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Thread: Which Musicians Are Due For A Reappraisal?
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balaam
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Yes to CCR. Canned Heat is another.
How Rory Gallagher never gets in the best guitarist lists is beyond me. No one who isn't also a guitarist seems to rate him. Ditto Gary Moore. It seems that my favourite guitarists are Irish. And dead.
I'd also mention The Groundhogs as a great band that were never appreciated, but it's hard to find anyone who has even heard of them.
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Laurence
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Oh and that 4,096-part song-cycle all in the key of G-slightly-flat about the depressed and lonely poet who falls in love with the Miller's beautiful daughter's pet duck...
Ken, you are a very bad man ![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
I must stick up for Schubert though. Erlkonig is a little mini-opera, with the benefit of not having to pay for an orchestra or more than one singer. And the Octet is amazing- almost as good as Mendelssohn's.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by balaam:
Yes to CCR. Canned Heat is another.
How Rory Gallagher never gets in the best guitarist lists is beyond me. No one who isn't also a guitarist seems to rate him. Ditto Gary Moore. It seems that my favourite guitarists are Irish. And dead.
I'd also mention The Groundhogs as a great band that were never appreciated, but it's hard to find anyone who has even heard of them.
I've heard of The Groundhogs! Anyone who has not heard "Split" has missed one of the best blues/rock albums ever. Hard as diamonds but accessible too (OK, they have a bit of fun with 'Junkman'). Tony McPhee is still a fine guitarist.
Rory Gallagher is one of the best of all time. Clapton, eat your heart out, that boy could play.
btw, what is it about Country music? Most of it is bland pap (IMHO) but rock influenced by it can be superb. I give you Janis Joplin, Lynyrd Skynryd, The Allman Brothers Band and more (but emphatically not The Eagles. Because I say so).
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Timothy the Obscure
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The thing about country music is that it had a Golden Age in the '40s and '50s, which is what influenced all the rock musicians, beginning with Gram Parsons. And speaking of country-rockers, Mike Nesmith's solo work really deserves to be brought to the attention of the modern alt-country audience. He's a truly brilliant, witty, literate songwriter who (for obvious reasons) never managed to get himself taken as seriously as he deserved.
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balaam
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No.
The thing about country music is its context. I never understood country until I took a trip to the States. The wide open spaces of Arizona with roads where it's 20 miles to the next corner and the only music you can find on the car stereo is the country station. The bars with racks for you to put your guns on before they'd serve you a beer. Spending a night as a guest of the Navajo. Then it made sense.
In the UK we have country without the context. The nearest thing we have are the folk traditions of Scotland and Ireland. In fact Celtic traditional music and country, especially bluegrass, have a lot in common. If you watch BBC Alba (Scottish Gaelic TV channel) on i>player it isnt uncommon to find US country musicians jamming with Scottish traditional musicians. They fit in perfectly.
American folk music has links back to English folk. Country is Celtic. Over time they've both developed in their own way.
In the UK country music in general is due for a reappraisal.
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I think Paul McCartney is due for a reappraisal. Apparently there are still people who don't think he is shit. That is a situation that needs to be resolved, and quickly. code:
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