Category Archives: Artist_Profile

Simone Felice

By diverse | Published: 28/07/2010
I’m alive.Got my breast-bone sawed in two and my lungs collapsed and the main valve of my heart replaced by a carbon device that ticks like a pocket watch to the beat of my blood for the rest of my days, but I’m alive. Strange days indeed.What a wild thing to learn from the [...]
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Joan Baez

By diverse | Published: 10/02/2010
b. Joan Chandos Baez, 9 January 1941, Staten Island, New York, USA. The often-used cliché – the queen of folk to Bob Dylan’s king – her sweeping soprano is one of the most distinctive voices in popular music. An impressive appearance at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival followed the singer’s early performances throughout the Boston/New [...]
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Heartworn Highways

By diverse | Published: 10/02/2010
It’s Christmas Eve, 1975, and 19-year old Steve Earle is seated at a weather-worn dinner table, surrounded by emptied jugs of wine, spent cigarette butts, and a guitar-wielding pack of honky-tonk misfits that includes Guy Clark, Rodney Crowell, and Steve Young. Long hair hanging over his eyes, the fresh-faced Earle leans over and launches into the [...]
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Rickie Lee Jones

By diverse | Published: 10/02/2010
b. 8 November 1954, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Jones emerged from a thriving Los Angeles bohemian sub-culture in 1979 with a buoyant debut album, peppered with images of streetwise characters and indebted, lyrically, to beat and jazz styles. The set included the Chuck E. Weiss tribute “Chuck E.’s In Love”, a US Top 5 single, and [...]
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Chuck Prophet

By diverse | Published: 08/02/2010
Diverse Records welcomes Chuck Prophet to our vinyl family.
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Ron Sexsmith

By admin | Published: 07/02/2010
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] b. Ronald Eldon Sexsmith, 8 January 1964, St. Catharine’s, Ontario, Canada. Formerly a motorcycle messenger, Toronto resident Sexsmith was first inspired by the music of Tim Hardin and other 60s singer-songwriters. By the age of 17 he was singing cover versions in local bars. Embarking on his own song [...]
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Frank Black & The Catholics

By admin | Published: 07/02/2010
b. Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV, 6 April 1965, Long Beach, California, USA. This US vocalist/guitarist led highly influential Boston-based alternative rock band the Pixies under the name Black Francis. When that band underwent an acrimonious split in 1993, Francis embarked on a solo career as Frank Black. His self-titled debut featured assistance from Nick [...]
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