Lucky Peterson

   
Artist: Lucky Peterson

   Genre(s): 
Blues
   

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Discography:


   
 Black Midnight Sun

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 11

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Child-prodigy status is sometimes difficult to get the better of upon reach maturity. Not so for Lucky Peterson -- he's far bigger (in more ways than one) on the contemporaneous megrims electrical circuit than he was at the precocious age of six-spot, when he scored a national R&B stumble with the Willie Dixon-produced "1-2-3-4."


Small Lucky Peterson was lucky to be born into a melodious kin. His dada, James Peterson, owned the Governor's Inn, a popular Buffalo, NY, blues night club that booked the biggies: Jimmy Reed, Muddy Waters, Bill Doggett. The latter's mighty Hammond B-3 organ hypnotised the four-and-a-half-year-old lad, and before long Peterson was on his path under Dixon's tuition. "1-2-3-4" got Peterson on The Tonight Show and The Ed Sullivan Show, just he didn't rest on his honor -- he was doubling on guitar at old age eight, and at 17, he sign on as Little Milton's keyboardist for trey long time.


A three-year stint with Bobby Bland preceded Peterson's solo career launch, which took off when he smitten up a musical relationship with Florida-based producer Bob Greenlee. Two Greenlee-produced albums for Alligator, 1989's Lucky Strikes! and the following year's Three-base hit Play, remain his finest recorded offerings. Extensive session ferment behind everyone from Etta James and Kenny Neal to Otis Rush also commenced during this period.


In 1992, Peterson's first Verve label album, I'm Ready, plant him boldly mixture modern-day rock and roll and soul into his simmering blues stew. More high-energy Verve sets followed, qualification it clear that Peterson's luck stiff heights (as does his father's, who's fashioned his own career as a bluesman with albums for Ichiban and Waldoxy). Lucky made his debut for new label Blue Thumb with a self-titled endeavor released in 1999. Dual Dealin' followed in early 2001.

Albert Hammond Jr announces one-off LA show

Albert Hammond, Jr. has announced a one-off show in Los Angeles to support his forthcoming album.

The Strokes guitarist will perform at Spaceland on July 11, debuting tracks from his second solo album '�C�mo Te Llama?', which is due out in the US July 8.

Hammond is expected to announce additional summer tour dates throughout the US in the coming weeks.

--By our Los Angeles staff.
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Actress Kristen Bell has harboured a crush on hockey star Chris Osgood since her youth � and insists she would pick the Canadian goaltender over Hollywood hunk Brad Pitt any day.

The Forgetting Sarah Marshall star grew up as a hockey-obsessed tomboy in Detroit, Mich., and admits her �first crush� was on the Detroit Red Wings sportsman, reports People.com.

Bell, 27, says, �Brad Pitt be damned � he had nothing on Osgood�s rookie skill and sad eyes.

�There was actually a day in high school when I wrote on a name tag �Mrs. Osgood� and wore it the whole day. I really thought we were perfect for each other. I�d love to meet him � and probably apologize that things never worked out.�

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Altan

   
Artist: Altan

   Genre(s): 
Celtic
   New Age
   Folk
   

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Discography:


   
 Local Ground

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 13


   
 The blue idol

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 13


   
 Another Sky

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 13


   
 Altan's Finest

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 14


   
 Live

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 8


   
 Runaway Sunday

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 14


   
 Best Of Altan

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 16


   
 Blackwater

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 12


   
 The First Ten Years: 1986-1995

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 15


   
 The Red Crow

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 11


   
 Island Angel

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 13


   
 Horse with a Heart

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 12


   
 Harvest Storm

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 13


   
 Altan

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 13


   
 Ceaol Aduaidh

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 14

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With their Northern Ireland-style counterpart piddling and piano accordion melodies accented by acoustic guitar and bouzouki, Altan has adult into one of the tip traditional bands in Ireland. The divine guidance for Altan was sparked when Donegal-born violinist and vocalist Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh met Belfast-born flute participant Frankie Kennedy. Ní Mhaonaigh had erudite the traditional style of piddling from her father, Francie, world Health Organization had lettered it from his mother, Roise. Influential Irish violinist Dinny McLaughlin, world Health Organization frequented her puerility nursing home, added to her knowledge of the instrument. Kennedy, world Health Organization studied flute as a tiddler, was passing concerned in Irish music and made several trips to Ireland during school vacations. Meeting during an cozy block sitting, Ní Mhaonaigh and Kennedy began to play together at every chance. Although they both took jobs as trainee teachers at St. Patrick's College in Dublin, music remained their shared out passion.


In 1979, the deuce musicians made their recording debut as accompanists for Gaelic isaac M. Singer Albert Fry on his self-titled debut album. Two age later, Ní Mhaonaigh and Kennedy graduated from college and were married. Together with bouzouki player Donal O'Hanlan and Mairéad's comrade Gearóid Ó Maoinaigh, wHO played guitar, Ní Mhaonaigh and Kennedy formed a band, Ragaime. Although they recorded for RTE, the radical disbanded by the time that Gael-Linn released Ní Mhaonaigh and Kennedy's debut album, Ceol Aduaidh, in December 1983. One track on the album, "An Clar Bog Dell," featured Enya, then known as Eithne Ní Bhraonáin, on Prophet-5 synthesizer.


In 1987, Ní Mhaonaigh and Kennedy recorded their second record album as a duo, Altan, named after a lake in nW Donegal. Produced by Dónal Lunny, the record album featured accompaniment by Ciarán Curran on bouzouki, Mark Kelly on guitar, and Mairéad's sister Anna Ní Mhaonaigh, then a member of the all-woman mathematical group Macella. Shortly later the windup of the record album, the musicians agreed to continuing working unitedly. During the summertime of 1988, Altan began work on their low record album as a band, which now included Paul O'Shaughnessy on twin Falls play. Produced by Phil Cunningham and released in 1989, the record album, Gymnastic horse with a Heart, featured a more dynamic well-grounded than its predecessors.


As the band's touring schedule expanded, O'Shaughnessy and Kelly were forced by their day jobs to limit their activeness with Altan to transcription and performances close to home. During the band's U.S. tours, their places were taken by Daíthí Sproule on guitar and Ciarán Tourish on fiddle. Altan reached top contour with their 1990 record album Red Crow, which received a NAIRD accolade as Best Celtic Traditional Album. Their next album, Harvest home Storm, released in 1992, received the award as good.


All news was not secure for the band, however. In 1991, Kennedy was diagnosed with cancer the Crab. Although he was hospitalized the following year, he recovered sufficiently to come back the band's tour. On September 19, 1994, he succumbed to his unwellness and passed away. Altan has continued to bring their euphony to the outside stage. Accordion player Dermot Byrne, wHO had played on Bolshevik Crow and on Altan's 1993 record album, Island Angel, united the mathematical group officially in 1994. 1996's Blackwater and 1997's Runaway Sunday were released on the Virgin label before the mathematical group jumped to Narada for 2000's Some other Sky. Numerous compilations and collections followed, as good as Profane Idol in 2002 and Local Ground in 2005, once again for Narada.