Results for Gary Davis
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by Denise Sullivan•August 13, 2008•
Singer, songwriter, guitarist, and teller of tall tales, Gramps has spent a lifetime plundering the treasures of the old world, told and untold, ever since he was a young man—probably the youngest person on the planet to have ever gone by the sobriquet Gramps (that's where the Baby comes in). These days, as back then, he keeps alive early 20th century standards like "Teddy Bears' Picnic", "St. James Infirmary", and "Big Rock Candy Mountain" along with lesser-known
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by Adam Bunch•June 4, 2008•
1967 was supposed to be the year the Chocolate Watchband finally made it big. They had spent the last couple of years gradually climbing their way to the top
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by James Greene, Jr.•March 5, 2008•
I think the biggest mistake my generation ever made, aside from casting aside funnyman Norm MacDonald once he was fired from Saturday Night Live, was believing from day one that Weezer was just kidding around about all those ’70s hard rock references.
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by Joe Sullivan•February 20, 2008•
Just by chance, I was digging through my music collection and listening to Buddy Holly’s Greatest Hits in mid-December. Suddenly, I heard the sound that Springsteen had inherited. I became convinced he lifted this chugging, rockabilly-type style from Holly. You can hear this same sound on tracks by Holly
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by Denise Sullivan•November 28, 2007•
I'm looking at a picture of Mr. David Viner that features him with a wild-eyed look. Gaunt and pale, he looks a bit scared (or maybe it's scary), as if he could be related to one of the children in Margaret Keane's early paintings of big-eyed people who live at the dark end of the street.
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4/25/2007
Glad to see some Big Country and Alarm shows for download, also the Gary U.S. Bonds and Dave Edmunds. I'll be grabbing...
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4/25/2007
[quote user="N17"]Glad to see some Big Country and Alarm shows for download, also the Gary U.S. Bonds and Dave Edmunds....
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