(Vocal/instrumental group, 1992–98) The Mavericks released their debut album independently, and their major-label debut, From Hell To Paradise (1992), gave little hint of the success ahead, as CMA Vocal Group Of The Year in both 1995 and 1996. All have moved on to further ventures, but will be forever linked with the audience-pleasing band whose albums ...
Vocalist Of The Year in 1989 and 1990, Mattea has done much to expand country music’s parameters. Styles & Forms | New Country & The Neo-Traditionalists Personalities | The Mavericks | New Country & The Neo-Traditionalists ...
rider before joining his father’s band, The Mission City Playboys. Bandy, a disciple of Hank Williams and George Jones, with his own band, Moe And The Mavericks, specialized in honky-tonk music, cheating songs and steel guitar. His 50-plus US country hits include the novel ‘Just Good Ol’ Boys’ (1979), a duet with Joe Stampley, ...
R&B acts, the emergence of less-demonstrative artists – often from a self-financing small-scale independent background – represents a quiet form of rebellion from the pop norm. The success of mavericks such as Björk and Sinéad O’Connor in the 1990s continues to foster an independent spirit in the pop singer-songwriters of the new century. While the likes of Alanis Morissette, ...
the chagrin of innumerable country music performers and enthusiasts. Although the Nashville sound remains a factor in mainstream country to this day, it fell upon a handful of strong-willed mavericks, popularly known as country’s outlaws, to rise from the late-1960s and 1970s Nashville sound morass and revitalize country’s mainstream by swinging it back toward its rustic, unadorned ...
which mutated hard and punk rock with alternating strains of psychedelia, art rock, folk and even country. Both were formed in 1982 and lead by gifted, uncompromising mavericks in the shape of Gibby Haynes and Steve Albini, making music that was powerful, cynical, crazed and often wryly amusing. The unhinged Haynes, in particular, ...
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