Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The O'Kanes was an American country music duo, composed of Jamie O'Hara and Kieran Kane. Active between 1986 and 1990, the duo recorded three albums for Columbia Records and charted seven singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles (now Hot Country Songs) charts, including the Number One \"Can't Stop My Heart from Loving You\". Kane charted seven singles of his own in the early 1980s, and O'Hara won a Grammy Award for co-writing \"Grandpa (Tell Me 'Bout the Good Ol' Days)\", a Number One hit for The Judds. After they disbanded in 1990, both members pursued solo careers, and Kane founded a record label called Dead Reckoning Records.The O'Kanes were billed as exponents of \"New Country\", and their albums had stickers: \"New Country 87; Discover the Difference\"! Although the precise meaning of \"New Country\" is uncertain, it appears to indicate an attempt to integrate country and bluegrass, while moving away from the cliche´d conservatism of the genre. In some ways, the O'Kanes opened the door for artists like Lyle Lovett who did take country music into a significantly new direction, Lovett famously singing on his Pontiac album, \"... redneck-ness has got to be a disease; you catch it on your fingers and it just crawls right up your sleeves!\""@en }
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- The_OKanes abstract "The O'Kanes was an American country music duo, composed of Jamie O'Hara and Kieran Kane. Active between 1986 and 1990, the duo recorded three albums for Columbia Records and charted seven singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles (now Hot Country Songs) charts, including the Number One \"Can't Stop My Heart from Loving You\". Kane charted seven singles of his own in the early 1980s, and O'Hara won a Grammy Award for co-writing \"Grandpa (Tell Me 'Bout the Good Ol' Days)\", a Number One hit for The Judds. After they disbanded in 1990, both members pursued solo careers, and Kane founded a record label called Dead Reckoning Records.The O'Kanes were billed as exponents of \"New Country\", and their albums had stickers: \"New Country 87; Discover the Difference\"! Although the precise meaning of \"New Country\" is uncertain, it appears to indicate an attempt to integrate country and bluegrass, while moving away from the cliche´d conservatism of the genre. In some ways, the O'Kanes opened the door for artists like Lyle Lovett who did take country music into a significantly new direction, Lovett famously singing on his Pontiac album, \"... redneck-ness has got to be a disease; you catch it on your fingers and it just crawls right up your sleeves!\"".