americana | Musicosity

americana

Robert Ellis

Robert Ellis is an American folk singer-songwriter based in Houston, Texas, United States. In 2009, Robert Ellis released debut solo album The Great Rearranger. in addition to Ellis' solo career his plays in the indie bands The Lovely Sparrows, Robert Ellis and The Boys, Houston's I am Mesmer; drums for singer-songwriter Chase Hamblin and bass in blues Grandfather Child. SOLO CAREER
In 2009, Robert Ellis  Texas-based singer and songwriter, Ellis released the his debut solo album, The Great Re-Arranger.

Artist Type: 

Mike Lennon

there are multiple Mike Lennon artists

1.Base Guitar / Singer
Mike Lennon was born in Brooklyn, NY in July of, 1961 and began playing guitar when he was 14 years old. He is an original member of Psychobilly Rodeo Band. Mike plays solo at The Rusty Spur Saloon on Sundays and Wednesdays nights in addition to playing bass guitar with Psychobilly Rodeo Band on the weekends. Mike also has a solo album “Too Many Psychos” recorded in 2000-2001 which can be purchased below.

Read more about Mike Lennon on Last.fm.

Artist Type: 

Strand Of Oaks

In 2003, Tim Showalter's house burned down, his fiancée left him, and he resorted to writing songs on an acoustic guitar while living on park benches in suburban Philadelphia. Those events informed the entirety of his arresting debut, Leave Ruin , an album about loss and brokenness and lack of faith. But as affecting as it was, Showalter is leery of being stuck in the past. After all, the first word of that record's title is "leave...

Read more about Strand of Oaks on Last.fm.

Artist Type: 

Forest Sun

San Francisco Bay Area troubadour and award winning songwriter, Forest Sun has regaled audiences around the globe with his wealth of songs and stories, all sung and told with back porch ease and bonhomie. Sun's music has been compared to everyone from Jack Johnson and John Mayer to Van Morrison and Bob Dylan but his unique style is entirely his own.
He's opened for Bonnie Raitt, The Beach Boys, Steve Earle, Lyle Lovett, Jackson Browne, Keb Mo and Brett Dennen among others and collaborations on his many records include the likes of such musical luminaries as Jolie Holland...

Artist Type: 

Lucy Wainwright Roche

Lucy Wainwright Roche (born 1981) is a singer-songwriter and performer known for her clear, powerful voice and her refreshingly straightforward stage presence. Lucy hails from what could be called a musical dynasty. Her parents are musicians, Suzzy Roche and Loudon Wainwright III, and her maternal aunts are Maggie and Terre Roche, who with Suzzy Roche formed the group The Roches. Her paternal half-siblings are Martha Wainwright and Rufus Wainwright. Her Aunt Sloan Wainwright and her uncle David Roche are also musicians. Lucy has sung with all of the afore-mentioned.

Artist Type: 

Ghost of a Dog

Bits of Country/American Folk/Brit-Folk and blues combine to make up the Ghost of a Dog sound. They’ve been described as “Calexico fronted by a Country Kate Bush”, and draw their influences from a wide range of genres, but all underpinned by their collective love of acoustic based music & 70’s songwriters such as Joni Mitchell & Neil Young and with a liberal helping of Lone Justice style balls. Formed in Monmouth on the South Wales borders in 2006...

Last.fm Tags: 
Artist Type: 

Lynne Hanson

Some call it country, some call it roots-and-blues, and others call it rough-around- the-edges folk. Lynne Hanson calls her music "porch music with a little Texas red dirt."

It’s a sound that’s been receiving applause from enamoured critics and devoted fans in Canada, the US, Europe and Australia, garnering Hanson the 2010 Colleen Peterson Songwriting Award, a 2009 Canadian Folk Music Award nomination, and a place as a finalist in the prestigious 2009 Kerrville Folk Festival New Folk competition.

Artist Type: 

Brantley Gilbert

Brantley Gilbert (born january 20 1985 ), is an American country rock music singer-songwriter. He has released two albums, both on the Average Joe's Entertainment Group label. His songs have also been recorded by Colt Ford and Jason Aldean. In February 2011, he left Average Joe's label to join Valory Music Group, where he has charted "Country Must Be Country Wide". A deluxe edition of Halfway to Heaven was released on September 13, 2011, two months before "Country Must Be Country Wide" reached number one on the Hot Country Songs charts.

Artist Type: 

The Tennessee Three

The Tennessee Three, is the backing band of Johnny Cash, they toured, and recorded with Cash from 1955 to 1997, providing the "boom-chicka-boom" sound found in many of Cash's songs. The Tennessee Three was originally The Tennessee Two, original members were LUTHER PERKINS, playing lead guitar, and Marshall Grant, on bass. The Two Became the Three, in 1960 when drummer W.S. Holland joined the group.

Artist Type: