His 2006 album, Leaving the Nest, is loosely based in American roots music.
Ely is also a principal investigator for the African-American Roots Project, a nonprofit group that studies the genealogy of black Americans.
Fans of American roots music such as swing, blues, and rockabilly need look no further than HighTone Recordings, distributor of Big Sandy and his Fly-Rite Boys, among others.
Throughout his noble career, Robert Lee Bernside, much like Alvin Lee, Jerry Lee, John Lee and all the other great boogiemen, unlocked the not-so-secret history of American roots music.
Now atop a lean line-up note the lack of a piano and horns Ms. Wilson's voice, delivery and presence float above music that has a distinct Mediterranean flavor, though not without a hint of American roots.
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He is a Latin American with Italian roots who studied in Germany.
Part travelogue and part ancient history, it is the story of a singular African-American confronting his roots from Zanzibar to Timbuktu.
His two main opponents competed with each other for the block of older Irish-American voters whose roots they shared, and they lacked Mr Brown's powerful connections.
He has long been mentioned as a potential high court nominee, and compared to Justice Antonin Scalia, who shares his conservative judicial philosophy and Italian-American and Catholic roots.
Gomez are known for sophisticated arrangements of songs that are part bright Brit-pop and part '60s psychedelia, with a dash of loops and electronic sounds and a healthy dose of American blues and roots.
Africans, in particular, saw great hope in the new American president with African roots.
While most people assume amusement parks are an American invention, their roots are in fact grounded in the Old World.
The image of the hapless dad has long roots in American pop culture.
Like a stereotype of an American traveler with Irish roots, I came to Ireland looking for an authentic experience, without knowing exactly what that would be.
It is correct that Obama and his administration love patronage politics, an alien form of governance imposed on traditional America from far-flung Chicago. (More distant roots of American patronage politics can be found as Reihan Salam brilliantly reminds us in deepest, darkest Southern Europe.) Patronage politics is the art and science of doling out goodies in exchange for support.
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Large scale manufacturing, union power, a strong middle class and the music that became the soundtrack for American life all can claim roots in Motown.
Modest and good-natured, he had deep roots in our American soil.
Today's third- and fourth-generation American Basques are reclaiming their roots.
Whereas in American Beauty Mendes' theatrical roots helped Kevin Spacey and Annette Benning embody their characters and overcome their star personas, our sympathy with Tom Hanks in Perdition comes only from assosiating him with moral and decent characters.
The rhetoric from people like Assange and groups like Anonymous may be the rhetoric of the Internet mindset, but its roots are not surprisingly American.
He rose from hardscrabble roots to realize the American dream.
Another singer with Asian roots to achieve fame through American Idol is Sanjaya Malakar, who made it to the top seven contestants in the sixth season, despite Simon Cowell's disgust.
There's also the issue of the South African government, which owns about 5% of Anglo American, a miner which has strong roots in the country that go back to its founding there in 1917.
Sadly, despite the well-stocked roadmap, there aren't any indications that the company is looking to expand outside of its Asian and European roots to include a North American presence -- but it's not any more shunning than we're accustomed to 'round these parts.
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"Many of these families were having one child after another just to earn a paycheck from the U.S. government and they didn't care about their children's education, " says Gaines, the controversial founder of American Citizens United, a grass-roots organization known for its extreme views on immigration enforcement.
As the Indian economy booms, however, there are other reasons for American-born Indians to return to their roots.
The phenomenon has roots in commercialism and consumerism that American consumers willingly bought into and continue to buy into courtesy of the market and society.
The American military says it understands the movement's popular roots, especially in Sadr City where many of the two million residents are loyal to Sadr.
But the softer tone continued into the 1990s, when Robertson founded the Christian Coalition a grass roots machine that would change the course of American politics.
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