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Road Tested
''Road Tested'' is a live album and first live album by Bonnie Raitt, released in 1995. Track listing ;CD One #"Thing Called Love" (John Hiatt) – 4:48 #"Three Time Loser" (Don Covay, Ronald Dean Miller) – 3:39 #"Love Letter" (Bonnie Hayes) – 4:37 #"Never Make Your Move Too Soon" (Stix Hooper, Will Jennings) – 3:32 #" Something to Talk About" (Shirley Eikhard) – 3:43 #"Matters of the Heart" ( Michael McDonald) – 4:58 #"Shake a Little" (Michael Ruff) – 4:38 #"Have a Heart" (Bonnie Hayes) – 5:45 #"Love Me Like a Man" (Chris Smither) – 5:11 #"The Kokomo Medley" (Mississippi Fred McDowell) – 4:59 #"Louise" (Paul Siebel) – 3:46 #"Dimming of the Day" ( Richard Thompson) – 4:19 ;CD Two #"Longing in Their Hearts" (Bonnie Raitt, Michael O'Keefe) – 5:02 #"Come to Me" (Raitt) – 5:02 #"Love Sneakin' Up On You" (Jimmy Scott, Tom Snow) – 3:52 #"Burning Down the House" (David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth) – 4:21 #"I Can't Make You Love M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Lynn Raitt (; born November 8, 1949) is an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter. In 1971, Raitt released her Bonnie Raitt (album), self-titled debut album. Following this, she released a series of critically acclaimed Americana (music), roots-influenced albums that incorporated elements of blues, rock music, rock, Folk music, folk, and Country music, country. She was also a frequent session player and collaborator with other artists, including Warren Zevon, Little Feat, Jackson Browne, the Pointer Sisters, John Prine, and Leon Russell. In 1989, after several years of limited commercial success, she had a major hit with her tenth studio album, ''Nick of Time (album), Nick of Time'', which included the song "Nick of Time (song), Nick of Time". The album reached number one on the Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200 chart, and won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. It has since been selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Miller (songwriter)
Ronald Norman Miller (October 5, 1932 – July 23, 2007) was an American popular songwriter and record producer who wrote for Motown artists in the 1960s and 1970s and attained many Top 10 hits. Some of his songs, such as " For Once in My Life", have become pop standards. Ron Miller was described by his daughter Lisa as "a young, Jewish songwriter with a very Rodgers & Hammerstein musical theater writing style" who "wrote of peace and hope for a better tomorrow during a time of war and the Civil Rights Movement. He didn't just write about it. He lived it." Biography and career Born as Ronald Norman Gould in Chicago, Ron Miller was the only son of Sue and Harry Gould. Harry died when Miller and his sisters were still very young, and after his mother remarried Joe Miller, Miller adopted his stepfather's surname. Ron Miller served in the U.S. Marines and then sold washing machines before he was discovered by Motown founder Berry Gordy while playing in a bar. After his discover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Sneakin' Up On You
"Love Sneakin' Up On You" is a song by American blues singer Bonnie Raitt. Released in March 1994 by Capitol and EMI from her 12th album, ''Longing in Their Hearts'' (1994), the song topped Canada's ''RPM'' 100 Hit Tracks chart for three weeks and reached number 19 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100. The song also charted in Germany and the United Kingdom. In 1995, it was nominated for both the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and the Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. Irish director Meiert Avis directed the song's music video, which was nominated for Best Clip of the Year in the category for Pop/AC at the 1994 ''Billboard'' Music Video Awards. Critical reception Larry Flick from ''Billboard'' magazine described the song as "a familiar, uptempo stomper that rides on the strength of her well-worn vocal style and funky instrumentation." He added, "With so few things to count on in life, it's comforting to know that you can always rely on Raitt to serve up a tast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael O'Keefe
Michael O'Keefe (born Raymond Peter O'Keefe Jr.; April 24, 1955) is an American actor known for his roles as Danny Noonan in '' Caddyshack''; Ben Meechum in '' The Great Santini,'' for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor; and Darryl Palmer in the Neil Simon movie '' The Slugger's Wife''. He also appeared as Fred on the television sitcom '' Roseanne'' from 1993 to 1995. Early life, family and education Raymond Peter O'Keefe Jr. was born in Mount Vernon, New York, the oldest of seven children in an Irish American family. He is the son of Stephanie (née Fitzpatrick) and Raymond Peter O'Keefe, who was a law professor at Fordham University and who also taught at St. Thomas University. O'Keefe was raised in Larchmont, New York. He graduated from Mamaroneck High School. He attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and New York University. He holds an MFA in creative writing from Bennington College. Career O'Keefe is known for his ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Thompson (musician)
Richard Thompson (born 3 April 1949) is an English singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Thompson first gained prominence in the late 1960s as the lead guitarist and songwriter for the folk rock group Fairport Convention, which he had co-founded in 1967. After departing the group in 1971, Thompson released his debut solo album ''Henry the Human Fly'' in 1972. The next year, he formed a duo with his wife Linda Thompson (singer), Linda Thompson, which produced six albums, including the critically acclaimed ''I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight'' (1974) and ''Shoot Out the Lights'' (1982). After the dissolution of the duo, Thompson revived his solo career with the release of ''Hand of Kindness'' in 1983. He has released eighteen solo studio albums. Three of his albums''Rumor and Sigh'' (1991), ''You? Me? Us?'' (1996), and ''Dream Attic'' (2010)have been nominated for Grammy Awards, while ''Still (Richard Thompson album), Still'' (2015) was his first UK Top Ten album. He continue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dimming Of The Day
Dimness is a measure of an object's luminosity. Dim or dimness may refer to: Computing * .dim, a disk image * A keyword in most versions of the BASIC programming language Chemistry, biology, and medicine * 3,3'-Diindolylmethane, an anticarcinogen compound Organizations * Corporación Deportiva Independiente Medellín, a Colombian football club * Deportivo Independiente Miraflores, a football club based in the city of Miraflores, Lima, Perú * Dialogue Interreligieux Monastique, the European arm of the DIMMID, a movement promoting interfaith dialogue between monastic communities * Dirección de Inteligencia Militar, the military intelligence agency of Venezuela People * Nickname of John Wooldridge (1919–1958), British film music composer and Second World War bomber pilot Places * Dim, Amur Oblast, a rural locality in Amur Oblast, Russia * Dim, Iran, a village in South Khorasan Province Other uses * To Dimmer, dim, verb that means to lower the brightness of light * Dim, a Europ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Siebel
Paul Karl Siebel (September 19, 1937 – April 5, 2022) was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, born in Buffalo, New York. He is best known for other artists' cover versions of his songs, most notably "Louise". Other frequently covered Siebel songs include "Spanish Johnny" (which was originally a poem written by Willa Cather in 1917 and expanded upon by Siebel), "Long Afternoons," "Any Day Woman," "Nashville Again," "She Made Me Lose My Blues," "Then Came the Children" and "Pinto Pony". Biography After serving in the military, Siebel began playing folk clubs, eventually moving to Greenwich Village, where he found support in the coffeehouse circuit. An article in ''The New York Times'' on February 14, 1970, written by Mike Jahn, described Siebel as "a folk singer with a country and western bias ... a 32‐year‐old native of Buffalo and musically a product of the Greenwich Village folk scene" and said that he "sings in high nasal and hillbilly manner, rather like Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mississippi Fred McDowell
Fred McDowell (January 12, 1904 – July 3, 1972), known by his stage name Mississippi Fred McDowell, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist of hill country blues music. Career McDowell was born in Rossville, Tennessee. His parents were farmers, who both died while Fred was in his youth. He took up the guitar at the age of 14 and was soon playing for tips at dances around Rossville. Seeking a change from plowing fields, he moved to Memphis in 1926, where he worked in the Buck-Eye feed mill, which processed cotton into oil and other products.''Delta Blues'' back sleeve Arhoolie F1021 In 1928, he moved to Mississippi to pick cotton. He finally settled in Como, Mississippi, around 1940, where he worked as a full-time farmer for many years while continuing to play music on weekends at dances and picnics. After decades of playing for small local gatherings, McDowell was recorded in 1959 by roving folklore musicologist Alan Lomax and Shirley Collins, on their Southern Journ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Smither
William Christopher Smither (born November 11, 1944) is an American folk/blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter. His music draws deeply from the blues, American folk music, and modern poets and philosophers. Early life, influences and education He was born in Miami, Florida, United States to Catherine (nee Weaver) and William J. Smither. Although Smither does not himself credit family influence for his talents, uncle Howard E. Smither was an award-winning musicologist and author, and father William was a professor of Spanish and Mexican culture. The Smither family lived in Ecuador and the Rio Grande Valley in Texas before settling in New Orleans when Chris was three years old. He grew up in New Orleans, and lived briefly in Paris where he and his twin sister Mary Catherine attended French public school. In Paris Smither got his first guitar, which his father brought him from Spain. Shortly after, the family returned to New Orleans where his father taught at Tulane University. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael McDonald (singer)
Michael H. McDonald (born February 12, 1952) is an American singer, songwriter and keyboardist. Known for his distinctive, Soul music, soulful voice, he was a backing vocalist for Steely Dan from 1975 to 1980 and the lead vocalist of the Doobie Brothers across various stints (1975–1982, 1987, 2019–present). McDonald wrote and sang several hit singles with the Doobie Brothers, including "What a Fool Believes", "Minute by Minute (The Doobie Brothers song), Minute by Minute", "Takin' It to the Streets (song), Takin' It to the Streets", "Real Love (Doobie Brothers song), Real Love" and "It Keeps You Runnin', It Keeps You Runnin'". McDonald has also performed as a prominent backing vocalist on numerous recordings by artists including Steely Dan, Toto_(band), Toto, Christopher Cross, and Kenny Loggins. McDonald's solo career consists of nine studio albums and a number of singles, including the 1982 hit "I Keep Forgettin' (Every Time You're Near)". During his career, McDonald has c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirley Eikhard
Shirley Rose Eikhard (7 November 1955 – 15 December 2022) was a Canadian singer-songwriter. Although moderately successful in Canada as a performer in her own right, she had her greatest Canadian and international success as a songwriter for other artists, most notably as the writer of Bonnie Raitt's 1991 hit " Something to Talk About".David Friend"Canadian songwriter Shirley Eikhard, who penned ‘Something to Talk About,’ dies at 67" ''Toronto Star'', 15 December 2022. Early life Eikhard was born in Sackville, New Brunswick.Cheryl Gillard"Shirley Eikhard" ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'', 4 September 2013. Her mother, June Eikhard (born Marguerite Cameron in Moncton) began her musical career with her husband, Eikhard's late father, bassist Cecil Eikhard, in the 1950s when both parents were members of a small local band, the Tantramar Ramblers. Her mother, June, released her debut album, ''Canada's First Lady of the Fiddle'', in 1959, and was the first woman to participate in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
