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Cathal Sean Hayden is an Irish fiddle and banjo player of note. He was born on 13 July 1963, in the village of the Rock, County Tyrone, outside Pomeroy, an area immersed in traditional music. The third in the family of eight, he was born into a deep musical background. His father played the banjo and fiddle, and his mother was a pianist, while both grandfathers were fiddle players. Hayden has been All-Ireland Champion on both banjo and fiddle. He is a member of the group Four Men and a Dog whose first album, Barking Mad won the Folk Roots...

Thompson made his recording debut with "I Feel the Blues Coming On" on the Von label in 1954. He signed with Sun in 1956 and recorded the Junior Parker song "Love My Baby" with support from Billy Riley's band and Jerry Lee Lewis. Held back for several months, the single failed to become a hit when it was finally released in 1957; none of his other Sun recordings yielded a hit either. Disappointed by his lack of success, Thompson moved to Chicago in 1958 and recorded for several labels, including B.E.A.T., Arlen, and Kapp. His country-tinged recordings for Kapp enabled...

In his 1985 hit, George Jones sang, "Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes?" The song wondered where we might find the next generation of real country singers. Hearing that song at age 5, Rodney Hayden of Pleasanton, Texas probably didn't think that he'd be trying on those shoes one day. Hayden's first album, The Real Thing, came out in 2001 and it only took one listen to realize that the world had been introduced to the perfect stone-country singer in the tradition of Haggard and Jones. A collection of seven original songs and four dead-solid covers, The Real Thing was a...

Annie Hayden was one of four members of the 90's indie rock band Spent. In the year 2000, she released her first solo disc, The Rub. Her sophomore solo release followed in 2005, also released on Merge Records, titled The Enemy of Love. .