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JordyG said:
Ronnie Dunn resisted doing this song for quite awhile because he said he didn't want to "Sound like a girl". Go figure.
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Quoted the wrong post I think. :rolleyes:
 
This guy was headed for the Mount Rushmore of horn players until his untimely death at 27. This one is classic.

 
Bigboote said:
Hokay, mon, one more then I’ll shut up for awhile. This is a symphonic metal band from Bosnia. The vocalist is spectacular.

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I sorta like it. Symnphonic heavy metal, Why not?
 
JordyG said:
My favorite song from a guy who wrote a bunch of touching songs before his death also at 39.

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I like this song, but it was hardly obscure. It got a ton a play in New England back in the day.
 
Genya Ravan and Ten Wheel Drive.

Back in the time when Blood, Sweat and Tears was new and jazz rock was a thing, there was Genya Ravan, who (if you look it up) had quite a history as a pathfinder in women's rock and roll. Anyway, they were on tour and played my college ballroom back in 1970 and I was blown away by them. Probably the first concert where I really connected to the music.
They cut a couple of albums but never got anywhere.
 
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tomcat said:
I sorta like it. Symnphonic heavy metal, Why not?
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That's quite a wormhole to go down. There are a bunch of bands in this genre. Within Temptation is one of my favorites, a good place to start.
 
Discovered this band too late. It was originally twin sisters and a guy. One of the sisters left, then the guy died way too young from cancer. The remaining member put out one final album after the guy died, they had a bunch of material that was almost ready that she finished up. The record I think was a love letter and goodbye to her musical soul mate.

 
Most people do not know Samantha Sang.
"Emotion" is a song written by Barry and Robin Gibb. It was first recorded by Australian singer Samantha Sang, whose version reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978. The Bee Gees recorded their own version of the song in 1994 as part of an album called Love Songs which was never released but it was eventually included on their 2001 collection titled Their Greatest Hits: The Record .

 
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Perhaps not too well known on this side of the puddle, these crazies had much success for many decades in the U.K.

Half my household hails from Willy Shakespear territory, and we both get a good larf from this-

 
Some more country singers that didn't catch on big. I think these were part of the Nashville scene but didn't find a big audience. This one is a beautiful duet by 2 not real well known singers (Kelly Willis and Kevin Welch).

 
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A very old blue song. So old so blue it almost makes me fall in sleep ...:p
But we are #BleedBlue right?

 
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Speaking of side projects, this included among others members of Wilco, The Jayhawks and Soul Asylum.

 
This group is from Vancouver, BC. I used to see them all the time at clubs and festivals in Seattle. They've long since had a complete turn over among their members, the lead singer is the only thing left. I haven't seen them in years, wouldn't be the same anymore. Man I had a big thing for that fiddle player (Shona le Mattee). She always had the most peaceful, blissed out look on her face while she was playing.

 
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"Take Me Back to Sorrento"
--Ernesto De Curtis, 1898

Its' not obscure to Ralph Kramden...or Mrs. Manicotti.
 
tomcat said:
Genya Ravan and Ten Wheel Drive.

Back in the time when Blood, Sweat and Tears was new and jazz rock was a thing, there was Genya Ravan, who (if you look it up) had quite a history as a pathfinder in women's rock and roll. Anyway, they were on tour and played my college ballroom back in 1970 and I was blown away by them. Probably the first concert where I really connected to the music.
They cut a couple of albums but never got anywhere.
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Saw them once. Big, dynamic band.
 
nwhoopfan said:
I know this song as a Brooks & Dunn hit. The original sounds great. The remake barely bothered to change anything from this version.
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Thank you for confirming my thought at the time. I'm no country fan and I loved the original. And all I know about Brooks & Dunn was this inferior cover version. It made their career. I never liked Brooks & Dunn.
 
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