonville is also home to several colleges and universities, including University of North Florida, Jacksonville University and Florida State College at Jacksonville. The area of the city of Jacksonville has been inhabited for thousands of years. In the 16th century, the beginning of the era, the region was inhabited by the Mocama. At the time of contact with Europeans, all Mocama villages in present-day Jacksonville were part of the powerful chiefdom known as the Saturiwa, centered around the mouth of the St. Johns River. One early map shows a village called Ossachite at the site of what is now downtown Jacksonville, French Huguenot explorer Jean Ribault charted the St. Johns River in 1562 calling it the River of May because he discovered it in May. Ribault erected a column near present-day Jacksonville claiming the newly discovered land for France. In 1564, René Goulaine de Laudonnière established the first European settlement, Fort Caroline, philip II of Spain ordered Pedro Menéndez de Avilés to protect the interest of Spain by attacking the French presence at Fort Caroline. On September 20,1565, a Spanish force from the nearby Spanish settlement of St. Augustine attacked Fort Caroline, the Spanish renamed the fort San Mateo, and following the ejection of the French, St. Augustines position as the most important settlement in Florida was solidified. The location of Fort Caroline is subject to debate but a reconstruction of the fort was established on the St. Johns River in 1964. Spain ceded Florida to the British in 1763 after the French and Indian War, the British introduced the cultivation of sugar cane, indigo and fruits as well the export of lumber
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Hobbs, New Mexico
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Hobbs is a city in Lea County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 34,122 at the 2010 Census, increasing from 28,657 at the 2000 census, Hobbs is the principal city of the Hobbs, New Mexico Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Lea County. Hobbs was founded in 1907 when the James Hobbs family established a homestead, in 1910 the Hobbs post office opened, with James Hobbs as the first postmaster. By 1911 there were about 25 landowners in Hobbs, the small, isolated settlement expanded rapidly following the discovery of oil by the Midwest Oil Company in 1927. A refinery was built in the year and in 1929 the town of Hobbs was officially incorporated. At the peak of this oil boom, over 12,000 people lived in Hobbs, when the Great Depression hit in 1931, oil prices dropped and the population fell to only about 3,000. However, a few years later activity picked up in the oilfields, following the outbreak of World War II, in 1942 Hobbs Army Air Base was built north of town. In 1948 the city bought the air base and converted it into the Hobbs Industrial Air Park, the first college in Hobbs opened in 1956. It was initially the First Baptist College and in 1962 it became the College of the Southwest, a second college, New Mexico Junior College, opened in 1966. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 18.9 square miles. As of 2011 there were 33,405 people,10,040 households, the population density was 1,514.0 people per square mile. There were 11,968 housing units at a density of 632.3 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 63. 52% White,6. 79% African American,1. 07% Native American,0. 43% Asian,0. 04% Pacific Islander,24. 42% from other races, and 3. 73% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 42. 18% of the population,23. 4% of all households were made up of individuals and 10. 1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.72 and the family size was 3.22. In the city, the population was out with 30. 4% under the age of 18,10. 3% from 18 to 24,28. 0% from 25 to 44,19. 4% from 45 to 64. The median age was 32 years, for every 100 females there were 100.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 99.2 males, the median income for a household in the city was $28,100, and the median income for a family was $33,017
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New Mexico
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New Mexico is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States of America. It was admitted to the Union as the 47th state on January 6,1912 and it is usually considered one of the Mountain States. New Mexico is fifth by area, the 36th-most populous, inhabited by Native Americans for thousands of years before European exploration, New Mexico was colonized by the Spanish in 1598 Imperial Spanish viceroyalty of New Spain. Later, it was part of independent Mexico before becoming a U. S. territory and eventually a U. S. state as a result of the Mexican–American War. Among U. S. states, New Mexico has the highest percentage of Hispanics, the major Native American nations in the state are Navajo, Pueblo, and Apache peoples. The demography and culture of the state are shaped by these strong Hispanic and Native American influences and its scarlet and gold colors are taken from the royal standards of Spain, along with the ancient sun symbol of the Zia, a Pueblo-related tribe. New Mexico, or Nuevo México in Spanish, is incorrectly believed to have taken its name from the nation of Mexico. The name simply stuck, even though the area had no connection to Mexico or the Mexica Indian tribes, Mexico, formerly a part of New Spain, adopted its name centuries later in 1821, after winning independence from Spanish rule. New Mexico was a part of the independent Mexican Empire and Federal Republic of Mexico for 27 years,1821 through 1848, New Mexico and Mexico developed as neighboring Spanish-speaking communities under Spanish rule, with relatively independent histories. The states total area is 121,412 square miles, the eastern border of New Mexico lies along 103° W longitude with the state of Oklahoma, and 2.2 miles west of 103° W longitude with Texas. On the southern border, Texas makes up the eastern two-thirds, while the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora make up the western third, the western border with Arizona runs along the 109°03 W longitude. The southwestern corner of the state is known as the Bootheel, the 37° N latitude parallel forms the northern boundary with Colorado. The states New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and Utah come together at the Four Corners in the corner of New Mexico. New Mexico, although a state, has very little water. Its surface water area is about 250 square miles, the New Mexican landscape ranges from wide, rose-colored deserts to broken mesas to high, snow-capped peaks. Despite New Mexicos arid image, heavily forested mountain wildernesses cover a significant portion of the state, the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the southernmost part of the Rocky Mountains, run roughly north-south along the east side of the Rio Grande in the rugged, pastoral north. The most important of New Mexicos rivers are the Rio Grande, Pecos, Canadian, San Juan, the Rio Grande is tied for the fourth-longest river in the United States. Tourists visiting these sites bring significant money to the state, other areas of geographical and scenic interest include Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument and the Gila Wilderness in the southwest of the state
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Roots rock
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Roots rock is rock music that looks back to rocks origins in folk, blues and country music. Because roots music is used to mean folk and world musical forms. In the 1980s, roots rock enjoyed a revival in response to trends in rock, new wave. The same movement saw the beginning of the careers of Californian solo artists like Ry Cooder, Bonnie Raitt. The back to basics tendency would also be evident in the Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet and Exile on Main Street, the Beatles The White Album and Let It Be. The Doors Morrison Hotel and L. A. Woman, as well as the Grateful Deads Workingmans Dead Dylans lead was followed by The Byrds. The result of Parsons tenure in the Byrds was Sweetheart of the Rodeo, country rock was a particularly popular style in the California music scene of the late 1960s, and was adopted by bands including Hearts and Flowers, Poco and New Riders of the Purple Sage. Some folk-rockers followed the Byrds into the genre, among them the Beau Brummels, one of the few acts to successfully move from the country side towards rock were the bluegrass band The Dillards. Members of Ronstadts former backing band went on to form the Eagles, country rock began to fade in the late 1970s in the face of punk and new wave trends.38 Special, and Molly Hatchet. It has been seen as an American Midwest and Rust Belt counterpart to West Coast country rock and it can also be heard as an influence on artists as diverse as Billy Joel, Kid Rock and The Killers. As rock music in general, and blue collar and white working class themes in particular, lost influence with younger audiences, the term roots rock was coined during the mid-80s. Also part of trend and enjoying some mainstream success were Gun Club, Chris Isaak, John Mellencamp, BoDeans. In addition the alternative country movement, producing figures as Sheryl Crow, Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams and Uncle Tupelo. The movement began to decline in popularity again in the 1990s but produced some bands like Son Volt, Wilco, after disbanding Dire Straits in 1995, frontman and lyricist Mark Knopfler has largely returned to a roots-rock sound across his nine albums since. List of Roots rock bands and musicians
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Musician
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A musician is a person who plays a musical instrument or is musically talented. Anyone who composes, conducts, or performs music may also be referred to as a musician, Musicians can specialize in any musical style, and some musicians play in a variety of different styles. Examples of a musicians possible skills include performing, conducting, singing, composing, arranging, in the Middle Ages, instrumental musicians performed with soft ensembles inside and loud instruments outdoors. Many European musicians of this time catered to the Roman Catholic Church, providing arrangements structured around Gregorian chant structure, vocal pieces were in Latin—the language of church texts of the time—and typically were Church-polyphonic or made up of several simultaneous melodies. Giovanni Palestrina Giovanni Gabrieli Thomas Tallis Claudio Monteverdi Leonardo da Vinci The Baroque period introduced heavy use of counterpoint, vocal and instrumental “color” became more important compared to the Renaissance style of music, and emphasized much of the volume, texture and pace of each piece. George Frideric Handel Johann Sebastian Bach Antonio Vivaldi Classical music was created by musicians who lived during a time of a middle class. Many middle-class inhabitants of France at the time lived under long-time absolute monarchies, because of this, much of the music was performed in environments that were more constrained compared to the flourishing times of the Renaissance and Baroque eras. This age included the initial transformations of the Industrial Revolution, a revolutionary energy was also at the core of Romanticism, which quite consciously set out to transform not only the theory and practice of poetry and art, but the common perception of the world. Some major Romantic Period precepts survive, and still affect modern culture, in 20th-century music, composers and musicians rejected the emotion-dominated Romantic period, and strove to represent the world the way they perceived it. Musicians wrote to be. objective, while objects existed on their own terms, while past eras concentrated on spirituality, this new period placed emphasis on physicality and things that were concrete. The advent of recording and mass media in the 20th century caused a boom of all kinds of music—popular music, rock music, electronic music, folk music. Singer Composer Music artist Tour Manager Media related to Musicians at Wikimedia Commons
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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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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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Mescalito (album)
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Mescalito is the first studio album by American country rock singer/songwriter Ryan Bingham, released in 2007 through Lost Highway Records and produced by Marc Ford. The album was released after three self-produced albums by Bingham and his band, the Dead Horses, some of the tracks in Mescalito, such as South Side of Heaven and Long Way From Georgia were taken from the Dead Horses albums. The album encompasses several traditional American and Mexican styles, including bluegrass, country rock, southern rock, blues, americana, a different version of The Other Side was also included in Marc Fords album Weary and Wired. Besides Earle and Allen, Rolling Stones, John Mellencamp, Bruce Springsteen, the main single Southside of Heaven was well received commercially, and was included in the score of an episode of the E. R. TV series
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T Bone Burnett
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Joseph Henry T Bone Burnett III is an American musician, songwriter, and soundtrack and record producer. He was a touring guitarist in Bob Dylans band on the Rolling Thunder Revue, after the tour ended, Burnett and two other members of the backing band formed The Alpha Band, followed by his first solo album in 1980. d. Lang on the A Wonderful World album, Burnett won Grammy Awards for the O Brother, Where Art Thou. Soundtrack and for his work with Alison Krauss and Robert Plant and he was nominated for an Academy Award for his songwriting contribution to the film Cold Mountain, and won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for The Weary Kind from Crazy Heart. He founded the record label DMZ, an imprint of Columbia and he oversaw the music for the films Walk the Line, The Big Lebowski, and Inside Llewyn Davis, and the True Detective TV series. Burnett, the son of Joseph Henry Burnett Jr. and Hazel Perkins Burnett, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1948 and he attended R. L. Paschal High School, and is featured in the schools Hall of Honor. He played rhythm guitar in a called the Shadows. His first significant contribution to the field was as the manic drummer for the Legendary Stardust Cowboys novelty hit. Also in 1968, he produced 6 songs for a group of friends, called at the time, The Case Hardy Boys. Later this band would move to Los Angeles and become known first as The Fare, and later as El Roacho, in 1972, he moved to Los Angeles and recorded his second album, The B-52 Band and the Fabulous Skylarks. In 1975 and 1976, he toured with Bob Dylans Rolling Thunder Revue, when the Revue ended, Burnett and two other members of Dylans band, David Mansfield and Steven Soles, formed The Alpha Band, which released three albums. The Alpha Band and Spark in the Dark were both released in 1977, while The Statue Makers of Hollywood was released in 1978, Burnett and singer-songwriter Sam Phillips were married in 1989 and divorced in 2004. He produced many of her albums, including Martinis and Bikinis and he is currently married to writer-producer Callie Khouri. Burnett has three daughters, including one from his marriage to Phillips, in 1980, Burnett released his first post–Alpha Band solo album, Truth Decay, produced by Reggie Fisher, on the Takoma Records label. Truth Decay was a rock album described by the Rolling Stone Record Guide as mystic Christian blues. In 1982, his Trap Door EP, released on the Warner Brothers label, Burnett toured after the release of Trap Door, opening several dates for The Who, leading a band that featured Mick Ronson on guitar. His 1992 album The Criminal Under My Own Hat tended toward adult alternative music. All were critically acclaimed but not big sellers, proof Through the Night was reissued by Rhino Records Handmade Music in a limited edition of 5,000 on May 29,2007, in an expanded version
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Crazy Heart
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Crazy Heart is a 2009 American drama film, written and directed by Scott Cooper and based on the 1987 novel of the same name by Thomas Cobb. Jeff Bridges plays a country music singer-songwriter who tries to turn his life around after beginning a relationship with a young journalist portrayed by Maggie Gyllenhaal. Other supporting roles are played by Colin Farrell, Robert Duvall, Bridges, Farrell, and Duvall also sing in the film. The novel on which the film was based was inspired by country singer Hank Thompson, Bridges earned the 2009 Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in the film. Filming took place during 2008 in New Mexico, in Houston, Texas, Original music for the film was composed by T Bone Burnett, Stephen Bruton, Ryan Bingham and others. Bingham and Burnett received the 2009 Academy Award for Best Original Song for co-writing The Weary Kind and it opened in limited release in the U. S. on December 16,2009. Otis Bad Blake is a 57-year-old alcoholic singer-songwriter who was once a country music star and he now earns a modest living by singing and playing his guitar in small town bars across the South-Western United States. Having a history of failed marriages Blake is without a family and he has a son, aged 28, with whom he has not had contact in 24 years. He is mostly on the performing, staying in cheap motels. The film opens with his arrival at an alley for a show. Enter Jean Craddock, a young journalist after a story, divorced and with a four-year-old son and she interviews Blake, and the two enter into a relationship. Jean and her son become a catalyst for Blake beginning to get his life back on track and he asks Tommy to record an album with him, but Tommy says his record company insists on a couple more solo albums before a duet project can be recorded. He instead suggests that Blake concentrate on writing new songs that Tommy can record solo, blakes drinking soon gets out of control, and he ends up running off the road while driving drunk. Blakes relationship with Jean makes him start to rethink his life and he calls up his son to make amends, only to have his son tell him that his mother, Bads ex-wife, has died, and hang up on him. The relationship starts to look up, with Jean visiting him with her son Buddy, after a situation where Blake loses Buddy briefly at a shopping mall while drinking at a bar, Jean breaks up with him. After losing Jean and her son, who were becoming his only family, after going through a treatment program at a rehab center, and with support from his Alcoholics Anonymous group and his old friend Wayne, Blake finally manages to get sober. Having cleaned up his act, he tries to reunite with Jean, after losing Jean, Blake finishes writing a song that he thinks is his best ever, The Weary Kind, and sells it to Tommy. Sixteen months later, Tommy plays The Weary Kind to an audience while Blake watches backstage
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Academy Awards
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The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette, officially called the Academy Award of Merit, which has become commonly known by its nickname Oscar. The awards, first presented in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, are overseen by AMPAS, the awards ceremony was first broadcast on radio in 1930 and televised for the first time in 1953. It is now live in more than 200 countries and can be streamed live online. The Academy Awards ceremony is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony and its equivalents – the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and the Grammy Awards for music and recording – are modeled after the Academy Awards. The 89th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best films of 2016, were held on February 26,2017, at the Dolby Theatre, in Los Angeles, the ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and was broadcast on ABC. A total of 3,048 Oscars have been awarded from the inception of the award through the 88th, the first Academy Awards presentation was held on May 16,1929, at a private dinner function at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people. The post-awards party was held at the Mayfair Hotel, the cost of guest tickets for that nights ceremony was $5. Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other participants in the industry of the time. The ceremony ran for 15 minutes, winners were announced to media three months earlier, however, that was changed for the second ceremony in 1930. Since then, for the rest of the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11,00 pm on the night of the awards. The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and he had to return to Europe before the ceremony, so the Academy agreed to give him the prize earlier, this made him the first Academy Award winner in history. With the fourth ceremony, however, the system changed, for the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. At the 29th ceremony, held on March 27,1957, until then, foreign-language films had been honored with the Special Achievement Award. The 74th Academy Awards, held in 2002, presented the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, since 1973, all Academy Awards ceremonies always end with the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Academy also awards Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, see also § Awards of Merit categories The best known award is the Academy Award of Merit, more popularly known as the Oscar statuette. The five spokes represent the branches of the Academy, Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers. The model for the statuette is said to be Mexican actor Emilio El Indio Fernández, sculptor George Stanley sculpted Cedric Gibbons design. The statuettes presented at the ceremonies were gold-plated solid bronze
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Golden Globe Award
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Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual ceremony at which the awards are presented is a part of the film industrys awards season. The 74th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film, the 1st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1943 filmmaking, was held in January 1944, at the 20th Century-Fox studios. Subsequent ceremonies were held at venues throughout the next decade, including the Beverly Hills Hotel. In 1950, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish an honorary award to recognize outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry. Recognizing its subject as a figure within the entertainment industry. The official name of the award became the Cecil B. In 1963, the Miss Golden Globe concept was introduced, in its inaugural year, two Miss Golden Globes were named, one for film and one for television. The two Miss Golden Globes named that year were Eva Six and Donna Douglas, respectively, in 2009, the Golden Globe statuette was redesigned. It was unveiled at a conference at the Beverly Hilton prior to the show. The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, telecast to 167 countries worldwide, generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars, gervais returned to host the 68th and 69th Golden Globe Awards the next two years. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 70th, 71st and 72nd Golden Globe Awards in 2015, the Golden Globe Awards theme song, which debuted in 2012, was written by Japanese musician and songwriter Yoshiki Hayashi. On January 7,2008, it was announced due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The ceremony was faced with a threat by striking writers to picket the event, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was forced to adopt another approach for the broadcast. In acting categories, Meryl Streep holds the record for the most competitive Golden Globe wins with eight, however, including honorary awards, such as the Henrietta Award, World Film Favorite Actor/Actress Award, or Cecil B. DeMille Award, Barbra Streisand leads with nine, additionally, Streisand won for composing the song Evergreen, producing the Best Picture, and directing Yentl in 1984. Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury, Alan Alda and Shirley MacLaine have six awards each, behind them are Rosalind Russell and Jessica Lange with five wins. Meryl Streep also holds the record for most nominations with thirty, at the 46th Golden Globe Awards an anomaly occurred, a three way-tie for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
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Grammy Award
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A Grammy Award, or Grammy, is an honor awarded by The Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in the mainly English-language music industry. The annual presentation ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and the presentation of awards that have a more popular interest. It shares recognition of the industry as that of the other performance awards such as the Emmy Awards, the Tony Awards. The first Grammy Awards ceremony was held on May 4,1959, to honor, following the 2011 ceremony, The Academy overhauled many Grammy Award categories for 2012. The 59th Grammy Awards, honoring the best achievements from October 2015 to September 2016, was held on February 12,2017, the Grammys had their origin in the Hollywood Walk of Fame project in the 1950s. The music executives decided to rectify this by creating a given by their industry similar to the Oscars. This was the beginning of the National Academy of Recording Arts, after it was decided to create such an award, there was still a question of what to call it, one working title was the Eddie, to honor the inventor of the phonograph, Thomas Edison. They finally settled on using the name of the invention of Emile Berliner, the gramophone, for the awards, the number of awards given grew and fluctuated over the years with categories added and removed, at one time reaching over 100. The second Grammy Awards, also held in 1959, was the first ceremony to be televised, the gold-plated trophies, each depicting a gilded gramophone, are made and assembled by hand by Billings Artworks in Ridgway, Colorado. In 1990 the original Grammy design was revamped, changing the traditional soft lead for a stronger alloy less prone to damage, Billings developed a zinc alloy named grammium, which is trademarked. The trophies with the name engraved on them are not available until after the award announcements. By February 2009,7,578 Grammy trophies had been awarded, the General Field are four awards which are not restricted by genre. Album of the Year is awarded to the performer and the team of a full album if other than the performer. Record of the Year is awarded to the performer and the team of a single song if other than the performer. Song of the Year is awarded to the writer/composer of a single song, Best New Artist is awarded to a promising breakthrough performer who releases, during the Eligibility Year, the first recording that establishes the public identity of that artist. The only two artists to win all four of these awards are Christopher Cross, who won all four in 1980, and Adele, who won the Best New Artist award in 2009 and the other three in 2012 and 2017. Other awards are given for performance and production in specific genres, as well as for other such as artwork. Special awards are given for longer-lasting contributions to the music industry, the many other Grammy trophies are presented in a pre-telecast Premiere Ceremony earlier in the afternoon before the Grammy Awards telecast
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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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Tomorrowland (Ryan Bingham album)
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Tomorrowland is the fourth studio album by Americana singer-songwriter Ryan Bingham, released on September 18,2012. The album was recorded in Malibu, California with producer Justin Stanley and was self-released through Binghams new independent record label Axster Bingham Records, the albums release on Binghams own label comes following his departure from Lost Highway Records for his first three albums. Roughly two weeks prior to the release, tracks from the album were previewed online by magazines Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone. Entertainment Weekly featured the song Beg for Broken Legs on its Music Mix blog starting September 5,2012, for twenty-four hours starting on September 6,2012, Rolling Stone featured Guess Whos Knocking. On September 7,2012, Glamour previewed Flower Bomb and included a brief get-to-know Bingham question-and-answer section for its readers in its Obsessed blog, all tracks written by Ryan Bingham
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FX (TV channel)
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FX is an American basic cable and satellite television channel launched on June 1,1994, based in Los Angeles, California and owned by 21st Century Fox through FX Networks, LLC. FXs programming primarily includes original drama and comedy series, and reruns of theatrical films, as of July 2015, FX is available to approximately 94,006,000 pay television households in the United States. In addition to the flagship U. S. network, the FX name is licensed to a number of related pay television channels in various countries around the world, FX, originally stylized as fX, launched on June 1,1994. Broadcasting from an apartment in Manhattans Flatiron District, fX was one of the first forays into large-scale interactive television. FX had two taglines during this period, TV Made Fresh Daily and The Worlds First Living Television Network, the live shows were each mostly focused on one broad topic. Shows included Personal fX, The Pet Department, Under Scrutiny with Jane Wallace, other notable fX personalities included Karyn Bryant and Orlando Jones, who were panelists on Sound fX. The channel prided itself on its interactivity with viewers, FX, in 1994, was an early adopter of the internet, embracing e-mail and the World Wide Web as methods of feedback. Select viewers were allowed to spend a day at the apartment, the first incarnation of fX was not available on Time Warner Cable, one of the major cable systems in New York City, where its programming originated. TWC would not carry the channel until September 2001, the live shows gradually disappeared one by one until only Personal fX remained. Breakfast Time was moved to the Fox network and renamed Fox After Breakfast in mid-1996 and it underwent several format changes, but never found a substantial audience and was canceled less than a year later. By the time that all programming was dropped, the channel focused entirely on its classic television shows until its relaunch in mid-1997. Personal fX remained on the refocused FX until May 1,1998, FX vacated the apartment in the summer of 1998 and the channels operations were streamlined with the other Fox-owned cable channels. In early 1997, fX was relaunched as FX, Fox Gone Cable, during the first few years after its relaunch, FX was known for little else than airing reruns of such Fox shows as The X-Files and Married. With Children, as well as 20th Century Fox-produced shows such as M*A*S*H, the channel also added Major League Baseball games to its lineup at that time, and eventually expanded its sports programming to include NASCAR races in 2001. In the summer of 1998, FX debuted three original series, Bobcats Big Ass Show, Instant Comedy with the Groundlings and Penn & Tellers Sin City Spectacular, all three series were cancelled the following year. Soon after its relaunch, the Fox Gone Cable tagline was dropped, by 1999, new original programs were added with the debut of shows such as Son of the Beach and The X Show. Beginning in 2002, the channel emerged as a force in original cable programming, gaining both acclaim and notoriety for edgy dramas. That year, FX debuted the police drama The Shield, which became a breakout hit, both shows were lauded by critics, and achieved equal success with viewers
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The Bridge (U.S. TV series)
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The Bridge is an American crime drama television series, developed by Meredith Stiehm and Elwood Reid, that was broadcast on the FX network, and based on the Danish-Swedish series Broen/Bron. The show stars German actress Diane Kruger and Mexican actor Demián Bichir in pivotal roles, ted Levine, Annabeth Gish, Thomas M. Wright, Matthew Lillard and Emily Rios also co-star in supporting roles in the series. The complete series consists of two seasons of 13 episodes each, the series debuted on FX in the United States on July 10,2013, and the series finale aired on October 1,2014. The show was developed both in English and Spanish languages, the American version takes place on the U. S. The story parallels the investigation by El Paso Times reporters Daniel Frye, the series was a critical success and received positive review throughout its run. After the first season maintained a modest audience that dropped by 42 percent by the second, the Bridge follows two police detectives – one Mexican, one from the U. S. Detective Sonya Cross, of the El Paso Police Department, works with Chihuahua State Police Detective Marco Ruiz, ruizs whatever-it-takes approach doesnt sit well with Cross, who has undiagnosed Aspergers syndrome or a similar autism spectrum disorder and a by-the-book attitude when it comes to the job. Their investigation is complicated by the rampant corruption and general apathy among the Mexican authorities, the show title refers to the Bridge of the Americas that serves as a border crossing between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, where the series is set. FX ordered the pilot episode in July 2012. Shooting for the pilot took place on location in the El Paso area, critically acclaimed director Gerardo Naranjo, best known for 2011s Miss Bala, directed the pilot. Work on the remaining season one episodes began in early April 2013. Meredith Stiehm, creator of Cold Case, and Elwood Reid served as the executive producers. The show is co-produced by Shine America and FX Productions for FX, alex Plank of Wrong Planet served as the consultant for Sonyas Asperger syndrome. Shine America wanted Stiehm to begin the series on the Ambassador Bridge connecting Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, however, Stiehm and Reid successfully argued to set their version in El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juárez at the Bridge of the Americas. In September 2013, the series was renewed for a season of 13 episodes. Also, Matthew Lillard and Emily Rios, who had recurring roles in the first season, were promoted to regulars for the second season. The series was canceled two seasons. John Solberg, FXs Executive Vice President of Communications, said, creatively were very proud of what we done
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Amazon Music
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Amazon Music is an online music store, music locker and music streaming platform operated by Amazon. com. All tracks were sold in 256 kilobits-per-second variable bitrate MP3 format without per-customer watermarking or DRM, however. Licensing agreements with recording companies restrict the countries in which music can be sold, after the United States, Amazon MP3 was launched in the United Kingdom on December 3,2008, in Germany on April 1,2009, and in France on June 10,2009. The German edition has been available in Austria and Switzerland since December 3,2009, the Amazon MP3 store was launched in Japan on November 10,2010. The Spanish and Italian editions were launched on October 4,2012, Amazon launched Amazon Cloud Player as an extension to Amazon MP3 store in the United States on March 29,2011. At launch, Amazon offered over 2 million songs from more than 180,000 artists and over 20,000 labels, including EMI Music and Universal Music Group, to customers located in the United States only. In December 2007 Warner Music announced that it would offer its catalog on Amazon MP3 and in January 2008, the current catalog is 29.1 million songs. In January 2008, Amazon announced plans to roll Amazon MP3 out internationally, Amazon limits international access by checking users credit card issued country. The first international version was launched December 3,2008 in the United Kingdom, German, French, Japanese, Italian and Spanish versions of the store followed. In addition to digital purchases, Amazon Music also serves streaming music, Prime Music, a service offering unlimited streaming of a limited music catalog has been available to Amazon Prime subscribers in several countries since mid 2014. Music Unlimited, a streaming service has been available as an additional or standalone subscription since late 2016. Amazon MP3s catalog is accessible from the Amazon. com web site by searching for an artist or title name, to download purchased music, Amazon. com offers either the Amazon Cloud Player or Amazon MP3 Downloader, which was optional for individual tracks and required for album purchases. Since March 2008 respectively December 2009 there exist the free alternative downloaders clamz, currently, Amazon has dropped Linux support for their downloader, forcing Linux users to download each mp3 file separately. The alternative downloaders no longer work without a user agent patch and it saves purchased music into a particular folder and can, at the users discretion, add purchased tracks to the library in Windows Media Player or iTunes automatically after download. An Amazon MP3 application is available for BlackBerry and for the Android operating system is preloaded on T-Mobile G1, the application allows mobile phone users to download individual tracks and albums when on a Wi-Fi network. Palm phones based on webOS have a preloaded Amazon MP3 application as well, the Amazon MP3 app cannot be removed without rooting the phone and voiding its warranty. The media management application doubleTwist for Mac OS X and Windows also has an integrated Amazon MP3 store which enables users to search, buy, on February 1,2008, Pepsi introduced a Pepsi Stuff promotion in partnership with Amazon MP3. Customers can exchange points offered on 4 billion Pepsi bottles for, among other prizes, MP3 downloads from Warner, EMI, Rockstar Games 2008 title Grand Theft Auto IV connects to Amazon MP3
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Houston
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Houston is the most populous city in the state of Texas and the fourth-most populous city in the United States. With a census-estimated 2014 population of 2.239 million within an area of 667 square miles, it also is the largest city in the southern United States and the seat of Harris County. Located in Southeast Texas near the Gulf of Mexico, it is the city of Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land. Houston was founded on August 28,1836, near the banks of Buffalo Bayou and incorporated as a city on June 5,1837. The city was named after former General Sam Houston, who was president of the Republic of Texas and had commanded, the burgeoning port and railroad industry, combined with oil discovery in 1901, has induced continual surges in the citys population. Houstons economy has an industrial base in energy, manufacturing, aeronautics. Leading in health care sectors and building equipment, Houston has more Fortune 500 headquarters within its city limits than any city except for New York City. The Port of Houston ranks first in the United States in international waterborne tonnage handled, the city has a population from various ethnic and religious backgrounds and a large and growing international community. Houston is the most diverse city in Texas and has described as the most diverse in the United States. It is home to cultural institutions and exhibits, which attract more than 7 million visitors a year to the Museum District. Houston has a visual and performing arts scene in the Theater District. In August 1836, two real estate entrepreneurs from New York, Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen, purchased 6,642 acres of land along Buffalo Bayou with the intent of founding a city. The Allen brothers decided to name the city after Sam Houston, the general at the Battle of San Jacinto. The great majority of slaves in Texas came with their owners from the slave states. Sizable numbers, however, came through the slave trade. New Orleans was the center of trade in the Deep South. Thousands of enslaved African Americans lived near the city before the Civil War, many of them near the city worked on sugar and cotton plantations, while most of those in the city limits had domestic and artisan jobs. Houston was granted incorporation on June 5,1837, with James S. Holman becoming its first mayor, in the same year, Houston became the county seat of Harrisburg County and the temporary capital of the Republic of Texas
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Westfield High School (Harris County, Texas)
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Westfield High School is a high school located in unincorporated Harris County, Texas, United States. The school, which serves grades 9-12, is a part of the Spring Independent School District, the school, in the Westfield community, has a Houston, Texas postal address. At one time it also served Remington Ranch, in the 1981-1982 school year it became a full four-year high school and its name was changed to Westfield. Westfield High School is accredited by the Texas Education Agency and the Southern Association for Secondary Schools, in the spring of 2002, the school received designation as a Recognized School by the Texas Education Agency. For the last two years, the Lone Star Cup has ranked Westfield in the top five schools for excellence in academics and athletics in Texas 5-A schools, approximately 3,200 students in grades 10-12 attend Westfield beginning in mid-August and ending in early June. Most classes are 50 minutes long for seven periods a day, the fifth period is 70-minutes long to enable students to earn up to 7 credits per school year. The school year is divided two, eighteen-week semesters. In 1976 Spring High School South opened in 1976, taking ninth graders from Spring High School, in 1981 and 1982 Spring High South renamed itself Westfield High School and became its own four-year institution. In 2003 the Westfield Performing Arts Center opened and it includes a performance hall with 1,199 permanent seats. In January 2004 the former Bammel Middle School moved to a new location, in 2005 the performing arts center was renamed the Philip K. Geiger Performing Arts Center, after a former band director. In 2009 the Westfield Ninth Grade Center moved out of its building, the previous Westfield 9th building became Dr. Edward Roberson Middle School, A Math, Science and Fine Arts Academy, which opened in August 2009. Student Government Student Council The Following Middle Schools feed into Westfield HS, Bammel Middle School Stelle Claughton Middle School Edwin M. Wells Middle School Dr
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Black Crowes
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The Black Crowes were an American rock band formed in 1989. Their discography includes eight albums, four live albums and several charting singles. The band was signed to Def American Recordings in 1989 by producer George Drakoulias and released their album, Shake Your Money Maker. The follow-up, The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion, reached the top of the Billboard 200 in 1992, after a hiatus between 2002 and 2005, the band released Warpaint, which hit number 5 on the Billboard chart. After the release of a greatest hits/acoustic double album Croweology in August 2010, the band announced that they would return in early 2013 but that December they returned to hiatus status with no specific return date. They announced their break-up in 2015, the band has sold over 30 million albums, and is listed at number 92 on VH1s 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock. They were also labeled by Melody Maker as The Most Rock n Roll Rock n Roll Band in the World, the first incarnation of the band, Mr. Crowes Garden, named after Leonard Leslie Brookes childrens book Johnny Crows Garden, began in 1984 in Marietta, Georgia. Influenced by contemporary local acts like R. E. M, 1960s psychedelic pop and classic southern rock, they gradually evolved into a revivalist band dedicated to 1970s-era blues rock. The first professional demo the Robinson brothers did was for A&M Records in 1987. The bands manager at the time, Dave Macias, got in touch with A&M rep Aaron Jacoves, from Los Angeles and it was held at Steve Gronbacks studio in Carrboro, North Carolina. They were paid $2000 by Jacoves to cover production costs, Jeff Sullivan played drums on the first demo, while subsequent demo recordings had Steve Gorman on the drums. Steve Gorman played on the subsequent A&M demos in Carrboro, N. C. during mid and late 87, the band was originally offered a record deal in 1987 under the label Dog Gone by Jefferson Holt but they held out. They eventually met George Drakoulias through A&M, when the band was playing as a later in New York City at a club called Drums. The band also played at CBGBs in N. Y. later in 1988, George turned the band on to new music they had not heard before like The Faces and Humble Pie. Up until then the band did not cover Stones songs and Rich did not play in open-G tunings for Mr. Crowes Garden songs, the band released its first studio album, Shake Your Money Maker, in 1990. Their cover of Otis Reddings Hard to Handle and their acoustic ballad She Talks to Angels both achieved top 30 positions on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1991. The band opened for ZZ Top on a tour sponsored by Miller Beer, the band launched its own tour that May and later took part in a Monsters of Rock tour in the Soviet Union, where they opened for Mötley Crüe and Queensrÿche, among others. After replacing guitarist Jeff Cease with Marc Ford from blues-rock power trio Burning Tree, the album debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200
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Marc Ford
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Marc Ford, is an American blues-rock guitarist. He is currently performing with other former Black Crowes members in The Magpie Salute, Ford was born in Long Beach, California, United States. Ford began his career with the blues-rock outfit Burning Tree in the late 1980s, a power trio featuring Ford on guitars and vocals, Mark Dutton on bass and Doni Gray on drums, Burning Tree released their self-titled debut album on Epic Records in 1990. A commercial failure but a success, Burning Tree allowed Ford. The bands career was cut short when Ford left to join The Black Crowes, in mid-1991, Marc Ford sat in a couple of times with The Black Crowes in-concert, performing The Allman Brothers Bands classic hit, Dreams. The album would go on to reach Number 1 on the Billboard charts, Ford would go on to perform on the next two Black Crowes releases, Amorica and Three Snakes and One Charm and is also credited for tracks from the bands two unreleased albums. His addition to the Black Crowes sound, which consisted primarily of slide guitar and southern twang, Fords ability to adapt to core songwriter, Rich Robinsons music and crunchy rhythm guitar sound, solidified him and Robinson, as arguably, the preeminent guitar duo of the 1990s. Ford was dismissed from the Black Crowes in the Fall of 1997, following the stint on the summer-long Furthur Festival tour. After his departure from The Black Crowes, Ford formed a band, Marc Ford and the Uninvited. In 1998, Ford sat in numerous times with renowned jam band Govt Mule before joining the Chris Stills Band for a summer tour, upon the conclusion of that tour, Ford quit the Chris Stills Band to form Federale, a joint venture between himself and Luther Russell. The band gained attention from major label Interscope Records, and a deal was almost immediately in the works. Federale toured briefly, opening for acts like Govt Mule, but disbanded after Interscope Records was bought out by Universal Music Group and their commercial viability was called into question. During 2000, Ford joined the Pink Floyd/blues jam/tribute band Blue Floyd, providing their own bluesy take on Pink Floyd standards, Blue Floyd was a great success and allowed Ford to remain the public eye while he contemplated his next move. Ford left Blue Floyd at the close of 2001, opting to again to go solo, in January 2002, during one of his many regular appearances at the Malibu Inn in Malibu, CA, Ford welcomed Chris Robinson to the stage for a set of obscure-yet-memorable covers. This performance marked the first time Ford and Robinson had performed with one another since Fords dismissal from The Black Crowes nearly five years prior, Robinson again joined Ford at the Malibu Inn two weeks later, confirming that they had made amends. Ford even co-wrote Sunday Sound, a featured on Robinsons solo debut. Following his acoustic-based stint at the Malibu Inn, Ford decided to form an electric band. Featuring fellow Blue Floyd member Berry Oakley Jr. and newcomers Gootch and Chris Joyner, Marc Ford and The Sinners hit the road in early 2002
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Tom Waits
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Thomas Alan Tom Waits is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. He has worked as a composer for movies and musicals and has acted in supporting roles in films, including Paradise Alley and he also starred in Jim Jarmuschs 1986 film Down by Law. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his work on One from the Heart. Waits lyrics frequently present atmospheric portraits of grotesque, often seedy characters and places and he has a cult following and has influenced subsequent songwriters despite having little radio or music video support. His songs are best-known through cover versions by more artists, Jersey Girl, performed by Bruce Springsteen, Ol 55, by the Eagles. Although Waits albums have met with mixed success in his native United States. He has been nominated for a number of music awards and has won Grammy Awards for two albums, Bone Machine and Mule Variations. In 2011, Waits was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and he is also included among the 2010 list of Rolling Stones 100 Greatest Singers, as well as the 2015 list of Rolling Stones 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time. Waits lives in Sonoma County, California, with his wife Kathleen Brennan, Waits was born at Park Avenue Hospital in Pomona, the son of schoolteachers Alma Fern McMurray and Jesse Frank Waits. After his parents divorced in 1960, he lived with his mother in Whittier, Waits, who taught himself how to play the piano on a neighbors instrument, often took trips to Mexico with his father, who taught Spanish. He would later say that he found his love of music during these trips through a Mexican ballad that was probably a Ranchera, you know, on the car radio with my dad. By 1965, while attending at Hilltop High School in Chula Vista and he later admitted that he was not a fan of the 1960s music scene, stating, I wasnt thrilled by Blue Cheer, so I found an alternative, even if it was Bing Crosby. Five years later, he was working as a doorman at the Heritage nightclub in San Diego, where artists of every genre performed, when he did his first paid gig for $6. A fan of Bob Dylan, Lord Buckley, Jack Kerouac, Louis Armstrong, Howlin Wolf, in 1971, Waits moved to the Echo Park neighborhood of L. A. and signed with Herb Cohen at the age of 21. From August to December 1971, Waits made a series of recordings for Zappa and Cohens Bizarre/Straight label. These early tracks were released 20 years later on The Early Years, Volume One, Waits signed to Asylum Records in 1972, and after numerous abortive recording sessions, his first record—the jazzy, folk-tinged Closing Time—was released in 1973. Lee Hazlewood became one of the first major artists to cover a Tom Waits song, using the title variation Those Were Days Of Roses on his album for Capitol, Poet, Fool, or Bum. Also in 1973, Tim Buckley released the album Sefronia, which contained another version of Waits song Martha from Closing Time
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Spring, Texas
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Spring is a census-designated place within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Houston in Harris County, Texas, United States, part of the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area. The population was 54,298 at the 2010 census, the large geographic area now known as Spring was originally inhabited by the Orcoquiza Native Americans. In 1836, the Texas General Council of the Provisional Government placed what is now the town of Spring in the Harrisburg municipality, in 1838, William Pierpont placed a trading post on Spring Creek. In 1840, the town of Spring had 153 residents, by the mid-1840s, many German immigrants, including Gus Bayer and Carl Wunsche, moved to the area and began farming. People from Louisiana and other parts of the post-Civil War Southern U. S. settled in Spring, the main cash crops in Spring were sugar cane and cotton, area residents also grew vegetables. In 1871, the International and Great Northern Railroad, built through Spring, opened, in 1873, Spring received a post office. By 1884, Spring had 150 residents, two steam saw and grist mills, two gins, three churches, and several schools. In 1901–1903, the International-Great Northern Railroad opened, connecting Spring to Fort Worth, Spring, now with a roundhouse, became a switchyard with 200 rail workers and fourteen trackyards. The population increased to 1,200 by 1910, the Spring State Bank opened in 1912. In 1923, the relocated to Houston, causing Spring to enter a decline, by 1931. The bank was robbed several times in the 1930s, it was stated that Bonnie, the bank consolidated with Tomball Bank in 1935. By 1947, Spring had 700 residents, in the 1970s, Houstons suburbs began to expand to the north, and more subdivisions and residential areas opened in the Spring area. Some older houses in the town of Spring received restorations and housed shops, the Old Town Spring Association opened in 1980 to promote the Old Town Spring shopping area, which consists of the restored houses. In 1984 and 1989, the Spring area had 15,000 residents, by 1989, Old Town Spring became a tourist area. In 1990, the Spring area had 33,111 residents, from 1969 to 1992, the Goodyear airship America was based in Spring from its large hangar visible just off Interstate 45. Takeoffs and landings were an attraction and motorists continually pulled off to the interstates shoulders to watch. In 1992 the America was moved to Akron, Ohio, in 2016, the hangars concrete foundation was still visible at the intersection of Holzwarth Road and Meadow Edge Lane west of Lowes Home Improvement Center. The 1992 Log Cabin Republicans convention was held in Spring, Spring is located at 30°3′15″N 95°23′13″W
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Stephenville, Texas
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Stephenville is a city in and the county seat of Erath County, Texas, United States. The population was 17,123 at the 2010 census, founded in 1856, it is home to Tarleton State University. Stephenville is among several communities that call themselves the Cowboy Capital of the World, Stephenville is named after John M. Stephen, who settled there in 1854 and donated the land for the townsite laid out by George B. Erath when the county was organized in 1856, in the first two years of its settlement, the townsite was successful, by 1858 the population reached 776. However the townsite was located in Comanche territory and raids were common, also the hardships of the American Civil War forced citizens to leave. The population declined until 1871 when it grew after Stephenville became an agriculture, coal mining also became important to the area in 1886 and was a major segment of the economy for the following three decades. Stephenville was incorporated in 1889, with the arrival of the Fort Worth, in the 20th century industry became an important part of Stephenville, and the population has steadily increased since the 1920s. Stephenville is located at 32°13′13″N 98°12′49″W, according to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 11.89 square miles, of which 11.89 square miles is land and 0.04 square miles is water. Stephenville is bisected by three major US highways, US Highway 377, US Highway 281, and US Highway 67. The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers, according to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Stephenville has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated Cfa on climate maps. As of the census of 2010, there were 17,123 people,6,276 households, the population density was 1,440.4 people per square mile. There were 7,579 housing units at a density of 637.4 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 87. 2% White,2. 2% African American,0. 5% Native American,1. 2% Asian,0. 1% Pacific Islander,7. 2% from other races, and 1. 7% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 15. 7% of the population,33. 1% of all households were made up of individuals and 10. 1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.27 and the family size was 2.99. In the city, the population was out with 27. 8% under the age of 19,21. 4% from 20 to 24,22. 2% from 25 to 44,17. 2% from 45 to 64. The median age was 25.3 years, there were 8,130 males and 8,933 females. The median income for a household in the city was $33,175, males had a median income of $36,139 versus $30,007 for females
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Drum kit
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A drum kit consists of a mix of drums and idiophones most significantly cymbals but also including the woodblock and cowbell. In the 2000s, some also include electronic instruments and both hybrid and entirely electronic kits are used. If some or all of them are replaced by electronic drums, the drum kit is usually played while seated on a drum stool or throne. The drum kit differs from instruments that can be used to produce pitched melodies or chords, even though drums are often placed musically alongside others that do, such as the piano or guitar. The drum kit is part of the rhythm section used in many types of popular and traditional music styles ranging from rock and pop to blues. Other standard instruments used in the section include the electric bass, electric guitar. Many drummers extend their kits from this pattern, adding more drums, more cymbals. Some performers, such as some rockabilly drummers, use small kits that omit elements from the basic setup, some drum kit players may have other roles in the band, such as providing backup vocals, or less commonly, lead vocals. Thus, in an early 1800s orchestra piece, if the called for bass drum, triangle and cymbals. In the 1840s, percussionists began to experiment with foot pedals as a way to them to play more than one instrument. In the 1860s, percussionists started combining multiple drums into a set, the bass drum, snare drum, cymbals, and other percussion instruments were all played using hand-held drum sticks. Double-drumming was developed to one person to play the bass and snare with sticks. With this approach, the drum was usually played on beats one. This resulted in a swing and dance feel. The drum set was referred to as a trap set. By the 1870s, drummers were using an overhang pedal, most drummers in the 1870s preferred to do double drumming without any pedal to play multiple drums, rather than use an overhang pedal. Companies patented their pedal systems such as Dee Dee Chandler of New Orleans 1904–05, liberating the hands for the first time, this evolution saw the bass drum played with the foot of a standing percussionist. The bass drum became the central piece around which every other percussion instrument would later revolve and it was the golden age of drum building for many famous drum companies, with Ludwig introducing
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Mandolin
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A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or pick. It commonly has four courses of doubled metal strings tuned in unison, although five, the courses are normally tuned in a succession of perfect fifths. It is the member of a family that includes the mandola, octave mandolin, mandocello. There are many styles of mandolin, but three are common, the Neapolitan or round-backed mandolin, the mandolin and the flat-backed mandolin. The round-back has a bottom, constructed of strips of wood. The carved-top or arch-top mandolin has a shallower, arched back. The flat-backed mandolin uses thin sheets of wood for the body, each style of instrument has its own sound quality and is associated with particular forms of music. Neapolitan mandolins feature prominently in European classical music and traditional music, carved-top instruments are common in American folk music and bluegrass music. Flat-backed instruments are used in Irish, British and Brazilian folk music. Some modern Brazilian instruments feature a fifth course tuned a fifth lower than the standard fourth course. There has also been a type and an instrument with sixteen-strings. Much of mandolin development revolved around the soundboard, pre-mandolin instruments were quiet instruments, strung with as many as six courses of gut strings, and were plucked with the fingers or with a quill. However, modern instruments are louder—using four courses of metal strings, the modern soundboard is designed to withstand the pressure of metal strings that would break earlier instruments. The soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections, there is usually one or more sound holes in the soundboard, either round, oval, or shaped like a calligraphic f. A round or oval sound hole may be covered or bordered with decorative rosettes or purfling, Mandolins evolved from the lute family in Italy during the 17th and 18th centuries, and the deep bowled mandolin, produced particularly in Naples, became common in the 19th century. Dating to around c.13,000 BC, a painting in the Trois Frères cave in France depicts what some believe is a musical bow. From the musical bow, families of stringed instruments developed, since each string played a note, adding strings added new notes, creating bow harps, harps. In turn, this led to being able to play dyads and chords, another innovation occurred when the bow harp was straightened out and a bridge used to lift the strings off the stick-neck, creating the lute
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Bass guitar
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The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb, by plucking, slapping, popping, strumming, tapping, thumping, or picking with a plectrum, often known as a pick. The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to a guitar, but with a longer neck and scale length. The four-string bass, by far the most common, is tuned the same as the double bass. The bass guitar is an instrument, as it is notated in bass clef an octave higher than it sounds to avoid excessive ledger lines. Like the electric guitar, the guitar has pickups and it is plugged into an amplifier and speaker on stage, or into a larger PA system using a DI unit. Since the 1960s, the guitar has largely replaced the double bass in popular music as the bass instrument in the rhythm section. While types of basslines vary widely from one style of music to another, many styles of music utilise the bass guitar, including rock, heavy metal, pop, punk rock, country, reggae, gospel, blues, symphonic rock, and jazz. It is often a solo instrument in jazz, jazz fusion, Latin, funk, progressive rock and other rock, the adoption of a guitar form made the instrument easier to hold and transport than any of the existing stringed bass instruments. The addition of frets enabled bassists to play in more easily than on acoustic or electric upright basses. Around 100 of these instruments were made during this period, around 1947, Tutmarcs son, Bud, began marketing a similar bass under the Serenader brand name, prominently advertised in the nationally distributed L. D. Heater Music Company wholesale jobber catalogue of 1948, however, the Tutmarc family inventions did not achieve market success. In the 1950s, Leo Fender, with the help of his employee George Fullerton and his Fender Precision Bass, which began production in October 1951, became a widely copied industry standard. This split pickup, introduced in 1957, appears to have been two mandolin pickups, the pole pieces and leads of the coils were reversed with respect to each other, producing a humbucking effect. Humbucking is a design that electrically cancels the effect of any AC hum, the Fender Bass was a revolutionary new instrument, which could be easily transported, and which was less prone to feedback when amplified than acoustic bass instruments. Monk Montgomery was the first bass player to tour with the Fender bass guitar, roy Johnson, and Shifty Henry with Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, were other early Fender bass pioneers. Bill Black, playing with Elvis Presley, switched from bass to the Fender Precision Bass around 1957. The bass guitar was intended to appeal to guitarists as well as upright bass players, following Fenders lead, in 1953, Gibson released the first short scale violin-shaped electric bass with extendable end pin, allowing it to be played upright or horizontally. In 1959 these were followed by the more conventional-looking EB-0 Bass, the EB-0 was very similar to a Gibson SG in appearance
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Drive-By Truckers
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The band currently consists of Mike Cooley, Patterson Hood, Brad Morgan, Jay Gonzalez, and Matt Patton. Like many alternative acts, the Drive-By Truckers record in analog. The bands constant touring has developed its dedicated following, Drive-By Truckers was cofounded by Patterson Hood and longtime friend, former roommate, and musical partner Mike Cooley in Athens, Georgia, in 1996. The two had played in other bands including Adams House Cat which was chosen as a top-10 Best Unsigned Band by a Musician contest in the late 1980s. After the demise of Adams House Cat, Cooley and Hood performed as a duo under the name Virgil Kane and they eventually started a new band, Horsepussy, with bassist/vocalist Adam Howell and Aaron Bryant before splitting for a few years. During this split, Hood moved to Athens and began forming what would become Drive-By Truckers, the bands online presence was created in 1996 by and is still maintained by long-time friend Jenn Bryant. It has been credited with helping the band gain momentum, the band also began to use another long-time friend, Wes Freed, to produce the bands signature visual style with his cover art and posters. Freed continues his work with DBT to date. In March 2014, the newly debuted English Oceans album cover was named Album Art of the Month by Consequence of Sound editor Dan Caffrey, however, the bands constant touring and lauded live shows largely developed their dedicated following. The bands original lineup was fluid, but it most often included Hood, Cooley, and Howell, along with drummer Matt Lane, pedal steel player John Neff and they released their first album Gangstabilly in 1998. After recording their first album, the added a third guitarist/vocalist. By the second album, Pizza Deliverance, released in 1999, Howell had left, Malone switched to bass, Neff was also listed as a guest rather than a member, although he plays on much of the album. Hood dominated the songwriting and lead vocals in early records, but Cooley, Howell. Following their second release, Lane was replaced by drummer Brad Morgan, Morgan went on to become the bands other constant member along with Hood and Cooley. With Neff also having declined to remain a band member, Hood. The band then embarked on a tour as a four-piece band. The resulting album showed a change in the bands sound. After three years on the road, a group of musicians emerged
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Austin City Limits
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The show helped Austin to become widely known as the Live Music Capital of the World, and is the only television show to receive the National Medal of Arts, which it was awarded in 2003. It also won a rare institutional Peabody Award in 2011 for its more than three decades of presenting and preserving eclectic American musical genres, for the first 12 seasons, Austin City Limits was produced by the Southwest Texas Public Broadcasting Council. Beginning in Season 13, Austin City Limits moved to its current production home at Austins PBS affiliate KLRU, the pilot was shot on October 14,1974, and starred Willie Nelson. The show’s success as a fundraiser was enough for Arhos to get ACL green-lighted as a series, the show inspired the creation of the Austin City Limits Music Festival, an annual live music festival at Zilker Park in Austin. In 1982, Bill Arhos returned to Austin City Limits as the executive producer starting in Season 7, in 2015, Arhos died at the age of 80. In 2014, he was inducted into the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame, some of the performances from Austin City Limits have been released as CDs and DVDs in the Live from Austin, TX series. Full episodes can also be viewed online at the official website. There is an Austin City Limits store at the Austin Bergstrom International Airport, MTV Live acquired rerun rights to the series in 2016. In 2002, older episodes are carried by CMT, as part of their Best of Austin City Limits series. The executive producer of Austin City Limits is Terry Lickona, who joined the program in 1979 during Season 4, the studio had a seating capacity of approximately 800, but due to limited access to fire exits the audience size was limited to 300. In 2010, the show and its original studio were inducted into the Rock, a plaque near the entrance to Communications Building B commemorating the occasion proclaims Austin City Limits as the longest running music show in the history of American television. On February 26,2011, Austin City Limits held its first taping in its new purpose-built Austin City Limits Live at The Moody Theater, the additional seating capacity is used for an estimated 100 concerts and 100 private events per year at the venue. On December 2,2014, in celebration of Austin City Limits 40th season, Austin City Limits is the longest-running music series in American television history. In Season 1 of Austin City Limits in 1976, each begins with the soundcheck that is run by producer Paul Bosner. He then used it as the audio to accompany each episodes 2 minute opening title sequence, beginning with Season 2 in 1977, the soundcheck was replaced by Gary P. Nunns London Homesick Blues, which was introduced as the shows theme song. The song was written by Gary P. Nunn, and performed by The Lost Gonzo Band, so director Bruce Scafe used the song from the last episode of Season 1 in 1976 entitled The Lost Gonzo Band followed by Jerry Jeff Walker. He then used it as the audio to accompany those landscape, London Homesick Blues will remain in use as the shows theme song until Season 29. From Season 7 in 1982 to Season 8 in 1983, the theme music was composed by Austin musician John Mills
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Joe (2013 film)
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It stars Nicolas Cage and Tye Sheridan, revolving around a boss who hires a 15-year-old, protecting him against his abusive father. The film premiered at the 70th Venice International Film Festival on August 30,2013, the film was then distributed by Worldview Entertainment and Lionsgate Films on April 11,2014. It was a box office flop, grossing only $2.36 million from a $4 million budget, but received positive reviews from critics, who praised Cages performance and Greens direction. The film opens with Gary, a 15-year-old drifter, lecturing his father, Wade, on getting a job, Wade turns to Gary, punches him in the face and walks off, only to be met by two men who in turn brutally beat Wade. Joe Ransom is a foreman for a small tree-poisoning crew in backwoods Texas and he is well-liked by the residents of the town and his crew, but has a long string of incarcerations due to his violent behaviour and disrespect for the law. He lives in self-imposed emotional isolation, frequenting a local brothel owned by a woman named Merle, Gary finds Joe and asks him for a job, soon impressing him with his work ethic, and Joe tells him to bring his father next time. When Gary brings his father with him the day, Wades attitude. Gary later goes to Joes house to him into rehiring him. Joe agrees, and Gary begins working for him regularly, hiding his money from Wade, Joe visits a man named Henry, but as he leaves is shot by Willie, a local criminal with whom Joe has a history. Later, Gary meets Willie, and when Willie makes lewd comments about his sister, Gary attacks him, Gary continues to work for Joe, while Wade beats to death a homeless man, stealing his belongings and liquor. Willie confronts Joe at a bar and tells him that he wants to end their feud, Joe agrees, but Willie continues to harass him, asking him where Gary lives in an attempt to find him and seek revenge. Joe doesnt answer, and when Willie continues to him, Joe violently assaults him, slamming his head against the bar. Joe spares Willie, however, and tells the bartender to call the police before fleeing to the brothel, Joe leaves after finding that Merle isnt there, and being spooked by the angry guard dog that harasses him with every visit. Joe returns home, gets his dog and returns to the brothel and he leaves with his dog, who has killed the brothels guard dog, but a police car appears and drives after him. The officer tells him to pull over, but Joe refuses and tries to escape, however, a second police car is blocking the road, and he is forced to stop. The two officers hold him at gunpoint as he lets his dog out of his truck, and Joe yells at them to put the guns down and fight him. Meanwhile, Wade tells Gary not to see Joe as a father figure, Wade asks Gary for money, but Gary claims that he doesnt have any. Wade points out that they have food, so Gary must have bought it with something, Gary insults him and tries to attack him when Wade starts to search his coat
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Nicolas Cage
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Nicolas Kim Coppola, known professionally as Nicolas Cage, is an American actor and producer. He has performed in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from romantic comedies and he earned his second Academy Award nomination for his performance as Charlie and Donald Kaufman in Adaptation. In 2002, he directed the film Sonny, for which he was nominated for Grand Special Prize at Deauville Film Festival, Cage owns the production company Saturn Films and has produced films such as Shadow of the Vampire and The Life of David Gale. He has also appeared in National Treasure, Lord of War, Bad Lieutenant, Port of Call New Orleans, Films such as Ghost Rider and Knowing were box office successes. Cage has been criticized in recent years for his choice of roles. However, he starred in The Croods and Joe, both of which were warmly received by critics. Cage was born in Long Beach, California, to August Coppola, a professor of literature, and Joy Vogelsang and he was raised in a Catholic family. His father was of Italian descent and his mothers ancestry was German and his paternal grandparents were composer Carmine Coppola and actress Italia Pennino, and his paternal great-grandparents were immigrants from Bernalda, Basilicata. Cages two brothers are New York radio personality Marc The Cope Coppola and director Christopher Coppola and he attended Beverly Hills High School, which is known for its many alumni who became entertainers. He aspired to act from an age and also attended UCLA School of Theater, Film. His first non-cinematic acting experience was in a production of Golden Boy. He cites James Dean as the key inspiration for his career, saying, I saw him in Rebel Without a Cause, East of Eden. Nothing affected me—no rock song, no classical music—the way Dean affected me in Eden, I was like, Thats what I want to do. To avoid the appearance of nepotism as the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola, he changed his name early in his career to Nicolas Cage, inspired in part by the Marvel Comics superhero Luke Cage. Since his film debut with a role in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, opposite Judge Reinhold and Sean Penn, Cage has appeared in a wide range of films. He auditioned for the role of Dallas Winston in his uncles film The Outsiders, hintons novel, but lost to Matt Dillon. He was also in Coppolas films Rumble Fish and Peggy Sue Got Married, Cage has been nominated twice for an Academy Award, winning once for his performance as a suicidal alcoholic in Leaving Las Vegas. His other nomination was for his portrayal of real-life screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, despite these successes, most of his lower-profile films have performed poorly at the box office compared to his mainstream action/adventure roles
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Imogen Poots
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Imogen Poots is an English actress. She has a brother, Alex, who is a model. While intending to become a veterinarian, she began spending Saturdays at a workshop hosted by the Young Blood Theatre Company at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith. She abandoned her original career aspiration after fainting at the sight of veterinary surgery during work experience. Attaining three A grades at A-level, she won a place at the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2008, since then, she has appeared in films such as Cracks, Centurion, and as the female lead in the 2011 remake of Fright Night alongside Anton Yelchin. In 2011, she was chosen by fashion house Chloé to appear in a campaign for its eponymous fragrance shot by Inez van Lamsweerde, in 2012, she was selected to star in a Sofia Coppola-directed advertising campaign for a collaboration between fashion label Marni and high street retailer H&M. In 2012, Poots played the young violinist Alexandra Gelbart opposite Catherine Keener. In 2013, she appeared in Greetings from Tim Buckley, Filth, in 2014, Poots starred in the romantic comedy That Awkward Moment and action film Need for Speed, an adaptation of the video game series. In 2015, she appeared in Shes Funny That Way with Jennifer Aniston and Knight of Cups with Cate Blanchett and she portrayed Linda Keith in the Jimi Hendrix biopic Jimi, All Is by My Side, alongside André Benjamin as Hendrix. She reunited with Yelchin for Green Room in 2015, Poots was nominated for the Most Promising Newcomer award for 28 Weeks Later at the British Independent Film Awards in 2007 and won Best Supporting Actress for The Look of Love in 2013. Imogen Poots at the Internet Movie Database
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Rolling Stone
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Rolling Stone is an American biweekly magazine that focuses on popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner, who is still the publisher. It was first known for its coverage and for political reporting by Hunter S. Thompson. In the 1990s, the magazine shifted focus to a readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors. In recent years, it has resumed its traditional mix of content, Rolling Stone magazine was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and Ralph Gleason. To get it off the ground, Wenner borrowed $7,500 from his own family and from the parents of his soon-to-be wife, Jane Schindelheim. The first issue carried a date of November 9,1967. Some authors have attributed the name solely to Dylans hit single, At Gleasons suggestion, Rolling Stone initially identified with and reported the hippie counterculture of the era. In the very first edition, Wenner wrote that Rolling Stone is not just about the music, in the 1970s, Rolling Stone began to make a mark with its political coverage, with the likes of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson writing for the magazines political section. Thompson first published his most famous work Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas within the pages of Rolling Stone, where he remained a contributing editor until his death in 2005. In the 1970s, the magazine also helped launch the careers of prominent authors, including Cameron Crowe, Lester Bangs, Joe Klein, Joe Eszterhas, Patti Smith. It was at point that the magazine ran some of its most famous stories. One interviewer, speaking for a number of his peers, said that he bought his first copy of the magazine upon initial arrival on his college campus. In 1977, the magazine moved its headquarters from San Francisco to New York City, editor Jann Wenner said San Francisco had become a cultural backwater. During the 1980s, the magazine began to shift towards being an entertainment magazine. Music was still a dominant topic, but there was increasing coverage of celebrities in television, films, the magazine also initiated its annual Hot Issue during this time. Rolling Stone was initially known for its coverage and for Thompsons political reporting. In the 1990s, the changed its format to appeal to a younger readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors
