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Bryan Kei Mantia [note 1] (born February 4, 1963), known professionally as Brain, is an American rock drummer. He has played with bands such as Primus , Guns N' Roses , Praxis , and Godflesh , and with other performers such as Tom Waits , Serj Tankian , Bill Laswell , Bootsy Collins , and Buckethead .
Early innovators in this new style of music in the 1960s and 1970s included Bob Dylan, who was the first to revert to country music with his 1967 album John Wesley Harding [101] (and even more so with that album's follow-up, Nashville Skyline), followed by Gene Clark, Clark's former band the Byrds (with Gram Parsons on Sweetheart of the Rodeo ...
The Detroit Free Press also lauded the film, and wrote, "It makes sense that a country music documentary would know how to tell a good story. America's Music: The Roots of Country, a rich three-part retrospective that kicks off tonight on TBS, tells a dandy one. And though Kris Kristofferson is credited as narrator on the six-hour documentary ...
Black Roots (band), British reggae band, also the name of the band's debut album Black Roots (album) , a 1979 album by Sugar Minott Black Roots Records, record label operated by Sugar Minott
Author Alice Randall, the first Black woman to write a No. 1 country hit, talks Beyoncé, Black country’s Mount Rushmore, […] The post Country music pioneer Alice Randall gets to the roots of ...
OPINION: Black contributions to country music have been completely whitewashed and erased, but Beyoncé’s latest musical endeavor is forcing America to remember what Black people built. The post ...
These styles included jug bands, honky tonk and bluegrass, and are the root of modern country music. Appalachian folk music began its evolution towards pop-country in 1927, when Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family began recording in a historic session with Ralph Peer (Barraclough and Wolff, 537). Rodgers sang often morbid lyrical themes that ...
Americana (also known as American roots music) [1] is an amalgam of American music formed by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions that make up the musical ethos of the United States of America, with particular emphasis on music historically developed in the American South.