Little Feat Little Feat hailed from Los Angeles, but by its mid-'70s prime this funky, bluesy band was embraced by fans below and beyond the Mason-Dixon Line as one of the finest purveyors of the era's popular Southern-fried boogie. Led by ex-Mothers of Invention guitarist Lowell George, Little Feat's overlooked first album introduced a weirder, wilder, West Coast version of the Band, blending and blurring American musical styles like Captain Beefheart leading a garage-rock combo along with Hank Williams, Howlin' Wolf, Duane Allman, and Jack Kerouac. George's warped, travel-weary storytelling on songs like "Truck Stop Girl," "Willin'," "Crack in Your Door," and "Crazy Captain Gunboat Willie" immediately distinguished this outfit from your average California jam band.
Buckwheat Zydeco During the 1990s and 2000s Buckwheat recorded for his own Tomorrow Recordings label (which continues to present favorite recordings from Buckwheat Zydeco as well as Sean Ardoin and Lil' Brian and the Zydeco Travelers) and maintained an extensive touring schedule. With his new relationship with Alligator and "LAY YOUR BURDEN DOWN", his massive instrumental and vocal talents and boundless energy, Buckwheat remains and will continue to be not only the most popular zydeco artist in the world, but will find the largest and most enthusiastic audience of his long and storied career.
Shelby Lynne Shelby Lynne impressed critics, country fans, and pop listeners alike with her breakthrough album, 2000's I Am Shelby Lynne. Just formerly, she'd been a pissed-off 32-year-old Virginia-born/Alabama-raised ex-country singer of modest commercial success, and Nashville regulars who heard the album routinely wondered why it hadn't more explicitly shown off Lynne's big voice. In fact, Lynne's unusually tedious demonstrations of her instrument, an involving low soprano of pure silk and unfazed regionalism, had represented her cardinal problem. She and L.A. producer Bill Bottrell had conceptualized I Am Shelby Lynne with textbook perfection.
Amanda Shaw New Orleans-based singer, songwriter, fiddler and actress Amanda Shaw is part of a new breed of young, roots-based musicians who have embraced both traditional and pop sounds, creating music that is both authentic and bold. At the age of 16, Shaw is a seasoned entertainer with a substantial audience across the southern U.S., and, through her starring role in the IMAX film, Hurricane on the Bayou (released in 2006), is gaining an increasing national presence. For the past three years, her self-released CD was among the top ten best sellers at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, where she also drew record crowds. She’s also received numerous local awards, including a Big Easy Award for Best Female Entertainer when she was only 14. With the release of her Rounder Records debut, Pretty Runs Out, Shaw is poised to take her dazzling showmanship to the national stage. www.amandashaw.com
Selby Mills and LeMaire: SML Selby Mills LeMaire: creative harmonies, funky instrumentation and cool tunes from three guys who've collectively written over twenty #1 songs in the rock, pop, country and blues categories.
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America America's album View From The Ground was released in July 1982 and finally succeeded in bringing the band back to commercial success. It was former Argent frontman Russ Ballard who produced and played most of the instruments on a song he wrote especially for the band, called "You Can Do Magic".
America's hit single You Can Do Magic rose quickly through the pop charts, and reached as high as #8 on the Billboard pop singles chart for a number of weeks in October 1982, the band's first major hit in seven years.
America's songs were featured on several soundtracks during the 80's. America contributed several tracks to The Last Unicorn soundtrack in 1982. America also recorded "Love Comes Without Warning" for the 1984 Steve Martin comedy, The Lonely Guy.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Richie Furay has been a pioneering force in rock music and country music. A founding member of Buffalo Springfield, Poco, and SHF, he was an innovator of new musical forms, a great songwriter, and last and definitely not least, some of Rock and Roll's best vocals.
Richie Furay started his musical career playing folk clubs in the 1960s. He then made the decision to leave his home in Ohio and make the move to Greenwich Village in New York City. Soon after, Richie was asked to join a folk group that would consist of nine people. The group was called The Au Go Go Singers. One of the members of this group turned out to be Stephen Stills.
Pat Flynn is a well known name, in one way or another, to music fans all over the world. You may recognize him as a member of a groundbreaking musical group, or a first-call Nashville recording session player, or a producer, songwriter, and artist. One thing is for sure: in the last couple of years, Pat has found a way to combine all of these talents and showcase them for you on his latest CD releases. www.patflynnmusic.com
Michael Martin Murphey was born in Oak Cliff, Texas, on March 14, 1945, and grew up in Dallas. He had a special love for cowboy stories and songs and also read avidly as a boy -- especially the work of Mark Twain and William Faulkner -- and was writing poetry before he was in his teens. He began performing as an amateur while in junior high school and within a few years was playing the clubs around Dallas in the early '60s, combining country, folk, and rock music. Somehow, despite the inherently conservative nature of all of those audiences, Murphey made it work, and he formed a band with a decent following in the area around Dallas.
The John Cowan Band Bluegrass, Newgrass, Gospelgrass, Rock N’ Rollgrass…true innovators like John Cowan break boundaries and personify innovation. John’s ability to take audiences on a musical journey through multiple genres has made him one of the most unique vocal artists of his generation.
John Cowan rose to fame when he became the lead singer for New Grass Revival. He and band mates Sam Bush, Bela Fleck and Pat Flynn introduced a new generation of music fans to an explosive, experimental brand of bluegrass…Newgrass! However, after inspiring and entertaining fans for nearly two decades, New Grass Revival disbanded in 1990.
Bill Miller Bill Miller is an award-winning recording artist, performer, songwriter, activist, painter, and world-class accomplished flute player. Over the past four years, Miller has produced two incredible albums, received a Grammy Award and led Wisconsin’s La Crosse Symphony Orchestra, a member of the League of American Orchestras.
Digging deep with music and art is nothing new to Bill Miller. With music, he discovered a way out of the entrenched poverty of the reservation, and he has used his talent to build bridges where ever he goes. The son of Mohican-German parents, Bill grew up amid the streams and woodlands of the reservation (his tribe is properly called Mahicanuk, which means People From Where The Waters Are Never Still). Even then, water made a deep impression. "I've always been connected to water," says Bill. "My reservation was in northern Wisconsin, so I grew up near lakes and rivers. There's a mystical energy in water. Every Native creation story has water in it."
Down the Line Down the Line combines bluegrass instruments, original pop songs and a rock �n� roll attitude to create their unique brand of music. They equate their complex harmonies and folk style to a modern Eagles or Crosby, Stills and Nash. The fall of 2002 saw the release of their debut album, "Welcome to Flavortown," and Down the Line made its jump into the limelight.
The group is composed of Dave, Rosalyn Heights, N.Y., on guitar, bass and vocals; Derek, West Bloomfield, Mich., on djembe and vocals; Levi, Traverse City, Mich., on guitar and vocals; and Dan of Stevens Point on mandolin, violin, banjo, and harmonica.
Little Feat hailed from Los Angeles, but by its mid-'70s prime this funky, bluesy band was embraced by fans below and beyond the Mason-Dixon Line as one of the finest purveyors of the era's popular Southern-fried boogie. Led by ex-Mothers of Invention guitarist Lowell George, Little Feat's overlooked first album introduced a weirder, wilder, West Coast version of the Band, blending and blurring American musical styles like Captain Beefheart leading a garage-rock combo along with Hank Williams, Howlin' Wolf, Duane Allman, and Jack Kerouac. George's warped, travel-weary storytelling on songs like "Truck Stop Girl," "Willin'," "Crack in Your Door," and "Crazy Captain Gunboat Willie" immediately distinguished this outfit from your average California jam band.
During the 1990s and 2000s Buckwheat recorded for his own Tomorrow Recordings label (which continues to present favorite recordings from Buckwheat Zydeco as well as Sean Ardoin and Lil' Brian and the Zydeco Travelers) and maintained an extensive touring schedule. With his new relationship with Alligator and "LAY YOUR BURDEN DOWN", his massive instrumental and vocal talents and boundless energy, Buckwheat remains and will continue to be not only the most popular zydeco artist in the world, but will find the largest and most enthusiastic audience of his long and storied career.
Shelby Lynne impressed critics, country fans, and pop listeners alike with her breakthrough album, 2000's I Am Shelby Lynne. Just formerly, she'd been a pissed-off 32-year-old Virginia-born/Alabama-raised ex-country singer of modest commercial success, and Nashville regulars who heard the album routinely wondered why it hadn't more explicitly shown off Lynne's big voice. In fact, Lynne's unusually tedious demonstrations of her instrument, an involving low soprano of pure silk and unfazed regionalism, had represented her cardinal problem. She and L.A. producer Bill Bottrell had conceptualized I Am Shelby Lynne with textbook perfection.
New Orleans-based singer, songwriter, fiddler and actress Amanda Shaw is part of a new breed of young, roots-based musicians who have embraced both traditional and pop sounds, creating music that is both authentic and bold. At the age of 16, Shaw is a seasoned entertainer with a substantial audience across the southern U.S., and, through her starring role in the IMAX film, Hurricane on the Bayou (released in 2006), is gaining an increasing national presence. For the past three years, her self-released CD was among the top ten best sellers at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, where she also drew record crowds. She’s also received numerous local awards, including a Big Easy Award for Best Female Entertainer when she was only 14. With the release of her Rounder Records debut, Pretty Runs Out, Shaw is poised to take her dazzling showmanship to the national stage.
Selby Mills LeMaire: creative harmonies, funky instrumentation and cool tunes from three guys who've collectively written over twenty #1 songs in the rock, pop, country and blues categories.
America's album View From The Ground was released in July 1982 and finally succeeded in bringing the band back to commercial success. It was former Argent frontman Russ Ballard who produced and played most of the instruments on a song he wrote especially for the band, called "You Can Do Magic".
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Richie Furay has been a pioneering force in rock music and country music. A founding member of Buffalo Springfield, Poco, and SHF, he was an innovator of new musical forms, a great songwriter, and last and definitely not least, some of Rock and Roll's best vocals.
Pat Flynn is a well known name, in one way or another, to music fans all over the world. You may recognize him as a member of a groundbreaking musical group, or a first-call Nashville recording session player, or a producer, songwriter, and artist. One thing is for sure: in the last couple of years, Pat has found a way to combine all of these talents and showcase them for you on his latest CD releases. 
Michael Martin Murphey was born in Oak Cliff, Texas, on March 14, 1945, and grew up in Dallas. He had a special love for cowboy stories and songs and also read avidly as a boy -- especially the work of Mark Twain and William Faulkner -- and was writing poetry before he was in his teens. He began performing as an amateur while in junior high school and within a few years was playing the clubs around Dallas in the early '60s, combining country, folk, and rock music. Somehow, despite the inherently conservative nature of all of those audiences, Murphey made it work, and he formed a band with a decent following in the area around Dallas. 
Bluegrass, Newgrass, Gospelgrass, Rock N’ Rollgrass…true innovators like John Cowan break boundaries and personify innovation. John’s ability to take audiences on a musical journey through multiple genres has made him one of the most unique vocal artists of his generation.
Bill Miller is an award-winning recording artist, performer, songwriter, activist, painter, and world-class accomplished flute player. Over the past four years, Miller has produced two incredible albums, received a Grammy Award and led Wisconsin’s La Crosse Symphony Orchestra, a member of the League of American Orchestras. 
Down the Line combines bluegrass instruments, original pop songs and a rock �n� roll attitude to create their unique brand of music. They equate their complex harmonies and folk style to a modern Eagles or Crosby, Stills and Nash. The fall of 2002 saw the release of their debut album, "Welcome to Flavortown," and Down the Line made its jump into the limelight.
