going platinum. Vitalogy (1994) confirmed their position as one of the biggest bands in America. Rather than plough one musical furrow, on subsequent albums like No Code (1996) Pearl Jam vastly expanded their musical references to include folk and even world music. In an effort to defeat bootleggers they also released 25 double live albums in 2002, of which ...
(Vocal/instrumental group, 1972–82) A three-piece from Woking, Surrey, The Jam comprised Paul Weller (guitar, vocals), Bruce Foxton (bass, vocals) and Rick Buckler (drums). Emerging with punk, the band embraced the movement’s energy but scorned its negative aspects. After a promising debut In The City (1977), the follow-up This Is The Modern World (1977) was rushed ...
Princeton, New Jersey native Trey Anastasio (b. 1964) became the star of the jam-band resurgence through his prolific work both with his band Phish and a multitude of side projects. Phish’s initial touring and recording life spanned from 1983 to 2000, experienced a hiatus from 2000 to 2003 and dissolved in 2004, before regrouping in 2009. Inheriting the ...
such as The Dead’s Anthem Of The Sun and American Beauty; and The Allmans’ Idlewild South and Eat A Peach. Musical Eclecticism During the 1990s, a new generation of jam bands emerged. Taking their lead from The Dead and The Allmans, while fusing anything from rock, soul and jazz to bluegrass and worldbeat, groups such as The ...
the march or sugar-plantation workers all started this way. Jazz, pop and folk music have this spontaneity, too, with a great tradition of musicians getting together for jam sessions. Alternatively, a composer, arranger or producer might assemble a certain combination of instruments to best serve the musical vision they have in mind. They might think of ...
with far lengthier numbers that were often distinguished by extended instrumental solos. In so doing, they paved the way for subsequent decades’ purveyors of heavy metal, progressive, jam and arena rock. Yet even though this was largely touted as music for the mind rather than for the body, it wasn’t long before the record companies tried to ...
and rock stardom in the early 1980s, and invited King to open many important shows. In 1983 they appeared together on Hamilton, Ontario television station CHCH. The ensuing jam and conversation eventually became the CD Albert King With Stevie Ray Vaughan (1999). In Paradise Although King never regained the level of commercial success he’d achieved with Stax in the ...
for the first time, Hogan’s Heroes, with whom he still tours regularly. Although not well known to the general public, Hogan’s Heroes regularly attracts star names to jam with them. Lee has also worked frequently with Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings. Because of his long association with the Fender instrument, Lee has become known as ‘Mr Telecaster’, although ...
Ponty and the progressive-rock supergroup UK. By the late Seventies, Holdsworth decided to pursue a solo career and released his first album, I.O.U. (1982). An awe-inspiring jam with Eddie Van Halen led to a deal with Warner Bros., which released Holdsworth’s now-classic Road Games in 1983. Up to that point, Holdsworth had used primarily Fender ...
(Vocal/instrumental group, 1988–present) This New York jam band initially favoured the extended blues rock format made popular by The Grateful Dead. John Popper (vocals, harmonium), Chan Kinchla (guitar), Bobby Sheehan (bass) and Brendan Hills (drums) built a solid following that was vastly amplified when aptly named fourth album – Four (1995) – sold four million copies on the back ...
on the 1963 classic Folk Singer and fell into a partnership with vocalist and harmonica player Junior Wells, with whom he recorded Hoodoo Man Blues (1965) and Southside Blues Jam (1967) on Delmark. Although he could not break out of the Chicago scene, Guy became known for his great live delivery (hanging from rafters and playing with his teeth), ...
The W.C. Handy Award-winning duo patterned itself after Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee. Guitarist John ‘Bowling Green’ Cephas (b. 1930) and ‘Harmonica’ Phil Wiggins (b. 1954) met at a jam session in Washington, DC and began performing together in 1978. They toured the globe on a US State Department tour and recorded throughout the 1980s, while their most ...
Christian was a natural, however, and soon was gigging around the Midwest. By 1936, he was playing electric guitar and had become a regional attraction. He would jam with stars travelling through Oklahoma City, among them Teddy Wilson and Art Tatum. It was jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams who told producer John Hammond about Christian. Christian auditioned ...
the classic pieces originating in the Goodman groups: ‘Air Mail Special’, ‘Seven Come Eleven’, ‘Shivers’, ‘A Smooth One’ and others. Away from the Goodman Sextet, Christian’s appetite for the jam session was voracious. Several warm-ups were caught during his Columbia sessions, and he took part in a dazzling jam at Carnegie Hall with Count Basie, Lester Young and ...
wandering into the wrong bar. He had his biggest hit in 1979 with ‘The Devil Went Down To Georgia’. Daniels gave the southern-rock movement some cohesion with his annual Volunteer Jam charity concerts, but he gradually became more conservative in his music and his politics. Styles & Forms | Country Rock & The Outlaws | Country Personalities | The Dillards ...
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