I'm a new fan of Stevie Ray Vaughn. While I've heard some of his music over the years for whatever reason he was never on my radar screen. This past winter I purchased a pair of ADS L810 speakers and the guy I bought them from used SRV's Couldn't Stand The Weather as a demo disc. He played Tin Pan Alley for the first demo song and I asked him what CD is that? He told me and played a couple of other tracks and I was sold. On my way home that day I purchsed a copy so I could listen to the whole CD. Since then I've purchased a couple of his other CD's. Tonight I watched Live at Montreux 1985 on DVD. That guy's amazing, what a loss.

Anyway, I'm sure other members have recently discovered artist they have ingored over the years and I'm hoping to get some tips on who else to try out. So what artist is new to you over the past year or two?

The Waterboys, Guadalcanal Diary, Robyn Hitchcock, and The Rainmakers. I had my head up my ass in the 80's. Missed a lot.
Dan

...So what artist is new to you over the past year or two?

I've been pretty busy!

But I'm a fairly new fan of Diana Krall. I was trying to expand my appreciaton of jazz and that's how I found her. I have a pile of her CDs now. The ADS speakers I can thank Mr. Duffinator for turning me onto them.

Diana Krall's "The Girl in the Other Room" is a double sided CD/DVD. The video is very simple but elegant and when you see and hear her at the same time it fills the senses that much more.

So for the other stuff I've been busy with the list is long. Thanks to a teenage daughter I hear stuff that is different and new. And thanks to GW I've also discovered the past.

Alison Krauss and Union Station Bluegrass, sweet vocals can be a bit twangy
Nacho Sotomayor Ambient/World, from Spain can be a bit spacey
Folk Rock - Beth Orton, sleepy sensual
Rock - Hoobastank, its rock n roll
Steely Dan - the old stuff I never had, pure delight

Three groups come to mind:

The Band ~ My teenage son introduced me to them last year. As hard as I try I can't remember them at all from my college days in the mid to late sixties (Let's not go into why! :D ). Enjoy them quite often nowadays. "Music From Big Pink" (LP) is playing as I type this.

Steely Dan ~ A new appreciation for their music. Some great recordings that will make a vintage system sing at its best.

Peter Green/Fleetwood Mac ~ Love his blues (see top row of LP's in the picture) and never heard of him before about 2 years ago with my introduction to vintage audio. "Then Play On" is one of my top few favorite albums.

Terry

Terry,

If you haven't already, try Steel Dan's Aja and Gaucho.

Fleetwood Mac's A Mystery to Me. This is after Peter Green, with Bob Welch and before Buckingham/Nicks.

Cheers,
Carl

I have the Decade of Steely Dan cd. I was'nt a huge fan back in the day,but this cd sheds a whole new light on the band now.The musicianship is second to none,and the really odd thing is that Michael Mcdonald of The Doobies fame sings backup on most of the tracks.He met Jeff (Skunk) Baxter,so named because of his smelly feet,in Steely Dan,and buggered off to the Doobies with Jeff in tow.What followed there were songs like What a Fool Believes etc.Baxter is one fine geetar player I might add. :music:

Steely Dan ~ A new appreciation for their music. Some great recordings that will make a vintage system sing at its best.
TerryI just purchased their recently released The Definitive Collection and have been listening to it non-stop. The quality of the recordings match the quality of their songs. I'll have to try Aja and Gaucho as I always see them mentioned as their best.

So who else is new to you?

My brother-in-law turned me onto Steve Kimock Band (blues/rock) and Howard McGhee (old school jazz). McGhee played with the likes of Miles Davis and Charlie Parker. Cool thing is now I surf with his son Boots who is an accomplised photographer. And I'm building his new website, should be up this week!

Been filling in the holes of my Dire Straits collection. They sound great on the ADSs.

Couple years I rediscovered The Cure (new wave), Astrud Gilberto (Samba), Aphrodite (techno). Then the list gets really out there.

Cheers

John can turned me onto Mott the Hoople good stuff.
Also getting into coltrane and miles davis.

and even getting into come classical

Recent re-discovers:
old Cream & Yardbirds w/ Clapton.
Steppenwolf
Grand Funk Railroad
Wishbone Ash
Traffic

TWAntiques - might I suggest Peter Green's - Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac.

I just discovered Nina Simone.

ampegdan- the Waterboys are a remarkable group.

All the rest of you- how did you miss Steely Dan until now.

Aimee Mann

Lucinda Williams

Old U2, and fairly recent band The Red House Painters. Great schnit.

Mostly jazz and mostly bop:

Thelonius Monk
Art Blakey
Dizzy Gillespie
Charlie Parker
John Coltrane

but returned to:
Count Basie
Oscar Peterson
Joe Pass

Always been into blues and alt country, but expanded into:

James McMurtry -- Live (alt cntry) -- I never tire of this!

Early Chicago blues:

Magic Slim
Otis Rush
Son Seals
Little Walter

Terry -- I only knew Fleetwood Mac as Peter Green's band (my geezerness showing), but enjoy all their iterations up to about "Tusk" and then they lost me. I must have sold a few thousand copies of "Rumours" when I worked in a record store.

If you like the early blues Mac, spring for the "Fleetwood Mac Complete Blue Horizon Session 1967--1969" box set and you'll see why B.B. King was supposed to have said that Peter Green was the only guitarist whose tone "scared" him. Some of the best "white guys playing the blues" of their era.

I

I go through quite a few artists a year. My tastes are diverse. Here's a couple of fairly recent discoveries that you may not be aware of that I very much enjoy:

The Devics -- dark alt.country in the vein of Low, Mojave 3, etc., but I like them better than any of them (I'm not really into alt.country, but I end up liking the Devics, for some reason -- a lot).

The Crown -- metal. Foot on the floor metal. Double-kick-drum machine-gunning at all times metal. Speedometer pinned metal.

Franz Ferdinand -- yeah, you may have heard of them, but I recently heard their second album in the store, and was reminded how much I like them. Retro pop in an energetic Joe Jackson/Blur/Pulp/Kinks and yet non-new-wave way.

I go through quite a few artists a year. My tastes are diverse. Here's a couple of fairly recent discoveries that you may not be aware of that I very much enjoy:

The Devics -- dark alt.country in the vein of Low, Mojave 3, etc., but I like them better than any of them (I'm not really into alt.country, but I end up liking the Devics, for some reason -- a lot).

The Crown -- metal. Foot on the floor metal. Double-kick-drum machine-gunning at all times metal. Speedometer pinned metal.

Franz Ferdinand -- yeah, you may have heard of them, but I recently heard their second album in the store, and was reminded how much I like them. Retro pop in an energetic Joe Jackson/Blur/Pulp/Kinks and yet non-new-wave way.

Was wondering if you'd chime in on this thread, since you could fill up a page a week with stuff I never heard of. Devics sound interesting enough, though.

Another recommendation to anyone who's hungry for new music: cdbaby.com -- just plug in your favourite band into the search engine, and then listen to the samples. Lots of good stuff on there....since you could fill up a page a week with stuff I never heard of.Yup, that's me!

:screwy::banana::beatnik::nutz::nerd::guitar: :rockon: :music:

http://www.pandora.com/
Check this site out. Plug in people you like and itl bring up similar artist

Another recommendation to anyone who's hungry for new music: cdbaby.com -- just plug in your favourite band into the search engine, and then listen to the samples. Lots of good stuff on there.Yup, that's me!

:screwy::banana::beatnik::nutz::nerd::guitar: :rockon: :music:

Haven't tried the cdbaby route. Pandora either starts repeating too quickly, or plays stuff that I don't see any connection to my original artist.

And, -80 points for the dreadful smileys.

Try it, I guarantee you will find at least one artist you will like that you hadn't heard before.

And: :tongue:

Try it, I guarantee you will find at least one artist you will like that you hadn't heard before.

And: :tongue:

As long as you don't try to hand me a flower pot hat and insist that I listen to Devo...

I have really been following the blues lately. Trying to get to every live performance within 200 miles and trying out little known artists. I have heard some great live performances lately. Once I started listening to some great blues guitar it is hard to quit. I have also just gotten reaquainted with Steely Dan and Fleetwood Mac. I have many of their recordings on vinyl.

I think you'd look good in a flower pot hat, but suit yourself.

Aimee MannI've always been interested in exploring some of her music but haven't bought anything yet. Can you recommend a CD?

I've always been interested in exploring some of her music but haven't bought anything yet. Can you recommend a CD?


Duff,
Forgotten Arm is her last release.I am not a fan of Ms. Mann.

Suggest Any Beth Orton,ny Christine Collister and really suggest Amy Milan's Honey from The Toombs and and Katie Mulea's Piece By Piece


Alan

Jeremy Pelt. I am a lover of trumpeters, but miss this one. It seems I was too focused on the fifties and sixties artists. Recently I have been using my cable box as a music source and this has allowed me to appreciate a wider spread of artists especially in the jazz arena.

Believe it or not .. Bob Dylan!

I've been into Folk music for 15 years now (mainly Greg Brown & John Prine) but never listened to Dylan... Bought Blonde on Blonde 3 years ago and just started playing it.... Now I'm making a list of my next Dylan purchases! :thmbsp:

Wolf's Blood

Plasticman (not so new to me, but been neglecting picking up his LPs, so in a sense, "new' to me).

Various Gilles Peterson compliations (been a listener of his radio shows for a long time, but also never got around to picking up his compilations)

Believe it or not .. Bob Dylan!

I've been into Folk music for 15 years now (mainly Greg Brown & John Prine) but never listened to Dylan... Bought Blonde on Blonde 3 years ago and just started playing it.... Now I'm making a list of my next Dylan purchases! :thmbsp:I don't own any Dylan. Is Blonde on Blonde a good place to start?