Amorphis

Amorphis is well known for their use of (the English translation of) the Finnish national epic, Kalevala, as a source for their lyrics. ISBN 0-7126-1827-9. Initially, the band was a death metal act, but in later albums they have evolved into making songs that are more classifiable as mainstream but nevertheless with increasingly complex arrangements. Century Hutchinson, London. Amorphis is a Finnish metal band started by Jan Rechberger and Esa Holopainen in 1990. And a Voice to Sing With: A Memoir. Pekka Kasari (drums) (1996-2002). 1988.

Olli-Pekka Laine (bass) (1992-1999). Baez, Joan. Pasi Koskinen (vocals) (1996-2004). Toured with Bob Dylan during his 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue tour. Far from the Sun (2003). Joan Baez is not to be confused with the mathematician John Baez, her cousin. Am Universum (2000). She lives in Woodside, California.

Tuonela (1999). Her latest album is 2003's Dark Chords on a Big Guitar. Elegy (1996). She then worked with the Indigo Girls and Mary Chapin Carpenter and continued recording throughout the 90s. Tales from the Thousand Lakes (1994). She didn't have an American release until 1987's Recently on Gold Castle Records, and then switched to Virgin Records for 1992's Play Me Backwards. The Karelian Isthmus (1992). She then switched to CBS Records briefly, and then found herself without an American label for 1980's European Tour.

Evil Inside (2003). With 1972's Come from the Shadows, Baez switched to A&M Records and began flirting with mainstream pop music as well as writing her own songs for her best-selling 1975 release Diamonds & Rust. Day of Your Beliefs (2003). Her 1971 cover of The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (The Band) was a top 10 hit in the US. Alone (2001). Harris, a country music fan, turned Baez towards more complex country rock influences beginning with 1969's David's Album. Divinity (1999). In 1968, Baez married David Harris, a prominent anti-Vietnam War protester who was eventually imprisoned for draft evasion.

My Kantele (1997). Later in the decade, Baez experimented with poetry (1968's A Journey Through Our Time) and country music (1968's Any Day Now). Black Winter Day (1994). Like Dylan, Baez was profoundly influenced by the British Invasion and began augmenting her acoustic guitar on 1965's Farewell Angelina just after Dylan began experimenting with folk-rock. Privilege of Evil (1993). From the early to mid-1960s, Baez emerged at the forefront of the American roots revival alongside contemporaries like Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell. Jan Rechberger (drums). It went gold, as did 1962's Joan Baez in Concert.

Santeri Kallio (keyboards). 2, was released in 1961. Niclas Etelävuori (bass). Her second release, Joan Baez, Vol. Tomi Koivusaari (guitar). The album was a collection of ballads performed in a traditional style, and it sold moderately well. Esa Holopainen (guitar). Baez's professional career began at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival and recorded her debut, Joan Baez, the following year on Vanguard Records.