When a Japanese record label approached Danny Kortchmar to make an album consisting of new and old songs, the guitarist figured he should enlist the help of other veterans. One of them is Waddy Wachtel, and together with Steve Postell, Russ Kunkel, and Leland Sklar, the five men formed The Immediate Family. The group will…
Born and raised in California, Roddy Ricch started taking the rap game by storm in 2018 with the release of his hit single “Die Young”. In what felt like no time at all, he went from an unknown up-and-coming artist to one of the hottest new rappers in the industry. His freshman album, Please Excuse…
Webbie was born on September 6, 1985, and raised in Sherwood, Louisiana, a crime-ridden neighborhood; second highest in the United States. Later, he relocated to Glen Oaks, Louisiana. At 11, Webbie signed with Get Money Boys, which helped him launch his career. Once rap music gained popularity, he switched labels to Trill Entertainment four years…
Not very many cover bands make it big, but the story f fuel starts with a few guys from Tennessee who formed a band. They had some success and moved to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1994 under the group name Reel to Real, and they were a cover band. Brett Scallions, the lead singer and longest-standing…
Patrick Brown is better known by his stage name, Sleepy Brown. He was born in 1970 and grew up in Savannah, Georgia. Since his father, Jimmy Brown was a musician, it was only natural for the son to gravitate towards music, and Brown began playing the keyboard and writing songs in the hip hop arena….
John Lennon may have thought the Beatles were bigger than Jesus, but there’s an argument that Paul McCartney, both via his solo material and his work with Wings, turned out to be bigger than even the Beatles. It’s not convincing, but it’s an argument all the same. The Beatles inspired millions of artists, changed the…
He came to fame as a member of post-hardcore band Million Dead, but since breaking away from the band in 2005, Frank Turner has carved out a hugely successful solo career as a kind of modern-day Billy Brag (albeit much posher and with politics that veer more to the right than the left). Having spent…
Elvis Presley was a singer and actor who began his career in 1946, and he is usually associated with music genres including rock and roll, pop, country, rockabilly, gospel, blues, and R&B. He had established himself in the music industry by the mid-1950s but was then conscripted to the US Army in 1958. After serving…
Country music’s roots are in rural areas of the Southern and Western United States. Traditional Celtic and Scottish folk songs and ballads started evolving in the Appalachian Mountains. In 1923, Fiddlin’ John Carson recorded the first country music song. Also, during this time, radio stations in Midwestern and Southern cities started broadcasting country music songs….