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Grayson Manor formed in 2002 in Grayson, GA with the purpose of bringing back a REAL rock show and REAL rock n’ roll. The band members’ ages, 18-26, show in their high-energy performances, but they know their rock history: with influences including The Faces, Aerosmith, John Mellencamp, Guns N’ Roses, Bruce Springsteen, and the Rolling Stones, these guys are the real thing.
Grayson Manor has played hundreds of shows in the past couple of years, including 6 US tours, selling nearly 10,000 copies of their debut EP "Back on the Rock" in the process. Their first full-length album, "Children of...
Grayson Wray has been working on music in relative obscurity for a while. He did two Great City albums a few years ago which received some excellent reviews.
Keyboard Magazine for one, and had a number of songs in the top ten, including number one on quite a few college stations. Great City even had some airplay on KROQ, a major station in Los Angeles.
Before that Grayson had some successful local bands that played a lot on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood. He also played the Hollywood Bowl before a crowd of fourteen thousand.
Grayson's main passion in life...
A fiddler from the Tennessee-North Carolina border, G.B. Grayson was among the first to record several folk standards, including "Tom Dooley," "The Banks of the Ohio," and "Train 45." Born in 1888, he was blinded as an infant and became a musician. Many of his best recordings for Victor were made with Henry Whitter, a guitarist and harmonica player. Perhaps the longest-lasting (thanks to its revival in the '50s by the Kingston Trio), "Tom Dooley" was a song dear to Grayson's heart — his grand uncle, a North Carolina sheriff. arrested Tom Dooley himself. Grayson died in 1930, the victim...
Grayson Capps (born April 17, 1967 in Opelika, Alabama) is an American singer-songwriter.
The title Rott 'N' Roll originated with Capps’ fans in New Orleans as an explanation of his music. Prostitutes, alcoholics, vagrants and drifters often inhabit the southern troubadour’s songs, while his live performances are ignited by sanctified Southern soul, howling back-country stomp and raucous roadhouse blues.. Slowly, but surely, the phrase spread from one city to the next as the definition of the Grayson Capps experience. For Grayson himself, Rott 'N' Roll has come to represent the state of mind needed to play uncompromising roots music as...
Kathryn Grayson (born February 9, 1922 - died February 17, 2010) was an American actress and singer who was born Zelma Kathryn Elisabeth Hedrick in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The Hedrick family later moved to Franlin, St Louis, where she was discovered singing on the empty stage of the St Louis Municipal Opera House by a janitor, who introduced her to Frances Marshall of the Chicago Civic Opera, who gave the twelve-year-old-girl voice lessons.
In Hollywood she would marry twice: first to actor John Shelton; secondly to actor/singer Johnnie Johnston. She had one daughter. Throughout the 1950s, she carried on an...
