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Janis Joplin

Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American singer, songwriter and music arranger, from Port Arthur, Texas. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company and later as a...

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x Date of death:: Oct 4, 1970

x Place of birth:: Port Arthur

x Place Musical Career Began:: Austin,; Port Arthur

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x Musical Genres:: Rock music,; Psychedelic rock,; Blues,; more ▼

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Greg Flesch

Greg Flesch (born 1960) is a guitarist and musician, best known for his work with the rock bands Daniel Amos and The Swirling Eddies (credited as Gene Pool). Flesch joined D.A. in 1984, just in time for the Vox Humana tour. Besides his work with D.A...

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Willie Nelson

Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 30, 1933) is an American country singer-songwriter, author, poet, actor and activist. He reached his greatest fame during the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, but remains iconic, especially in American popular...

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x Place of birth:: Abbott

x Place Musical Career Began:: Abbott,; Austin

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x Musical Genres:: Alternative country,; Reggae,; Blues,; more ▼

x Instruments Played:: Steel-string acoustic guitar,; Guitar

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Stevie Ray Vaughan

Stevie Ray Vaughan (born Stephen Ray Vaughan; October 3, 1954 – August 27, 1990) was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. Eighteen albums of Vaughan's work have been released. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Stevie Ray Vaughan #7 in...

x Date of birth:: Oct 3, 1954

x Date of death:: Aug 27, 1990

x Place of birth:: Dallas

x Place Musical Career Began:: Dallas,; Austin

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x Musical Genres:: Blues,; Blues-rock,; Electric blues,; more ▼

x Instruments Played:: Guitar,; Fender Stratocaster

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Jimmie Dale Gilmore

Jimmie Dale Gilmore (born May 6, 1945) is a country singer, songwriter, actor, recording artist and producer, currently living in Austin, Texas. Gilmore is a native of the Texas Panhandle, having been born in Amarillo, Texas and raised in Lubbock,...

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x Musical Genres:: Country

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Roky Erickson

Roky Erickson (born Roger Kynard Erickson on July 15, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, harmonica player and guitarist from Texas. He was a founding member of the 13th Floor Elevators and pioneer of the psychedelic rock genre. Erickson was...

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x Place Musical Career Began:: Dallas,; Austin

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x Musical Genres:: Rock music,; Psychedelic music,; Psychedelic rock,; more ▼

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VAST

VAST is an American alternative rock band based in Austin, Texas. The acronym VAST stands for Visual Audio Sensory Theater and is the main creation of singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jon Crosby. The band is signed to 2blossoms, an...

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x Musical Genres:: Progressive rock,; Industrial music,; Alternative rock,; more ▼

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Iron & Wine

Samuel Beam, better known by his stage and recording name Iron & Wine (born July 26, 1974), is an American singer-songwriter. He has released four studio albums, several EPs and singles, as well as a few download-only releases, which include a live...

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x Place of birth:: South Carolina

x Place Musical Career Began:: Austin

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x Musical Genres:: Folk rock,; Singer-songwriter,; Indie folk,; more ▼

x Instruments Played:: Guitar,; Banjo

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Lucinda Williams

Lucinda Williams (born January 26, 1953) is an American rock, folk, and country music singer and songwriter. She recorded her first albums in 1978 and 1980 in a traditional country and blues style and received very little attention from radio, the...

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x Place Musical Career Began:: Lake Charles,; Austin

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x Musical Genres:: Alternative country,; Folk music,; Rock music,; more ▼

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Townes Van Zandt

John Townes Van Zandt (March 7, 1944 – January 1, 1997), best known as Townes Van Zandt, was a country-folk music singer-songwriter, performer, and poet. Many of his songs, including "If I Needed You," "To Live Is To Fly," and "No Place to Fall" are...

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x Date of death:: Jan 1, 1997

x Place of birth:: Fort Worth

x Place Musical Career Began:: Boulder,; Austin

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x Musical Genres:: Outlaw country,; Folk music,; Country,; more ▼

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Nanci Griffith

Nanci Caroline Griffith, (born July 6, 1953 in Seguin, Texas) is an American singer, guitarist and songwriter from Austin, Texas. Griffith's career has spanned a variety of musical genres, predominantly country, Folk, and what she terms "folkabilly....

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x Musical Genres:: Country,; Folk music,; Singer-songwriter

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MDC

MDC (Millions of Dead Cops) is an American hardcore punk band formed in Austin, Texas in 1979. MDC originally formed as The Stains before changing their name. Playing hyperspeed punk rock associated with far left sociopolitical issues has earned the...

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Tish Hinojosa

Leticia ("Tish") Hinojosa (born December 6, 1955 San Antonio, Texas) is a folksinger recording in both Spanish and English. Hinojosa was the youngest of 13 children. Hinojosa's parents were Mexican immigrants, and she soaked up their music as well...

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Lloyd Maines

Lloyd Maines (born June 28, 1951) is an American Grammy Award-winning country music record producer, musician and songwriter and who was born and raised in Lubbock, Texas and is now based in Austin, Texas. Arguably best known as a pedal steel player...

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x Musical Genres:: Country,; Folk music,; Bluegrass,; more ▼

x Instruments Played:: Pedal steel guitar,; Banjo,; Guitar,; more ▼

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Cindy Cashdollar

Cindy Cashdollar (born May 25, 1956) is a steel guitar and Dobro artist. She grew up in Woodstock, New York where she perfected her skills by playing with bluegrass musician John Herald, blues musician Paul Butterfield, and Levon Helm and Rick Danko...

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Western Keys

Western Keys is a band from Austin, Texas, led by singer Ben Dickey. Their first CD, Damage, was written in a few weeks and released on The Self-Starter Foundation on 10 September 2002. This EP featured seven songs, which has been categorized as alt...

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Patty Griffin

Patty Griffin, born Patricia Jean Griffin, March 16, 1964, is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She is especially known for her down-home crafting of songs and her connection to musicians including Emmylou Harris, Ellis Paul, and the Dixie...

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x Place Musical Career Began:: Old Town,; Austin

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x Musical Genres:: Alternative country,; Folk rock,; Folk music,; more ▼

x Instruments Played:: Piano,; Guitar

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Wayne Hancock

Wayne "The Train" Hancock (Born May 1, 1965) is a country musician. Hancock began writing songs at the age of 12, and at 18 won a talent contest called the "Wrangler County Showdown." Immediately after the contest, he was shipped to recruit training...

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Jerry Jeff Walker

Jerry Jeff Walker (born March 16, 1942) is a country music singer. Walker was born Ronald Clyde Crosby in Oneonta, New York. During the late 1950's, Crosby was a member of a local Oneonta teen band called The Tones. The band traveled to Philadelphia...

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x Musical Genres:: Outlaw country,; Country

x Instruments Played:: Acoustic guitar,; Electric guitar

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The Pain Teens

Pain Teens was an experimental noise rock band formed in Houston, Texas in 1985 by Scott Ayers and Bliss Blood. The band used tape manipulation, digital delays, sampling, tape cut-ups and other effects in their music. They also included guitar,...

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Kathy Valentine

Kathy Valentine (born Kathryn Valentine, January 7, 1959, Austin, Texas) is the American bass guitarist for the all-girl punk/pop band, The Go-Go's. She began playing at age 16 in her hometown of Austin, and joined a fledgling Girlschool in London,...

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x Musical Genres:: Pop rock,; Pop punk

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Robert Earl Keen

Robert Earl Keen, Junior (born January 11, 1956 in Houston, Texas) is a Texan singer-songwriter. He is popular with traditional country music fans, folk music fans, the college radio crowd and alt-country fans. Keen currently resides in Kerrville,...

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x Place Musical Career Began:: Houston,; Austin

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x Musical Genres:: Alternative country,; Country,; Country rock,; more ▼

x Instruments Played:: Steel-string acoustic guitar

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Big Boys

The Big Boys were a pioneering band who are credited with helping introduce the new style of hardcore punk that became popular in the 1980s. Based in Austin, Texas the band members were Randy "Biscuit" Turner on vocals, Tim Kerr on guitar and Chris...

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Grady

Grady is a blues-rock band from Austin, Texas. Grady originally consisted of vocalist and guitarist Gordie Johnson (now known as "Grady" Johnson), bass guitarist "Big" Ben Richardson, and Chris Layton on drums. Prior to Grady, Johnson was the...

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Britt Daniel

Britt Daniel (born 1971) is the co-founder, lead singer and guitarist of the Austin, Texas, rock band Spoon. Britt Daniel was born in Galveston, Texas, and grew up in Temple, Texas, in a household of five children. His father, a neurologist, was an...

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x Place of birth:: Galveston

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Greezy Wheels

Greezy Wheels is an Austin, Texas-based rock band that formed in the 1970s. They played frequently at the Armadillo World Headquarters, to the point of being regarded as the house band. Greezy Wheels' music is a raucous blend of rock, blues, and...

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Doug Sahm

Douglas Wayne Sahm (November 6, 1941 – November 18, 1999), was a musician from Texas. Born in San Antonio, Texas, he was a child prodigy in country music, but became a significant figure in blues, rock and other genres. Today Sahm is considered one...

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x Date of death:: Nov 18, 1999

x Place of birth:: San Antonio

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Marc Gunn

Marc Gunn is a musician and podcaster. As the autoharp-playing half of the Brobdingnagian Bards, Gunn and partner Andrew McKee developed a following with weekly performances on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. This led to gigs at...

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Bob Schneider

Bob Schneider (born October 12, 1965) is an Austin, Texas-based musician and artist, born in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and raised in Munich, Germany. The son of an opera singer, he moved with his parents to Germany when he was two. He learned guitar and...

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Union Jack and the Megatones

Union Jack and the Megatones were an US band which gained popularity during the third wave of ska in the late 1990s in the Austin, Texas area. They hailed from Cedar Park and Leander, Texas and were known regionally as the "first ska band from Cedar...

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Sue Foley

Sue Foley (born March 29, 1968, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian blues singer and guitarist. Foley has been writing and playing for over twenty years. She has recorded ten albums, for both Antone's Records and Shanachie Records. She has spent...

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x Place of birth:: Ottawa

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Patrice Pike

Patrice Pike is an American musician and singer in Austin, Texas. Over the years Patrice Pike has performed on stage with many artists including Dave Matthews, Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Blues Traveler, the Allman Brothers and the Indigo...

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Kelly Willis

Kelly Willis (born October 2, 1968) is an American country music singer-songwriter, whose music has been described as contemporary country, alternative country and new traditionalist. Born in Lawton, Oklahoma, U.S., Willis was the youngest of three...

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x Place Musical Career Began:: Annandale,; Austin

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Ephraim Owens

Ephraim Owens (b. Nov 5, 1972 in Dallas, TX) is a musician, composer, and jazz bandleader who plays trumpet and flugelhorn. Owens began playing trumpet in elementary school, after classmates urged him to join the school band. He continued his music...

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Bobby Whitlock

Bobby Whitlock (born 18 March 1948 in Memphis, Tennessee) is a songwriter and musician, best known for being a member of Derek and the Dominos. Raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Whitlock began his musical career while still a teenager, as a session...

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Alejandro Escovedo

Alejandro Escovedo (born January 10, 1951, in San Antonio, Texas) is a Mexican-American musician and singer-songwriter. He will be performing at The Voodoo Experience held at City Park in New Orleans, Louisiana over Halloween weekend 2009. His...

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Stars of the Lid

Stars of the Lid is a duo specializing in drone-based ambient music. They list among their influences minimalist and electronic composers such as Arvo Pärt, Zbigniew Preisner, Gavin Bryars, and Henryk Górecki, as well as Talk Talk (both bands have...

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Sound Team

Sound Team was an American band based in Austin, Texas that formed in 2000 around principal songwriters Bill Baird and Matt Oliver. For most of their recording career, Sound Team consisted of Bill Baird (bass, guitar, vocals), Matt Oliver (guitar,...

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The Yuppie Pricks

The Yuppie Pricks are a five-piece punk rock band from Austin, Texas. They "deal in reserve psychology punk by ironically celebrating the materialist excesses of the upwardly mobile in songs like 'Greed Is Good', 'Fraternity Days', and 'Fuck You, I...

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Blue Cartoon

Blue Cartoon are a power-pop band based in Austin, Texas. Former lead singer for Blue Cartoon, John McElhenney has gone on to form Buzzie, an Austin based pop rock band.

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Jim Eno

Jim Eno is the drummer and one of the founding members of the Austin, Texas band Spoon, and a semiconductor chip designer. Eno was born in Rhode Island. He studied electrical engineering at North Carolina State University and worked as a hardware...

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Dale Watson

Dale Watson (born 1962, Birmingham, Alabama) is an American alternative country singer, guitarist and songwriter based in Austin, Texas. He's positioned himself as a tattooed, stubbornly independent outsider who is interested in recording authentic...

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Ian McLagan

Ian McLagan (born Ian Patrick McLagan, 12 May 1945, Hounslow, Middlesex) is an English keyboard instrumentalist, best known as a member of the English rock bands Small Faces and Faces. In the 1960s McLagan was a member of the Small Faces, playing...

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x Place Musical Career Began:: Hounslow,; Austin

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x Musical Genres:: Hard rock,; Rock music,; Rhythm and blues,; more ▼

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Michael Fracasso

Michael Fracasso is a singer-songwriter based in Austin, Texas. His music spans country and rock as he sings in a high tenor that evokes the "high lonesome" sound of early country. He was a regular performer at the Cornelia Street Cafe's Monday...

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Don Walser

Donald Ray Walser (September 14, 1934 - September 20, 2006) was an American country music singer. He was known as a unique, award-winning yodeling "Texas country music legend." Walser was born in Brownfield, Texas. A roots musician since he was 11...

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x Place of birth:: Brownfield

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Pocket Symphonies

Pocket Symphonies is an Austin indie rock band formed in 2000. Their debut album Leaving Is Believing was well received by the Austin Chronicle. Also, the recording of the album attracted Fastball vocalist Tony Scalzo and Young Heart Attack...

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Davíd Garza

Davíd Garza is an Austin-based, American singer-songwriter who infuses rock and pop with a Latin feel and whose vocal style draws comparisons to Freddie Mercury, Jeff Buckley, Donovan and Robert Plant. David says keep the discography the rest is no...

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Voxtrot

Voxtrot is an indie rock band from Austin, Texas, USA. The band includes Ramesh Maclean Srivastava, Jason Michael Chronis, and Matthew Alan Simon. Their first EP, a self-made CD-R, was produced in 2003 and sold at a few independent record stores in...

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Rod Picott

Rod Picott is a songwriter whose music incorporates elements of Americana, alt-country, and folk. He grew up in New Hampshire, but relocated to Nashville, Tennessee in 1994. After several years of playing local clubs and supporting acts such as...

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Abra Moore

Abra Moore (born June 8, 1969 in San Diego, California) is a folk-styled rock singer-songwriter. She is an icon of the Austin, Texas music scene. Her 1997 album Strangest Places included the hit "Four Leaf Clover", which received airplay in Midwest...

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x Place Musical Career Began:: San Diego,; Austin

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x Musical Genres:: Alternative rock,; Pop music,; Country,; more ▼

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Gurf Morlix

Gurf Morlix (born 1951, Buffalo, NY) is an American multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and record producer residing for many years in Austin, Texas. He has worked with many of the best known performers of Americana and alternative country music. His...

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Tosca Tango Orchestra

The Tosca Tango Orchestra is a joined effort between various Austin, Texas based musicians. Founded by Glover Gill in collaboration with The Tosca String Quartet, Chris Maresh and Justin Sherburn in 1997. The group performs original compositions in...

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Ignitor

Ignitor is a heavy metal band based in Austin, Texas, USA. Ignitor was formed in 2003 by Erika Tandy (ex-Autumn Tears, vocals), Stuart Laurence aka Batlord (lead guitar, ex-Agony Column), Pat Doyle (ex-Offenders, ex-Pocket Fishrmen, drums), Beverly...

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Kacy Crowley

Kacy Crowley is an American musician and singer-songwriter. A New England native, she currently resides in Austin, Texas. Born in Northampton, Massachusetts, her mother was a piano teacher and her father was a construction worker. Her family soon...

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x Place Musical Career Began:: Northampton,; Austin

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Dexter Freebish

Dexter Freebish is an Austin, Texas USA based band consisting of lead singer Rob Kyle, guitars of Scott Romig, bass and vocals of Chris Lowe, and the drums of Rob Schilz. They have released three albums with plans for a new album to be released in...

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David Baerwald

David Baerwald (born on July 11, 1960 in Oxford, Ohio) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and musician. He has one son, Beker Baerwald. Baerwald first came to prominence as one half of the duo David & David, with David Ricketts. He was a...

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x Musical Genres:: Pop folk,; Country,; Rock music,; more ▼

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Doug Ferguson

Douglas 'Doug' Ferguson (born 4 March 1947, in Carlisle, Cumberland) is a British musician known mostly for playing the bass guitar in the progressive rock band Camel from 1971 to 1976, his reason for leaving being the evolution of Camel's music...

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Quiet Company

Quiet Company is a piano rock band hailing from Austin, Texas, led by former Eisley contributor Taylor Muse. Their first album, Shine Honesty, was released on March 23, 2006 by Northern Records and is distributed in the United States and Canada by...

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x Musical Genres:: Indie rock,; Piano rock,; Indie pop,; more ▼

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Poor Man's Fortune

Poor Man’s Fortune is a band from Austin, Texas, USA who are widely considered to be the best traditional Breton music band in the US and North America. The band also performs traditional Irish music, traditional Scottish music and traditional...

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The Greencards

The Greencards are a progressive bluegrass band that formed in Austin, Texas, and are currently based in Nashville, Tennessee. The band was founded in 2003 in Texas by Eamon McLoughlin, an Englishman, and Australians Kym Warner and Carol Young. The...

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