(Vocal/instrumental group, 1992–present) Formed in 1992 by Gavin Rossdale, (guitar, vocals), Dave Parsons (bass), Nigel Pulsford (guitar) and Robin Goodridge (drums), Bush were playing UK dives when signed by American label Interscope. The grunge-powered sound of their debut album Sixteen Stones (1994) received heavy rotation on American radio – with equally healthy sales – after the breakthrough ‘Everything ...
(Vocals, guitar, b. 1935) Bush is best known for writing ‘Whiskey River’, for Willie Nelson, who used it to open and close every concert from the mid-1970s onwards. But Bush was a favourite of Texas audiences from the early 1950s through to the early twenty-first century with his vigorous dancehall brand of honky-tonk. He played in the bands ...
(Singer-songwriter, piano b. 1958) Catherine ‘Kate’ Bush CBE was the first female singer to top the UK charts with a self-penned song (‘Wuthering Heights’, 1978). She is a versatile and sometimes surreal songwriter whose work involves adventurous sound experimentation. The subject matter of her songs has embraced everything from Emily Brontë’s characters to controversial psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich (‘Cloudbusting’, 1985). Often ...
In 1981, Sam Bush (mandolin, vocals, b. 1952) lost half of his band, The New Grass Revival, to road weariness. Courtney Johnson (banjo, 1939–96) and Curtis Burch (guitar, vocals, b. 1945) were exhausted by the tours with Leon Russell and the club and festival dates in between. So Bush and his remaining partner ...
Composed: 1930–32 Premiered: 1957, Zurich Libretto by the composer Act I Moses prays in the desert. He is answered by voices from the Burning Bush telling him to become a prophet and the leader of the Israelites. He pleads that he does not have the eloquence to explain God’s will in terms they can understand, but is told that ...
Tony Garnier, fiddler Link Davis, singer Mary Ann Price and steel guitarist Cindy Cashdollar. Styles & Forms | Country Rock & The Outlaws | Country Personalities | Johnny Bush | Country Rock & The Outlaws | Country ...
In 2006, he undertook a farewell world tour, but since then, the performances, and awards and accolades, have mounted. In 2006, President George W. Bush awarded King the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2007, King was awarded an honorary doctorate in music by Brown University. In 2009, Time named B.B. King third ...
Hayride. Knight released two solo albums, including 1998’s The Northeast Kingdom, co-produced by Steve Earle. Styles & Forms | Alt. Country & The Bluegrass Revival Personalities | Sam Bush & Bela Fleck | Alt. Country & The Bluegrass Revival ...
Alive’ 1988 New Jersey, ‘Bad Medicine’ 1992 ‘Keep The Faith’ 1994 ‘Always’ 1995 These Days 2000 ‘It’s My Life’ Styles & Forms | Eighties | Rock Personalities | Kate Bush | Eighties | Rock ...
(Vocals, b. 1969) After finding success with the ska-punk/balladry of band No Doubt, Californian Stefani went out on her own to attempt a solo career away from the genre. After a 2001 smash single with Eve, ‘Let Me Blow Ya Mind’, she worked with dance and hip hop producers such as Dr. Dre and the ever-popular Neptunes, ...
The most mercurial guitarist of his generation, Jeff Beck (b. 1944) has never conformed to the conventional image of a guitar hero. He has repeatedly left or broken up bands before their commercial potential could be realized. He restlessly changes style from one album to the next, refusing to be tied down musically. And his live appearances are intermittent. ...
an eagerly awaited second album ended in May 1997 when Buckley drowned in the Mississippi River. Posthumous releases and acclaim followed. Styles & Forms | Nineties | Rock Personalities | Bush | Nineties | Rock ...
US rapper is fraught with controversy. Never one to hide his political or religious views, the star claims to be a born-again Christian, and publicly denounced George W. Bush on television. Thankfully, West’s music is worthy of the headlines; his four albums to date having garnered 12 Grammys and critical acclaim. Styles & Forms | Twenty-First Century | ...
songs became country music. Australia lacked the African, German and Mexican influences that shaped American country music, but it had a strong oral-poetry tradition that led to the bush ballads, the down-under equivalent of cowboy songs. Australian Alt. Country Tex Morton recorded the first Australian country songs in 1936 in the style of his hero Jimmie Rodgers and ...
UK and US charts with its Drake tribute ‘Life In A Northern Town’. In the early Nineties, Drake was frequently cited as an influence by artists such as Kate Bush, Paul Weller and the Black Crowes. In 1998 the documentary film A Stranger Amongst Us brought Drake more fans, and in 2000 Volkswagen featured the title track from ...
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