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List of double bassists in popular music

Index List of double bassists in popular music

This list of double bassists in popular music includes double bass performers from a range of genres, including rockabilly, psychobilly, country, blues, folk, bluegrass, and other styles. [1]

102 relations: Alison Krauss, Athol Guy, Barenaked Ladies, Barry Bales, Big Bill Broonzy, Big Maceo Merriweather, Bill Black, Bill Haley & His Comets, Bluegrass music, Blues, Bob Dylan, Bridget Kearney, Bruford Levin Upper Extremities, Chris Wood (jazz musician), Clayton Jacobson (director), Country music, Danny Thompson, Dave Lombardo, Didi Beck, Djordje Stijepovic, Double bass, Drake Bell, Edgar Meyer, Elvis Presley, Eric Judy, Ernest "Big" Crawford, Esperanza Spalding, Folk music, Fred LaBour, Gary Karr, Geoff Kresge, Hank Williams III, HorrorPops, Jeff Ament, Jim Creeggan, Jim Hughart, Jimbo Wallace, Jimmy Rogers, Joe B. Mauldin, Joe Buck (musician), John Clayton (bassist), John Denver, Johnny Cash, JW-Jones, Kate Davis, Kim Nekroman, King Crimson, Lake Street Dive, Larry Taylor, Lee Rocker, ..., Les Claypool, Liquid Tension Experiment, List of contemporary classical double bass players, List of jazz bassists, Little Walter, Marshall Grant, Marshall Lytle, Medeski Martin & Wood, Memphis Minnie, Memphis Slim, Missy Raines, Modest Mouse, Mother Love Bone, Muddy Waters, Mumford & Sons, Nate Query, Nekromantix, Patricia Day, Paul Chambers, Pearl Jam, Pentangle, Peter Gabriel, Peter Steele, Peter, Paul and Mary, Primus (band), Psychobilly, Rob Wasserman, Rockabilly, Russ Savakus, Scott Owen, Sebastian Steinberg, Slayer, Soul Coughing, Sting (musician), Stray Cats, Sunnyland Slim, Ted Dwane, Temple of the Dog, The Crickets, The Decemberists, The John Denver Band, The Living End, The Police, The Reverend Horton Heat, The Seekers, Tiger Army, Todd Phillips (musician), Tom Barney, Tom Waits, Tony Levin, Victor Bailey (musician), Willie Dixon. Expand index (52 more) »

Alison Krauss

Alison Maria Krauss (born July 23, 1971) is an American bluegrass-country singer and musician.

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Athol Guy

Athol George Guy, (born 5 January 1940), is a member of the Australian pop music group The Seekers, for whom he plays double bass and sings.

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Barenaked Ladies

Barenaked Ladies is a Canadian rock band.

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Barry Bales

Barry Turner Bales (born August 23, 1969 in Kingsport, Tennessee, United States) is the American long time bass player and harmony vocalist for Alison Krauss and Union Station.

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Big Bill Broonzy

Big Bill Broonzy (born Lee Conley Bradley, June 26, 1903 – August 14, 1958) was an American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist.

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Big Maceo Merriweather

Major Merriweather (March 31, 1905 – February 23, 1953), better known as Big Maceo Merriweather, was an American pianist and singer.

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Bill Black

William Patton "Bill" Black, Jr. (September 17, 1926 – October 21, 1965) was an American musician and bandleader who is noted as one of the pioneers of rock and roll.

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Bill Haley & His Comets

Bill Haley & His Comets were an American rock and roll band, founded in 1952 and continued until Haley's death in 1981.

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Bluegrass music

Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music named after Kentucky mandolin player and songwriter Bill Monroe's band, the Bluegrass Boys 1939-96, and furthered by musicians who played with him, including 5-string banjo player Earl Scruggs and guitarist Lester Flatt, or who simply admired the high-energy instrumental and vocal music Monroe's group created, and carried it on into new bands, some of which created subgenres (Progressive Bluegrass, Newgrass, Dawg Music etc.). Bluegrass is influenced by the music of Appalachia and other styles, including gospel and jazz.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and painter who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades.

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Bridget Kearney

Bridget Kearney (born June 10, 1985) is an American musician and composer.

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Bruford Levin Upper Extremities

Bruford Levin Upper Extremities (B.L.U.E.) was a musical group composed of drummer Bill Bruford, bassist Tony Levin, guitarist David Torn, and trumpeter Chris Botti.

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Chris Wood (jazz musician)

Christopher Barry Wood is an American bassist with the jazz trio Medeski Martin & Wood.

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Clayton Jacobson (director)

Clayton Jacobson (born 26 October 1963) is an Australian film director, writer, producer, actor, musician and editor.

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Country music

Country music, also known as country and western or simply country, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s.

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Danny Thompson

Daniel Henry Edward "Danny" Thompson (born 4 April 1939) is an English multi-instrumentalist best known as a double bassist.

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Dave Lombardo

David "Dave" Lombardo (born February 16, 1965) is a Cuban American drummer, best known as a co-founding member of American thrash metal band Slayer.

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Didi Beck

Didi Beck is a German electric bass and double bass player.

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Djordje Stijepovic

Djordje Stijepovic (Ђорђе Стијеповић, Đorđe Stijepović) (born 1977) is a Serbian-American double bass player, singer and composer.

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Double bass

The double bass, or simply the bass (and numerous other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.

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Drake Bell

Jared Drake Bell (born June 27, 1986) is an American actor, voice actor, and musician.

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Edgar Meyer

Edgar Meyer (born November 24, 1960) is an American bassist, multi-instrumentalist and composer.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor.

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Eric Judy

Eric Scott Judy is the former bass guitarist, founding member, and occasional backing vocalist of the indie rock band Modest Mouse.

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Ernest "Big" Crawford

Ernest "Big" Crawford (July 31, 1897 - March, 1956, Memphis, Tennessee) was an American blues double bassist who played with Muddy Waters, Sunnyland Slim, Little Walter, Memphis Minnie, Jimmy Rogers, Big Maceo, Big Bill Broonzy, Memphis Slim, Mahalia Jackson.

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Esperanza Spalding

Esperanza Emily Spalding (born October 18, 1984) is an American jazz bassist and singer.

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Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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Fred LaBour

Frederick "Fred" LaBour (born June 3, 1948 in Grand Rapids, Michigan), better known by his stage name Too Slim, is a Grammy award-winning American musician, best known for his work with the Western swing musical and comedy group Riders in the Sky.

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Gary Karr

Gary Karr (born November 20, 1941 in Los Angeles, California) is an American classical double bass player and teacher; he is considered one of the best bassists of the 20th and 21st centuries.

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Geoff Kresge

Geoff Kresge is a songwriter, guitarist, bassist, and record producer.

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Hank Williams III

Shelton Hank Williams (born December 12, 1972), known as Hank Williams III and Hank 3, is an American musician, singer and multi-instrumentalist.

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HorrorPops

HorrorPops are a Danish punk band that formed in 1996.

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Jeff Ament

Jeffrey Allen Ament (born March 10, 1963) is an American musician and songwriter who serves as the bassist for the American rock band Pearl Jam.

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Jim Creeggan

James Raymond Creeggan (born February 12, 1970) is the bassist for Canadian alternative rock band Barenaked Ladies (BNL).

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Jim Hughart

James David Hughart (born July 28, 1936) is a jazz and pop bass player.

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Jimbo Wallace

Jimbo Wallace is an upright and electric bass player, vocalist, and songwriter in the psychobilly and rockabilly genres.

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Jimmy Rogers

Jimmy Rogers (June 3, 1924 – December 19, 1997) was a Chicago blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player, best known for his work as a member of Muddy Waters's band in the early 1950s.

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Joe B. Mauldin

Joseph Benson Mauldin, Jr. (July 8, 1940 – February 7, 2015) was an American bass player, songwriter, and audio engineer who was best known as the bassist for the early rock and roll group The Crickets.

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Joe Buck (musician)

Joe Buck is the stage name of Jim Finklea, an American country and punk rock musician from Murray, Kentucky.

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John Clayton (bassist)

John Lee Clayton Jr. (born August 20, 1952) is an American jazz and classical double bassist.

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John Denver

Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. (December 31, 1943 – October 12, 1997), known professionally as John Denver, was an American singer-songwriter, record producer, actor, activist, and humanitarian, whose greatest commercial success was as a solo singer.

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Johnny Cash

John R. Cash (born J. R. Cash; February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and author.

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JW-Jones

JW-Jones (born July 15, 1980) is a Canadian blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and band leader.

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Kate Davis

Kathryn L. "Kate" Davis (born February 4, 1991) is an American singer, songwriter, and bassist.

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Kim Nekroman

Kim Nekroman is the bassist and lead singer for the psychobilly band Nekromantix and the lead guitarist of HorrorPops.

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King Crimson

King Crimson are an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968.

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Lake Street Dive

Lake Street Dive is a multigenre band that was founded in 2004 in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Larry Taylor

Samuel Lawrence Taylor (born June 26, 1942) is an American bass guitarist, best known for his work as a member of Canned Heat from 1967.

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Lee Rocker

Lee Rocker (born Leon Drucker, August 3, 1961) is an American double bass player.

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Les Claypool

Leslie Edward Claypool (born September 29, 1963) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, composer, author and actor best known as the bassist and lead vocalist of the band Primus.

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Liquid Tension Experiment

Liquid Tension Experiment (LTE) was an instrumental progressive metal band founded by Mike Portnoy, then Dream Theater's drummer, in 1997.

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List of contemporary classical double bass players

Contemporary classical double bass players are performers who play the double bass, the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument.

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List of jazz bassists

This list of jazz bassists includes performers of the double bass and since the 1950s, and particularly in the jazz subgenre of jazz fusion which developed in the 1970s, electric bass players.

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Little Walter

Marion Walter Jacobs (May 1, 1930 – February 15, 1968), known as Little Walter, was an American blues musician, singer, and songwriter, whose revolutionary approach to the harmonica and impact on succeeding generations earned comparisons for him to such seminal artists as Django Reinhardt, Charlie Parker and Jimi Hendrix.

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Marshall Grant

Marshall Garnett Grant (May 5, 1928 – August 7, 2011) was the upright bassist and electric bassist of singer Johnny Cash's original backing duo, the Tennessee Two, in which Grant and electric guitarist Luther Perkins played.

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Marshall Lytle

Marshall Lytle (September 1, 1933 – May 25, 2013) was an American rock and roll bassist, best known for his work with the groups Bill Haley & His Comets and The Jodimars in the 1950s.

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Medeski Martin & Wood

Medeski Martin & Wood (or MMW) is an American avant-jazz-funk band formed in 1991, consisting of John Medeski on keyboards, Billy Martin on drums, and Chris Wood on bass.

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Memphis Minnie

Lizzie Douglas (June 3, 1897 – August 6, 1973), known as Memphis Minnie, was a blues guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter whose recording career lasted from the 1920s to the 1950s.

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Memphis Slim

Memphis Slim (September 3, 1915 – February 24, 1988) was an American blues pianist, singer, and composer.

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Missy Raines

Missy Raines (born April 6, 1962) is a bassist, singer, teacher, and songwriter.

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Modest Mouse

Modest Mouse is an American indie rock band formed in 1992 in Issaquah, Washington (a suburb of Seattle), and currently based in Portland, Oregon.

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Mother Love Bone

Mother Love Bone was an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1987.

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Muddy Waters

McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913April 30, 1983), known professionally as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician who is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues".

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Mumford & Sons

Mumford & Sons are a British band formed in 2007.

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Nate Query

Nate Query is an American musician best known as the bassist of the Portland, Oregon indie rock band The Decemberists.

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Nekromantix

The Nekromantix is a Danish-American psychobilly band founded in 1989 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Patricia Day

Patricia Day is the upright bassist and lead singer for the Danish rockabilly/psychobilly band HorrorPops.

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Paul Chambers

Paul Laurence Dunbar Chambers, Jr. (April 22, 1935 – January 4, 1969) was a jazz double bassist.

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Pearl Jam

Pearl Jam is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1990.

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Pentangle

Pentangle (or The Pentangle) are a British folk-jazz band with an eclectic mix of folk, jazz, blues and folk rock influences.

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Peter Gabriel

Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian who rose to fame as the original lead singer and flautist of the progressive rock band Genesis.

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Peter Steele

Petrus Thomas Ratajczyk (January 4, 1962 – April 14, 2010), better known by his stage name Peter Steele, was the lead singer, bassist and composer for the gothic metal band Type O Negative.

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Peter, Paul and Mary

Peter, Paul and Mary was an American folk group formed in New York City in 1961, during the American folk music revival phenomenon.

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Primus (band)

Primus is an American rock band based in San Francisco, California, currently composed of bassist/vocalist Les Claypool, guitarist Larry "Ler" LaLonde and drummer Tim "Herb" Alexander.

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Psychobilly

Psychobilly is a rock music fusion genre that mixes elements of rockabilly and punk rock.

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Rob Wasserman

Rob Wasserman (April 1, 1952 – June 29, 2016) was an American composer and bass player.

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Rockabilly

Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music, dating back to the early 1950s in the United States, especially the South.

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Russ Savakus

Russ Savakus is an American session bass player (both electric and stand-up), violinist and singer.

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Scott Owen

Scott Bradley Owen (born 14 February 1975) plays the double bass in the Australian punk rock/psychobilly band The Living End.

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Sebastian Steinberg

Sebastian Steinberg (born February 20, 1959) is an American bass player, best known for his work in the band Soul Coughing.

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Slayer

Slayer is an American thrash metal band from Huntington Park, California.

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Soul Coughing

Soul Coughing was an American alternative rock band composed of vocalist/guitarist Mike Doughty (also known as M. Doughty), keyboardist/sampler Mark Degli Antoni, bassist Sebastian Steinberg, and drummer Yuval Gabay.

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Sting (musician)

Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (born 2 October 1951), known as Sting, is an English singer, songwriter, and actor.

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Stray Cats

Stray Cats is an American rockabilly band formed in 1979 by guitarist and vocalist Brian Setzer, double bassist Lee Rocker, and drummer Slim Jim Phantom in the Long Island town of Massapequa, New York.

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Sunnyland Slim

Albert Luandrew (September 5, 1906 – March 17, 1995), "Blues pianist and singer Sunnyland Slim was born Albert Luandrew in Vance, Mississippi, September 5, 1906 (most sources say 1907, but the Social Security Death Index and 1920 census data give the date as 1906)." known as Sunnyland Slim, was an American blues pianist who was born in the Mississippi Delta and moved to Chicago, helping to make that city a center of postwar blues.

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Ted Dwane

Ted Dwane (born Edward James Milton Dwane, 23 August 1984) is a British musician and photographer, best known for being the bassist of the Grammy Award-winning British folk rock band Mumford & Sons.

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Temple of the Dog

Temple of the Dog was an American rock supergroup that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1990.

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The Crickets

The Crickets were an American rock and roll band from Lubbock, Texas, formed by singer-songwriter Buddy Holly in the 1950s.

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The Decemberists

The Decemberists are an American indie rock band from Portland, Oregon.

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The John Denver Band

The John Denver Band (a.k.a. The John Denver Experience) was a country-folk band active in the 1960s through the 1990s.

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The Living End

The Living End are an Australian punk rock band, which formed in 1994.

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The Police

The Police were a British rock band formed in London in 1977.

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The Reverend Horton Heat

The Reverend Horton Heat is the stage name of American musician Jim Heath (born 1959) as well as the name of his Dallas, Texas-based psychobilly trio.

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The Seekers

The Seekers are an Australian folk-influenced pop quartet, originally formed in Melbourne in 1962.

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Tiger Army

Tiger Army is an American psychobilly band based in Los Angeles, California.

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Todd Phillips (musician)

Todd Phillips (born April 21, 1953) is an American double bassist.

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Tom Barney

Tom Barney is an American bass guitarist.

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Tom Waits

Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, composer and actor.

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Tony Levin

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Victor Bailey (musician)

Victor Bailey (March 27, 1960 – November 11, 2016) was an American bass guitar player.

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Willie Dixon

William James Dixon (July 1, 1915January 29, 1992) was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer.

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