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Try the album Live Dead. It’s more loose than Europe but man there’s some great energy and grooves to be explored on that album if you give it a try.

This is group that’s pretty known on the west coast and Hawaiian islands. Not sure about the Midwest. The end of this song, from about 4:57 on, has been in commercials. So it’s likely you’ve heard it in the background at some point. Now you’ll know the artist.
A quick intro to Nahko and Medicine for the People.
Nahko is the singer songwriter for the band, and the primary ‘actor’ in the attached video. The album that this song comes off of, Dark as Night, released in 2013, kinda tells his story. If you’re interested look it up his background. A mixed race kid with a rough start from the word go. It’s pretty hard story. Follow this if you’re interested... https://www.hamhigh.co.uk/etcetera/music...yself-1-4629174
In opposition to this, his music is primarily uplifting. At times bordering on spiritual. Even when the topics he’s speaking to are dark. There’s some real heart throughout that entire album.
Anyway... kind of an island song to make all you suffering through the frigid temps remember the warm. What a beautiful life. I Mua.

He was one of my heroes growing up. Man, I loved it when he would go on the Tonight Show. He made me become a drummer in school ..... but I think that I could have practiced for 100 years and never even started to approach his level of speed and precision.

Okay, to take this thread back to ‘off the beaten path’ from the well known Tom Waits’ and Buddy Rich’s of the world, no offense bone, here’s a singer songwriter name John Moreland.

The buddy solo was the most BA thing I've seen on here. Was never more than a name to me before I watched that.

All good. And you’re correct you never know who others’ know. I knew of Buddy and Tom. Buddy was a monster. I’m not much a fan of Tom’s music. He’s a musical and vocal Thorazine drip. Lyrically he’s a great storyteller.
In the same genre I much prefer John Hiatt. A similarly great lyricist with a better voice.



I wouldn’t consider John Hiatt off the beaten path. But who knows what others’ know.

More than a couple of you liked Miss Melody Gardot. I'm not saying this girl is as good as the divine Gardot, but she is similar in several respects. Don't be too harsh w/your initial judgement and let it linger for awhile. She isn't well-known at all, but I think she is pretty dame good.

Jeff Buckley. American singer songwriter that sadly didn’t live long enough to get the acclaim he deserved. He drowned in 1997 while swimming in a river. He was only 30 years old.

AND, son of Tim Buckley, who also died way too soon and who released some wonderful albums.

I have a story about Jeff Buckley....In the early 90s I lived in Albany, NY for two years and while there a buddy called me up and said his friend, who is a musician, was in town from NYC and he wanted to introduce him to me. They came over, we listened to some of my records, drank beer and talked about music. Eventually the conversation turned to him and he said he was a bassist and had just finished recording an album with a guy named "Jeff Buckley" and that he had a cassette on him taken from the masters and would play it for me if I was interested. That evening we listened to the entire 'Grace' album before it was released to the world and I was nearly in tears with how astonishing it was/is. I told him I had never heard of Jeff and he just looked at me, smiled, took a swig of his beer and said...."You will".

I moved to London later that summer/early fall and the name "Jeff Buckley" was all over the British music press and standing next to Jeff in the many photos was also Mick, the same guy who was in my apartment and who played me 'Grace' before others had heard it. He was right...I did end up hearing about him and so did many, many other people around the world.

I have since picked up several of his dad's records too. Well worth checking out. At times eccentric and odd, but very, very good. 'Starsailor' is my favorite from Tim.

You guys need to drink more beer.

The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn-The Pogues

I liked how Buddy incorporated striking the mic into the body of the composition.

You’re right, I’d need to be drunk to enjoy the Pogues. Very, very drunk.

Or, you would have to be a dentist!

Shane MacGowan has THE gnarliest teeth, EVER!

Excellent call bone! Excellent.

I too am not a country fan, but when I do listen I tend to go for hippie west coast country like Gram as well. I don't consider it country, however. Instead I think of it "Cosmic American Music".

Another side effect of over indulgence of cocaine.
And getting drunk with the Pogues is kinda the point.

j/c

The thread subject is 'off the beaten path.' OK. I can do that.

This is so cool.
LMC(lassical)AO,
Clemmy





The hidden joke at 2:12... American composer John Cage 'wrote' a piece entitled '4:33' ('Four Minutes, Thirty-three Seconds'), wherein the performer is instructed to make no sounds on their instrument. The premise it that the most minimalist form of composing controlled only the length of performance. The 'music' was produced from ambient sounds in the hall- for 4 minutes, thirty-three seconds.

But yeah... this is def not on the interstate of mainstream.

If you don't know El-P.....now you do...…

And if you do know El-P.....but didn't know of his short work with Camu Tao (RIP....Cancer) Central Services......they did this tiny lp Forever Frozen in Television Time....hard to find.....but great....kinda unclassifiable greatness.....

Maybe another day I'll post some Girltalk...if you don't know...

these brothers lay it down.
some of the baddest grooves you'll ever hear.

j/c

Odd you should bring this to light.
I saw he and his band(not the Velvet Underground)preform this at CBGB years ago.For along time I would tell people that everyone on stage that night,except for Lou Reed,is dead.That story changed a few years ago.

This is one of the finest pieces I have ever heard and it's on many of my playlists. Alvin Lee is the guy who is "off the beaten path," but George Harrison plays slide guitar on this smoking number.

The sad thing is that both have passed, but this great song will live forever. Oh, and dudes........stay w/it because it kinda starts off slow, but some of the riffs that come later are freaking amazing.

had to share......here...

Derden:
Dude... I'm still in your debt for hipping me to this guy. 'None Shall Pass' made me lose my [*].

And this flow: "One, two, three- that's the speed of the seed..."
...is just fantastic.

Makes me wish I'd known Lucy. Dude's serious skill set allowed him to tell an entire life story (with detail and nuance) in under 5 minutes. That's prodigious talent.


yeah- Aesop Rock.
Dude IS 'The Bar.'

When I bought an ep of his...."Fast cars, Danger, Knives," or something like that.....it came with a book that contained all the lyrics to his entire song catalogue.....I never realized how deep he got with a lot of his stuff....it was eye-opening....

This video just reminded me of that and I had to share it....


Thanks for the nod....

Alvin Lee was the guitarist from British blues band, Ten Years After. Probably best known for their barnstorming performance of "I'm Going Home" at Woodstock. Their first couple records are standard white boy blues, but they released a couple really great albums after Woodstock where they find their own identity and take it beyond the obvious 12 bar blues. I actually saw a reunited Ten Years After at the Akron Agora in 1986 (?) and Alvin could still smoke on the guitar. Sadly he passed a couple years ago.

He also recorded a pretty amazing LP with Mylon Le Fevre called 'On The Road To Freedom'. The whole album is pretty fantastic and well worth picking up. Still very cheap and easy to find. You shouldn't have to pay more than $5 for original copies of it.