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Grace Pool
Grace Pool was an American alternative rock band, the main musical project of singer-songwriter Elly Brown and musician-producer Bob Riley. The band formed in the 1980s and released two studio albums for Reprise Records. Their sound incorporated several influences, chiefly indie folk, dream pop, and new wave music, blending vocal harmonies, acoustic guitars, and drums, with airy synth atmospherics and digital percussion. History 1980–1987: Formation Grace Pool founders Elly Brown and Bob Riley met when they were bandmates in South, a music project featuring the guitarist Lonnie Mack. Brown was already well known for her own bands in the New York club scene, and was hired to sing harmonies and some "girl vocals." Riley had established himself as an in-demand session musician. During the South rehearsals, Brown and Riley wrote the first of many songs together. When South came to a sudden end after the death of the band's founder and patron, Brown and Riley returned to thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indie Folk
Indie folk (also called alternative folk) is an alternative genre of music that arose in the 1990s among musicians from indie rock scenes influenced by folk music. Characteristics The staff of '' Paste Magazine'' said in 2020: "No music genre is particularly easy to define, but “indie folk” is about as nebulous as they come." Indie folk hybridizes the acoustic guitar melodies of traditional folk music with contemporary instrumentation. The lyrical style commonly includes raw emotional experiences, social commentary and an introspective lens. The genre blends the ethos and experimental nature of indie music with the storytelling of folk music. Instruments frequently used in the genre include guitars, banjos, mandolins, and ukuleles. History The genre has its earliest origins in 1990s folk artists who displayed alternative rock influences in their music, such as Ani DiFranco and Dan Bern, and acoustic artists such as Elliott Smith and Will Oldham. In the following deca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Nye
Steve Nye is an English music producer for several artists. Career Nye started out as a tape op at AIR Studios in London in 1971, where producer Rupert Hine discovered him. There he got into engineering (and later producing) many well-known artists in the music industry, including Stevie Wonder, Roxy Music and Frank Zappa. His better known work includes artists such as Fleetwood Mac ( ''Penguin'' in 1973), Bryan Ferry ('' In Your Mind'' in 1977), Penguin Cafe Orchestra, XTC (''Mummer'' in 1983), Japan ('' Tin Drum'' in 1981), David Sylvian (''Brilliant Trees'' in 1984, '' Gone to Earth'' in 1986, '' Secrets of the Beehive'' in 1987), Clannad ('' Macalla'' in 1985), TM Network ('' Carol: A Day in a Girl's Life'' in 1988), Scary Thieves (''Scary Thieves'' in 1984) and Frank Zappa (''Joe's Garage ''Joe's Garage'' is a three-part rock opera released by American musician Frank Zappa in September and November 1979. Originally released as two separate albums on Zappa Record ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Radigan
Terry Radigan is an American country music singer. She has recorded one unreleased album for Asylum Records, and one album for Vanguard Records. Biography Radigan was born in Brooklyn, New York. At age four, she was raised by her grandparents after her mother was diagnosed with cancer. In high school, Radigan formed her own band and performed in local clubs. Before beginning her country career, Radigan was guitarist in the band Grace Pool. She released her debut single "Half a Million Teardrops" via Asylum Records in March 1995. The single was reviewed favorably by ''Billboard'', which praised the "dreamy-but-gritty vocal" and compared Radigan favorably to Emmylou Harris, whose former producer, Brian Ahern, produced the track. Wally Wilson and Mike Henderson wrote the song, which was originally recorded by Holly Dunn on her 1992 album '' Getting It Dunn''. The single was to have been included on an album titled ''Pawnbroker's Daughter'', which was never released. It would have in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
October Project
October Project is an American pop rock band based in New York City. The group reached critical and commercial success with their 1990s Epic Records releases ''October Project'' and ''Falling Farther In''. The group's piano-driven music is characterized by close harmony, close vocal harmonies. The band currently consists of lead vocalist Marina Belica, vocalist Julie Flanders, and keyboardist/vocalist Emil Adler. Flanders and Adler are the primary songwriters. Previous members include vocalist Mary Fahl and guitarist/vocalist David Sabatino. Sabatino occasionally still performs live with the band. Early stages Flanders and Adler began writing songs together while still in their teens growing up in Montclair, NJ. Flanders and Belica met as dormitory roommates at Yale University in New Haven, CT. In their senior year they collaborated with Adler to write the musical revue ''Measure By Measure.'' In 1981 they were accepted as a team into the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
