'Being the child of country songwriter Randy Sharp (he's written hits for Clay Walker, Patty Loveless, and others) and growing up in the San Fernando Valley in the '70s had to have given Maia Sharp a leg up on her way to a musical career. That was the era of Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell, and Rickie Lee Jones and music was in the Southern California air. By age 12, Sharp was noodling around on the piano, saxophone, oboe, and guitar. Fast forward to her early twenties, and she could be found on-stage at on...   [ read more ]

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Since singer/songwriter/guitarist Randy California's accidental death in 1997, his recorded legacy as the leader of Spirit and as a solo artist has been explored in a series of CDs assembled by Mick Skidmore and released by the British Acadia label. On this lengthy album, which contains about five hours and ten minutes of music on four discs, Skidmore delves into a period in California's career when Spirit had broken up yet again and he had received interest in his solo work in Euro...   [ read more ]

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A Los Angeles-based group in the classic California rock band tradition of Mötley Crüe, GNR, and Van Halen, Poets & Pornstars specialize in three-chord stompers full of characters straight out of pulp fiction. Led by frontman, singer, guitarist, and writer Hal Ozsan, the band also includes lead guitarist Tom 'Domo' Domaracki, keyboardist Randy Austin, bassist Sally Hope, and drummer Dave Plesh. Ozsan, who was born in Cyprus but raised in Essex, England, moved to L.A. when he was 19 years old. After playing...   [ read more ]

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