quinta-feira, dezembro 19, 2024
Hoje é dia de recordar Alvin Lee...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 08:00 0 bocas
Marcadores: Alvin Lee, blues, blues rock, guitarra, I`m going home, Rock, rockabilly, Ten Years After
Alvin Lee nasceu há oitenta anos...
Alvin Lee, born Graham Anthony Barnes (Nottingham, 19 December 1944 – Estepona, Spain, 6 March 2013) was an English singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as the lead vocalist and lead guitarist of the blues rock band Ten Years After.
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Lee died on 6 March 2013 in Spain. He died from "unforeseen complications following a routine surgical procedure" to correct an atrial arrhythmia. He was 68. His former bandmates lamented his death. Leo Lyons called him "the closest thing I had to a brother", while Ric Lee (no relation) said "I don't think it's even sunk in yet as to the reality of his passing". Billboard highlighted such landmark performances as "I'm Going Home" from the Woodstock festival and his 1971 hit single "I'd Love to Change the World".
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:08 0 bocas
Marcadores: Alvin Lee, blues, blues rock, guitarra, I'd Love to Change the World, I`m going home, Rock, rockabilly, Ten Years After
quarta-feira, dezembro 11, 2024
Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree...!
Postado por Pedro Luna às 08:00 0 bocas
Marcadores: Brenda Lee, country, Little Miss Dynamite, música, pop, rockabilly, Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
Brenda Lee (Little Miss Dynamite) celebra hoje oitenta anos...!
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:08 0 bocas
Marcadores: Brenda Lee, country, I'm Sorry, Little Miss Dynamite, música, pop, rockabilly
sexta-feira, dezembro 06, 2024
Roy Orbison morreu há trinta e seis anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:36 0 bocas
Marcadores: música, Only the lonely, pop, Rock and Roll, rockabilly, Roy Orbison, The Big O
quinta-feira, dezembro 05, 2024
Crying...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 03:06 0 bocas
Marcadores: Crying, k.d. lang, música, pop, Rock and Roll, rockabilly, Roy Orbison, The Big O
quinta-feira, novembro 07, 2024
Johnny Rivers faz hoje oitenta e dois anos
Johnny Rivers (nome artístico de John Henry Ramistella; Nova York, 7 de novembro de 1942) é um cantor, compositor, produtor e guitarrista de rock 'n' roll norte-americano. O seu reportório inclui pop, folk, blues e rockabilly, incluindo vários covers. Fez sucesso durante as décadas de 60 e 70, colocando nove canções no Top 10 (e dezassete no Top 40) da Billboard Hot 100 entre 1964 e 1977. Entre elas, "Memphis" (cover de Chuck Berry), "Mountain of Love", "The Seventh Son", "Secret Agent Man", "Poor Side of Town" (número 1 nos EUA), "Baby I Need Your Lovin'" (cover do The Four Tops) e "Summer Rain". Vendeu cerca de 30 milhões de discos ao longo da sua carreira musical. A canção Secret Agent Man também esteve presente na banda sonora do filme Ace Ventura em África.
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Postado por Fernando Martins às 08:20 0 bocas
Marcadores: blues, folk, Johnny Rivers, música, pop, rockabilly, The Poor Side Of Town
segunda-feira, outubro 28, 2024
Jerry Lee Lewis morreu há dois anos...
Jerry Lee Lewis (Ferriday, 29 de setembro de 1935 – DeSoto, 28 de outubro de 2022) foi um cantor, compositor e pianista norte-americano de rock and roll, considerado um dos pioneiros do género. Foi introduzido ao Rock and Roll Hall of Fame em 1986. Em 2004, a revista Rolling Stone colocou-o em vigésimo quarto lugar no seu ranking dos cem melhores artistas de todos os tempos. Apelidado de The Killer, foi descrito como "o primeiro grande homem selvagem do rock n' roll e um dos pianistas mais influentes do século XX". Um pioneiro do rock and roll e do rockabilly, Lewis fez as suas primeiras gravações em 1956. na Sun Records em Memphis, Tennessee. "Crazy Arms" vendeu 300.000 cópias no Sul, mas foi seu hit de 1957 "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" que levou Lewis à fama mundial. Ele seguiu isso com os grandes sucessos "Great Balls of Fire", "Breathless" e "High School Confidential". A sua carreira no rock and roll teve uma quebra após o seu casamento com Myra Gale Brown, sua prima de 13 anos.
A sua popularidade rapidamente diminuiu após o escândalo e, com poucas exceções, como um cover de "What'd I Say", de Ray Charles, ele não teve muito sucesso nas paradas no início dos anos 60. As suas performances ao vivo neste momento eram cada vez mais selvagens e enérgicas. O seu álbum ao vivo de 1964, Live at the Star Club, Hamburg, é considerado por muitos jornalistas de música e fãs em geral como um dos melhores e mais loucos álbuns de rock ao vivo de todos os tempos. Em 1968, Lewis fez uma transição para a música country e teve sucessos com músicas como "Another Place, Another Time". Isso reacendeu a sua carreira e, ao longo do final dos anos 60 e 70, liderou regularmente as paradas country-western; ao longo de sua carreira de sete décadas, Lewis teve 30 músicas alcançando o Top 10 na Billboard Country and Western Chart. Os seus hits country número 1 incluíram "To Make Love Sweeter for You", "There Must Be More to Love Than This", "Would You Take Another Chance on Me" e "Me and Bobby McGee".
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Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:04 0 bocas
Marcadores: Boogie-woogie, country, Great Balls Of Fire, Jerry Lee Lewis, música, Rock, Rock and Roll, rockabilly
quinta-feira, outubro 24, 2024
The Big Bopper nasceu há 94 anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 09:40 0 bocas
Marcadores: Chantilly Lace, J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, J. P. The Big Bopper Richardson, JP Richardson, música, Rock and Roll, rockabilly
domingo, setembro 29, 2024
Jerry Lee Lewis nasceu há 89 anos...
Jerry Lee Lewis (Ferriday, 29 de setembro de 1935 – DeSoto, 28 de outubro de 2022) foi um cantor, compositor e pianista norte-americano de rock and roll, considerado um dos pioneiros do género. Foi introduzido ao Rock and Roll Hall of Fame em 1986. Em 2004, a revista Rolling Stone colocou-o em vigésimo quarto lugar no seu ranking dos cem melhores artistas de todos os tempos. Apelidado de The Killer, foi descrito como "o primeiro grande homem selvagem do rock n' roll e um dos pianistas mais influentes do século XX". Um pioneiro do rock and roll e do rockabilly, Lewis fez as suas primeiras gravações em 1956. na Sun Records em Memphis, Tennessee. "Crazy Arms" vendeu 300.000 cópias no Sul, mas foi seu hit de 1957 "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" que levou Lewis à fama mundial. Ele seguiu isso com os grandes sucessos "Great Balls of Fire", "Breathless" e "High School Confidential". A sua carreira no rock and roll teve uma quebra após o seu casamento com Myra Gale Brown, sua prima de 13 anos.
A sua popularidade rapidamente diminuiu após o escândalo e, com poucas exceções, como um cover de "What'd I Say", de Ray Charles, ele não teve muito sucesso nas paradas no início dos anos 60. As suas performances ao vivo neste momento eram cada vez mais selvagens e enérgicas. O seu álbum ao vivo de 1964, Live at the Star Club, Hamburg, é considerado por muitos jornalistas de música e fãs em geral como um dos melhores e mais loucos álbuns de rock ao vivo de todos os tempos. Em 1968, Lewis fez uma transição para a música country e teve sucessos com músicas como "Another Place, Another Time". Isso reacendeu a sua carreira e, ao longo do final dos anos 60 e 70, liderou regularmente as paradas country-western; ao longo de sua carreira de sete décadas, Lewis teve 30 músicas alcançando o Top 10 na Billboard Country and Western Chart. Os seus hits country número 1 incluíram "To Make Love Sweeter for You", "There Must Be More to Love Than This", "Would You Take Another Chance on Me" e "Me and Bobby McGee".
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Postado por Fernando Martins às 08:09 0 bocas
Marcadores: Boogie-woogie, country, Great Balls Of Fire, Jerry Lee Lewis, música, Rock, Rock and Roll, rockabilly
sábado, setembro 07, 2024
Buddy Holly nasceu há 88 anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 08:08 0 bocas
Marcadores: Buddy Holly, Every Day, Everyday, música, Rock, rockabilly
domingo, setembro 01, 2024
Música adequada à data...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 16:00 0 bocas
Marcadores: actor, Amos Moses, country, country rock, Jerry Reed, música, Outlaw country, Rock and Roll, rockabilly, swamp rock, truck-driving country
Jerry Reed morreu há dezasseis anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:16 0 bocas
Marcadores: actor, country, country rock, East Bound and Down, Jerry Reed, música, Outlaw country, Rock and Roll, rockabilly, swamp rock, truck-driving country
sexta-feira, agosto 16, 2024
Saudades do rei...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 04:07 0 bocas
Marcadores: Always On My Mind, blues, country, Elvis Presley, gospel, música, pop, Rhythm and Blues, Rock 'n' roll, rockabilly
Elvis Presley morreu há 47 anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:47 0 bocas
Marcadores: blues, country, Elvis Presley, gospel, In the Ghetto, música, pop, Rhythm and Blues, Rock 'n' roll, rockabilly
sábado, julho 06, 2024
Bill Haley nasceu há 99 anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 09:09 0 bocas
Marcadores: Bill Haley, Bill Haley and His Comets, country, música, Rock, Rock and Roll, Rock Around the Clock, rockabilly
quarta-feira, maio 15, 2024
June Carter Cash morreu há vinte e um anos...
June Carter Cash (born Valerie June Carter; Maces Spring, Virginia, June 23, 1929 – Nashville, Tennessee, May 15, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter and dancer. A five-time Grammy award-winner, she was a member of the Carter Family and the second wife of singer Johnny Cash. Prior to her marriage to Cash, she was professionally known as June Carter and occasionally was still credited as such after her marriage (as well as on songwriting credits predating it). She played guitar, banjo, harmonica, and autoharp, and acted in several films and television shows. Carter Cash won five Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Christian Music Hall of Fame in 2009.
June Carter Cash was born Valerie June Carter in Maces Spring, Virginia, to Maybelle (née Addington) and Ezra Carter. Her parents were country music performers and she performed with the Carter Family from the age of 10, in 1939. In March 1943, when the Carter Family trio stopped recording together at the end of the WBT contract, Maybelle Carter, with encouragement from her husband Ezra, formed "Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters" with her daughters, Helen, Anita, and June. The new group first aired on radio station WRNL in Richmond, Virginia, on June 1. Doc (Addington) and Carl (McConnell) - Maybelle's brother and cousin, respectively, known as "The Virginia Boys", joined them in late 1945. June, then 16, was a co-announcer with Ken Allyn and did the commercials on the radio shows for Red Star Flour, Martha White, and Thalhimers Department Store, just to name a few. For the next year, the Carters and Doc and Carl did show dates within driving range of Richmond, through Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania. She attended John Marshall High School during this period.[4] June later said she had to work harder at her music than her sisters, but she had her own special talent —comedy.[5] A highlight of the road shows was her "Aunt Polly" comedy routine. With her thin and lanky frame, June Carter often played a comedic foil during the group's performances alongside other Opry stars Faron Young and Webb Pierce. Carl McConnell wrote in his memoirs that June was "a natural-born clown, if there ever was one". Decades later, Carter revived Aunt Polly for the 1976 TV series Johnny Cash & Friends.
After Doc and Carl dropped out of the music business in late 1946, Maybelle and her daughters moved to Sunshine Sue Workman's "Old Dominion Barn Dance" on the WRVA Richmond station. After a while there, they moved to WNOX in Knoxville, Tennessee, where they met Chet Atkins with Homer and Jethro.
In 1949, Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters, with their lead guitarist, Atkins, were living in Springfield, Missouri, and performing regularly at KWTO. Ezra "Eck" Carter, Maybelle's husband and manager of the group, declined numerous offers from the Grand Ole Opry to move the act to Nashville, Tennessee, because the Opry would not permit Atkins to accompany the group onstage. Atkins' reputation as a guitar player had begun to spread, and studio musicians were fearful that he would displace them as a 'first-call' player if he came to Nashville. Finally, in 1950, Opry management relented and the group, along with Atkins, became part of the Opry company. Here the family befriended Hank Williams and Elvis Presley (to whom they were distantly related), and June met Johnny Cash.
June and her sisters, with mother Maybelle and aunt Sara joining in from time to time, reclaimed the name "The Carter Family" for their act during the 1960s and '70s.
While June Carter Cash may be best known for singing and songwriting, she was also an author, dancer, actress, comedian, philanthropist, and humanitarian.[6] Director Elia Kazan saw her perform at the Grand Ole Opry in 1955 and encouraged her to study acting. She studied with Lee Strasberg and Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York. Her acting roles included Mrs. "Momma" Dewey in Robert Duvall's 1998 movie The Apostle, Sister Ruth, wife to Johnny Cash's character Kid Cole, on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993–97), and Clarise on Gunsmoke in 1957. She was notable as Mayhayley Lancaster playing alongside husband Cash in the 1983 television movie Murder in Coweta County. June was also Momma James in The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James. She also acted in occasional comedy skits for various Johnny Cash TV programs.
As a singer, she had both a solo career and a career singing with first her family and later her husband. As a solo artist, she became somewhat successful with upbeat country tunes of the 1950s such as "Jukebox Blues" and, with her exaggerated breaths, the comedic hit "No Swallerin' Place" by Frank Loesser. June also recorded "The Heel" in the 1960s along with many other songs.
In the early 1960s, June Carter wrote the song "Ring of Fire", which later went on to be a hit for her future husband, Johnny Cash. She co-wrote the song with fellow songwriter Merle Kilgore. June wrote the lyrics about her relationship with Johnny Cash and she offered the song to her sister Anita Carter, who was the first singer to record the song. In 1963, Johnny recorded the song with the Carter Family singing backup, and added mariachi horns. The song became a number-one hit and went on to become one of the most recognizable songs in the world of country music. In her autobiography, “I Walked the Line”, Johnny's first wife Vivian Cash disputes the myth that June Carter co-wrote the song, "Ring of Fire". Vivian relates the story that Johnny told her in 1963 that he wrote the song with Merle Kilgore and Curly while fishing and that he was going to give June half credit because “She needs the money. And I like her.”
Her first notable studio performance with Johnny Cash occurred in 1964 when she duetted with Cash on "It Ain't Me Babe", a Bob Dylan composition, that was released as a single and on Cash's album Orange Blossom Special. In 1967, the two found more substantial success with their recording of "Jackson", which was followed by a collaboration album, Carryin' On with Johnny Cash and June Carter. All these releases antedated her marriage to Cash (upon which event she changed her professional name to June Carter Cash). She continued to work with Cash on record and on stage for the rest of her life, recording a number of duets with Cash for his various albums and being a regular on The Johnny Cash Show from 1969 to 1971 and on Cash's annual Christmas specials. After Carryin' On, June Carter Cash recorded one more direct collaboration album, Johnny Cash and His Woman, released in 1973, and along with her daughters was a featured vocalist on Cash's 1974 album The Junkie and the Juicehead Minus Me. She also shared sleeve credit with her husband on a 2000 small-label gospel release, Return to the Promised Land
Although she provided vocals on many recordings, and shared the billing with Cash on several album releases, June Carter Cash only recorded three solo albums during her lifetime: the first, Appalachian Pride, released in 1975, Press On (1999), and Wildwood Flower, released posthumously in 2003 and produced by her son, John Carter Cash. Appalachian Pride is the only one of the three on which Johnny Cash does not perform, while Press On is notable for featuring June Carter Cash singing her original arrangement of "Ring of Fire".
One of her final appearances was a nonspeaking/nonsinging appearance in the music video for her husband's 2003 single, "Hurt", filmed a few months before her death. One of her last known public appearances was on April 7, 2003, just over a month before her death, when she appeared on the CMT Flameworthy awards program to accept an achievement award on behalf of her husband, who was too ill to attend.
She won a Grammy award in 1999 for, Press On. Her last album, Wildwood Flower, won two additional Grammys. It contains bonus video enhancements showing extracts from the film of the recording sessions, which took place at the Carter Family estate in Hiltons, Virginia, on September 18–20, 2002. The songs on the album include "Big Yellow Peaches", "Sinking in the Lonesome Sea", "Temptation", and the trademark staple "Wildwood Flower". Due to her involvement in providing backing vocals on many of her husband's recordings, a further posthumous release occurred in 2014, when Out Among the Stars was released under Johnny Cash's name. The album consists of previously unreleased recordings from the early 1980s, including two on which June Carter Cash provides duet vocals.
Carter was married three times and had one child with each husband. All three of her children went on to have successful careers in country music. She was married first to country singer Carl Smith from July 9, 1952, until their divorce in 1956. Together, they wrote "Time's A-Wastin". They had a daughter, Rebecca Carlene Smith, professionally known as Carlene Carter, a country musician. June's second marriage was to Edwin "Rip" Nix, a former football player and police officer on November 11, 1957. They had a daughter, Rosie Nix Adams, on July 13, 1958. The couple divorced in 1966. Rosie was a country/rock singer. On October 24, 2003, Rosie, aged 45, died from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. She and bluegrass musician Jimmy Campbell were on a school bus, which had been converted for travel. Several propane heaters were being used to heat the bus.
Carter and the entire Carter Family had performed with Johnny Cash for a number of years. In 1968, Cash proposed to Carter during a live performance at the London Ice House in London, Ontario. They married on March 1 in Franklin, Kentucky, and remained married until her death in May 2003, just four months before Cash died. The couple's son, John Carter Cash, is a musician, songwriter, and producer.
She also gained four stepdaughters from her third husband’s previous marriage to Vivian Liberto; including Cindy and Rosanne.
Carter's distant cousin, the 39th U.S. president Jimmy Carter, became closely acquainted with Cash and Carter and maintained their friendship throughout their lifetimes. In a June 1977 speech, Jimmy Carter acknowledged that June Carter was his distant cousin.
Carter was a longtime supporter of SOS Children's Villages. In 1974, the Cashes donated money to help build a village near their home in Barrett Town, Jamaica, which they visited frequently, playing the guitar and singing songs to the children in the village.
June Carter Cash also had close relationships with a number of entertainers, including Audrey Williams, James Dean, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Jessi Colter, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Elvis Presley, Robert Duvall and Roy Orbison.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:21 0 bocas
Marcadores: Americana, Appalachian, country, country folk, folk, gospel, Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, música, rockabilly
quarta-feira, maio 08, 2024
Ricky Nelson nasceu há 84 anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 08:40 0 bocas
Marcadores: actor, cinema, country, folk, I Will Follow You, música, pop, Ricky Nelson, Rock, rockabilly
terça-feira, abril 23, 2024
Roy Orbison nasceu há 88 anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 08:08 0 bocas
Marcadores: música, Only the lonely, pop, Rock, Rock and Roll, rockabilly, Roy Orbison, The Big O
terça-feira, abril 09, 2024
Carl Perkins nasceu há noventa e dois anos...
Carl Lee Perkins (Tiptonville, 9 de abril de 1932 - Jackson, 19 de janeiro de 1998) foi um cantor norte-americano de rockabilly. Foi considerado o 88º melhor guitarrista de todos os tempos pela revista norte-americana Rolling Stone.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 09:20 0 bocas
Marcadores: Blue Suede Shoes, Carl Perkins, música, rockabilly