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Lhasa published a French-language book in 2008, titled La Route chante (The Road sings). The book offers snippets of experiences and impressions of Lhasa's life on the road with her sisters, of music, and of her childhood. [16] Lhasa's third album Lhasa was released in April 2009 in Canada and Europe, [17] with fewer musicians involved in the ...
Leah Song (born Leah Smith) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumental musician, storyteller, poet, artist, and activist known for her role as one of the two frontsisters of Rising Appalachia — with younger sister Chloe Smith — incorporating sultry vocals, rhythm, banjo, guitar, ballads, dance, spoken-word and storytelling into her work.
Like many folk songs, "The House of the Rising Sun" is of uncertain authorship. Musicologists say that it is based on the tradition of broadside ballads, and thematically it has some resemblance to the 16th-century ballad "The Unfortunate Rake" (also cited as source material for "St. James Infirmary Blues"), yet there is no evidence suggesting that there is any direct relation. [4]
"L.A. Woman" has been viewed as Morrison's "final goodbye" to Los Angeles, before his move to Paris, France. [10] The song's lyrics draw inspiration from John Rechy's transgressive novel City of Night, published in 1963, [11] [12] while its title is expressed as a metaphor, personifying L.A. (Los Angeles) as a woman. [4]
Chloe Smith was born and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia in an artistic family. Her father, Andrew Hunter Smith, is a folk-sculptor and painter. [2] [3] Her mother, Jan Smith, is a jazz pianist and folk musician schooled in the traditions of southern Appalachian folk music who played fiddle with the Rosin Sisters.
Made 2 Rise is an American patriotic post-grunge and hard rock band, formed in 2011 as Madison Rising by Richard Mgrdechian and David Bray. The band's original name came from the street in Hoboken, New Jersey where their recording studio was located, but the band later considered it to also be in reference to former president James Madison.
3 Feet High and Rising is the debut studio album by the American hip hop group De La Soul, released on February 6, 1989, [2] by Tommy Boy Records. It was the first of three collaborations with the producer Prince Paul , and was the critical and commercial peak of both parties.
Lhasa is the third and final album by singer Lhasa, released in 2009 on Warner Music. [2] It is her only album entirely sung in English . [ 2 ] The album was nominated for the 2009 Polaris Music Prize on June 15, 2009.