Red oak may refer to:

• Lobatae, a group of oak trees
• Quercus rubra, the northern red oak, a tree native to southeastern Canada and the northeastern United States
• Agkistrodon contortrix, a venomous snake species found in North America

Red Oak may refer to several place names in the United States:

• Red Oak, Georgia
• Red Oak, Iowa, a town in southwestern Iowa
• Red Oak, North Carolina
• Red Oak, Oklahoma
• Red Oak, Texas
• Red Oaks Mill, New York

See also[link]

• Oak red, a coloring matter formed from the oak bark tannins
• Red Oak (beer) A North Carolina based microbrewery

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James Vincent McMorrow
Background information
Birth name	James Vincent McMorrow
Origin	Dublin, Ireland
Genres	Folk, Indie
Occupations	Singer, songwriter
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, banjo, drums
Labels	Vagrant/Believe Digital
Website	www.jamesvmcmorrow.com

James Vincent McMorrow (born in 1983) is an Irish folk singer and songwriter.^[1] His debut album Early in the Morning was released in February, 2010.^[2] He wrote the album during a self-imposed seclusion in a beach house in Ireland.^[3] His music has been compared to Bon Iver,^[4] Sufjan Stevens,^[5] and Ray LaMontagne.^[6] Tracks from Early in the Morning have been used in American television programs.^[7]

McMorrow made his UK TV debut on BBC Two's Later... with Jools Holland on 27 May 2011.^[8]

McMorrow performed at the Eurosonic Festival in 2012 when Ireland was the "Spotlight Country".^[9]

Personal Life[link]

James is engaged to Emma Doyle and they are due to be married at the end of his tour this year.

Musical career[link]

McMorrow was born and brought up in Malahide in north County Dublin, he started his musical life as a drummer in a handful of post-hardcore rock bands, while studying marketing at college. Despite liking the comfort and anonymity of playing drums, he decided to take his chances as a solo singer during a summer spent pushing trollies in Dublin Airport. McMorrow retreated to the safety of his parent's house and started to re-educate himself as a musician and a songwriter, using the family piano to piece the jigsaw together.

Instant results were never part of the plan, and McMorrow spent the next four to five years learning and experimenting. He charted his development as a songwriter with demos made on an eight track recorder and he finally caught the ear of EMI Publishing, with whom he signed a modest record deal.

The next big step was a move to the big time in London, or so McMorrow hoped. But his five weeks spent in the studio there were far from productive. Alone in a strange city, McMorrow failed to transfer his ideas to tape and in the end his efforts yielded nothing. He returned home in disappointment, the big chance gone, and spent Christmas 2008 licking his wounds back in the family home in Dublin - "I thought that was it. I was minutes away from calling time on it".

But the songs that did not flow in London finally came out in the unlikeliest of places. With nothing else going on, McMorrow packed up and spent the next month living in a remote house by the beach in Termonfeckin, County Louth. The peace and solitude served as a welcome relief from the London music scene, and the inspiration resulted in what would become Early in the Morning.

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

Extended Plays[link]

• The Sparrow and the Wolf (2008)
• Self Titled EP (United States only)^[14]

Singles[link]

Contributions to film and TV[link]

His song "If My Heart Should Somehow Stop" was featured on the MTV show Teen Wolf. His song 'Follow You Down to the Red Oak Tree' was used in the 2010 film Third Star. "We Don't Eat" was used in the Chuck fourth season episode "Chuck Versus the First Fight", as well as the "Ordinary People" episode of the hit CW show The Vampire Diaries. His cover of Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game" played during the final scene of the Gossip Girl episode, "The End of an Affair?".

In 2011, the song "Higher Love" was featured in the LoveFilm television advertisement.

Collaborations[link]

He sang 'My Singing Bird' solo, accompanying himself on guitar, and duetted with Jack Bruce on 'Waiting for the day' - both songs by the late Gerry Rafferty on a BBC Scotland recorded tribute concert to Gerry Rafferty as part of Celtic Connections 2012.

McMorrow played an intimate performance with Lisa Hannigan, 8 December 2011 at Dublin's Button Factory for the Meteor Choice Music Prize event.^[15]

Awards and nominations[link]

In January 2012 James Vincent McMorrow received an European Border Breakers Award.^[16]

He was nominated for the Hope for 2009 Award at the 2009 Meteor Awards, but ultimately lost to Wallis Bird.^[17]

References[link]

External links[link]

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James Vincent (July 19, 1882 – July 12, 1957) was an American actor and film director of the silent era. He appeared in 23 films between 1910 and 1951. He also directed 18 films between 1915 and 1931.

He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts and died in New York, New York.

Selected filmography[link]

• The Pursuit of the Smugglers (1913)
• Gold and the Woman (1916)
• The Hidden Hand (1917)
• Stolen Moments (1920)

External links[link]

• James Vincent at the Internet Movie Database

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Ted Leo
Ted Leo performing at the 2006 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
Background information
Birth name	Theodore Francis Leo
Born	(1970-09-11) September 11, 1970 (age 41), South Bend, Indiana, United States
Genres	Pop punk, indie rock, Hardcore punk, Thrashcore, Mod revival, Powerpop
Occupations	Singer, songwriter, guitarist
Years active	1989–present
Labels	Ace Fu, Gern Blandsten, Lookout!, Touch and Go, Matador Records
Associated acts	Citizens Arrest, Chisel, The Sin-Eaters, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Website	www.tedleo.com

Ted Leo (born Theodore F. Leo on September 11, 1970, in South Bend, Indiana^[1][2]), is an American punk rock/indie rock songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who has played in the bands Citizens Arrest, Chisel, the Sin-Eaters, the Spinanes, and Ted Leo and the Pharmacists. He has also kept up a consistent presence as a solo performer since the late 1990s.

Though born in Indiana, Leo grew up in Bloomfield, New Jersey, where his family is from, and spent many formative years in the hardcore punk scene of New York City during the 1980s and early 1990s.^[3] He graduated from Seton Hall Preparatory School in West Orange in 1988 and the University of Notre Dame in the fall of 1993 with a degree in English.^[4] His brothers Chris Leo and Danny Leo are also singer-songwriters, and members of Native Nod, The Lapse, The Van Pelt, Vague Angels and Holy Childhood. He is a vegan.^[5]

Ted is a fan of and frequent contributor to WFMU, most notably to Tom Scharpling's "The Best Show on WFMU."

Discography[link]

With Puzzlehead[link]

• Puzzlehead 7" (1991)

With Animal Crackers[link]

• Split 7" with Whipped (1991)
• Self Titled 4 Song 7" on Thrashing Mad Records

With Citizens Arrest[link]

• A Light In The Distance 88–90 (1995)

With Chisel[link]

• Nothing New (April 1995; Gern Blandsten)
• 8 A.M. All Day (January 1996; Gern Blandsten)
• Set You Free (April 1997; Gern Blandsten)

With Hell No[link]

• Reformer 7" (1991)
• Skin Job Lp (1992)
• "Hell No" (1992)

With Ted Leo and the Pharmacists[link]

• tej leo(?), Rx / pharmacists (September 1999; Gern Blandsten)
• Treble in Trouble (September 2000; Ace Fu Records)
• The Tyranny of Distance (June 2001; Lookout! Records)
• Hearts of Oak (February 2003; Lookout! Records)
• Tell Balgeary, Balgury Is Dead (October 2003; Lookout! Records)
• Shake the Sheets (October 2004; Lookout! Records)
• Living with the Living (March 2007; Touch & Go Records)
• Rapid Response (September 2008; Touch & Go Records)
• The Brutalist Bricks (March 2010; Matador Records) U.S. #114

Other Appearances[link]

• This Bird Has Flown – A 40th Anniversary Tribute to the Beatles' Rubber Soul (October 2005; Razor & Tie)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Ted Leo and the Pharmacists official website

Lotus Plaza is the solo project of American musician Lockett Pundt, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist of Atlanta-based indie rock group Deerhunter. Pundt joined Deerhunter in 2005 as a guitarist. He is also the best friend of Deerhunter vocalist Bradford Cox. His debut album as Lotus Plaza, The Floodlight Collective, was released March 23, 2009 on CD and vinyl. Pundt has cited his greatest musical influences as being Stereolab, My Bloody Valentine, and Roxy Music, "on a subliminal level."^[1]

Musical career[link]

Pundt met Deerhunter vocalist Bradford Cox while the two were in high school. "I was summoned by this girl who was in a drama class of mine named Lauren. She told me that Brad wanted to meet me more or less…it was arranged to go down in the bus ports between class…And so we met in the bus port."^[1] In an interview with Pitchfork Media, Cox discussed the sensations he felt meeting Pundt for the first time: "I was attracted to him, but not in some kind of like, just physical way. I was attracted to his melancholy, his sitting alone, staring at the ground…I immediately fell in love right then at first sight."^[2] The two played together in a three-piece band known as The Floodlight Collective. "It wasn’t anything serious really, just sort of jam on stuff and have fun…It was one of the first musical experiences that I shared with other people." The band later inspired the name of Pundt's first album as Lotus Plaza.^[3] In 2005, Pundt joined Deerhunter as a guitarist; the first album he helped produce with the band was 2007's Cryptograms. Pundt's first album as Lotus Plaza, The Floodlight Collective, was released on March 23, 2009 to mixed critical reception.^[4][5][6]

Discography[link]

With Deerhunter:

• 2007 Cryptograms/Fluorescent Grey EP
• 2008 Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
• 2009 Rainwater Cassette Exchange EP
• 2010 Halcyon Digest

As Lotus Plaza:

• 2009 The Floodlight Collective
• 2012 Spooky Action at a Distance

References[link]