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Barry Turner Bales (born August 23, 1969) is an American musician best known as the long time bass player [1] and harmony vocalist for Alison Krauss and Union Station. He has been in the band for around 25 years. The 2012 Grammy was awarded as a member of the Union Station band on Paper Airplane. [2] He is also a member of The Earls of Leicester.
This category includes musicians, including singers, who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the U.S. state of Tennessee The main article for this category is Music of Tennessee .
Alison Krauss & Union Station is an American bluegrass and country band associated with singer Alison Krauss. It was initially composed of Krauss, Jeff White , Mike Harman and John Pennell. Later additions included Alison Brown , Tim Stafford , Ron Block , Adam Steffey , Barry Bales and Larry Atamanuik .
Other notable musicians include Knoxville's Jerry Riggs, Nashville's Barefoot Jerry, and the Nashville band Area Code 615. Kings of Leon were formed in Tennessee in 1999. Their early music was closely associated with this genre. The Kings had a #1 hit on the Billboard Mainstream Top 40 with "Use Somebody". This song was also #1 on the ...
The move makes Tennessee, long known as the birthplace of country music and the launchpad for musical legends, the first state in the U.S. to enact such measures.
Sun Studio is a recording studio opened by rock-and-roll pioneer Sam Phillips at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee, on January 3, 1950.It was originally called Memphis Recording Service, sharing the same building with the Sun Records label business.
McGhee was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and grew up in Kingsport, Tennessee. [3] At about the age of four he contracted polio, which incapacitated his right leg. His brother Granville "Stick" McGhee, who also later became a musician and composed the song "Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee", [4] was nicknamed for pushing young Brownie around in a cart.
The American Federation of Musicians has struck a tentative agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, reaching a deal that union leaders hailed as “a watershed ...