Al Dexter

Dexter is a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. From an interview of his interview with the San Francisco Chronicle:. Other hits from the 1940s include "So Long Pal", "Triflin' Gal", "Guitar Polka" and "I'm Losing My Mind". Brian Eno is also responsible for the start-up sound to the Windows 95 operating system (which he created on his Apple Macintosh). In the 1930s, he had owned a bar and helped to popularize the style of country music known as honky tonk. British 1990s band The Warm Jets were named after Eno's 1973 album. Al Dexter (May 4, 1902 in Jacksonville, Texas - January 28, 1984 in Lewisville, Texas) is an American country musician and songwriter, best known for "Pistol Packin' Mama", a 1942 hit that was one of the most popular recordings of the World War 2 years. The band A Certain Ratio took their name from the lyrics of Eno's song "The True Wheel" (on Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)).

His younger brother, Roger Eno is also a musician, who combines ambient styles with classical music instruments on some of his albums. He was also the provider of music for Robert Sheckley's In the Land of Clear Colours, a narrated story with music originally published by a small art gallery in Spain. Another was his collaboration with artist Russell Mills on the book More Dark Than Shark. One is the set of "Oblique Strategies" cards that he produced in the mid-70s, which was described as "100 Worthwhile Dilemmas" and intended as guides to shaking up the mind in the process of producing artistic endeavors.

Eno has also been active in other artistic genres, producing videos for gallery display and collaborating with visual artists in other endeavors. In 1996 Brian Eno, and others, started the Long Now Foundation to educate the public into thinking about the very long term future of society. Brian Eno is also a columnist for the British newspaper, The Observer. At this time he was also active in the Fluxus movement and his work with the Portsmouth Sinfonia came out of this. Works released included early albums by John Adams, Michael Nyman, Gavin Bryars (the famous The Sinking of the Titanic), John Cage, and others.

Only 10 albums were released. Eno started the Obscure label in Britain in the early 70s to release works by less-known composers. He is an innovator across many fields of music and recently he has collaborated on the development of the Koan algorithmic music generator. He won the best producer award at the 1994 and 1996 BRIT awards.

He has contributed to albums by artists as varied as Nico, Robert Calvert, Genesis, Edikanfo, and Zvuki Mu. Eno has acted as a producer for a number of bands, including Talking Heads, U2, Devo, and James. These tapes were later used as backgrounds in some of his collaborations with Robert Fripp, and the methodology (not entirely original with Eno) was used by Fripp (on his Frippertronics albums) and others. Side 1 consisted of a tape loop system for generating music from relative sparse input.

The second side consisted of several versions of Pachelbel's canon to which various algorithmic transformations have been applied, rendering it almost unrecognisable. In 1975, Eno released Discreet Music. Eno has also collaborated with Robert Fripp of King Crimson, John Cale, former member of Velvet Underground, on his trilogy Fear, Slow Dazzle and Helen of Troy, Robert Wyatt on his Shleep CD, with Jon Hassell, with the German duo Cluster, with composer Harold Budd and others. Outside, and on the song "I'm Afraid of Americans".

Eno collaborated with David Bowie as a writer and musician on Bowie's influential "Berlin trilogy" of albums, Low, Heroes and Lodger, on Bowie's later album 1. He collaborated with David Byrne, formerly of Talking Heads, on My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, which was one of the first albums not associated with hip hop to extensively feature sampling. His methods were recognized at the time (mid-70s) as being unique, so much so that on one album he contributed to (Genesis's The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway) he is credited with "Enossification.". His skill at using "The Studio as a Compositional Tool" (the title of an essay by Eno) led in part to his career as a producer.