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Piney Gir (pronounced as in "girl"; real name Angela Penhaligon) is a female American musician and singer, born in Kansas and now based in London, England. Encouraged by her parents to learn the piano from the age of four, she wrote her first song at the age of nine. Having earned a degree in music, she moved to England in 1998 to study at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. Previously a member of the duo Vic 20, she released her debut solo electronica album, Peakahokahoo, in 2004 on UK label Truck Records (and licensed to Greyday...

The Bluegrass Cardinals came together in Los Angeles in 1974 when banjoist Don Parmley and mandolinist Randy Graham teamed up with Parmley's 15-year-old son, David, to form what was to become a successful bluegrass trio who wielded considerable influence from the latter half of the '70s through the early '90s. Don Parmley and Randy Graham's partnership had preceded the official start of the band by seven years when they started a musical friendship after the demise of Parmley's previous group, the Hillmen (whose leader, Chris Hillman, found success as a member of the Byrds), and so it seemed natural to...

Hawaiian. his music was the sound of the time for the Nui Valley and Waimanalo in the eastern corner of O`ahu. his is totally the BEST of Country Comfort & Billy Kaui – no doubt about it! The music is straight and clean and the lyrics reflect a vision of life that was unique to the local population of Hawaii in the 1970’s. The legendary WAIMANALO BLUES has become a kind of an anthem for Hawaiian Sovereignty over the years. Country Comfort helped change the direction of contemporary Hawaiian music. They paved the way for acts such as Kalapana, Olomana,...

In Dan and Linda Penn’s kitchen, there is a covey of empty Wild Turkey ceramics above the wood cabinets. The wattle necked and plumed shaped containers have been dry and non-reproductive for the last 25 years. There is a fine sheen of dust covering their hollow feathers. Below the birds, a framed sign on the wall reads, “In the cookies of life/ Friends are the chocolate chips”. No one can argue against the sentiment’s corniness. But the basement-recording studio is filled with singers and players that have been connected to one another’s lives and sessions for the last forty years,...