Q&A With The Knockouts

What’s the meaning of your band name? Formed by Johan Frandsen in 1996, the band title THE KNOCKOUTS can mean lots of different things – THE KNOCKOUTS have respectively gained a reputation for being an amazing live act – perhaps that says it all.

Q&A With The Droge and Summers Blend

Why did you choose to submit this work to The 10th IMA’s? We loved the idea of the artist judges and wanted to support and be part of the Independent awards.

Q&A With The Blues Preachers

What’s the meaning of your band name? The name refers to the fact that we strive to bring forward a message of hope and meaning in a world ruled by the blue dragons of hopelessness and depression. The Blues can go either way. It can be the deep dark blue of melancholy and sadness or [...]

Q&A With The Black Lillies

What’s the meaning of your band name? I spent over a year driving a truck and thinking of band names daily. I figured it had better be right – it might just stick. I first wrote the song “Where the Black Lillies Grow.” I really fell for the imagery and the “Lil’ Lies” inference. With [...]

Q&A With Teresa James & the Rhythm Tramps

What’s the meaning of your band name? We’ve had this name for a long time – it started years ago when some of the band guys were living in London. Between tours they used the name, ‘the Rhythm Tramps’, when they played in little blues clubs, There were always lots of friends sitting in and [...]

Q&A With Strawfoot

What’s the meaning of your band name? During the civil war, soldiers were often farmers. Many did not know their left from right, so to teach them to march, hay was tied to their left foot, straw to their right. They would call out hay foot, straw foot to teach them to march. It’s symbolic [...]

Q&A With Spottiswoode

What’s the meaning of your band name? My band name, Spottiswoode & His Enemies, means that at the time I formed the band I assumed my band would sooner or later start to hate me and that the music I played was an exercise in banishing my demons. But this is a solo record. What [...]

Q&A With Shortstack

What’s the meaning of your band name? It’s a type of locomotive. It’s sort of a reference to a line in the Hank Williams‘ song “Ramblin’ Man.” We picked that name so long ago none of us remember any other contenders.

Q&A With Selasee

Describe your nominated work: The nominated work titled “Saidaway” means ‘hear my voice,’ was composed around the ‘palmwine guitar’ style that originates from Ghana, West African.this finger picked guitar rhythm which is heard in the intro of the song. It has a fun uplifting sound generated from the rhythm and melody from the guitar intro.

Q&A With Scrapyard Lullaby

What’s the meaning of your band name? We were looking for a name with some inherent contradiction. While listening to Chris Whitley‘s “Scrapyard Lullaby” (Dirt Floor), it finally came to us!

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