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<title>Elvis Costello</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Elvis Costello exploded on the late-1970s music scene as part of a new wave of brash singer/songwriters who reinvigorated the literate, lyrical traditions of Bob Dylan and Van Morrison with the raw energy and sass that were principal ethics of punk. Early in his career, Costello listed "revenge and guilt" as his primary motivations, but what really counted was the construction of his songs, which set densely layered wordplays in an ever-expanding repertoire of styles. Since Costello's melodic instincts were as sure as his gifts as a lyricist, his musical experiments generally drew kudos, enhancing his reputation as a quintessential critics' favorite. (Rock singer David Lee Roth once remarked that critics liked the bespectacled, nerdy Costello because they all looked liked him.) Granted, some members of the pop intelligentsia never forgave Costello for moving beyond the brazen minimalist urgency of his early seminal albums; but it's just this progress that has allowed the singer to remain a relevant, respected artist.
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Elvis Costello's (b. Declan Patrick MacManus, August 25th, 1954, Paddington, London) father was a successful big-band singer and trumpet player. While attending Catholic school in working-class London, Costello tried playing violin and several other instruments before discovering the guitar at 15, at which point he was already interested in songwriting. Soon after, he moved to Liverpool to live with his mother, who had divorced his father. In the early 1970s, he and his high school sweetheart married and had a son, settling in London. There, Costello continued to write, record demos, and perform (sometimes under the name D.C. Costello, his mother's maiden name), while supporting his family as a computer operator. In 1975 he quit his job, became a roadie for Brinsley Schwarz, and became friendly with their bass player, Nick Lowe. Stiff Records signed Costello in 1976 on the advice of staff producer Lowe; one of the label's owners, Jake Riviera, became his manager and rechristened him Elvis Costello.
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Costello's first single, "Less Than Zero," was released in April 1977 and later included on his phenomenal Lowe-produced debut <I>My Aim Is True</I>. Soon Top 20 in England, <I>Aim</I> (Number 32 U.S.) made Costello a major British cult star and attracted critical kudos in the U.S. The now-classic album, which included one of popular music's best-ever heartbreak songs in "Alison," as well as the haunting "Watching the Detectives, and the melodically-addictive "(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes" was recorded with the Northern California band Clover &#8212; a group that would form the basis of Huey Lewis and the News &#8212; and made in six sessions for under $2,000.
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Costello then assembled the Attractions: keyboardist Steve "Nieve" Nason, drummer Pete Thomas, and bassist Bruce Thomas. Bolstered by his new cohorts on <I>This Year's Model</I> (Number 30, 1978), he rocked harder, while maintaining his distinctively wounded, clipped vocal delivery. Meanwhile, his "angry young man" image was amplified by punk-friendly habits like onstage rudeness, brief sets, and an aversion to the press. His next release, the Top 10 <I>Armed Forces</I> (originally titled <I>Emotional Facism</I>), repeatedly equated love affairs with military maneuvers ("Oliver's Army"). By then Costello's style encompassed lush, Beatlesque arrangements and more diverse influences.
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While he toured the U.S. to promote <I>Armed Forces</I> in 1979, Costello's onstage contrariness and dark moods &#8212; sometimes induced by drinking &#8212; reached alarming proportions. In Columbus, Ohio, that March, a minor but much-publicized conflict with American singers Bonnie Bramlett and Stephen Stills occurred in a hotel bar after an inebriated Costello reportedly disparaged Ray Charles with a racial epithet. Besides tainting his work with the Rock Against Racism organization, this outburst brought the wrath of the previously supportive press &#8212; though he subsequently issued a formal apology. Costello lay low for a while, producing the Specials' 1979 debut and appearing at the Concert for Kampuchea.
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<I>Trust</I> (Number 28, 1981) brought Costello back to frontline duty with a more piano-based songs and an accompanying American tour that revealed an uncharacteristically polite and reserved stage manner, as if experience had mellowed the performer, who was still in his mid-20s. His touring partners were Squeeze, a critically acclaimed pop band whose 1981 LP <I>East Side Story</I> Costello co-produced. Later that same year Costello released <I>Almost Blue</I> (Number 50), an album of country & western covers recorded in Nashville that got mixed reviews. (A C&W aficionado, Costello later re-covered a version of his "Stranger in the House" with George Jones, while Costello's songs have been covered by Dave Edmunds and Linda Ronstadt.)
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<I>Imperial Bedroom</I> (Number 30, 1982), in contrast, earned raves. Full of wry, elegant, haunted ballads, the extraordinary album marked Costello's most sophisticated pop craftsmanship yet, garnering comparisons to such pre-rock bards as Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart. With 1983's <I>Punch the Clock</i> (Number 24), Costello continued to move beyond the punk minimalism of his early work, serving up soulful, accessible pop ("Everyday I Write the Book," a Top 40 U.S hit and "Everyday I Write the Book with Daryl Hall.) and serious balladry (the politically astute "Shipbuilding"). While less consistent, 1984's <I>Goodbye Cruel World</I> (Number 35) also found him diversifying in this vein.
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Costello's personal life was also undergoing changes. Estranged from his wife, he struck up a relationship with the Pogues' bassist Caitlin O'Riordan while the Irish band toured with him in the fall of 1984. (Costello also produced the Pogues' 1985 album, <I>Rum, Sodomy & the Lash</I>.) Costello divorced his wife in 1985 and married O'Riordan in 1986. Also in 1986, Costello temporarily traded in the Attractions for a pickup band he called the Confederates &#8212; former Elvis Presley musicians guitarist James Burton, drummer Ronnie Tutt, and bassist Jerry Scheff &#8212; who appeared with him on all but one cut (on which the Attractions appeared) on the lushly melodic <I>King of America</I> (Number 39). Later that same year, Costello reenlisted the Attractions for the more raucous <I>Blood and Chocolate</I> (Number 84). The tour to promote both these albums alternated between sets featuring the Attractions, the Confederates, and Costello performing solo, acoustically. In addition, Costello designed the Spinning Songbook, a device through which audience members could "choose," by luck of the draw, songs from his vast repertoire.
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In 1987 Costello co-wrote a bunch of songs with Paul McCartney, several of which materialized two years later on <I>Spike</I> (Number 32). Costello's 1989 album &#8212; which also included support from Roger McGuinn, Chrissie Hynde, and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band &#8212; produced a Top 20 hit in the McCartney-Costello collaboration "Veronica" (Number 19, 1989) and went gold. Some critics found <I>Spike</I> inconsistent, though, preferring the subsequent collection <I>Girls Girls Girls</I>, on which Costello chronicled his career thus far with his own favorite material.
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Much like <I>Spike</i>, 1991's <I>Mighty Like a Rose</I> (Number 55) was made without the Attractions, and was perceived as lacking focus. In 1993, though, Costello found a new sense of direction in perhaps his most ambitious project yet: <I>The Juliet Letters</I> (Number 125), a song cycle he wrote and performed with the string players in England's Brodsky Quartet, inspired by an article about letters sent to Shakespeare's character Juliet Capulet, received by a Veronese academic. The album and subsequent tour drew wild praise from some, while baffling or putting off others. Meanwhile, in the 1990s, Rykodisc began releasing the early Costello albums on compact disc, with extra tracks consisting of live and previously unreleased recordings.
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In 1994 Costello reunited with the Attractions for <I>Brutal Youth</I> (which also featured Nick Lowe); the maturely rocking results garnered almost unanimous acclaim, and the album climbed to Number 34. That summer, Costello began touring with the Attractions, marking a reconciliation between Costello and bassist Bruce Thomas, whose published memoirs had enraged the singer. In 1995 Costello was back on his own (with some help from Attractions drummer Pete Thomas and a handful of studio musicians) with <I>Kojak Variety</I> (Number 102), a cover album featuring songs by Screamin' Jay Hawkins and Bob Dylan, among others.
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The following year Costello covered himself on <I>All This Useless Beauty</I> (Number 53), which highlighted several original Costello songs that had been recorded by other artists. Also in 1996 the cynical Costello surprised critics and fans by collaborating with '60s love-song composer Burt Bacharach for the soundtrack to the film <I>Grace of My Heart</I>. Their co-written effort, "God Give Me Strength," was featured in the movie, nominated for a Grammy, and paved the way for the duo to write enough songs to record their own album, <I>Painted From Memory</I> (1998). A track from that album, "I Still Have That Other Girl," won the pair a Grammy for Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals. Costello and Bacharach became so well known as artistic partners that they appeared together in a cameo as themselves in the comedy <I>Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me</I> in 1999. Costello lightened up enough to appear as himself in the Spice Girls movie <I>Spice World</I> (1997) and the 1980s nostalgia flick <I>200 Cigarettes</I> (1999).
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Costello continues to tour, sometimes as a duo with Attractions keyboardist Nieve. He has recorded with his son Matthew and Supergrass drummer Danny Goffrey. In the late 1990s and 2000, he contributed original songs to movie soundtracks and returned to dabbling in classical music: He played on classical saxophonist John Harle's 1997 album <I>Terror & Magnificence</I> and in 2000 produced songs for Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter.
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In 2001, Rhino Records began an ambitious overhaul of the singer's catalog up to 1996, reissuing all of his albums with each set containing extensive liner notes written by Costello and an extra disc of rare tracks. That same year, he got a residency to teach music at the University of California in Los Angeles. He also teamed up with old pals Thomas and Nieve on a new album, <I>When I Was Cruel</I>, released in 2002 on Island Records. The following year, Costello released an album of pop ballads, <I>North</I>. In 2004, he was extremely prolific, collaborating with his new wife, jazz singer Diana Krall, on her album <I>The Girl in the Other Room</I>, and releasing two discs of his own: <I>Il Sogno</I>, an orchestral work based on Shakespeare's <I>A Midsummer Night's Dream</I>, and a more straight-ahead roots-rock album, <I>The Delivery Man</I>. The latter featured his new group the Imposters – the Attractions with a different bass player, Davey Faragher, formerly of Cracker.
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In 2005, Costello was commissioned to write a chamber opera for the Danish Royal Opera. In 2006, Costello released a live album with a jazz orchestra and collaborated with New Orleans music legend Allen Toussaint on an R&B album inspired by the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. In late 2007, Costello reunited with Clover, the backing band on his debut album <I>My Aim is True</I>, for a benefit show at San Francisco's Great American Music Hall. It was their first live performance.
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In 2008 Costello began taping episodes for a forthcoming talk and music show entitled <I>Spectacle: Elvis Costello with...!</I> for the Sundance Channel featuring diverse music guests such as Smokey Robinson, Rufus Wainwright, Kristofferson, Herbie Hancock, and Jenny Lewis.]]></description>
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<title>Nick Lowe</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Name anything good about Indie rock -- chances are Nick Lowe did it first. He's been writing witty and literate pop ditties since the early 1970s. He was helping young punks do it themselves decades before Lo-Fi existed. And he latched on to country music when Jeff Tweedy was still in junior high. (Lowe's take on Alt-Country is so authentic, he was actually Johnny Cash's son-in-law for a little while.) Maybe he'd be a superstar if he could stop amusing himself with clever puns (he named one EP <I>Bowi</I> in a convoluted take-off of that artist's <I>Low</I>), but it's more likely that a talent like Lowe's was doomed to cult-dom from the beginning. If you like your music smart, idiosyncratic and deceptively simple, give him a chance.
- Tim Quirk]]></description>
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<title>The Stranglers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Upon arrival, the Stranglers were perhaps inappropriately corralled into London's boisterous Punk camp. Like many Punk bands, they specialized in offensive, woman-baiting song lyrics and chord-defacing guitar speed, and they were notorious for mercilessly hectoring their fans who appeared to enjoy the abuse. But though they've been around long enough to witness the style's evolution through its Pre- and Post- phases, calling the Stranglers "Punk" dilutes the term's precision. In the band's early days, they sounded more like a faster, harder Dr. Feelgood than the Sex Pistols and later they started to sound more and more like Phil Collins-Genesis for goths. Between the band's first incendiary LP, <i>Rattus Norvegicus</i> (preceding the arrival of the Pistols' <i>Never Mind the Bollocks</i> by a number of months), and 1986's flame-retardant <i>Dreamtime</i> there is a world of difference. Over their quarter century career in music these quasi-Punk dinosaurs seem to be going the way of all dinosaurs by slowly calcifying into fossils.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Dave Edmunds</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Arguably more respected as a producer than a solo performer, former Rockpile member Dave Edmunds' Midas touch helped launch the careers of the Flamin' Groovies, Nick Lowe, the Stray Cats, the Fabulous Thunderbirds and k.d. lang. At the outset of his career in the early 1970s, Edmunds set himself against the roaring currents of Prog Rock effusiveness and laconic Punk bile, choosing instead to re-travel routes forged by performers like Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry. With exacting precision, Edmunds revived the clean melodic lines and pure pop sensibilities of early rock 'n' roll standards. Ironically, his one hit song -- "I Hear You Knockin'" -- is almost entirely unrepresentative of the remainder of his output. Enduring solo performer, collaborator with Graham Parker and Nick Lowe, and highly esteemed producer, musical factotum Dave Edmunds has remained over the course of his long career a tireless advocate of the oldie-but-goodie sounds of the '50s and early '60s.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Graham Parker</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:14:40 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[It ain't easy being an angry young man. Graham Parker was overshadowed by his fellow English new wavers Elvis Costello and Joe Jackson in the late 1970s. They all shared a penchant for witty, snide lyrics and strong hooks, and for marrying pop songcraft with punk's roar. However, unlike the other two, Parker has always clung to his English pub rock roots. <i>Squeezing Out Sparks</i>, from 1979, was such a good album that it enabled him to cross over to AOR radio, but while his material has remained strong, he has been unable to build on that success since then. Like Nick Lowe, he seems to be both too mainstream and too eccentric for mass success.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Sarah Borges</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sarah Borges and her perfectly named backer-uppers, the Broken Singles, are a rockabilly-alt-country act unafraid to glam up or torch out their rocky-relationship songs. Basically, the foursome sounds more like they're from Austin than Boston. And sure enough, a South by Southwest gig in 2004 is what first got them signed. They've been tearing up the road ever since, while releasing increasingly energetic albums. The band's much-vaunted punk influence has been overstated, however. Borges herself is a musical theater grad, and it shows, both in her restrained phrasing of loungier ballads and in the band's rather refined choice of cover material: Tom Waits, Tommy Dorsey, Magnetic Fields, and X in their gothic roots phase. Borges' drama experience comes through in her hilariously animated stage persona, too, and the seasoned twang team behind her ensures that the tougher tunes can rowdy up a pub like prime Carlene Carter. By 2009's <i>The Stars Are Out</i>, they switched gears toward bar-band new wave, which, even if alt-country purists balked at it, increased the music's excitement level.
- Chuck Eddy]]></description>
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<title>Those Darlins</title>
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<category>Cowpunk</category>
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<description><![CDATA[South Carolina bassist Kelley and Kentucky guitarist Jessi got together in the mid-'00s at the Southern Girls Rock & Roll Camp, founded by Kelley in Murfreesboro , Tennessee . Not long after, they were joined by Virginia-raised baritone ukulele plucker Nikki. At that point, they were a cowpunk power trio, all sharing the fake surname Darlin. In 2006, they commenced performing inebriated live gigs during which crowd members noted their raucous hick energy, three-way harmonies, less-then-reverent wit, ability to trade instruments, shapely gams and snazzy cowboy boots. By 2008, the Darlins were showcasing their hot-mama hybrid of old-timey white blues, rockabilly and pub-rock on disc: A three-song teaser EP was highlighted by numbers about living snaggle-toothed in a middle-of-nowhere shack and about coming home after too many drinks and devouring an entire chicken found in the fridge. A four-song live and "field recording" CD-R added renditions of "Tom Dooley" and Ernest Tubb's "Nails in My Coffin." Their uproarious debut album, produced with chamber-pop additives by Jeff Curtin, but sounding nothing like his more famous studio understudies Vampire Weekend, followed in 2009.
- Chuck Eddy]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 1 Aug 2009 10:41:44 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Frankie Miller</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:31:49 -0800</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:57:47 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Ian Gomm</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:43:53 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Ian Gomm spent five years in behind-the-scenes positions at EMI before trading his day job for the bright lights of the stage in 1970. Gomm often jokes that he quit his job on a Friday and by Monday he was hired as the rhythm guitarist and additional singer for the highly influential band Brinsley Schwarz. At the time, Brinsely Schwarz were playing country-tinged pub-rock and were managed by ex-Jimi Hendrix tour manager Dave Robinson -- who would go on to form Stiff Records. Gomm's musical arrangements and solid musicianship helped build Brinsley Schwarz into the venue-packing band they became before calling it quits in 1975. After the split, Gomm retreated to Wales and built a home studio where he recorded the songs for his debut solo album, <I>Summer Holiday</I>. Released in 1978 on the new indie label Albion, <I>Summer Holiday</I> barely registered a blip on the U.K.'s musical radar. But when the same album (renamed <I>Gomm With the Wind</I>) was released in America the following year, Gomm found himself with a bona fide smash thanks to the song "Hold On." Gomm's star was definitely on the rise; as "Hold On" peaked at No. 12 on the U.S. charts, he was offered the opening slot on the Dire Straits tour. In addition, country music icon Glenn Campbell recorded a version of "Hooked On Love" and Nick Lowe found fame with "Cruel To Be Kind," a song co-written by Gomm back in the Brinsley Schwarz days. Although his sophomore effort <I>What A Blow</I> didn't yield a hit, the single "Man On A Mountain" did respectably enough to lead to a third album, 1982's <I>The Village Voice</I>. He's released material sporadically throughout the 1980s and '90s, but Gomm's success never reached the commercial peak of his debut.
- Linda Ryan]]></description>
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<title>Ian Dury</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:31:47 -0800</pubDate>
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- Neil West]]></description>
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<title>The Only Ones</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:39:53 -0700</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:55:47 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Teeth are a Philadelphia power pop quartet fronted by twin brothers Peter and Aaron MoDavis, who formed the band in 2001. After a revolving cast of sidemen, they settled on guitarist Brian Ashby and drummer and Jonas Oesterle. The band's early releases showed an affinity for Elvis Costello, Queen, and the Knack and featured the close harmonies of the MoDavis brothers. After issuing a pair of records including the quietly celebrated 2005 effort <i>Carry The Wood</i>, they were picked up by Park the Van label for the 2007 release of <i>You're My Lover Now</i>.
- Nate Cavalieri]]></description>
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<title>Steve Harley</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 1 Dec 2009 09:47:56 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Tenpole Tudor</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:27:59 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Eddie and the Hot Rods</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:56:06 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>The Gorillas</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:09:21 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Brinsley Schwarz</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 3 Oct 2009 10:45:54 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Brinsley Schwarz could have been one of the most successful bands of the 1970s, but it was not destined to be. Instead they became the guiding light of the English back-to-basics Pub Rock movement and were a big pub, club and college draw all over Britain -- even if their records didn't exactly storm the charts. Handling everything from Psychedelic-tinged Folk Pop and R&B-infused country to R&B and straight-up rock 'n' roll, they dropped the self-important pretensions of bands such as the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd in favor of songs about typical English pleasures. Their best recordings were crammed onto the excellent compilation <i>Surrender to the Rhythm</i> (1991), and vocalist Nick Lowe wrote songs such as "Cruel to Be Kind" and "(What's So Funny 'bout) Peace, Love and Understanding" during this time. Although they were named for their lead guitarist, Lowe was the real force behind the band.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Chris Spedding</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:39:04 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Spedding had a hit single in the late 1970s with his punked-up Rockabilly song "Motorbikin'," but he's best known as a ubiquitous session guitarist and sideman. He's worked with an incredible list of stars and played on numerous hit records for artists such as Elton John, Roxy Music, Donovan, The Sex Pistols, and Robert Gordon to name just a few. He's a rare player who is able to project his own sound whether playing country, rock, Funk, blues or whatever is called for.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:56:09 -0700</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:09:07 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Pub Rock</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:08:12 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Dr. Feelgood enjoyed greater commercial success than any other Pub Rock band. It's difficult not to love them still for the way they pulled down '70s rock's fancy pants and gave the big boys a schooling in rock's roots. Dr. Feelgood dusted off good old Bo Diddley beats and duck-walking guitar leads for a rehauled Flamin' Groovies sound that was as old as rock itself, but still felt fresh. With their "keep it simple" credo, they indirectly cleared the way for Punk, even if musically they kept their eyes on the rear view mirror instead of watching the road ahead.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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