"Martin Wold, aka ""Wishful Thinking"", released his debut album ""A Waste of Time Well Spent"" on November 2, 2009, and showcased a selection from the album whilst touring the UK with his father. Albums Seasick Steve Steven Gene Wold (born ), commonly known as Seasick Steve, is an American blues musician. He plays mostly personalized guitars and sings, usually about his early life doing casual work. Wold was born in Oakland, California. When he was four years old, his parents split up. His father played boogie-woogie piano and Wold tried to learn when he was five or six, without success."
"A Fender Bassman amplifier, used at the Pinkpop Festival 2012. When asked about his nickname, Wold has said: ""because it's just true: I always get seasick"". When he was ill on a ferry from Norway to Copenhagen, later in his life, a friend began playfully using the name and, despite Wold not rising to it for a while, it stuck. When asked about his name on British Sunday morning television show, ""Something for the Weekend"", he replied, ""I just get sick on boats"". Wold has five adult sons, and has married twice, marrying his second wife in the early 1980s."
"vocals), Denis Littler (1976 to 1984 bass guitar and vocals) and Jeff Hill (1984 to 1996 and 1999 to 2007 bass Guitar, acoustic guitar, 12 string guitar, electric guitar and vocals) Whilst never officially a member of the band, Alan Fawkes was a frequent guest--""he couldn't stand the drop in pay"" (dates unknown: woodwind instruments). They sing mainly English folk music, much of it in Lancashire dialect, and demonstrate an eclectic range of song subjects including ""The Blackpool Belle"" and ""Uncle Joe’s Mintballs"". They are best known for their BBC TV show ""Sit Thi Deawn"" (Lancashire dialect for ""have a"
"Alec Seward Alec Seward (born Alexander T. Seward, March 16, 1901 – May 11, 1972) was an American Piedmont blues and country blues singer, guitarist and songwriter. Some of his records were released under pseudonyms, such as Guitar Slim, Blues Servant Boy, King Blues and Georgia Slim. His best-remembered recordings are ""Creepin' Blues"" and ""Some People Say"". Seward, one of fourteen siblings, was born in Charles City County, Virginia. Like Gabriel Brown, Ralph Willis and Brownie McGhee, he relocated from the South to New York, in his case in 1924. Seward befriended Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry and retained his"
"Wannes Van de Velde Wannes Van de Velde (29 April 1937 – 10 November 2008), born Willy Cecile Johannes Van de Velde, in Antwerp, was a Flemish folk singer, guitarist, musician, poet, puppeteer and artist. He is most famous for his songs ""Ik Wil deze Nacht in de Straten Verdwalen"" (1973), ""Mijn Mansarde"" and ""De Brug van Willebroek"" (1990). His work is often categorized as kleinkunst. Van de Velde was known for singing in his local dialect. His father, Jaak Van de Velde, was a metal worker and talented singer, his mother a housewife and singer. He grew up in"
"Bob Klose Rado Robert Garcia Klose (professionally known as Bob Klose in the 1960s and Rado Klose more recently) is an English musician, photographer and printmaker. Between 1964 and July 1965, he was the lead guitarist of an early rock band that would later become Pink Floyd. Although he recorded a few songs with that band, he left before their transformation into Pink Floyd. However, on the band's official Facebook page, he is given status as an official former member. Klose's full birth name is most often cited as Rado Robert Klose or Rado Robert Garcia Klose, with some authors"
"give a child a strange nickname if you have had other children who have died"", Touré was quoted as saying in a biography on his Record Label, World Circuit Records. His nickname, ""Farka"", chosen by his parents, means ""donkey"", an animal admired for its tenacity and stubbornness: ""Let me make one thing clear. I'm the donkey that nobody climbs on!"" Ethnically, he was part Songhai, part Fula. As the first African bluesman to achieve widespread popularity on his home continent, Touré was often known as ""the African John Lee Hooker"". Musically, the many superpositions of guitars and rhythms in his"
"Jesse Thomas (musician) Jesse ""Babyface"" Thomas (February 3, 1911 – August 15, 1995) was an American Texas blues guitarist and singer. Known at different times as ""Baby Face"" or ""Mule"", and occasionally billed as ""The Blues Troubadour"", his career performing blues music extended eight decades. Born in Logansport, Louisiana, United States, Thomas is best known for the song ""Blue Goose Blues"", which he recorded for Victor in 1929. He recorded and performed throughout the 1940s and 1950s, based in the Los Angeles area. He recorded for Specialty Records in 1953. His career spanned over 60 years – in 1994 he"
"to ""Worst of the Flu"", was released in 2007. According to Key, approximately seven LPs worth of material were recorded in the above time period, and may see the light of day in the future. Hilt (band) Hilt was a collective group of Vancouver musicians, usually referred to as a side project of the group Skinny Puppy. The group comprised Alan Nelson, a seminal member of many local Vancouver rock and punk groups, on vocals, with cEvin Key and D.R. Goettel on instruments. Originally named The Flu, the group was assembled whenever cEvin and Dwayne lived temporarily in Toronto while"
"until December 2013. As of 2018 Jim is performing three nights a week at The Jim Stafford Theatre in Branson. Performing Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday nights at 7:30 p.m. Jim Stafford James Wayne Stafford (born January 16, 1944) is an American comedian, musician, and singer-songwriter. While prominent in the 1970s for his records ""Spiders & Snakes"", ""Swamp Witch"", ""Under The Scotsman's Kilt"", ""My Girl Bill"", and ""Wildwood Weed"", Stafford has headlined at his own theater in Branson, Missouri, since 1990. Stafford is self-taught on guitar, fiddle, piano, banjo, organ and harmonica. Stafford was raised in Winter Haven, Florida. In high"
"a week at that popular bar, developing a huge following and a solid reputation. Today Lee continues to perform in New Orleans. He also tours several times a year in the Midwest, Eastern Seaboard, Rocky Mountain States and recently Europe and Brazil. Lee appeared with Kenny Wayne Shepherd as the musical guest on ""The Tonight Show with Jay Leno"" on February 14, 2007. Bryan Lee Bryan Lee (born March 16, 1943, Two Rivers, Wisconsin) is an American blues guitarist and singer based in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is also known by the nickname ""braille blues daddy"" and has been a"
"Jim Stafford James Wayne Stafford (born January 16, 1944) is an American comedian, musician, and singer-songwriter. While prominent in the 1970s for his records ""Spiders & Snakes"", ""Swamp Witch"", ""Under The Scotsman's Kilt"", ""My Girl Bill"", and ""Wildwood Weed"", Stafford has headlined at his own theater in Branson, Missouri, since 1990. Stafford is self-taught on guitar, fiddle, piano, banjo, organ and harmonica. Stafford was raised in Winter Haven, Florida. In high school, he played in a band along with friends Bobby Braddock, Kent LaVoie (also known as Lobo) and Gram Parsons (of the Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers). Stafford's"
"currently employed as a bus driver in Los Angeles and working on a new album with American Music Club. Vudi Vudi Vudi is the nickname of Mark Pankler (born 22 September 1952, Chicago), guitarist with San Francisco based indie rock band American Music Club. He is also the vocalist and guitarist in San Francisco based indie rock band Clovis de Floret. He also played guitar and keyboards with Swans on their 1995 tour, and hence appeared on the double live album Swans Are Dead. Vudi played on Red's Recovery Room. In 2013 He recorded guitar on Echo wild's comfortable single."
"General Joseph W. Stilwell Award. A reference to Stilwell was made in the 1995 film ""Outbreak."" During a discussion between Morgan Freeman and Donald Sutherland, Sutherland makes the remark that, ""FDR stopped Stilwell from going into Indochina, he caused the Vietnam War."" Stilwell's nickname was 'Vinegar Joe' which was the name used by a British Blues Band formed in 1971 with members Robert Palmer and Elkie Brooks providing the vocals. Their third album was called ""Six Star General"" after Stilwell and has his name printed across the back cover. Streets in Marina, California, Kendall Park, New Jersey and the Presidio"
"Deacon John Moore Deacon John Moore (born June 23, 1941, New Orleans, Louisiana) better known as Deacon John, is a blues, rhythm and blues and rock and roll musician, singer, actor, and bandleader. John Moore was given the name ""Deacon"" by one of his band members. He did not like the name at first as he thought everyone would assume he was a gospel singer and never get gigs. However, based upon his early reputation, and at the urging of a music promoter, he decided to keep it as has been ""Deacon John"" ever since. Moore grew up in New"
"to Be Wild"". The mysterious Mars Bonfire was Dennis Edmonton, lead guitarist for Jack London & The Sparrows. The Oshawa, Ontario group was the beginnings of Steppenwolf and producer Mekler's contributions on psychedelic tracks such as ""Born to Be Wild"" and ""Magic Carpet Ride"". A year after the Steppenwolf recordings, Mekler launched hits from Three Dog Night such as ""One"", ""Try a Little Tenderness"", ""Eli's Coming"", ""Easy to Be Hard"", and ""Celebrate"". Other studio credits include keyboard work with Cher, Donovan and David Clayton-Thomas as well as producing songs for Dinah Washington. In 1971, Mekler founded his own labels, Vulture"
"Keb' Mo' Kevin Roosevelt Moore (born October 3, 1951), known as Keb' Mo', is an American blues musician and four-time Grammy Award winner. He is a singer, guitarist, and songwriter, living in Nashville, Tennessee. He has been described as ""a living link to the seminal Delta blues that travelled up the Mississippi River and across the expanse of America"". His post-modern blues style is influenced by many eras and genres, including folk, rock, jazz, pop and country. The moniker ""Keb Mo"" was coined by his original drummer, Quentin Dennard, and picked up by his record label as a ""street talk"""
"Flour (band) Flour is an American band. Flour is the nickname of Minneapolis musician Pete Conway who wrote songs and played bass guitar in the bands Rifle Sport and Breaking Circus until the mid-1980s. He released four solo albums on Touch and Go Records from 1988 to 1994 on which he plays most of the instruments himself. Flour toured as a live band twice with a lineup that featured ex-Big Black guitarist Steve Albini on bass and former Breaking Circus percussionist Todd Trainer on drums before they went on to form the band Shellac. Flour's solo recordings feature the drum"
"Flour (band) Flour is an American band. Flour is the nickname of Minneapolis musician Pete Conway who wrote songs and played bass guitar in the bands Rifle Sport and Breaking Circus until the mid-1980s. He released four solo albums on Touch and Go Records from 1988 to 1994 on which he plays most of the instruments himself. Flour toured as a live band twice with a lineup that featured ex-Big Black guitarist Steve Albini on bass and former Breaking Circus percussionist Todd Trainer on drums before they went on to form the band Shellac. Flour's solo recordings feature the drum"
"Vudi Vudi is the nickname of Mark Pankler (born 22 September 1952, Chicago), guitarist with San Francisco based indie rock band American Music Club. He is also the vocalist and guitarist in San Francisco based indie rock band Clovis de Floret. He also played guitar and keyboards with Swans on their 1995 tour, and hence appeared on the double live album Swans Are Dead. Vudi played on Red's Recovery Room. In 2013 He recorded guitar on Echo wild's comfortable single. He also played guitar on one song on Danish band Pocket Life's 2013 album Rattle When You Walk. He is"
"Steve Von Till Steve Von Till is an American musician, best known as the singer and guitarist of experimental metal band Neurosis, replacing Chad Salter in 1989. He is also in Tribes of Neurot and Culper Ring, and records solo work under both his given name and the moniker Harvestman. His solo albums are composed of original songs and traditional folk arrangements, using minimalistic acoustic guitar and vocal styles. Playing with Neurosis in 2007, Von Till used a guitar rig he once nick-named the ""chain of death"". He plays Stratocaster- and Telecaster-style guitars assembled from Warmoth parts. He employs Seymour"
"father; however, after a few weeks, he changed his major to English, stating ""I'm losing my culture"" to his mother in explanation. Around this time, Toole began hanging around a local blues band which performed at area high schools and also around the French Quarter, and the Irish Channel. Toole's classmates and family looked down on the French Quarter as being for tourists and the Irish Channel as being a place for lowlifes, so Toole kept his trips there a secret. His closest friend was guitarist Don Stevens, nicknamed ""Steve Cha-Cha"", with whom he bonded over their shared love of"
"Keef Trouble Keef Trouble (born Keith Trussell, 1949, Greenwich, London) is an English composer, singer and musician. Trouble studied at The Slade School of Fine Art, London, from 1968 to 1972. He is a founding member of British country-blues band Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts as vocalist, guitarist, and player of the Zobstick (also known as the Lagerphone or Monkey stick), and electric ironing board. Commercial success came in 1972 under the guise of Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs with Seaside Shuffle with fellow band members Graham Hine, John Randall, and Jona Lewie (of ""Stop the Cavalry"" notability). This record"
"Black Cobain Marcus Gloster (born April 29, 1986), known professionally as Black Cobain, is an independent American rapper signed with Jet Life Recordings. He was most notably recognized for his collaboration on the Wale track ""4 AM"" and as the opening act of Wale's 2011-2012 53-city ""Ambition"" tour. Black Cobain was born in Alexandria, Virginia, and fell in love with hip hop at an early age. His MC moniker ""Black Cobain"" originated from his childhood nickname ""Black"" being combined with ""Cobain"", in homage to his uncle who introduced him to rock and roll and the world-renowned band Nirvana, with frontman"
"Steppenwolf (band) Steppenwolf is a Canadian-American rock band, prominent from 1968 to 1972. The group was formed in late 1967 in Los Angeles by lead singer John Kay, keyboardist Goldy McJohn, and drummer Jerry Edmonton (all formerly in Jack London & the Sparrows from Oshawa, Ontario). Guitarist Michael Monarch and bass guitarist Rushton Moreve were recruited by notices placed in Los Angeles-area record and musical instrument stores. Steppenwolf sold over 25 million records worldwide, released eight gold albums and 12 ""Billboard"" Hot 100 singles, of which six were top 40 hits, including three top 10 successes: ""Born to Be Wild"","
"Jean Leloup Jean Leclerc (born May 14, 1961) is a Québécois singer-songwriter and author from Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Canada. He is popularly known as Jean Leloup (which he likes to translate to John the Wolf), a stage name he kept using until 2006, when he temporarily changed his name to Jean Leclerc, only to resurrect his wolf character in August 2008. He is known for his colourful personality and unique musical style in the francophone rock community. Born in Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Leclerc grew up in Togo and Algeria, where he was influenced by traditional African rhythms. He returned to Quebec in"
"learned his craft playing in blues rock bands and backing up Ronnie Hawkins, who gave him his nickname. In 1980, his release entitled ""Mouth of Steel"" appeared on the ""Red Lightning"" record label from England. In 1987, his recording ""King Biscuit Boy AKA Richard Newell"" was nominated for a Juno Award in the Best Roots and Traditional category. In the 1970s, the Downchild Blues Band was formed in Toronto by Donnie Walsh. The band has released fourteen albums and performed in thousands of venues over three decades of continual cross-Canada touring. The Downchild Blues Band still performs regularly. Another important"
"the wild west motif he first encountered in Colorado while touring. He is a dog lover. St. Nicholas has two sons, Jesse and Devon. Nicholas is the titular ""Ooo Ooo Man"" mentioned in ""I'm in Love With the Ooo-Ooo Man"", by the GTOs (Girls Together Outrageously) on their Frank Zappa-produced album ""Permanent Damage"" (1969). Nick St. Nicholas Nick St. Nicholas (born Klaus Karl Kassbaum September 28, 1943) is a bandleader, bass guitarist, singer and songwriter. best known for his partnership in Steppenwolf. Born in Plön, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, his family was forced to flee because his father, an officer in the"
"The Dude of Life Steve Pollak, best known by his stage name The Dude of Life, is a musician and lyricist. Steve Pollak is from White Plains. He attended high school in the early 1980s. He earned the alias Dude of Life in highschool while playing with the teenage band Space Antelope, along with fellow student Trey Anastasio. While going to boarding school at Taft in Watertown, Connecticut, he got the name from classmates when he appearaed in a friend's dorm with orange goggles and draped in a tapestry, and saying otherwordly things. In his band Space Antelope, they wrote"
"Adge Cutler Alan John 'Adge' Cutler (19 November 1930 – 5 May 1974) was an English singer best known as the frontman of the comic folk band the Wurzels. Cutler was known for his songs, but also his dry, West Country humour, and gained the unofficial title of ""The Bard Of Avonmouth"". Alan John Cutler was born in Portishead, Somerset. Nicknamed 'Adge' by his friends, from his initials A.J., he lived in the small North Somerset town of Nailsea. He spent his earlier years pursuing various jobs he would use as material for later songs, including road manager for Acker"
"Steven Severin Steven Severin (born Steven John Bailey, 25 September 1955, Highgate, London), is an English musician, composer, bassist, producer and co-founding member of Siouxsie and the Banshees. He took the name ""Severin"" from the Leopold von Sacher-Masoch character who is mentioned in the Velvet Underground song ""Venus in Furs"". Severin had earlier considered ""Steve Spunker"" for his stage name. After the split of Siouxsie and the Banshees in 1996, Severin created his own label RE, and released several instrumental albums via his official website. In the late 2000s and the early 2010s, he regularly performed live in solo, playing"
"under the name Gianni Rossi. Steve Moore (musician) Steve Moore is a NYC-based multi-instrumentalist/producer/film composer best known for his synthesizer and bass guitar work with Zombi. Moore also plays bass guitar for Brooklyn progressive rock band Titan, and has worked with Microwaves, Sunn O))), Red Sparowes, Lair of the Minotaur and Panthers. Moore releases solo material as well, occasionally adopting pseudonyms (such as dance/pop alter-ego Lovelock). His solo work also includes film scores, predominantly low-budget horror films, and remixes for a wide range of artists including Genghis Tron, David Rubato and Camille. He has written soundtracks for low budget films"
"back in the studio recording new material. ""Why Can't Man Be More Like Animals"" takes its name from a Pink Panther episode entitled Sink Pink. ""The sky on my Birthday"" takes its name from a photograph taken by photographer Francine Weiss which also features on the cover art of the album Rubyhorse Leftbank William Declan Lucey William D. Lucey is a singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist best known for being a member and key songwriter for Irish rock band Rubyhorse, formed in 1987 with schoolmates Dave Farrell, Owen Fegan, Joe Philpott, and Gordon Ashe.[1] More recently he has released two"