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ctfjr said:
It was a great time (1973)

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I like Sina's version, she added a percussion portion to it.

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MSGRET said:
I like Sina's version, she added a percussion portion to it.

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Well, I have to say she has taken a masterpiece and created another masterpiece. Different but a masterpiece nevertheless. Thank you for the link. I am going to list to more of her music!
 
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Hope said:
Rickie Lee Jones won a Grammy Award in 1979 for 'Best New Artist.' This is the first track on her eponymous album titled, "Rickie Lee Jones.'

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Factoid: The Chuck E referred to in the song is a real person. Rickie Lee Jones was living with Tom Waits at the time. Waits is good friends with Chuck E Weiss, a fixture on the LA music scene. Weiss had fallen for a girl and suddenly moved to (IIRC) Colorado to follow her. Rickie Lee hadn't seen him in awhile, asked Waits where he was, and Waits responded, "Chuck E's in love." The relationship didn't last long, but the song certainly has.
 
Ozimoto said:
A little bit of a story behind this choice. I was looking for something to do for fun with my wife as she was bored and getting on me for never planning anything fun to do. I have always enjoyed listening to music and she was singing in a semi professional chorus (The Handel Choir of Baltimore) at the time, so I started poking around looking for a small venue with talented but maybe not so familiar artists. I started poking around on the "Dirty Linen" website that covered the folk and roots music scene in the Baltimore/Washington area and came across a show by "John and Mary" at a place called the Iota Cafe in Arlington Virginia. The description of the duo, John Lombardo from 10,000 Maniacs (who left the band right before they made it big) and Mary Ramsey as two musicians who brought modern takes to traditional English folk songs in addition to original material sounded interesting.

Their live show was excellent. Of course, CD's were on sale at the show. The first track of their first CD just reinforced what we got out of their first show and we have been fans ever since through four albums as the duo of "John and Mary" and another four through their joining "10,000 Maniacs" (or rejoining them in John Lombardo's case). for nearly 30 years now.

From Victory Gardens, track one "Red Wooden Beads."

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Interesting, she sounds a little bit like Natalie Merchant.
 
ClifSpliffy said:
ground zero for them
'you get a shiver in the dark
it's been raining in the park,
but meantime...'

fuhghettabootit. smooooooooooth.
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i think ‘Down to the Waterline’ was track 1. Both great tracks ... “C’mon”
 
meyers7 said:
Interesting, she sounds a little bit like Natalie Merchant.
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Yes she does. It's easier to understand her though. ;)

As an aside, Mary played violin and contributed backing vocals on the MTV Unplugged 10,000 Maniacs live album, the last recording the group made with Natalie Merchant as their lead singer.
 
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I finally came up with something to contribute. Kasey Chambers' solo debut album, The Captain, came when she was in her early 20s. I only found out years later that she'd been in the Dead Ringer Band with various family members for several years previous, dating back to when she was 16 or so. She was the lead vocalist for the band. Anyway while this probably isn't the best song from her album, the first track is a good one. Nashville sat up and took notice for a little while, then promptly ignored the rest of her sterling career (cuz Nashville is dumb and that's what they do).

 
I think what was throwing me off is that a lot of times it wasn't the first track, first album that drew me to an artist. Sometimes I became aware of them midstream. Or it was the first single that got me, which often isn't the first track. So if I ignore when or how I became aware of them, I've thought of a few more to add.

 
Emmylou Harris released a version of this song first, but Gillian wrote it and it's the first track on her debut album.

 
I'm leaning country/folk so far, mostly fairly simplistic songs. But sometimes simple is just right. This whole debut album, it kinda sounded familiar on first listen even though I hadn't heard it before. I kind of thought of it like a pair of jeans or a shoes that fit just right the first time you try them on, no break-in period needed.

 
I'd say the title track from this album kinda blew people away, although the first track is fine too. This duo didn't last long, 2 albums (and they broke up IMMEDIATELY after the release of the second). There was an emotional intensity to their music that's fairly uncommon.



I have to link Barton Hollow just because...

The Civil Wars - Barton Hollow
 
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There are apparently a few different versions of this debut album, with different track listings. I think this is first track? Anyway, Dwight had plenty of success in country music but I think he was always a bit outside the Nashville mainstream and did things his own way.

 
Okay, one more, definitely not country. This band I discovered long after they got started and I heard some of their later stuff before I went back and heard their earlier work. They had one album before what I was assuming was their first. This is the first album, first track, not one you hear much. They've changed their style quite a bit over the years, varies from album to album.

 
Bigboote said:
Thread drift on the Boneyard? Shocked, I'm shocked!
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That deserved an extra like... ;)
Start with one that can't be left out ....


Janis was and will always be a favorite of mine but that is Big Brother And The Holding Company featuring her, first song on the album.
I was younger and just starting my record collection and sad to say I was late to the party with Janis.
The Pearl album came out posthumously, as the first song on an album that any one of them could have been the first or last. The rare occasion when you never skip a song.
Janis Joplin - Move Over lyrics
 
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Officially ended the late 80s/early 90s phase of “hair band” metal/rock & started the popularization of “grunge”.

Only 1 billion+ views on YouTube -

 
JustbrewitMan said:
Officially ended the late 80s/early 90s phase of “hair band” metal/rock & started the popularization of “grunge”.
Only 1 billion+ views on YouTube -
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Sorry, couldn’t miss the opportunity to post the Weird Al version
 
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nwhoopfan said:
Okay, one more, definitely not country. This band I discovered long after they got started and I heard some of their later stuff before I went back and heard their earlier work. They had one album before what I was assuming was their first. This is the first album, first track, not one you hear much. They've changed their style quite a bit over the years, varies from album to album.
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After Forever was the band that got me hooked on symphonic metal. I was probably in my 50’s, and they’d already broken up. I saw Floor Jansen compared to Annie Haslam (Renaissance) in youtube comments. I’m really glad I checked her out.

 
5th song on debut, but first for me.
'today I don't feel like doing anything...' *
preach!

*Sam Clemens approved.
 
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JustbrewitMan said:
Officially ended the late 80s/early 90s phase of “hair band” metal/rock & started the popularization of “grunge”.

Only 1 billion+ views on YouTube -

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Unfortunately that was 1st song on their 2nd album. They had released "Bleach" 2 years earlier.
 
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