"Birdtalker is an American indie folk music based in Nashville, TN. The band is made up of Zack and Dani Green -- married couple -- Andy Hubright, Brian Seligman, and Jesse Baker. "
"First released in 1967, this tune was sung by Sterling Holloway as part of the soundtrack for the Disney film _Jungle Book_ in a scene with a python. In the song, Kaa quickly hypnotizes Mowgli into a calm, soothing, relaxing trance, sending Mowgli walking along his body until he finally coils himself around Mowgli just like he did before. As the song concludes, Kaa readies himself to devour the boy, only to be stopped by Shere Khan the tiger in his search for Mowgli.- wiki Besides Swift's vesion, It's been covered by Scarlett Johannsonn, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Selena Gomez. "
Brooklyn Rider is covering a tune written by Wilco's Glenn Kotche (note: I mistakenly described this as a tune from Glenn Kotche & Jeff Tweedy o Wilco…from the soundtrack for Chelsea Walls.
"Self-described Death Blues Funeral Trash Orchestra, founded in Geneva Switzerland. They release 8 albums over 10 year period starting in 2008. Dead Brothers mastermind Alain Croubalian passed away on 03. Sept. 2021. "
Kevin Morby was born in Lubbock, Texas on April 2, 1988; his family relocated around the U.S. due to his father's employment with General Motors before settling in Kansas City, Missouri. Morby learned to play guitar when he was 10. In his teens he formed the band Creepy Aliens
You've got Toure on vocals and joining him on acoustic guitar is Taj Mahal and Roy McLeod. Groupe Asko featured on backing vocals. Toure died in Mali in March 2006 after a long illness.
Richard Myhill is a British singer-songwriter, musician, composer, producer and arranger, originally from Chorleywood, Hertfordshire, who worked on Duran Duran tracks in the early 1980s
Radie Peat is a singer and multi-instrumentalist from Dublin, Ireland, whose work centres largely around traditional and folk music from Ireland and the English speaking world. He's in the band Lankum, a contemporary Irish folk music group from Dublin, consisting of Peat wth brothers Ian and Daragh Lynch, Cormac MacDiarmada.
"Drummer Jeremy Cunningham and saxophonist Dustin Laurenzi have been near-inseparable collaborators for years, working in countless groups together across Chicago
"Small Tremble In Slow Motion opens as a guided meditation. Through monologue, two storytellers emerge in a non-linear daydream, drifting between poetic cadence and plain spoken narrative. This album is the result of a collaboration between Sally Decker and Briana Marela throughout the months of February to May of 2021 during a remote artist residency with Qubit in NYC. Small Tremble In Slow Motion was initially conceived as an audio-visual piece and performance, and has now branched into a number of forms. - bandcamp"
"Rabih Abou-Khalil is an oud player and composer born in Lebanon, who combines elements of Arabic music with jazz, classical music, and other styles. He grew up in Beirut and moved to Munich, Germany, during the Lebanese Civil War in 1978. Selim Kusur is on the Ney. It is an end-blown flute native to Egypt, and of the oldest continuous instruments "
"Hamilton was the singer who inspired Sam Cooke, then a gospel music star, to switch over to secular music. Hamilton was also the one to whom Cooke first submitted his early pop-song compositions. He also influenced Elvis' ballad singing. He died of a massive stroke at age 40. Heavily in debt, his widow sought help to pay for his burial. Elvis paid for everything. At his funeral service, messages of condolence sent by Presley, Mahalia Jackson and B.B. King were read out to the mourners - wiki"
Hanrahan was born in 1954 in a Puerto Rican neighborhood in the Bronx to an Irish-Jewish family. His father left when he was 6 months old, leaving his mother and grandfather to raise him. He has described his grandfather as _this cynical Russian communist_ whose approval of rebellion against authority he cites as among his early musical influences. He is an American jazz music impresario, record producer and percussionist.
"the quantum leap of the very unknown electronic music composed in Iran from the Sixties till today. Two Iranian music masters who work (mainly) on ancestral structures to create something radically new...Alireza Mashayekhi was born in 1940 in Tehran, Iran. He is one of the pioneers of avant garde in Iran; Ata Ebtekar aka Sote is an electronic composer, sound artist and recording engineer who was born on September 2nd, 1972. He is interested in keeping the tuning of Persian classical scales (Radif) and melodies from old Persian folk songs within a new electronic framework. "
"Following the release of their next album, _I've Been Let Down_ in 1997, Mazzy Star went on hiatus, and did not release new music until the single _Common Burn_/_Lay Myself Down_ in 2011"
"The Incredible String Band were a British psychedelic folk band formed by Clive Palmer, Robin Williamson and Mike Heron in Edinburgh in 1966. In 1963, Williamson and Palmer began performing together as a traditional folk duo in Edinburgh, particularly at a weekly club run by Archie Fisher in the Crown Bar which also regularly featured Bert Jansch. There they were seen in August 1965 by Joe Boyd, then working as a talent scout for the influential folk-based label Elektra Records. - wiki"
