Artist:Francis Dunnery
Song:American Life In The Summertime
Album:Fearless
Fearless was the major label debut for British singer songwriter guitarist Francis Dunnery. But as seems to happen a lot in the music business, things didn't go well and he now owns his own label. He was born Dec. 25, 1962 in Egremont, Cumbria, England. His older brother Barry was guitarist for the heavy rock band Necromandus and that influenced Francis to get into music at an early age. Dunnery was first noticed as part of the band It Bites in 1982. They recorded three albums for Virgin Records and did OK in England but split up in 1990. Dunnery was living in Los Angeles. He recorded a solo CD in 1991 for Virgin but it was only released in Japan. He joined Robert Plant's band as lead guitarist. Plant's manager Bill Curbishly got Dunnery a contract with Atlantic and Fearless was released in 1994. American Life In The Summertime charted and it did reasonably well. He's a pretty good songwriter. Dunnery moved to New York and his 1995 CD Tall Blonde Helicopter was more acoustic based and less mainstream. I guess Atlantic didn't like it so Nunnery moved to Razor & Tie for his 1998 CD Let's Go Do What Happens. He Became disillusioned with the music business and moved back to England in 2000 and started his own Aquarian Nation label in 2001. His most recent CD The Gulley Flats Boys was released in 2005 but he has a new DVD called Louder Than Usual coming out in March. He is also in demand as a session guitarist most notably with Lauryn Hill, Elton John & Carlos Santana. Francis Nunnery is someone you might not be aware of but check out the video for American Life In The Summertime.
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