by hillary_step 178 Replies latest social entertainment
I have never understood why Dave Stewart was quite so overlooked both as a musician and songwriter. An incredible, iconocalstic musician he was also a very gifted lyricist.
Here he is with his band 'National Health' on keyboards, playing 'Clocks And Clouds'. Listen out for the haunting vocals of Amanda Parsons.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wsrt12Fr7Dc
The lyrics are on this site:
http://calyx.club.fr/lyrics/nathealth/01.html
HS
I don't know if Chuck Prophet is polished and perfect enough, but I really enjoy him. I love his studio version of this song (It's atmospheric): Summer Time Thing:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VlPRjC72U9g
I also like Jerry Jeff Walker. I wish I could find a link of Bathin' Suits and Cowboy Boots.
I have never understood why Dave Stewart was quite so overlooked both as a musician and songwriter. An incredible, iconocalstic musician he was also a very gifted lyricist.
That's the rule though.
Far too many gifted musicians are overlooked while some are promoted.
Not all have access to this group. I know, you know about KVMR Seeker...Imagine the radio station this group could create. ;-)
Good music without payola.
At work I have the Pandora site bookmarked on my computer. You create your own radio station, say by naming it for a particular artist (I did Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen stations, for instance) and then the station just continuously plays, adding the songs of musicians that it thinks you'd like. You can rate its selections from more like this to don't play this artist again.
Every time I listen to Pandora, I'm introduced to dozens of musicians I love but have never heard of before. When you get someone like that, you can click on a link and get some background info on them, links, etc.
I don't listen to it all the time. WAY too distracting to a music lover, as you might imagine! But it just is incredible the amount of great, under the radar music there is out there.
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Seeker...
I've got quite a few stations on my Pandora. The problem I found was that if I started a station based on, say, a honky tonk style song, it would eventually slip in something that wasn't honky tonk. But if you marked it as "liked" then it would steer the station away from your original intent. I had to be careful to not get carried away and let the station go off on its own tangent.
Despite that minor inconvenience, I love being able to pick any of my stations and know that I'm mostly going to hear the style music I'm in the mood for.
Roy Harper.
This man is a master songwriter and musician and has been writing for over forty years. He was raised as a Jehovah's Witness, which perhaps accounts for this very long song. 'The Death Of God'.
It is posted in three parts and needs a little discipline to listen. Roy is a very, how shall I put it...eccentric person. Worth the effort.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6j0IJvD8bQ&feature=related
Check out Mike Estes ,ex of Lynyrd Skynyrd and now with a band calles Skinny Molly. We have become friends with Mike since my sister introduced him to us at Daytona bike week last year. Quality songwriter and has won awards for his songs.Have alook and listen on my space.
Another one by Mickey Newbury. His version of a song he wrote, covered by the fifth edition. I just dropped in (to see what condition my condition was in)
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/27/161863/3023535/reply.ashx
