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  1. 22 minutes ago, Anybodyhome said:

    GSH is so terribly underrated. He was poetic rap before there was such a thing. He was soulful hip-hop before there was such a thing. 

    Liv Warfield. Was part of Prince's New Power Generation. Her latest vinyl "The Edge" definitely has that Prince vibe, but her lyrics throughout the album are phenomenal. 

     

     

    i was sure i had heard her somewhere else before.  it was what she was/is doing with Nancy Wilson.

     

  2. i watch these different tv shows with my kids all the way through. One of my daughters and i are on our second run through Bones and one of the episodes had one song being played and i said "that sounds like Patty Griffin" which it was. Such an incredible talent. Her debut record was one of the most memorable for me in the 90s. Probably that one and Jeff Buckley were the two i can remember the most listening to for the first time. Blown away from both. 

    Patty Griffin's debut is a simple but incredibly passionate work of art. What is really cool was the story behind how it got released.

    https://scottsm589.medium.com/a-shout-from-the-heart-patty-griffins-living-with-ghosts-304dcde3ee07

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    Patty Griffin’s story plays out like a real-life version of Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, with Griffin taking the end of her marriage as a catalyst to pursue her dream of musical stardom. She sent a demo tape of just her and a guitar to A&M Records. Superproducer/Chic frontman Nile Rodgers loved it, but he was unsatisfied with all the attempts to clean it up for mass consumption. So in the end, he just went ahead and released Griffin’s demo tape unedited.

    Nile Rodgers is not exactly a man who’s known for minimalism, so when he makes a decision like that, you know it means something. And he was exactly right. You can’t improve on a record that lands in your office already perfect. Living with Ghosts gets at what draws people to folk music. That age-old power of sitting in the same room with a musician around a hearth or campfire, nothing standing between you and the music.

     

  3. 16 hours ago, HaricotVert said:

    Jesse Welles is an interesting cat.

     

    I see his videos and think he's too young to see things the way he does, but then I ask myself how old were Pete, Woodie, Bob, and so many more

    He's 32 years old so he's been around a little while. Definitely enough to see some stuff that isn't right. 

    Not sure if you've ever seen any of his earlier stuff with his old band. Dude could rock. Seems no matter what genre his music is in, he's always from an earlier one. Fits well with 90s grunge/alt stuff with his band and his solo stuff is definitely harkening back to late 50s-60s Seeger/Guthrie/Dylan stuff.

     

     

  4. 23 hours ago, HaricotVert said:

    any one video might be a little too political for the thread so Ill just keep it to the artists

     

    Been lost down a hole recently of folk/protest music

    Jackson Browne
    Pete Seeger
    Woody Guthrie
    Father John Misty
    Gil Scott-Heron
    Lead Belly
    Richie Havens
    Jesse Welles
    Bob Dylan
    Odetta
    Joan Baez
    Joni Mitchell

    been listening to a lot of Pete Seeger, Woodie and Arlo Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and Jesse Wells lately. Jesse is something else. i love it. Odetta and  Richie Havens are part of my rotation pretty frequently as well. didn't know about Father John Misty. checking him out now.

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  5. 10 hours ago, UnluckyforSome said:

    Yeah, "Thunder and Lightning" were the duo for the Titans. White and Johnson maybe? 

    yeah, lendale white and chris johnson (4.24). they had that name cornered before we williams and stewart could take it. so they went with double trouble. i think what the titans had going on with those two fit thunder and lightning better...that year anyways.

    then lendale stopped drinking tequila, lost weight, and fizzled out. 

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  6. i love coverdale...but he wasn't one of the guys you remember

    glen hughes and ian gillan are it for me there. more partial to ian gillan for some reason.

     

    and ELP...never got to see them live, but i've watched a lot of their live performances. had several VCR tapes of their shows back in the day. keith emerson was a mad man. the abuse he gave that poor organ. 

     

     

    and that piano spinning thing? wow

    i couldn't pick out a favorite elp song. i love way too many of them. forced to choose it might be karn evil #9. or lucky man. or still...you turn me on, or hoedown, or fanfare for the common man, or trilogy. or tarkus. or from the beginning. 

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  7. On 7/24/2025 at 6:57 AM, Anybodyhome said:

    The first time I saw Ozzy & BS in April 1974 at the first California Jam.

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    The last time we saw Ozzy last October at the Rock Hall Induction.

     

    that california jam would have been such a good bunch of shows to see and wow what a mix. you don't get much more diverse than black sabbath, ELP, EW&F, and seals and kroft. what a variety.

    eagles and deep purple would have been great to see back then as well.

    who was singing for deep purple back then? was it Coverdale? 

  8. i don't know...i'm kind of done with him. if he retires and comes back here and hangs around, cool. if not. i don't know. he's playing for another team, if they're with another team, i got no use for them.  they are out of my orbit.

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