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John Gale "Johnny" Horton (April 30, 1925 – November 5, 1960) was an American country music and rockabilly singer most famous for his semi-folk, so-called "saga songs" which began the "historical ballad" craze of the late 1950s and early 1960s. With them, he had several major successes, most notably in 1959 with the song "The Battle of New Orleans" (written by Jimmy Driftwood), which was awarded the 1960 Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording. The song was awarded the Grammy Hall of Fame Award, and in 2001 ranked No. 333 of the Recording Industry Association of America's "Songs...

Ciph Barker is a Dutch hip-hop artist from Zoetermeer, Netherlands. As an emcee, Ciph spits in both English and Dutch with equal devotion to his craft. After his initial introduction to the “scene” with his Lingwistikz crew (with Joe Banz and Beat Butcha). Ciph joined the SuperCharger Records ranks, dropping a couple tracks on the critically aclaimed “Campaign” project. He payed his dues in the lab working his ass off and doing shows throughout Europe with MOD the Black Marvel and the SuperCharger family for a couple of years before dropping his Zoominati guerilla album in 2006. The last couple...

Kevin Barker is an American guitarist and sometime member of Vetiver. His only solo album to date is You & Me, released in 2010. For years, Barker has been juggling careers - as a musician and as a filmmaker. He spent some years recording, touring, and collaborating with Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, Vashti Bunyan, Vetiver, Antony and the Johnsons, and Espers, to name just a few. Essentially acting as everyone's favorite sideman, Barker has influenced and helped create a sound with which some of this generation is happily familiar. Simultaneously, Barker attended film school at Columbia University, during which he...