Sentence examples for band roots from inspiring English sources

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, roots band.

RED BANK Count Basie Theater Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, roots band.

The strings are often choppy, sawing and climactic, showing Dessner's rock band roots, but retreat to deliver the anguish only cello can.

With Billy May on Come Fly With Me, Come Dance With Me and Come Swing With Me, Sinatra clung on to his big band roots: in these brash, brassy arrangements (although Fly has some ballads, including a gorgeous Autumn in New York) the high-stepping tempos are shouldered by a voice still in complete control.

As weightless as it is, they still veer closer to their rock band roots than their more cosmic material.

We kind of carried over some of the jug band roots, instrumentally at least, into what we were doing as a country-rock band, so it just kind of became this "Dirt Band" music, essentially.

Particle is a jam band rooted in funk that plays long, long sets late at night.

Particle is a jam band rooted in funk that plays long, long sets.

For every band rooted in bluegrass, blues and country, as the Dead were, another embraces hip-hop, world music or even electronica, reclaimed for human rhythm sections.

Her band, rooted in Memphis soul and including her son Donto James on drums, was attuned to all her dynamics, from jazz finesse to gospelly crescendos.

A gutsy soul singer backed by a band rooted in gospel, reggae and funk, playing songs about love, loss and faith — those are the parameters for a known quantity, the bluesy local bar band.