Revivalist Artist - List of Notable Revivalist Artists

List of Notable Revivalist Artists

• Tiny Tim - performed historic and regional American music in his natural baritone, in addition to novelty songs sung falsetto
• The Beau Hunks - Dutch orchestra who have recorded overlooked works by American composers Raymond Scott, Leroy Shield, Ferde Grofe, Edward McDowell, and others, as well as reconstructing and recording themes from Hal Roach 1930s film comedies.
• Sha Na Na - started in 1969 as revivalists of 1950s doo-wop music
• The Blues Brothers - started in 1978 as revivalists of 1950s and 1960s blues, soul and R&B music
• The Jam - started in 1972 and evolved into the leading band of the late-1970s mod revival
• Joshua Rifkin - played a central role in the ragtime revival in the 1970s by treating the works of Scott Joplin as serious classical music rather than as nostalgia or novelty
• Michael Feinstein - began his performing career in 1986 as a revivalist of the genre of American songs written between 1920-1960 (known colloquially as the Great American Songbook)
• The Black Crowes - started in 1984 as revivalists of 1970s blues-rock - eventually became writers of their own material
• The Stray Cats- a major player in the rockabilly revival of the early 1980s
• Big Bad Voodoo Daddy- one of the major swing revival bands
• Simple Plan- Canadian band that was noted as punk rock revival
• The Sheepdogs - started in 2007 as revivalists of early-1970's roots rock and notable for winning the "Choose the cover" competition to become the first unsigned band on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.