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There are 4 groups that engender an almost epiphany like feeling when I listen to them. I'm guessing this is similar to the feeling you are talking about. Pink Floyd, Dire Straits, Susan Tedeschi, and Robert Cray can make me transcend life's everyday tedium. Oops, I gotta add Joan Baez to that mix. Her folks songs and ballads still give me chills after all these years.
Edit to add. I just realized that Simon & Garfunkel belong on that list as well. I'm gonna have to stop thinking about this or I'm gonna start feeling like a music whore.
Also an apology to Elizabeth because I didn't follow the one band rule. I just couldn't make up my mind. Sudden realization that I am a music whore.
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Sigh... I'm so darn mainstream. My personal Donna the Buffalo is included on the best selling albums of all time.
It's still U2. And their stupid new album was supposed to be out early this year, but no - we've got to wait until fall at the best.
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quote: Didn't Michael Nesmith start out in the Monkees?
He got famous as a Monkee, but he was doing stuff long before that. He had various bands, and wrote music for other popular groups. (Remember "Different Drum" by Linda Ronstadt & the Stone Poneys?)
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The pre-hiatus era Moody Blues. When I was a kid, I had a hard time thinking of them as a band; to me they were more of a force of nature.
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Bob, I didn't know you liked Susan Tedeshi! I saw here a few years ago, and she was awesome.
My best friend Kevin was a DJ, but not like other DJ's. He has a communication degree from UMASS, and played French Horn in high school....so he was very good at whatever he chose to do (good enough to be hired as a DJ for Pleasure Island at Disney). A bar owner down here in W.Spfld, MA started a blues night, and he asked Kevin what he could do to bring in more people. Kevin said "If you can get women to come here, the guys will follow.", and he was right.
So Kevin, who was also the sound guy for the bands, started playing dance music before the bands, at the break, and after the last set, and it worked. Girls wanted to dance, and they came to hang out, and the guys came for blues and to see the women dance.. ...
I heard some really, really bad blues there, but it was fun anyway.
Then one night, Susan Tedeshi walked in. It was before she got nominated for the Grammy, before she had any type of recognition, really....which explains why she was playing in a dump like Geraldines... She was beautiful, and very nice, but considering some of the horrible acts that had played that month I was very skeptical.
Then she opened her mouth, and a voice the size of Kansas came out. I was blown away. I have heard Johnny Lang live, and B.B. King, and she was every bit as good as either one of them.
Her people had come over before she started and gave Kevin a hard time about the dance music playing. They actually threatened to have him fired, yelling at the top of their lungs! Kevin had gotten pissed, and then told them that he was their sound guy for the night....lol...
They weren't too happy, but they left him alone after that...
Kevin wasn't impressed at first, even though she was awesome, because he was really pissed off. But the longer he listened the more he liked it, and by the end of the night he was almost as impressed as I was.
I think she was one of the best live acts I have ever seen, and I didn't even know any of her music then.
I really, really loved being able to show the Grammy nominations the next year....there she was, right on the CD and list. She didn't win, but thanks to that nomination a lot of people have heard her music.
And she doesn't have to play dumps anymore.... More's the pity...
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I love Billie Holiday. She just has this amazing voice that makes you "feel" the lyrics. I also understand that she had a pretty difficult life, so that makes me admire her even more. You've gotta swoon at "God Bless the Child."
My son takes guitar lessons from a local guitar legend, who was in a band called Live on the Planet. Sorta funk-pop, I guess I would categorize it.
Anyway, the lead singer left, and the band dissolved, but she is now playing(or played?) Billie holiday in a show in Japan. Her name is Kim Zombik. Here is a link to the old band.
Kwea, are you saying that Susan T. is your Donna the Buffalo, or that you just like her a whole lot? I wish I had known you liked the blues, because I would have pushed you harder to go to the Green River Fest. The Campbell Brothers were there, and they are amazing.(sacred steel gospel)Also Hot Tuna, who are very bluesy.
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I heard their band once. Her voice blew me away.
Interestingly, she was a singer for The Equalites, a local reggae-style band(not all reggae). Now, a woman named "Cinnamon" is the singer. She is amazing as well.
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And my American favorite: Peter Mulvey who is a guitar virtuoso and a wonderful poet. He tuned his craft as a busker in the Boston Subway stations and even went back to record an album there.
And of course, I still love the music of The Bodeans.
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