(Vocals, b. 1956) Suzy Bogguss served her apprenticeship travelling across America in a camper van for five years, then appearing daily at Dolly Parton’s Dollywood theme park in 1986. Her third album, Aces (1992), achieved gold status and gained a firm chart foothold for the folk-influenced troubadour’s singles and albums. A highlight of her career was making Simpatico ...
(Vocals, b. 1970) Bente Boe from Tonsberg, Norway, made her national radio debut aged only nine, and has been singing for her entire adult life. Voted European Female Singer of the Year in 1996, she made her first album in the US, Cross The River, in 1998, following three previous albums in Norway. ...
As the first superstar instrumentalist to emerge from the modern Nashville recording scene, Chet Atkins (1924–2001) was a living legend for most of his life, but the Nashville-based guitarist was also a producer, engineer, label executive and A&R man without peer. Chester Burton ‘Chet’ Atkins was born on in June 1924 in Luttrell, Tennessee. He started ...
New country took many years and miles of travel before its current evolution – not least the new traditionalist movement of the 1980s, which returned country music to its roots. Garth Brooks (b. 1962) did it far more quickly, but that’s a different story. Sometimes it seemed like these artists were chipping away at a mountain with nothing more ...
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