Miriam Linna, the Glossary
Miriam Linna (born October 16, 1955) is a Canadian-American drummer who has run the Brooklyn-based independent record label Norton Records since 1986, originally with her husband, the late producer and singer-songwriter Billy Miller.[1]
Table of Contents
50 relations: Andre Williams (musician), Ashtabula, Ohio, Avon (publisher), Billy Miller (musician), Bob Dylan, Bobby Fuller, BOMP! Records, Brooklyn, Charles Plymell, Cleveland, David Thomas (musician), Dead Boys, Dogs Under Stress, Esquerita, Figures of Light, Flamin' Groovies, Greater Sudbury, Harlan Ellison, Hoboken, New Jersey, How to Make a Monster (album), Jack Nitzsche, Kim Fowley, Little Richard, Mick Collins, Moe Tucker, Nervus Rex, New American Library, Norton Records, Ontario, Pere Ubu, Phil Spector, Record producer, Rock music, Rocket from the Tombs, Ron Haydock, Roy Orbison, Royston Ellis, Running Press, Ruth Brown, Sepia (magazine), Strand Bookstore, Sun Ra, Sweets and Other Stories, The A-Bones, The Cramps, The Dirtbombs, The Trashmen, The Treniers, Theme Time Radio Hour, XM Satellite Radio.
- Canadian women autobiographers
- Canadian women record producers
- Musicians from Greater Sudbury
- The Cramps members
- Women writers about music
Andre Williams (musician)
Zephire Andre Williams (November 1, 1936 – March 17, 2019) was an American R&B musician who started his career in the 1950s at Fortune Records in Detroit.
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Ashtabula, Ohio
Ashtabula is the most populous city in Ashtabula County, Ohio, United States.
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Avon (publisher)
Avon Publications is one of the leading publishers of romance fiction.
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Billy Miller (musician)
William Henry Miller Jr. (January 1, 1954 – November 13, 2016) was an American musician, archivist, and rock 'n' roll collector whose magazine, Kicks, and record label, Norton (both co-founded with his wife Miriam Linna), championed vintage rockabilly and garage bands.
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Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan; born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Miriam Linna and bob Dylan are American autobiographers.
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Bobby Fuller
Robert Gaston Fuller (October 22, 1942 – July 18, 1966)Bashe, P. R., & George-Warren, H., The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll (Third ed.). New York, Fireside, 2005, p. 360 was an American rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known for "Let Her Dance" and his cover of the Crickets' "I Fought the Law," recorded with his group The Bobby Fuller Four.
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BOMP! Records
Bomp! Records is a Los Angeles-based record label formed in 1974 by fanzine publisher and music historian Greg Shaw, and Suzy Shaw.
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Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a borough of New York City.
Charles Plymell
Charles Plymell (born April 26, 1935, in Holcomb, Kansas) is a poet, novelist, and small press publisher.
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Cleveland
Cleveland, officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio.
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David Thomas (musician)
David Lynn Thomas (born 1953) is an American singer, songwriter and musician, now based in the UK.
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Dead Boys
The Dead Boys are an American punk rock band from Cleveland, Ohio.
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Dogs Under Stress
Dogs Under Stress is the fourth studio album by Moe Tucker.
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Esquerita
Eskew Reeder, Jr. (November 20, 1935 or 1938 – October 23, 1986), usually known by the stage name Esquerita, and occasionally as S.Q. Reeder or The Magnificent Malochi, was an American R&B singer, songwriter and pianist, known for his frenetic performances.
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Figures of Light
Figures of Light is an American proto-punk band formed in 1970 by Wheeler Winston Dixon (lead vocals, slide guitar) and Michael Downey (rhythm guitar, backing vocals).
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Flamin' Groovies
Flamin' Groovies is an American rock band that formed in San Francisco in 1965, originally co-led by Roy Loney and Cyril Jordan.
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Greater Sudbury
Sudbury, officially the City of Greater Sudbury, is the largest city in Northern Ontario by population, with a population of 166,004 at the 2021 Canadian Census.
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Harlan Ellison
Harlan Jay Ellison (May 27, 1934 – June 28, 2018) was an American writer, known for his prolific and influential work in New Wave speculative fiction and for his outspoken, combative personality.
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Hoboken, New Jersey
Hoboken (Unami: Hupokàn) is a city in Hudson County in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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How to Make a Monster (album)
How To Make A Monster is the third compilation album by the American rock band the Cramps.
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Jack Nitzsche
Bernard Alfred "Jack" Nitzsche (April 22, 1937 – August 25, 2000) was an American musician, arranger, songwriter, composer, and record producer.
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Kim Fowley
Kim Vincent Fowley (July 21, 1939 – January 15, 2015) was an American record producer, songwriter and musician who was behind a string of novelty and cult pop rock singles in the 1960s, and managed the Runaways in the 1970s.
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Little Richard
Richard Wayne Penniman (December 5, 1932 – May 9, 2020), known professionally as Little Richard, was an American singer, pianist, and songwriter.
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Mick Collins
Mick Collins (born December 18, 1965) is a musician from Detroit, Michigan.
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Moe Tucker
Maureen Ann "Moe" Tucker (born August 26, 1944) is an American musician and singer-songwriter who was the drummer for the New York City-based rock band the Velvet Underground. Miriam Linna and Moe Tucker are American rock drummers.
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Nervus Rex
Nervus Rex was an American new wave pop band, whose roots were in the New York City independent music scene, its members frequenting clubs such as CBGB and Max's Kansas City.
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New American Library
The New American Library (also known as NAL) is an American publisher based in New York, founded in 1948.
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Norton Records
Norton Records is an independent record label founded by musicians Miriam Linna and Billy Miller in 1986.
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Ontario
Ontario is the southernmost province of Canada.
Pere Ubu
Pere Ubu is an American rock group formed in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1975.
Phil Spector
Harvey Phillip Spector (December 26, 1939 – January 16, 2021) was an American record producer best known for his innovative recording practices and entrepreneurship in the 1960s along with his two trials and conviction for the murder of Lana Clarkson in the 2000s.
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Record producer
A record producer or music producer is a music creating project's overall supervisor whose responsibilities can involve a range of creative and technical leadership roles.
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Rock music
Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Rocket from the Tombs
Rocket from the Tombs (or RFTT) is an American rock band originally active from mid-1974 to mid-1975 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.
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Ron Haydock
Ron Haydock (April 17, 1940 – August 14, 1977) was an American actor, screenwriter, novelist and rock musician.
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Roy Orbison
Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist known for his distinctive and powerful voice, complex song structures, and dark, emotional ballads.
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Royston Ellis
Christopher Royston George Ellis (10 February 1941 – 27 February 2023), known as Royston Ellis, was an English novelist, travel writer and erstwhile beat poet.
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Running Press
Running Press is an American publishing company and member of the Perseus Books Group, a division of the Hachette Book Group.
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Ruth Brown
Ruth Alston Brown (January 12, 1928 – November 17, 2006) was an American singer-songwriter and actress, sometimes referred to as the "Queen of R&B".
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Sepia (magazine)
Sepia was a photojournalistic magazine featuring articles based primarily on achievements of African Americans.
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Strand Bookstore
The Strand Bookstore is an independent bookstore located at 828 Broadway, at the corner of East 12th Street in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, two blocks south of Union Square.
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Sun Ra
Le Sony'r Ra (born Herman Poole Blount, May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993), better known as Sun Ra, was an American jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, and poet known for his experimental music, "cosmic" philosophy, prolific output, and theatrical performances.
Sweets and Other Stories
Sweets and Other Stories is the 2009 debut novel by soul singer Andre Williams.
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The A-Bones
The A-Bones was an American garage rock band from Brooklyn, New York.
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The Cramps
The Cramps were an American rock band formed in 1976 and active until 2009.
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The Dirtbombs
The Dirtbombs are an American garage rock band based in Detroit, Michigan, notable for blending diverse influences such as punk rock and soul, while featuring a dual bass guitar, dual drum and guitar lineup.
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The Trashmen
The Trashmen were an American rock band formed in Minneapolis in 1962 and are best known for their biggest hit, 1963's "Surfin' Bird", which reached No.
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The Treniers
The Treniers (pronounced /trəˈniərz/) were an American R&B and jump blues musical group led by identical twins Cliff and Claude Trenier.
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Theme Time Radio Hour
Theme Time Radio Hour (TTRH) was a weekly one-hour satellite radio show hosted by Bob Dylan that originally aired from May 2006 to April 2009.
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XM Satellite Radio
XM Satellite Radio (XM) was one of the three satellite radio (SDARS) and online radio services in the United States and Canada, operated by Sirius XM Holdings.
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See also
Canadian women autobiographers
- Adrienne Clarkson
- Alice Masak French
- Alys Robi
- Amanda Lindhout
- Audrey McLaughlin
- Betty Oliphant
- Carrie Best
- Claire Drainie Taylor
- Deborah Grey
- Doris Gregory
- Doris McCarthy
- Dorothy Proctor
- France Castel
- Gabrielle Roy
- Janet Gladys Aitken
- Janet Merlo
- Jhet van Ruyven
- Kim Campbell
- Laura de Turczynowicz
- Lotta Hitschmanova
- Margaret Trudeau
- Martha Black
- Martha Wainwright
- Miriam Linna
- Pamela Anderson
- Pamela Wallin
- Rosemary Brown (Canadian politician)
- Shania Twain
- Sheila Copps
- Tessa Virtue
- Vicki Gabereau
Canadian women record producers
- Alanis Morissette
- Amy Sky
- Avril Lavigne
- Betty Moon
- Brandy Zdan
- DYLN
- Dalbello
- Evelyne Datl
- Geneviève Racette
- Grimes
- Helen Oakley Dance
- Hill Kourkoutis
- Holly Dodson
- Jane Child
- Jenna Andrews
- Joni Mitchell
- Lido Pimienta
- Lisa Conway
- Lisa Patterson
- Loreena McKennitt
- Lydia Ainsworth
- Marie Davidson
- Melissa Auf der Maur
- Melleny Melody
- Miriam Linna
- Misstress Barbara
- Peaches (musician)
- Rezz
- Roma Baran
- Sydney Blu
- Tasha the Amazon
- Tei Shi
- Toby Dancer
- Whipped Cream (DJ)
- WondaGurl
Musicians from Greater Sudbury
- Alex J. Robinson
- André Paiement
- Andrew Hyatt
- Anita Perras
- Bryden Gwiss Kiwenzie
- Daniel Bédard
- David Lickley
- Diane Chase
- Frederick Squire
- Gil Grand
- Jake Mathews
- Jason Frederick
- Jennie Vee
- Jim Matt
- Kate Maki
- Kevin Closs
- Kevin Turcotte
- Larry Berrio
- Lydia Taylor
- Marcel Aymar
- Miriam Linna
- Morris P. Rainville
- Patricia Cano
- Rich Dodson
- Robert Paquette
- Stéphane Paquette
- Trump Davidson
- Yas Taalat
The Cramps members
- Bryan Gregory
- Jim Sclavunos
- Kid Congo Powers
- List of the Cramps members
- Lux Interior
- Miriam Linna
- Nick Knox
- Poison Ivy (musician)
- Sean Yseult
Women writers about music
- Adrienne Simpson
- Bucura Dumbravă
- Caitlin Moran
- Caroline Coon
- Doris Evans McGinty
- Elizabeth Forbes (musicologist)
- Emilia Prieto Tugores
- Fiona Maddocks
- Frances Aparicio
- Gail O'Hara
- Hélène Lee
- Helen Oakley Dance
- Ida Marie Lipsius
- Ina Lange
- Jeani Read
- Jessica Duchen
- Joan Chissell
- Johanna Fiedler
- Julie Hamill
- Kate Thornton
- Laura Barton
- Leah Purcell
- Lillian Roxon
- Liudmila Kovnatskaya
- Margarethe Quidde
- Maria Carratalà i Van den Wouver
- May Singhi Breen
- Melissa Bradshaw
- Miriam Linna
- Penny Valentine
- Rhian Samuel
- Rosa Newmarch
- Ruby Mercer
- Sarah Champion (journalist)
- Shona Fraser
- Suzy Klein
- Sylvie Simmons
- Val Wilmer
- Vivien Goldman