The album also featured a cover of the obscure Gram Parsons nugget "Just Can't Take It Anymore." The album was originally supposed to emerge on Will Records, but languished for two years in label purgatory. 'The Battle of Boston' saw the two Massachusetts-based boy bands. Singer, songwriter and guitarist Pete Droge is shown performing on stage during a 'live' concert appearance on November 8, 1996. (Droge and Summers had split playing duties on the debut.) The result was a more layered and polished Americana effort than Transplanting, with folk and country flourishes and occasional nods to the kind of cosmopolitan roots-music produced by stalwarts such as Sheryl Crow and Tom Petty. New Edition and New Kids on the Block took to the stage for a sing-off at the American Music Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday night.
The result was 1997's Transplanting.ĭroge also played a key role in Summers' sophomore effort, Sparkler, but this time around the two enlisted members of the Sinners to provide instrumentation. Loosegroove Records proprietor (and Pearl Jam member) Stone Gossard heard Summers' demo and encouraged her to make a record with the label. Pete Droge 01 Musician Pete Droge performing as part of a tribute to Townes van Zandt on the 67th anniversary of his birth.Tractor Tavern, Ballard, Seattle, Washin. During a hiatus from the hectic tour schedule, Summers, with the help of Droge, recorded some demos of her own material. The unit toured the world as an opener for such marquee acts as Neil Young and Tom Petty. Shortly thereafter, Summers began singing backup for him, and when Droge landed a record deal, Summers stuck with him as a member of his group, the Sinners. She was living in Portland and pursuing her dream in the early '90s when she first ran into Droge, another solo performer on the scene. Summers, a Virginia native, was first inspired to become a musical performer when she witnessed a 1978 Bruce Springsteen concert.
(A sample of the her mosaic work can be seen on the cover of her 2002 album, Sparkler.) Droge produced, engineered and mixed the effort. Crowe was in a near-fatal plane crash while traveling with The Who. Gregg Allman distrusted him, and kept asking if he was a narc. The actual group Crowe first toured with was The Allman Brothers Band. She stepped out on her own with her solo debut, Transplanting, in 1997. The film is director Cameron Crowe 's semi-autobiographical account of life as a young Rolling Stone reporter. Elaine Summers first wielded her distinctive alto in the public sphere as a backup vocalist for singer-songwriter Pete Droge, who would become Summers' partner both on and off the stage.
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