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Jesse Dayton
Jesse Dayton is an American musician, actor and record producer from Austin, Texas best known for his guitar contributions to albums by country musicians including Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and Willie Nelson. He is also notable for his collaborations with horror film director Rob Zombie, who has commissioned Dayton on multiple occasions to record music to accompany his films. Career Dayton was born in Beaumont, Texas, where he was raised on the music of George Jones, Hank Williams, and Lefty Frizzell, all the while harboring an affinity for the spirit of punk with bands like the Clash. After touring with two rockabilly bands, the Road Kings and the Alamo Jets, Dayton ventured off into solo territory, recording his Americana-chart-topping record ''Raisin' Cain''. With Lucinda Williams Dayton performed at Bill Clinton's second inaugural ball. Since then Dayton has released several different solo albums and worked with a variety of country rock artists, most notably Waylon J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beaumont, Texas
Beaumont is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the county seat of Jefferson County, Texas, Jefferson County, within the Beaumont–Port Arthur metropolitan area, located in Southeast Texas on the Neches River about east of Houston (city center to city center). With a population of 115,282 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, Beaumont is the largest municipality by population near the Louisiana border. Its metropolitan area was the List of Texas metropolitan areas, 10th largest in Texas in 2020, and List of metropolitan statistical areas, 130th in the United States. The city of Beaumont was founded in 1838. The pioneer settlement had an economy based on the development of lumber, farming, and port industries. In 1892, Joseph Eloi Broussard opened the first commercially successful rice mill in Texas, stimulating development of rice farming in the area; he also started an irrigation company (since 1933, established as the Lower Neches Valley Authority) to support r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kris Kristofferson
Kristoffer Kristofferson (June 22, 1936 – September 28, 2024) was an American singer, songwriter, and actor. He was a pioneering figure in the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, moving away from the polished Nashville sound and toward a more raw, introspective style. Some of his most famous songs include "Me and Bobby McGee", "For the Good Times (song), For the Good Times", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night", all of which became hits for other artists. Kristofferson was born in Brownsville, Texas; the family relocated to San Mateo, California during his childhood and he was briefly drafted into military service in the early 1960s. After one single for Epic Records, Kristofferson was signed by Monument Records in 1969. Throughout his career, he recorded a total of 10 albums for Monument, two albums for Mercury Records, one album each for Justice Records and Atlantic Records, and two albums each for New West Records and KK Records. In Septe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samantha Fish
Samantha Fish (born January 30, 1989) is an American guitarist and singer-songwriter from Kansas City, Missouri. While often cited as a blues artist, Fish's work features and draws from multiple genres, including Rock music, rock, Country music, country, funk, Bluegrass music, bluegrass, and Sentimental ballad, ballads. Early life and education Fish grew up in the Kansas City area. She started out playing the drums, but switched to guitar when she was 15. Fish's mother was the instructor in a local church choir, and her father played guitar with friends. Initially hearing recordings of Bonnie Raitt and Stevie Ray Vaughan, she later heard music from Tom Petty and the Rolling Stones and cites the Stones' album ''Sticky Fingers'' as an early influence. She and her sister were both drawn towards blues music in their teenage years. Fish regularly went to the Knuckleheads Saloon to hear touring blues artists. After turning 18, she often joined in with the singers and bands who were pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Record Store Day
Record Store Day is a semi-annual event established in 2008 to "celebrate the culture of the independently owned record store". Held on one Saturday (typically the third) every April and every Black Friday in November, the day brings together fans, artists, and thousands of independent record stores around the world. A number of records are pressed specifically for Record Store Day, with a list of releases for each country, and are only distributed to shops participating in the event. The event originated in the United States and has expanded internationally, with official organizers in the United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, Mexico, Europe, Japan, and Australia. Background Originally pitched as an idea to create an event similar to Free Comic Book Day by Bull Moose Music's Chris Brown and Criminal Records' Eric Levin, the concept for Record Store Day was created during a brainstorming session at a meeting of independent record store owners in Baltimore, Maryland. Record Store ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Élan Records
Blue Élan Records is an independent record label based in Los Angeles, California. It was founded by entertainment and insurance lawyer Kirk Pasich, and his son, musician Connor Pasich, in 2014. Stylistically, the label's releases cover Alternative and Indie Rock, Americana, Folk, Blues, Hip Hop, and others. Their artist roster also ranges in age and industry history. History Kirk founded the label with his son, Connor, to release Cindy Alexander's sixth album, ''Curve.'' After contacting artist Cindy Alexander, whom Kirk had met during the production of StarTomorrow, about her recent cancer treatment, she invited him to visit her studio where she was recording her next album. Shortly after their meeting, the label was formed, and ''Curve'' released via Blue Élan Records in 2014. Over the next four years, Blue Élan added Rita Coolidge, Janiva Magness, Jesse Dayton, Rod Melancon, and others to the roster, including Gerry Beckley and Rusty Young. The label gained further ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Supersuckers
The Supersuckers (formerly known as The Black Supersuckers) are an American rock band, formed in 1988, whose music is influenced by both hard rock and country. AllMusic describes the band as "the bastard sons of Foghat, AC/DC, and ZZ Top after being weaned on punk rock, unafraid of massive guitar riffs, outsized personalities, or pledging allegiance to sex, weed, and Satan with a wink and a nudge." Bassist/singer Eddie Spaghetti (real name Edward Daly) leads the band and is its only constant member. Their current lineup also includes guitarist Marty Chandler and drummer Christopher von Streicher. Their most recent album, '' Play That Rock N' Roll'', was released in February 2020. History The Supersuckers were formed in late 1988 as The Black Supersuckers in Tucson, Arizona, first playing traditional punk rock. The original line-up was Edward "Eddie Spaghetti" Daly on bass, Dan "Thunder" Bolton and Ron "Rontrose" Heathman on guitars, Dan Siegel (who later used the stage name Dan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Zoom
Billy Zoom (born Stuart Tyson Kindell; February 20, 1948) is an American guitarist, best known as one of the founders of the punk rock band X. Early life The son of a big band woodwinds player, Kindell began playing a variety of instruments, including violin, accordion, piano, clarinet, tenor, alto, and baritone saxophones, flute, banjo, and guitar. Upon moving to Los Angeles in the 1960s, he worked as a session guitarist while attending technical school for training in electronics repair. He has a reputation as an expert in the maintenance, restoration, and modification of vintage tube amplifiers and combo organs. He has performed custom technical work on the amps for a host of electric guitarists and bassists. Career After submitting a string of demos to every record label he could find under his name Ty Kindell, he chose his stage name to get attention from executives who may have already rejected him. Zoom is best known as a guitarist and founding member of punk rock ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
X (American Band)
X was an American punk rock band formed in Los Angeles. The original members are vocalist Exene Cervenka, vocalist-bassist John Doe (musician), John Doe, guitarist Billy Zoom and drummer D. J. Bonebrake. The band released seven studio albums from 1980 to 1993. After a period of inactivity during the mid-to-late 1990s, X reunited in the early 2000s and continued to tour. In June 2024, X announced a final album and farewell tour. X achieved limited mainstream success but influenced various genres of music, including punk rock, Americana (music), Americana, and folk rock. In 1991, Music critic Robert Hilburn identified them as one of the most influential bands of their era. In 2003, X's first two studio albums, ''Los Angeles (X album), Los Angeles'' and ''Wild Gift'', were ranked by ''Rolling Stone'' as being among the Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, 500 greatest albums of all time. ''Los Angeles'' was ranked 91st on ''Pitchfork (website), Pitchfork''s Top 100 Albu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Doe (musician)
John Nommensen Duchac (born February 25, 1953), known professionally as John Doe, is an American singer, songwriter, actor, poet, guitarist and bass player. Doe co-founded LA punk band X, of which he is still an active member. His musical performances and compositions span rock, punk, country and folk music genres. As an actor, he has dozens of television appearances and several movies to his credit, including the role of Jeff Parker in the television series '' Roswell''. In addition to X, Doe performs with the country-folk-punk band the Knitters and has released records as a solo artist. In the early 1980s, he performed on two albums by the Flesh Eaters. Career Music Doe moved to Los Angeles, California, and in 1976 met guitar player Billy Zoom through an ad in the local free weekly paper, '' The Recycler.'' As a musician with X, Doe has two feature-length concert films, several music videos, and an extended performance-and-interview sequence in ''The Decline of Western ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sid Haig
Sidney Eddie Mosesian (July 14, 1939 – September 21, 2019), known professionally as Sid Haig, was an American actor. He was known for his appearances in horror films, most notably his role as Captain Spaulding in the Rob Zombie films '' House of 1000 Corpses'', '' The Devil's Rejects'' and '' 3 from Hell''. Haig's Captain Spaulding, and Haig himself, have been called icons of horror cinema. Haig had a leading role on the television series '' Jason of Star Command'' as the villain Dragos. He appeared in many television programs, including '' The Untouchables'', ''Batman'', ''Gunsmoke'', '' Mission: Impossible'', '' Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman'', ''Star Trek'', ''Get Smart'', ''Mannix'', '' The Rockford Files'', '' Charlie's Angels'', '' Fantasy Island'', '' Buck Rogers in the 25th Century'', '' The Dukes of Hazzard'', ''The A-Team'', ''MacGyver'', and '' Emergency!''. Haig also had roles in several of Jack Hill's blaxploitation films from the 1970s. Early life Haig was born in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lew Temple
Lew Temple (born October 2, 1967) is an American actor known for roles in ''Domino'' and ''Waitress'', and for playing Axel in the third season of '' The Walking Dead''. Early life Temple was raised in Texas. He was the 1982 Baseball MVP at Rollins College, and graduated in 1985. Career Baseball Though he was not good enough for the big leagues, he continued with his love for baseball, snagging roles as a minor league bullpen catcher for the Seattle Mariners and Houston Astros. In 1986, he was a scout for the New York Mets, and would later go on to serve as assistant director of Minor League Operations and Scouting for the Astros until 1993. Acting Film Temple has had several film roles in the horror genre, appearing in Rob Zombie's horror film, '' The Devils Rejects'' as Adam Banjo, portraying Sheriff Winston in the prequel to the remake of ''The Texas Chain Saw Massacre'' and as Noel Kluggs in Rob Zombie's slasher film, ''Halloween''. Temple played Marv in '' Trailer Park ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm McDowell
Malcolm McDowell (born Malcolm John Taylor; 13 June 1943) is an English actor. He first became known for portraying Mick Travis in Lindsay Anderson's ''if....'' (1968), a role he later reprised in ''O Lucky Man!'' (1973) and ''Britannia Hospital'' (1982). His performance in ''if....'' prompted Stanley Kubrick to cast him as Alex (A Clockwork Orange), Alex in ''A Clockwork Orange (film), A Clockwork Orange'' (1971), the role for which McDowell became best known. McDowell's other notable film credits include ''The Raging Moon'' (1971), ''Voyage of the Damned'' (1976), ''Time After Time (1979 film), Time After Time'' (1979), ''Caligula (film), Caligula'' (1979), ''Cat People (1982 film), Cat People'' (1982), ''Blue Thunder'' (1983), ''The Caller (1987 film), The Caller'' (1987), ''Star Trek Generations'' (1994), ''Tank Girl (film), Tank Girl'' (1995), ''Mr. Magoo (film), Mr. Magoo'' (1997), ''I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2003 film), I'll Sleep When I'm Dead'' (2003), ''The Company (fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
