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Counting Crows is a Berkeley, California band formed in 1991 consisting of Adam Duritz (lead vocals, piano), David Bryson (guitar), Charlie Gillingham (keyboards, piano, accordion), Dan Vickrey (lead guitar), David Immerglück (lead guitar, pedal steel, mandolin, bass guitar), Jim Bogios (drums, percussion) and Millard Powers (bass guitar, piano, guitar).  The band has sold more than 20 million albums worldwide and earned an Academy Award nomination for their song “Accidentally […]

Shawn Colvin’s career as a solo recording artist covers nearly 30 years, although she is perhaps best known for her 1997 Grammy-winning song, “Sunny Came Home.” Colvin is the second of four children. She learned to play guitar at the age of 10 and grew up listening to her father’s collection of music, which included […]

What a man writes in music and with words can reveal the soul within. Rodney Crowell, an American musician known primarily for his work as a singer and songwriter of country songs, was influenced by songwriters Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt. Crowell played guitar and sang for three years in Emmylou Harris’ “Hot Band.” […]

Rita Coolidge is an American recording artist. During the 1970s and 1980s, she charted hits on Billboard magazine’s pop, country, adult contemporary, and jazz charts and won two Grammy Awards with fellow musician and then-husband Kris Kristofferson. “Walking On Water” is the first single from Safe in the Arms of Time, released this year (2018) […]

Charlyn Marie “Chan”  Marshall better known by her stage name Cat Power, is an American singer-songwriter, musician, occasional actress, and model.  Cat Power was originally the name of Marshall’s first band, but has become her stage name as a solo artist.  In sixth grade, she adopted the nickname Chan, which she would later use professionally. Growing up Marshall’s earliest influences […]

Declan Patrick MacManus better known as Elvis Costello is an English musician, singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, author, and occasional actor.  Costello is most associated with the first wave of British punk and new wave that emerged in the late 1970’s.  Costello released his critically acclaimed debut album My Aim Is True in 1977.  Shortly […]

The Claypool Lennon Delirium unites Primus bassist Les Claypool and multi-instrumentalist Sean Lennon.  The experimental psych-rock duo came together while Lennon’s Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger was opening for Primus.  They ended up with a psychedelic pop sound that borrows from Primus’ more progressive moments and Lennon’s sense of experimental rawness. In 2016 the […]

The Cranberries are an Irish rock band formed in Limerick, Ireland in 1989 by guitarist Noel Hogan, bassist Mike Hogan and drummer Fergal Lawler.  Dolores O’Riordan joined the band in 1990 as their lead singer.  The band classify themselves as an alternative rock group, but incorporate aspects of indie pop, post-punk, Irish folk and pop […]