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OT: The Old, the Obscure, and the Forgotten

Highway Song - this beautiful tune was written by James Taylor, but by far my favorite version of it was done by his brother, Alex Taylor. It is indeed, one of those songs that's just great to hear out on the highway. :D
 
Spot on Waquoit- he has seemingly drifted into the dustbins of the musical past - one great heavy blues/rock talent:
 
Not my usual cup of tea thread but as an homage to Steph Curry and the Warriors who undermanned, and left for dead, took back their territory :D


 
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Waquoit said:
I have a nominee for forgotten - Robin Trower. He had four gold records in a row and a Top 10 live album. I never hear him at all these days.
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He is still touring and has a recently released album. Somehow the magic just got lost.
 
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This one’s from Kate Price, a hammered dulcimer player formerly of Santa Barbara, now I think in Napa. This is a poem by Robert Hillyer that she beautifully put to music.

 
Riki Lee Jones - I think she started out like a house afire in the 70's, but to me she never fully took flight. What a talent though - this is "Last Chance Texaco" at Farm Aid:
 
Scud49 said:
Riki Lee Jones - I think she started out like a house afire in the 70's, but to me she never fully took flight. What a talent though - this is "Last Chance Texaco" at Farm Aid:
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I saw part of a Rikki Lee concert on a show called something like "Broadcasting from the Kate," (The Katharine Hepburn theater in Old Saybrook) on PBS. My wife and I both agreed she shouldn't put herself on display any more.

She and Tom Waits were a couple in the 70's. The Chuck E from "Chuck E's in love" was Waits's friend Chuck E Weiss, who appears frequently in his songs/stories from early in his career. Waits cleaned up his act when he married Kathleen Brennan; I don't think Rikki Lee ever did, or at least not as early. I find it fascinating that after having given up drinking and smoking, Waits still hangs out at the track and his songs tell stories of the underside of society as though he's still part of it -- I wonder if he still hangs out in seedy places some.
 
This is obscure , at least to me, and hauntingly lovely. I heard it on a TV series soundtrack.

 
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This guy doesn't quite fit into classical, folk, or early music. IMO he fits into all three. My wife was a fan when we got married, and we've seen him a few times. That was my introduction to wooden flutes, and I've since started playing and making them. This is possibly the most beautiful flute piece (originally written for the harp) I've ever heard.

 
bantamlaker said:
This reminded of a song I’ve always liked by Small Faces in which the opening line is “Over bridge of sighs”
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I think the original Bridge of Sighs was/is in Venice. But years ago there was an elevated walkway between the Allegheny County Jail and the Allegheny County Courthouse. There were many dolorous trips over that span, so local Pittsburgh people referred to it as the Bridge of Sighs. BTW , Itchycoo Park was a great song!
 
Bigboote said:
She and Tom Waits were a couple in the 70's.
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Tom Waits - one amazing talent. His version of Red Sovine's "Big Joe and Phantom 309" is superb and pure Americana in all respects. I'd say it's obscure now, but I used to hear it a fair amount on FM back in the 70's. It's an incredible road song and a real favorite of mine:

 
I love Waits’s version of Big Joe. I don’t know what is about his music (other than the incredible creativity), but there’s an emotional level he gets to that nobody else does for me. There are a dozen of his songs that have brought me to tears or made me crack up laughing. Here’s a humorous one that could only come from Waits:

 
Ry Cooder did. lot of dust-bowl era stuff early in his career. Here’s one:

 
This is the llast track from Blondie’s first album, also hilarious.

 
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Santana isn't obscure or anything, but this incredibly beautiful song has always been buried in a 1970's album of theirs - "Moonflower". So I think it can ring the "Obscure" bell:
 
Scud49 said:
Santana isn't obscure or anything, but this incredibly beautiful song has always been buried in a 1970's album of theirs - "Moonflower". So I think it can ring the "Obscure" bell:
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Yeah, Moon Flower was not their best effort. I thought after Carlos cleaned house after Santana 3, it took him a long time to find another combination that worked. I dunno if you're aware, the somewhat original combo got together a few years ago for a new album (Santana 4) and a show or tour. I have the DVD and CD, and it's amazing.

I'm glad that Greg Rolie has been doubly enshrined in the Rock 'n' Roll HoF (founding member of Santana and Journey). He's a great singer and keyboard player.
 
Scud49 said:
Another interesting act on the Capricorn label was a group named Captain Beyond.

They had one great song - "Sufficiently Breathless":
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They had a lot of great songs. The lead singer and song writer was Rod Evans from Deep Purple the other three gents played in Iron Butterfly, the Allman brothers and Derick and the Dominos. All songs were written by the group . the group members also played with Rick Derringer and Johnny Winters. In 1972 they released and album named Captain Beyond that basically changed my music expectations from then on. Hope you have heard it if not go find it and let it rip.
Scud49 said:
Another interesting act on the Capricorn label was a group named Captain Beyond.
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Scud49 said:
FYI- I should have stated - a song that fits into ONE of these categories, doesn't have to be in all three. :D

Bonzo Dog Band, The Urban Spaceman - I used to hear them on Radio Luxembourg back in the late 60's when I was stationed in Spain in the Air Force - great tune.
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OMG - Radio Luxembourg - that brings back memories. I used to listed that that station all the time in the 70's. They had their own top twenty that came out every week and I would listen to that show all the time. I lived in Scotland at the time, so my little bedside radio picked it up.
 
Danny O'Keefe - another wonderfully talented singer/songwriter that has faded away into obscurity. The album "Breezy Stories" had some great tunes on it, including this one:

 
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These guys were kind of like the Bonzo Dog band meets the Mothers meets the Replacements. They did a tune called "Concerto for a found harmonium" that's become somewhat of a standard in the Irish traditional music repertoire. This was the first tune of theirs I heard, on a college radio station:

 
Vashti Bunyan - she put out an album in 1970 that was overlooked, and she subsequently ended up abandoning her career. However, she developed a cult following and eventually she re surfaced some 30 years later. One hauntingly beautiful song from that early album of hers is "Train Song":
 
Bigboote said:
These guys were kind of like the Bonzo Dog band meets the Mothers meets the Replacements. They did a tune called "Concerto for a found harmonium" that's become somewhat of a standard in the Irish traditional music repertoire. This was the first tune of theirs I heard, on a college radio station:
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Boy, that one BB is a bit of an "acquired taste"...! :D:D:D
 
Scud49 said:
Vashti Bunyan - she put out an album in 1970 that was overlooked, and she subsequently ended up abandoning her career. However, she developed a cult following and eventually she re surfaced some 30 years later. One hauntingly beautiful song from that early album of hers is "Train Song":
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Wow, Scud, that's really beautiful. And my wife, sitting by the fire [in Maryland in the middle of May] agrees.
 
Bigboote said:
Wow, Scud, that's really beautiful. And my wife, sitting by the fire [in Maryland in the middle of May] agrees.
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Ah, that's a romantic sounding scene...:) Here's one for a mood like that - another beautiful song that's been pretty much totally forgotten about - "Touch" by John Klemmer: (PS very raw and chilly here in Indiana too..!)
 
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