"Mother" Maybelle Carter, born Maybelle Addington (Nickelsville, May 10, 1909 – Hendersonville, October 23, 1978) was an American country musician and "among the first" to use the Carter scratch, with which she "helped to turn the guitar into a lead instrument." It was named after her. She was a member of the original Carter Family act from the late 1920s until the early 1940s and a member of the Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle group.
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Donny Hathaway (Chicago, 1 de outubro de 1945 - Nova Iorque, 13 de janeiro de 1979) foi um cantor e compositor norte-americano de soul, gospel e jazz. Tem como maiores sucessos as músicas "A Song for You", "Jealous Guy", "For All We Know" e "The Closer I Get to You".
Hathaway teve seu primeiro contrato profissional com a gravadora Atlantic Records em 1969, gravando seu primeiro single "The Ghetto, Part I". No início dos anos 70, era considerado uma nova sensação na soul music. Na sua curta carreira lançou quatro álbuns de estúdio, sendo o primeiro "Everything is everything" em 1970.
No ano de 1973 foi-lhe diagnosticada esquizofrenia paranoica, sofrendo de fases de depressão desde os anos 60. Donny suicidou-se em 1979, perto do seu quarto de hotel, no Essex House Hotel, em Nova York.
Gravou com Roberta Flack a música "The Closer I Get to You e as ótimas "You Are My Heaven" e "Back Together Again".
Considerado um dos grandes nomes da soul music americana, foi homenageado com álbuns especiais após o seu falecimento, sendo influência artística e musical para as novas gerações.
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Nota: aparecem pedaços desta música (e referências a Johnny Cash e à esposa...) nesta música:
The One That Got Away - Katy Perry
Summer after high school, when we first met
We'd make out in your Mustang to Radiohead
And on my eighteenth birthday we got matching tattoos
Used to steal your parent's liquor and climb to the roof
Talk about our future like we had a clue
Never planned that one day I'd be losing you
In another life, I would be your girl
We'd keep all our promises, be us against the world
In another life, I would make you stay
So I don't have to say you were the one that got away
The one that got away
I was June and you were my Johnny Cash
Never one without the other, we made a pact
Sometimes when I miss you, I put those records on, whoa
Someone said you had your tattoo removed
Saw you downtown, singing the blues
It's time to face the music, I'm no longer your muse
In another life, I would be your girl
We'd keep all our promises, be us against the world
In another life, I would make you stay
So I don't have to say you were the one that got away
The one that got away
The one
The one
The one
The one that got away
All this money can't buy me a time machine, no
Can't replace you with a million rings, no
I should have told you what you meant to me, whoa
'Cause now I pay the price
In another life, I would be your girl
We'd keep all our promises, be us against the world
In another life, I would make you stay
So I don't have to say you were the one that got away
The one that got away
The one (the one)
The one (the one)
The one (the one)
In another life, I would make you stay
So I don't have to say you were the one that got away
The one that got away
Morrison began performing as a teenager in the late 1950s, playing a variety of instruments including guitar, harmonica, keyboards and saxophone for various Irish showbands, covering the popular hits of that time. Known as "Van the Man" to his fans, Morrison rose to prominence in the mid-1960s as the lead singer of the Northern Irish R&B band Them, with whom he wrote and recorded "Gloria", which became a garage band staple. His solo career started under the pop-hit oriented guidance of Bert Berns with the release of the hit single "Brown Eyed Girl" in 1967. After Berns's death, Warner Bros. Records bought Morrison's contract and allowed him three sessions to record Astral Weeks (1968). While initially a poor seller, the album has become regarded as a classic. Moondance (1970) established Morrison as a major artist, and he built on his reputation throughout the 1970s with a series of acclaimed albums and live performances.
Much of Morrison's music is structured around the conventions of soul music and early rhythm and blues. An equal part of his catalogue consists of lengthy, spiritually inspired musical journeys that show the influence of Celtic tradition, jazz and stream of consciousness narrative, such as the album Astral Weeks. The two strains together are sometimes referred to as "Celtic soul", and his music has been described as attaining "a kind of violent transcendence".
Morrison's albums have performed well in Ireland and the UK, with more than 40 reaching the UK top 40. He has scored top ten albums in the UK in four consecutive decades, following the success of 2021's Latest Record Project, Volume 1. Eighteen of his albums have reached the top 40 in the United States, twelve of them between 1997 and 2017. Since turning 70 in 2015, he has released – on average – more than an album a year. He has received two Grammy Awards, the 1994 Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music, the 2017 Americana Music Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting and has been inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2016, he was knighted for services to the music industry and to tourism in Northern Ireland.
