From opposite ends of the country, a band and a solo artist sing songs about the day-to-day life of kids and families.
But as far as I know, there is no version for a band with a solo violinist, so I asked a composer friend of mine to make an arrangement for us.
Overall, his music as a solo, band or guest performer can be heard on more than 100 albums.
Perhaps still best-known as front man for the multi-platinum-selling '90s metal band White Zombie and solo efforts like 1998's "Hellbilly Deluxe, " Zombie kicked off his first headlining tour since 2007 on Thursday.
He says the decision to begin recording solo albums came when the band decided not to tour without member Neko Case, who also has a successful solo career in her own right.
The prolific musician, who died in 1993, formed the Mothers' final line up in 1973, releasing his final album Bongo Fury with them as a backing band in 1975, before going solo.
By 1972, Springsteen was fronting a band and writing songs to be performed solo.
Always seemingly on the brink of a commercial breakout, Miller has taken to alternating albums by his main band with more overtly pop-friendly solo projects.
The 650 projects which have so far succeeded in meeting their funding goals through Kickstarter include a woman who is circumnavigating the globe solo by boat, a band recording their first CD and a cartoonist travelling to Afghanistan to do political sketches.
Almost everyone in the band took choruses, building toward the climactic solo.
In addition to his solo albums, Gilmore records with the band The Flatlanders, which includes Gilmore's fellow West Texas musicians Joe Ely and Butch Hancock.
Now, after years with the experimental pop band Cibo Matto, as well as a couple solo albums of his own songs, Lennon says in this interview that he feels his musical vision is coming into focus with The GOASTT (as the band is known for short), and that he's savoring his collaboration with Muhl.
After the Band's split, Helm recorded a handful of solo albums and toured with his old bandmates, minus Robertson.
Despite the band's success Robin Gibb continued to pursue a solo career and also wrote songs for other artists.
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One story goes that he was halfway through a solo one night when he jumped off the stage and disappeared. (Laughter.) Just when the band was about to go looking for him, the solo started back up.
"With his exceptionally exuberant band Super Etoile de Dakar and his musically ground breaking and political solo albums, Youssou Ndour has worked to reduce animosities between his own religion, Islam, and other religions, " it said.
Newman says that the experience of writing and recording a solo album provides a good balance to being a member of a band.
The band underwent a line-up change when guitarist Bernard Butler quit for a solo career, under acrimonious circumstances, to be replaced by a then 17-year-old Richard Oakes.
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With a small backing band, Jakob Dylan came to Newport with not only songs from his solo debut, Seeing Things, but also music from throughout the Wallflowers catalog.
He formed his first band, Hen's Teeth, in 1971, but it was as a solo artist that he became well known.
You get a certain amount of freedom if you do a solo record which you don t really have if you re in a band.
New York-based country singer Tift Merritt put out her first solo album, Bramble Rose, in 2002, following a stint with a band called The Carbines.
Since the band broke up in 1998, Fraser has rarely performed live - and a long-rumoured solo album has never seen the light of day.
Tampa Bay-based alt-country group Have Gun, Will Travel began as the solo project of lead singer and songwriter Matthew Burke, but has since become a full band.
Swedish garage rock act The Hives were named best international band, while US singer-songwriter Ryan Adams, who has enjoyed enormous cult success with his latest solo album Gold, won best solo artist.
These days, after a pair of solo albums under the banner of "Broken Social Scene Presents, " the two are getting the band back together.
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"Tracks" travels the road not taken in the Boss's dramatic 25 year trajectory from bar-band poet to 12-cylindered mega-stardom ... and then back to self-consciously quieter solo ruminations.
The decade that followed the band's 1996 breakup wasn't terribly kind: New Zealand-born singer Neil Finn's solo career didn't duplicate Crowded House's success, and former drummer Paul Hester committed suicide in 2005.
To hear why this band was so revered, check out Cropper's sneaky lines and Jones' characteristically terse, carefully chorded piano solo.
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