Also ranks #3 on The Best Musical Artists From Georgia Also ranks #3 on The Best Jam Bands 14 Willie Nelson 210 votes As one of country music's most beloved figures, Willie Nelson has been charming stoners for decades with his distinctive voice and heartfelt storytelling. His advocacy for ...
Vote on your favorite Stoner artists and bands. Whenever people sit back, light a fat one and want to chill on their couch, it's likely that they'll want throw on a great album or a few songs that set the mood. Thus, the best stoner music can literally be anything that potheads ...
Though Karen Carpenter is known as the sweet-voiced singer of Carpenters hits such as “Please Mr Postman,” her first musical career was playing jazz drums, the instrument she played in the original Richard Carpenter Trio. In a 1975 Playboy magazine readers’ poll, Carpenter was voted the be...
The ex-Grease Band guitarist didn’t last long in Wings thanks to his musical instincts; he was never a pop guy. But while he was there, he cut this gem of a solo, which gave a sweet ballad more grit than Paul McCartney probably intended – but he was smart enough to keep it. It...
If you’re wondering why the Hummingbird guitar looks familiar, it’s because of a long list of artists users which include Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Chris Cornell, John McLaughlin, Brian May, and many more. The Epiphone Hummingbird makes this iconic guitar more accessible to the masses,...
we’ve simply realized how much more there is to cover. Well over half of this new list comprises artists we never evenmentionedthe first time around. Some from Brazil, Ethiopia, Germany, France, Nigeria, Ireland, Jamaica, Boston and outer space. This is a more diverse list, one that rep...
(These choir duties were handled by The Sweet Inspirations, a girl group who did backing vocals for artists including Elvis Presley and Aretha Franklin during their primetime years in the ’60s and ’70s.) Why It Works: Lyrics that at first might just seem like wordplay earn generational ...
Art Ensemble of Chicago: “Théme de Yoyo” (1970) A healthy portion of Chicago’s musical avant-garde decamped for France in 1969, but the group that made the biggest splash in Paris was the Art Ensemble of Chicago. The band’s exuberant stage show reinforced its members’ organizing slog...
Shelton helped guide MSPAINT as the co-producer of their debut album, and guest vocalist on its standout, “Delete It.” With lyrics about struggling to live in the moment, their collaboration plays like a long-lost ’90s alt-rock anthem, plunged through these artists’ idiosyncratic filters....
“nu-metal,” though none of the artists associated with the label would claim it. “Freak on a Leash,” from the band’s massive third studio albumFollow the Leader,is the perfect gateway song to introduce someone to the essence of nu-metal — though not every vocalist that fell under ...