A-Z Band Names Game

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[HEADING=2]The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band[/HEADING]

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is an American country-folk-rock band that has existed in various forms since the original

founding in California in 1966. The group's membership has had at least a dozen iterations over the years, including

five years, between "Dirt, Silver & Gold" (1976) and "Let's Go" (1983), when the band performed and recorded as The

Dirt Band.

 

The band's best-known song was a 1970 cover of Jerry Jeff Walker's folk song "Mr. Bojangles".

 

Their greatest critical acclaim has been for a 1972 album of country and folk standards, recorded in Nashville in

collaboration with more traditional country artists, entitled "Will the Circle Be Unbroken".

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[HEADING=2]REO Speedwagon[/HEADING]

REO Speedwagon (originally styled as R.E.O. Speedwagon) is an American rock band from Champaign, Illinois.

 

Formed in 1967, the band cultivated a following during the 1970s and achieved significant commercial success

throughout the 1980s. Hi Infidelity (1980) contained four US Top 40 hits and is the group's best-selling album,

with over ten million copies sold.

 

Over the course of its career, the band has sold more than 40 million records and has charted thirteen Top 40

hits, including the number ones "Keep On Loving You" and "Can't Fight This Feeling". REO Speedwagon's

mainstream popularity waned in the late 1980s, but the band remains a popular live act.

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[HEADING=2]A Tribe Called Quest[/HEADING]

A Tribe Called Quest was an American hip-hop group formed in St. Albans, Queens, New York, in 1985, originally composed of rapper and main producer Q-Tip, rapper Phife Dawg, DJ and co-producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad, and rapper Jarobi White. The group is regarded as a pioneer of alternative hip hop music. In 1991, the group released its jazz-influenced second album, The Low End Theory, regarded for helping shape alternative hip hop in the 1990s. In 1998, the group broke up shortly before releasing its fifth album, The Love Movement, but in 2006, the group's original members reunited and toured the United States.

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[HEADING=2]Velvet Revolver [/HEADING]

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[HEADING=2]Velvet Revolver was a hard rock supergroup formed in 2002 and consisting of former Guns N' Roses members

Slash, Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum, alongside Dave Kushner formerly of punk band Wasted Youth. Stone

Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland was Velvet Revolver's lead singer from their formation until 2008.

In 2004, the band achieved commercial success with their debut album, Contraband. Critics initially described

Velvet Revolver as a mere combination of Stone Temple Pilots and Guns N' Roses, and criticized the band for

a "disconnection" between Scott Weiland and the rest of the band. [/HEADING]

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Yello

 

Yello is a popular Swiss electronic band consisting of Dieter Meier and Boris Blank. They are probably best

known for their single Oh Yeah, which featured a rich mix of electronic music and manipulated vocals.

 

The song became famous after being featured in the American movies Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Secret

of My Success, and more recently Soul Plane. The song is the theme for Duffman on The Simpsons.

 

In the UK they are probably best known for the Number 7 hit The race.

 

This song was also from 1988 to 1990 the title track of the german music video TV-show "Formel Eins"

(=Formula One) and was a Number 4 hit in Germany.

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[HEADING=2]Alison Krauss & Union Station[/HEADING]

 

 

Union Station is the traditionalist/americana band behind powerhouse singer and violinist Alison

Krauss. Krauss has alternated between recording solo records and records with Union Station as

a part of her contract with Rounder Records.

 

While membership has varied over the years, the current band lineup includes: Barry Bales on

stand-up bass Ron Block on banjo and guitar Jerry Douglas on Dobro Dan Tyminski on guitar and

vocals.

 

Former members include Adam Steffey and Tim Stafford.