Corin Lisa Tucker is a guitarist and singer born on November 9, 1972.

Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein formed the band ‘Sleater-Kinney’, the band has stopped performing now.

Corin Tucker studied political economy, film and social change in ‘Evergreen State College’ in ‘Olympia, Washington’. Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein formed the band ‘Sleater-Kinney’ in Olympia, Washington and then moved to Portland, Oregon. She played for the band ‘Excuse 17’ in ‘Heartless Martin’ with Becca Albee.

Corin Tucker

Corin Tucker was a founding member of ‘Riot Grrrl’ and ‘Heavens to Betsy’. In the ‘Riot Grrrl’she recorded a number of singles for ‘Independent record Labels’ and split singles with the band ‘Bratmobile’. The ‘Heavens to Betsy’ band released ‘Calculated’ a first and full-length record on January 1, 1994 on Kill Rock Stars.

Corin Tucker has a tattoo which reads ‘Heavens to Betsy’ around her right ankle. The split of ‘Heavens to Betsy’ made Corin Tucker to form ‘Sleater-Kinney’ with Carrie Brownstein, the member of ‘Excuse 17’. She played second guitar to Carrie Brownstein’s lead and sang lead vocals. In the span of 11 years Tucker released seven albums with ‘Sleater-Kinney’.

Corin Tucker sang in her first band ‘Heavens to Betsy’, early recordings with ‘Sleater-kinney’ and developed her singing style. Sleater-kinney released their second album ‘Call the Doctor’ on March 25, 1996 on Chainsaw Records. She started having troubles keeping her voice healthy on road and sought for the help in a local opera singer and voice coach ‘Alice English’. She did strange jobs for paying fees to Alice English who helped her to breathe more proficiently and controlled her wild vibrato a musical effect. Her ‘Sleater-Kinney’ band members referred her deep singing as ‘The Tool’.

Corin Tucker worked on a side project ‘Cadallaca’ with Sarah Dougher, Cadallaca released their first album ‘Introducing Cadallaca’ in 1998. An additional extended play on ‘Kill Rock Starts’ released by ‘Cadallaca’in 2000. She is identified as a bisexual and dated her bandmate Carrie Brownstein. Tucker wrote a song ‘One More Hour’ after the breakup with Brownstein. She married ‘Lance Bangs’ a filmmaker and music video director in June 2000, Iceland.

Corin Tucker gave birth to a son on March 8, 2001 and gave birth to her second child on March 2008.

The Sleater-Kinney albums include ‘Sleater-Kinney’ a debut album in 1995, ‘Call the Doctor’ March 25, 1996 , ‘The Hot Rock Album’ February 23, 1999 , ‘All Hands on the Bad One’ May 2, 2000, ‘Dig Me Out’ the third album of Sleater-Kinney, ‘One Beat’ August 20, 2002, ‘The Woods’ the final studio album in 2005.

Clarence White was a bluegrass guitarist born on June 7, 1944 in Maine.

Clarence White was the guitarist for ‘Nashville West’ ‘The Byrds’, ‘Muleskinner’ and the ‘Kentucky Colonels’ bands. Clarence was known for his flat picking.

Clarence White and his family moved from Madawaska, Maine to Burbank, California in 1954 and formed a band called ‘Three Little Country Boys’. They gave regular program on a local radio and got the attention of ‘Joe Maphis’ an American Country Music Guitarist. The ‘Three Little Country Boys’ band cut their first single in 1958 and had become well known to land appearances on the ‘Andy Griffith Show’ an American Television Series. The ‘Three Little Country Boys’ became ‘Kentucky Colonels’ in the late 1962.

Clarence White - The Byrds, Colonels

Though Colonels were successful playing bluegrass, the band was still struggling to make a living. The folk era was devastated by the British Invasion in 1964. However, the release of "Subterranean Homesick Blues" by Bob Dylan and "Mr. Tambourine Man" by the ‘Byrds’ a year later kept folk alive. The band attempted to experiment electric instrumentation and this made unresponsiveness from rock audiences. Kentucky Colonels final show was on Hallowen Night and the band dissolved after this show by October 1965.

Clarence White joined as a session guitarist in Los Angels and played on early records of The Monkees. White performed at nights in the ‘Nashville West’ group with future Byrd Gene Parsons. The band was one of the best to play a flawless blend of country music and rock in modern pop music along with ‘International Submarine Band’ (ISB) and the ‘Flying Burrito Brothers’ (early country rock band). Clarence White’s involvement with the ‘Byrds’ began in intense in 1966. Clarence White and Gene Parsons joined the Byrd band after his contribution of his distinctive playing to former member Gene Clark’s solo album ‘Gene Clark’ with the Goadin Brothers.

Clarence White contributed twangy lead guitar to two of his songs ‘Time Between’ and ‘The Girl With No Name’ from the album ‘Younger Then Yesterday’ with the association of Byrds bassist Chris Hillman during the Clark’s session. He was invited for the album ‘The Notorious Byrd Brothers’ to record a lead guitar solo for ‘Change is Now’. The Byrds sixth album ‘Sweetheart of the Rodeo’ released on July 29, 1968 for which White contributed and this became an ironic recording. The albums remarkable instrumentation sounds fresh and exciting even today as when it was recorded. White’s guitar licks with Lloyd Greens and Jaydee Manness’s pedal steel playing became legendry mainly his solos ‘The Christian Life’, ‘One Hundred Years from Now’ and ‘The Blue Canadian Rockies’. White was invited to join the reconstituted Byrds in September 1968 after the unexpected death of Gram Parsons and Hillman one after the other. He stayed with the group until it got dissolved in the year 1973 by Roger McGuinn.

White joined Byrds in 1968 and played with the band until it was dissolved in 1973 by Roger McGuinn. Though Clarence White was successful as a guitarist, he was in debt due to poor management of revenue. Due to his financial status, White was forced to tour and continue playing in sessions.

In 1973, Byrds decided to reunite the original band members forcing White to be left out. However, Clarence remained busy all through the year playing with David Grisman, Peter Rowan, Richard Green on fiddle and Bill Keith a banjo player. The above joined to form the bluegrass band Muleskinner.

While loading his equipment in his car, Clarence White was unfortunately killed by a drunken driver in July 14th, 1973. Gram Parson was devastated by White’s sudden death and lead the song “Farther Along” during his funeral service. Gram also conceived White’s last song of tribute, “In My Hour of Darkness”.

Cliff Gallup was an American Electric Guitarist born on June 17, 1930.

Cliff Gallup was a lead guitarist who played rock and roll in ‘Gene Vincent’s’ Band ‘Blue Caps’ in 1950s.

Cliff Gallup - Blue Caps

Cliff Gallup has played 35 tracks with Vincent. ‘Be-Bop-a-Lula’ is his first rock and roll song with Gene Vincent band the ‘Blue Caps’ in 1956. This song was a big hit and gave him a reputation as one of the most proficient guitarist in early rock and roll.

Cliff Gallup - In Studio

Cliff Gallup left the Gene Vincent band the ‘Blue Caps’ in 1956 as he was a married person and unwilling to tour.Gallup made a solo album ‘Straight Down the Middle’ for the local Pussy Cat label in Norfolk in 1960s.

Cliff Gallup was working in school maintenance and occasionally played with local bands. He was the Director of Maintenance and Transportation for his regional school system at the time of his death in 1988. Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck made an album-length ‘Crazy Legs’ tribute to Gallup in 1993. Cliff Gallup is a member of ‘Rockabilly Hall of Fame’.

Cliff Gallup albums include ‘The Race with the Devil’, ‘Be-Bop-a-Lula’ in 1956, ‘Straight Down the Middle’ in 1960s. Cliff Gallup died of a heart attack in October 1988.

Clarence “Gatemouth’ Brown was a American blues musician. He was born on April 18, 1924 in Vinton, Louisiana.

Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown played an array of musical instruments such as guitar, fiddle, mandolin, viola, harmonica, and drums, he was an acclaimed multi-instrumentalist. His album ‘Alright Again’ won him a Grammy Award for Traditional Blues in 1983.

Clarence Gatemouth Brown

Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown was born in Vinton, Louisiana and raised in Orange, Texas. He began his professional musical career playing drums in San Antonio, Texas in 1945. Clarence Brown was tagged with the name ‘Gatemouth’ as one of his high school instructor accused him of having a ‘voice like a gate’ and Brown used it to his advantage throughout his memorable career. His suddenly prepared note bought him the fame in a concert by T-Bone Walker in Don Robey’s Bronze Peacock Houston nightclub.

Clarence ‘Gatemoouth’ Brown took his guitar and played ‘Gatemouth Boogie’ to the delight of the audience when T-Bone Walker was ill. He learnt to play other instruments along with guitar while he was in Texas.

Clarence ‘Gatemouth’ Brown moved to Nashville, Tennessee to participate in a syndicated ‘R&B Television’ show and he recorded several country singles while he was there in 1960s. He made several appearances on the television show ‘Hee Haw’ by making freindhip with Roy Clark a well known country music musician, performer and best known for hosting ‘Hee Haw’ television shows. He decided to leave music industry and moved to New Mexico and became deputy sheriff in the late 1970s.

American roots music had developed an appreciation in several countries of Europe in the early 1970s especially blues and Clarence Brown was a popular and well-respected artist there. Brown toured Europe from the beginning of 1971 and continuing throughout the 1970s for around 12 times. After he becoming an official ambassador for American music he participated in several tours sponsored by the U.S State Department which includes an extensive tour of Eastern Africa. He recorded as a sideman with the Professor Longhair the New Orleans pianist on his album ‘Rock ‘N’ Roll Gumbo’ in 1974 and then he moved to New Orleans in the late 1970s.

Clarence ‘Gatemouth’ Brown toured extensively and internationally after his series of releases on ‘Rounder Records’ and ‘Alligator Records’ in his U.S career by playing between 250 and 300 shows a year.

The album ‘Alright Again’ won him the ‘Grammy Award’ and was nominated for five more in 1983.

Clarence ‘Gatemouth’ Brown awards include ‘Grammy Award for his album ‘Alright Again’ in 1983, Eight ‘W.C Handy Awards’, ‘National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences ‘Heroes Award’, Honored by the ‘Rhythm and Blues Foundation’ in 1997 and became a member of the ‘Blues Hall of Fame’ in 1999.

Clarence ‘Gatemouth’ Brown planned and toured Australia, New Zealand and countries with political conflicts in Central America, Africa and the former Soviet Union in his last few years by telling “People Can’t come to me, so I go to them”.

Brown was suffering from emphysema and heart disease and he was diagnosed with Lung Cancer in September 2004. He died on September 10, 2005 in Orange, Texas at his brother’s home.

DISCOGRAPHY

Clarence ‘Gatemouth’ Brown albums include:

•  1972 - The Blues Ain't Nothin'  
• 1973 - Cold Strange 
• 1973 - Sings Louis Jordan  
• 1973 - Drifter Rides Again  
• 1974 - Gate's on the Heat  
• 1974 - Down South in Bayou County  
• 1975 - Bogalusa Boogie Man  
• 1976 - Blackjack  
• 1977 - Heatwave 
• 1979 - Makin' Music 
• 1981 - Alright Again!  
• 1982 - One More Mile 
• 1986 - Real Life 
• 1989 - Standing My Ground 
• 1992 - No Looking Back 
• 1994 - The Man 
• 1996 - Long Way Home 
• 1997 - Gate Swings 
• 1999 - American Music, Texas Style 
• 2001 - Back to Bogalusa 
• 2004 - Timeless