Showing posts with label Jimi Hendrix. Show all posts
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Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Succes 2011: Chip Taylor, american musician that wrote "Wild Thing". He is the brother of actor Jon Voight

James Wesley Voight (born March 21, 1940), better known by his stage name as Chip Taylor, is an American songwriter, who is noted for writing the songs "Angel of the Morning" and "Wild Thing." He is the brother of actor Jon Voight and geologist Barry Voight. He is the uncle of actress Angelina Jolie and actor James Haven.

Taylor's best-known songs are "Wild Thing" which, though originally recorded in 1965 by Jordan Christopher & The Wild Ones, became famous as both a 1966 hit single for The Troggs and a 1967 live performance by Jimi Hendrix, and "Angel of the Morning," a hit for Merrilee Rush in 1968, and then a million-selling single in 1981 for country-pop singer Juice Newton. Other notable pop and country songs written by Talor include "He Sits at Your Table" (Willie Nelson), "I Can't Let Go", "The Baby" (The Hollies), "Worry" (Johnny Tillotson), "Make Me Belong to You"(Barbara Lewis), "I Can Make It With You" (The Pozo Seco Singers, Jackie DeShannon), "Any Way That You Want Me" (The Troggs, Evie Sands, Juice Newton), "Step Out of Your Mind", "Country Girl City Man" (Billy Vera and Judy Clay), "I'll Hold Out My Hand", "Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)" (Janis Joplin), "Julie" (Bobby Fuller Four), "Lonely Is As Lonely Does" (The Fleetwoods), "Sweet Dream Woman" (Waylon Jennings), "A Little Bit Later On Down the Line" (Bobby Bare) and "Son of a Rotten Gambler" (Emmylou Harris, the Hollies, Anne Murray).
In 2009, Ace Records released a compilation CD of some of Taylor's compositions as recorded by other artists (Wild Thing: The Songs of Chip Taylor).

Taylor has released recordings on Warner Bros., Columbia, and Capitol. His most popular recording is Last Chance, on Warner Bros. In the mid-1970s, Taylor gave up the music business for a career as a professional gambler specializing in blackjack and horse-racing handicapping. But the year 1980 saw Taylor make an appearance in the film Melvin and Howard.Taylor restarted his performing and recording career in 1993. At a South by Southwest Music Conference in Austin, Texas in 2001, Chip met singer and violinist Carrie Rodriguez, with whom he performed and recorded Americana music for several years.

The duo recorded Let's Leave This Town in 2002. They released The Trouble With Humans the following year and the critically acclaimed Red Dog Tracks in 2005. Each has since released successful solo albums. Taylor's double-CD Unglorious Hallelujah/Red Red Rose, his first solo album in five years, was quickly hailed as "a future classic" by Sonic Magazine, whose reviewer declared: "This is the best we've heard from Chip Taylor so far." Rodriguez's solo album, Seven Angels on a Bicycle, was released in August 2006. In late 2006 and early 2007, Rodriguez toured on her own but continued to perform with Taylor from time to time.

Taylor has also performed with alt-country singer-songwriter Robbie Fulks, playing bass for Fulks's January 2004 date at Double Door in Chicago. Taylor has done a series of shows with guitarist John Platania and the young singer/fiddler Kendel Carson, and he produced both their 2007 albums. In addition, the reggae rap star Shaggy utilized "Angel of the Morning" as the basis for his hit "Angel" in 2001. The song also used the bass line of the Steve Miller song "The Joker". Both Taylor and Miller received co-writing credit for the song, which became Taylor's second No. 1 hit on the Billboard pop charts, some 35 years after "Wild Thing". "Angel of the Morning" has sold over 13 million copies worldwide.

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Succes 2010: Brian Auger - de la jazz la Hendrix


Brian Auger este un muzician celebru pentru interpretarile sale la keyboard in compozitii de jazz si rock. Orga sa favorita poarta marca Hammond.
Un artist polivalent, Auger a concertat alaturi de artisti precum Rod Stewart, Tony Williams, Jimi Hendrix, Sonny Boy Williamson, Led Zeppelin, Eric Burdon. Interpretarile sale, in care a excelat in jazz, British pop, R&B, soul music si rock i-au adus o nominalizare la Grammy.

discografie:

1965 - Don't Send Me No Flowers - Sonny Boy Williamson
1965 - Attention!
1965-1969 - The Mod Years (Complete singles, B-sides, and rare tracks)
1967 - Open (Trinity's first album)
1968 - Definitely What
1969 - Streetnoise (double album)
1969/1970 - Befour (Last Brian Auger Trinity album)
1970 - Oblivion Express (First Oblivion Express album)
1971 - A Better Land (Oblivion Express)
1972 - Second Wind (Oblivion Express)
1973 - Closer To It (Oblivion Express)
1975 - Straight Ahead (Oblivion Express)
1975 - Live Oblivion Volume 1
1975 - Live Oblivion Volume 2
1975 - Reinforcements (Oblivion Express)
1976 - Best of Brian Auger (double album)
1975 - Happiness Heartaches (Oblivion Express)
1978 - Encore[2] - Brian Auger & Julie Tippetts (Reunion album)
1980 - Search Party
1982 - Here and Now
1987 - Keys to the Heart
1990 - Super Jam
1993 - Access All Areas: Live - Eric Burdon/Brian Auger Band (double album)
1993 - Tony Williams: Live in Tokyo 1978
1998 - Blue Groove - Karma Auger
1999 - Voices of Other Times (Oblivion Express)
2001 - Soft & Furry - Ali Auger
2004 - Auger Rhythms: Brian Augers Musical History (The Trinity, Julie Driscoll, Oblivion Express)
2005 - Brian Auger: Insights of the Keyboard Master (DVD)
2005 - Looking In the Eye of the World (Oblivion Express)
2005 - Live at the Baked Potato (Oblivion Express) Double CD
2005 - Live at the Baked Potato (Oblivion Express) DVD