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Dog Ears Music: Volume Ninety-Seven

Posted November 6, 2009 | 10:34 AM (EST)

Rachel Portman

Composer/pianist Rachel Portman was born at the dawn of Generation X in Haslemere, England. By her preteens, she started composing, then...

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Dog Ears Music: Volume Ninety-Six

3 Comments | Posted October 30, 2009 | 11:02 AM (EST)

Buddy & Julie Miller

Grammy nominated Nashville-based husband-and-wife roots-rockers/songwriters Buddy & Julie Miller whipped up some magic to relish this year. Buddy's masterful...

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Dog Ears Music: Volume Ninety-Five

Posted October 23, 2009 | 10:44 AM (EST)

Marc Neikrug

Classical maestro Marc Neikrug, a fourth-generation musician, was born in New York City to cellist parents. He is the only American...

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Dog Ears Music: Volume Ninety-Four

1 Comments | Posted October 16, 2009 | 12:57 PM (EST)

Kim Weston

R&B singer Kim Weston (a.k.a. Agatha Natalie Weston) was born in Detroit, winter of 1939. As a young child, she started...

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Dog Ears Music: Volume Ninety-Three

2 Comments | Posted October 9, 2009 | 11:10 AM (EST)

Mulatu Astatke

Ethio-jazz composer/arranger and musician Mulatu Astatke was born in western Ethiopia in 1943. After music studies in London and New York,...

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Dog Ears Music: Volume Ninety-Two

Posted October 2, 2009 | 01:53 PM (EST)

Califone

Chicago-based alt-art-rock quartette Califone is comprised of multi-instrumentalists/filmmakers Joe Adamik, Jim Becker, Ben Massarella, and Tim Rutili. Founded in the late '90s,...

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Dog Ears Music: Volume Ninety-One

1 Comments | Posted September 25, 2009 | 01:54 PM (EST)

Arvo Pärt

Experimental classical composer Arvo Pärt was born in Estonia in 1935 and raised in its capital, Tallinn, where the postwar Soviet...

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Dog Ears Music: Volume Ninety

Posted September 18, 2009 | 11:47 AM (EST)

Jim White

Georgia-based singer/songwriter, actor, photographer, filmmaker/visual artist Jim White was born in Pensacola, Florida, "a town crushed between the church and heroin."...

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Dog Ears Music: Volume Eighty-Nine

2 Comments | Posted September 11, 2009 | 01:44 PM (EST)

Ambulance Ltd.

Ambulance Ltd. is the five-piece rock ensemble founded in New York City in the early aughts. Their revolving-door cast over the...

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Dog Ears Music: Volume Eighty-Eight

Posted September 4, 2009 | 01:51 PM (EST)

Sister Gertrude Morgan

Preacher, singer, poet, and folk-art legend Sister Gertrude Morgan was born in 1900 on a farm in Alabama, one of...

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Dog Ears Music: Volume Eighty-Seven

Posted August 28, 2009 | 11:12 AM (EST)

Marvin Etzioni

Singer/songmaster and producer Marvin Etzioni was born in Brooklyn, the son of a carpenter. Upon relocating to Los Angeles as...

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Dog Days of Summer Playlist: Volume 2

1 Comments | Posted August 21, 2009 | 12:08 PM (EST)

Nina Simone

Buy: iTunes
Genre: Jazz
Artist: Nina Simone
Song: Who...

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Dog Days of Summer Playlist: Honoring the late great Les Paul

1 Comments | Posted August 14, 2009 | 11:54 AM (EST)

We are so fortunate to have had Les Paul for almost a century. His music, arrangements, and electronic innovation changed our world forever. We loved him for so long.

Vintage...

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Dog Ears Music: Volume Eighty-Four

2 Comments | Posted August 7, 2009 | 03:35 PM (EST)

The Parlor Mob

The Parlor Mob is the rock quintette of Sam Bey (drums), Mark Melicia (vocals), David Rosen (guitar), Paul Ritchie (guitar),...

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Dog Ears Music: Volume Eighty-Three

1 Comments | Posted July 31, 2009 | 12:37 PM (EST)

James Carr

Soul singer James Carr was born June 13, 1942, in the Mississippi Delta, the son of a minister. After relocating to...

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Dog Ears Music: Volume Eighty-Two

3 Comments | Posted July 24, 2009 | 01:35 PM (EST)

Amber Rubarth

California-born singer/songwriter Amber Rubarth is part of the new old-soul generation. Born in the '80s, Rubarth started writing songs by her...

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Dog Ears Music: Volume Eighty-One

1 Comments | Posted July 17, 2009 | 10:31 AM (EST)

Ralston Bowles

Singer/songwriter Ralston Bowles is an Americana troubadour born one of two children in Gary, Indiana. The Grand Rapids-based Bowles, a former...

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Dog Ears Music: Volume Eighty

2 Comments | Posted July 10, 2009 | 10:38 AM (EST)

The Louvin Brothers

2001's Country Music Hall of Famers Ira (mandolin) and Charlie (guitar) Loudermilk, a.k.a. the Louvin Brothers, were born in Alabama...

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Dog Ears Music: Volume Seventy-Nine

Posted July 3, 2009 | 10:08 AM (EST)

Curumin

Samba hip-hop percussionist/singer Curumin, a.k.a. Luciano Nakata Albuquerque, a Brazilian native of Japanese and Spanish descent, was born musically advanced. By his...

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Dog Ears Music: Volume Seventy-Eight

Posted June 26, 2009 | 10:58 AM (EST)

The tragic loss of Michael Jackson leaves a titanic mountain of sorrow. He gave so much and asked so little in return. Jackson was our 20th century pop Mozart.

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