In 2005, Southern rock received new exposure from an unlikely source: singer Bo Bice took an explicitly Southern rock sensibility and appearance to a runner-up finish on the massively watched and normally pop-oriented American Idol television program.

Most of these bands rapidly moved on from recording and performing American standards to writing and recording their own music, often leaving their R & B roots behind, but enabling several to enjoy sustained careers that were not open to most of the more pop-oriented beat groups of the first wave of the invasion, who ( with the major exception of the Beatles ) were unable to write their own material or adapt to changes in the musical climate.

Graffin recorded a solo album in 1997, called American Lesion, which consisted of softer, more pop-oriented folk songs.

Steven H. " Steve " Miller ( born October 5, 1943 ) is an American guitarist and singer-songwriter who began his career in blues and blues rock and evolved to a more pop-oriented sound which, from the mid 1970s through the early 1980s, resulted in a series of successful singles and albums.

The pop-oriented sound has given rise to criticism of the band over the years, with reggae purists uncomfortable with their incorporation of American soul and R & B into their sound.

The album Neon Golden ( released in 2002 ) put them on the map for American listeners, with its heartfelt sentiment and more pop-oriented sound.

They gained a large underground fanbase in the international punk rock community, and were one of the first American hardcore bands to make a significant impact in the United Kingdom.

By 1968, the number of dance clubs started to decline ; most American clubs either closed or were transformed into clubs featuring live bands.

The cellist Natalie Haas points out that in the US, you can find "... old photographs, and even old recordings, of American string bands with cello.

Fashioning themselves as rowdy Irish-American hooligans ( although Lethal is Latvian American ), they toured with various rap and alternative-rock bands after their breakthrough.

Juliana Hatfield ( born July 27, 1967 in Wiscasset, Maine, United States ), is an American guitarist / singer-songwriter and author from the Boston area, formerly of the indie rock bands Blake Babies and Some Girls.

A small orchestra with fifteen to thirty members ( violins, violas, cellos, double basses, and several woodwind or brass instruments ) is called a chamber orchestra In the American education system, sitting groups are known as wind ensembles or concert bands ( to differentiate from marching bands ).

Traditional Native American ceremonies are still practiced by many tribes and bands, and the older theological belief systems are still held by many of the " traditional " people.

Alongside the musical roots shared with their American counterparts and the calculated confrontationalism of the early Who, the British punks also reflected the influence of glam rock and related bands such as Slade, T. Rex, and Roxy Music.

One of the most influential American post-punk bands was Boston's Mission of Burma, who brought abrupt rhythmic shifts derived from hardcore into a highly experimental musical context.

In the early 1980s, bands from the American southwest and California such as JFA, Agent Orange, and The Faction helped create a rhythmically distinctive style of hardcore known as skate punk.

Milwaukee's Violent Femmes jumpstarted the American folk punk scene, while The Pogues did the same on the other side of the Atlantic, influencing many Celtic punk bands.

As American alternative bands like Sonic Youth, which had grown out of the No Wave scene, and Boston's Pixies started to gain larger audiences, major labels sought to capitalize on the underground market that had been sustained by hardcore punk for years.

Green Day and Dookies enormous sales paved the way for a host of bankable North American pop punk bands in the following decade.

Other new North American pop punk bands, though often critically dismissed, also achieved major sales in the first decade of the 2000s.

However, the largest strand was a series of bands that emerged from 1966 from the British blues scene, but influenced by folk, jazz and psychedelia, including Pink Floyd, Traffic, Soft Machine, Cream, and The Jimi Hendrix Experience ( led by an American, but initially produced and managed in Britain by Chas Chandler of The Animals ).

American bands whose loud, repetitive psychedelic rock emerged as early heavy metal included Ted Nugent's Amboy Dukes and Steppenwolf.

In the 1930s jazz, and particularly swing, both in urban based dance bands and blues-influenced country swing, was among the first music to present African American sounds for a predominantly white audience.

Many of these bands enjoyed national success in the UK, but found it difficult to break into the American market.

The British R & B bands produced music which was very different in tone from that of African American artists, often with more emphasis on guitars and sometimes with greater energy.

Most of these bands rapidly moved on from recording and performing American standards to writing and recording their own music, often leaving their R & B roots behind.

Ragtime originated in African American music in the late 19th century, descending from the jigs and march music played by black bands.

Some of those youths spent that income on new fashions popularized by American soul groups, British R & B bands, certain movie actors, and Carnaby Street clothing merchants.

American skinheads created a link between their subculture and hardcore punk music, with bands such as Warzone, Agnostic Front, and Cro-Mags.

Division six will be headed by the Coast Guard, followed by the reserve forces of all services, five states, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the trust territories and the Canal Zone.

" He closely followed Henry Clay in supporting the American Colonization Society program of making the abolition of slavery practical by helping the freed slaves to settle in Liberia in Africa.

For instance member nations of the Commonwealth where English is not spoken natively, such as India, often closely follow British English forms, while many American English usages are followed in other countries which have been historically influenced by the United States, such as the Philippines.

The manner of cooking for the American colonists followed along the line of British cookery up until the Revolution.

Other forces followed with designs of their own, notably the American M16 created by mounting quadruple M2 machine guns on a M3 Half-track.

As time progressed, English country dances were spread and reinterpreted throughout the Western world, and eventually the French form of the name came to be associated with the American folk dances, especially in New England ( this Gallicized name change may have followed a contemporary misbelief that the form was originally French ).

As the Atlantic Ocean widened, the convergent-margin orogenies that had begun during the Jurassic continued in the North American Cordillera, as the Nevadan orogeny was followed by the Sevier and Laramide orogenies.

The Little Bears ( 1893 – 96 ) was the first American comic with recurring characters, while the first color comic supplement was published by the Chicago Inter-Ocean sometime in the latter half of 1892, followed by the New York Journals first color Sunday comic pages in 1897.

Some bets are listed more than once below – the most common payout in North American casinos is listed first, followed by other known variants.

The revamped and provocative Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders of the 1970s — and the many imitators that followed — firmly established the cheerleader as an American icon of wholesome sex appeal.

Abusive incidents occurred following a drunk American General making comments about Chiang's regime, and a low point in Sino-American relations followed the rape of a Chinese university student by American marines shortly after World War II.

In the case of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, the American versions were released first, followed by the Japanese versions and then the European versions, with each regional release offering new content not found in the previous one.

A pair of American television appearances followed, as Jones received screen time in episodes of Ben Casey and The Farmer's Daughter.

This was followed in 1965 by the first American Esperanto-production: Incubus, starring William Shatner.

In his Jack and the Beanstalk ( 1902 ) and Life of an American Fireman he followed earlier films by France's Georges Méliès and members of England's Brighton School, such as James Williamson.

Some, but not all, American film-makers followed their example, calling it the " American foreground ", while European film-makers stayed with the " French foreground " established by the Pathé about 1907, which only cut the actors off at the shins.

As a result of Guam's being added to the North American Numbering Plan ( NANP ) in 1997, calls made to the U. S., Canada, or other participating countries from Guam ( or to Guam from other NANP locations ) only require the caller to dial a 1 followed by the area code.

There followed in quick succession two musicals which have secured Kelly's reputation as a major figure in the American musical film, An American in Paris ( 1951 ) and – probably the most popular and admired of all film musicals – Singin ' in the Rain ( 1952 ).

Gone with the Wind takes place in the southern United States in the state of Georgia during the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ) and the Reconstruction Era ( 1865 – 1877 ) that followed the war.

A mnemonic used by the American Diabetes Association and others is the " rule of 15 "-consuming 15 grams of carbohydrate followed by a 15 minute wait, repeated if glucose remains low ( variable by individual, sometimes 70 mg / dl ).

A cycle of violence thus ensued whereby Sunni insurgent or nationalist attacks followed with government and American backed reprisals-often in the form of Shi ' ite death squads that sought out and killed Sunnis.

Since 1979, the USA had required ICD-9-CM codes for Medicare and Medicaid claims, and most of the rest of the American medical industry followed suit.