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DEL MCCOURY
Birth Date: 2/1/1939
Birth Place: York, PA
Instrument: Guitar
Vince Gill says it simply, and maybe best: “I’d rather hear Del McCoury sing ‘Are You Teasing Me’ than just about anything.” For fifty years, Del’s music has defined authenticity for hard core bluegrass fans-count Gill among them-as well as a growing number of fans among those only vaguely familiar with the genre. And while the box set Celebrating 50 Years of Del McCoury, like its distilled companion, By Request-both in stores on May 12th-provides an opportunity to look back on a unique legacy, it’s also one that Del McCoury’s rolling past with a wave and a grin and some of the best music he’s ever made.
“It gives hope to everybody-fifty years is a long time to be playing music in any field,” says another fan, Elvis Costello. “But to keep the purity that you need to do this kind of music, and the drive and the energy takes a special kind of guy.” And indeed, McCoury is something special, a living link to
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Randy Rogers Band is an American "Texas Country" group from the state of Texas that formed in 2000. The band is composed of Randy Rogers (lead vocals), Geoffrey Hill (guitar), Jon Richardson (bass guitar), Brady Black (fiddle), and Les Lawless (drums).
When the Randy Rogers Band’s last project debuted as the most-downloaded country album on iTunes, plenty of the industry “insiders” on Music Row were left scratching their heads: Who are these guys?
The Nashville elite may not have known about the five-piece band, but much of America already did. Rolling Stone magazine ranked them alongside such artists as U2 and the Stones in its list of Top 10 Must-See Artists in the summer of 2007. They earned $2.5 million—a staggering total for a still-developing act—on the tour circuit in a single year. Willie Nelson, the Eagles, Gary Allan and Dierks Bentley all picked them as opening acts for their concerts. And more than 2,200 people showed up and bought the bands album at an appe
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Dierks Bentley
Frederick Dierks Bentley (Phoenix, 20 novembre1975) è un cantautore e musicistastatunitense.
Biografia
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]Nato in Arizona, äga pubblicato il suo primo album discografico per la Capitol Records nel 2003. Il successivo Modern Day Drifter viene certificato disco di platino negli Stati Uniti.
Nel 2006 pubblica il suo terzo disco. A metà 2008 riunisce i suoi brani più noti in una raccolta.
Nel febbraio 2009 è la volta di Feel That Fire, mentre nel giugno 2010 pubblica un disco bluegrass dal titolo Up on the Ridge.
Nel febbraio 2012 pubblica Home, sesto album dell'artista, mentre nel 2014 è la volta di Riser.
Tra inom suoi brani più conosciuti vi sono What Was I Thinkin' ,Come a Little Closer, Settle for a Slowdown e Every Mile a Memory.
Discografia
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]Tra parentesi il numero è relativo alla posizione massima raggiunta nella Billboard 200