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Keziah Jones

Keziah Jones (born Olufemi Sanyaolu on January 10, 1968 in Lagos, Nigeria) is a Nigerian singer-songwriter and guitarist. He describes his musical style as “Blufunk”, which is a fusion between raw blues elements and hard, edgy funk rhythms. Also his Nigerian roots and soul music can be considered a major influence on his sound.
He is known for his distinctive style of guitarplaying, above all his percussive right-hand technique which is similar to bass player's slapping technique. He's also famous for playing most of his live shows with a bare torso.

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Dave Edmunds

Dave Edmunds (born April 15, 1944) is a singer, guitarist and producer from Cardiff, Wales. Though he was primarily associated with pub rock and New Wave, and had numerous hits in the late 70's and early 80's, he was steadfastly devoted to pre-Beatles rock and roll. An infrequent songwriter, Edmunds has largely relied on cover songs or custom-written material to sustain his career. In the late 1960s he led a blues-rock trio called Love Sculpture, who scored a quasi-novelty hit by reworking Khachaturian's classical piece "Sabre Dance" as a speed-crazed rock number.

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Young Hines

Young was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He is the youngest of seven children. Unnamed at birth, an unknown person wrote "Young Mr. Hines" on the patient info sheet and it stuck. He was raised in Griffin, Georgia, a small town 37 miles south of the Atlanta airport. Young eventually moved to Chicago and while there began recording demos in a home studio and selling them at shows and online. Out of the blue he got an email from Brendan Benson containing a cover of Young's song "Only in a dream".

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Hot Leg

Hot Leg is a musical group featuring Justin ‘Dave’ Hawkins, former lead singer/lead guitarist/lead songwriter of The Darkness. Hawkins’ patented ‘Truth Larynx’ is the perfect foil to the six-stringed rapier of Pete ‘Liquid Guitar Hands’ Rinaldi, the Axemeister General. Meanwhile Samuel S.J. Stokes and Darby Todd have emulsified into one muscular unit now known only as ‘The PowerZone’.

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Two

[1] An early 80s UK electronic rock band.
[2] An industrial hard rock project of Rob Halford's formed in the mid 1990s consisting mainly of Halford (Judas Priest, Fight) and guitarist John Lowery (Marilyn Manson, David Lee Roth, Rob Zombie). They released a single album called "Voyeurs" in 1998 (Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails executive produced) and a video for the song "I Am A Pig" which was the only single from this concept, before disbanding shortly after.

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The Chain

There is more than one artist with this name. 1. An Atlanta indie/alternative/pop/sometimes-instrumental group formed in 1996. Generally performed live as a two-person multi-instrumental duo with sequenced backing tracks. At least two cds released, with several EPs as well. 2. A techno band with a 10-song cd entitled The Chain. Not too much info here yet; please contribute if you can!

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Black Sixteen

Black Sixteen was formed in London, UK in late 2010 by songwriter Amir Khan (formerly of grunge-rockers 'Unusual Pets') on guitar, accompanied by Matt Burn on the drums, under the temporary moniker of 'Rain Hits Concrete'. The current line-up was completed with the addition of Alex Brock (previously in 'The Moscow Undergound') on bass and Laura Sepp (from Estonian metal outfit 'Label Of Guilt') on keyboards in early 2011.

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Flogging Molly

Flogging Molly is a seven-piece Irish American celtic punk band that formed in Los Angeles, California, United States in 1997 and is currently signed to SideOneDummy Records. The band consists of Dave King (vocals, guitar, banjo, bodhrán), Bridget Regan-King (fiddle, uillean pipes, vocals), Dennis Casey(guitar, vocals), Matt Hensley (accordion, concertina), Nathen Maxwell (bass, vocals), Bob Schmidt (mandolin, banjo) and George Schwindt (drums, percussion).

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