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Simplistic, and hauntingly beautiful. This music and the images in the video do take me back to my time there years ago.

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I've really been enjoying the following young lady’s work of late – her live performances in particular. She writes on and for the guitar and has a rather unique style IMO. Here are two:

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The White Buffalo: Love and the Death of Damnation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RYg6BsCXqbM

reminds me of what country used to be like, before the Shania era that ushered in "Twang-Pop".
 
@TonyFlyingSquirrel – nice one. Don't know the group beyond this tune (which to my ear evokes Irish folk music), but enjoyed it. Thanks for pointing it out.
 
Glimmer said:
@TonyFlyingSquirrel – nice one. Don't know the group beyond this tune (which to my ear evokes Irish folk music), but enjoyed it. Thanks for pointing it out.
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My pleasure.  I first heard of him last year in a vid promo from Ernie Ball (youtube subscription).  He reminded me a bit of Glen Hansard (ONCE movie, Swell Season, and who happens to be Irish).  His voice just captivated me and I love the raw, unpolished nature of it, like the old school country that I grew up with. 

The art of storytelling seems to have returned, haven't seen much of it in country music for the past 25 years.  Some metal bands have it too, but the storytelling aspect of country is what really attracts me to it as I grew up in a small rural town, very Americana, and I spend a lot of time on the Rezervations, which is another angle of Americana.
 
Funny Samuel Hopkins fact. Later in his career he would drive the guys in house bands nuts because he wouldn't always make chord changes in the expected places. When someone asked him if he was going to play the changes as written he said, "Lightnin' changes when Lightnin' feels like changin!"

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^^You have excellent taste my friend. B.B. King once said that it was downright criminal the way Hopkins has been by and large forgotten outside of hardcore blues fans and music historians. An estimated 5,000 people attended his funeral.
 
All right, now, you know that that tune is excerpted from a ’60s era video done at the University of Washington in association with the Seattle Folklore Society. There's a whole series of them with fantastic performances by a number of country blues “legends.” Here are a couple I love:

Bukka White, "Aberdeen Blues" (at 5:10):

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Son House, “Death Letter Blues” (watch the whole intro, but the tune starts at 2:20):

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Check out others from this series here.
 
Richard Thompson looks like a geography teacher. but listen to his lyrics and hear how he makes a clean 1956 Stratocaster sing and hoot and honk and wail.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dk2G0yCvR8[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziTRDRxy_KE[/youtube]
 
Oh, hell yes.  I have an MP3 of a live take of "Hard On Me" that was available as a freebie download from his website a few years back, and he takes an extended solo that just scorches the earth.  Not one cliche in the whole four minutes of blazing.


Amazing.
 
When RT unleashes a major solo, it's usually a killer.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWjm6XdtEb0[/youtube]
 
Here you go:


http://archive.richardthompson-music.com/audiodownloads.asp


scroll down a ways to 'MP3's" and there's a few real winners, in addition to some (regrettably dated) novelty tunes.


"Hard On Me" is simply bulletproof. 
"Treadwell No More" was recorded for the Grizzly Man soundtrack, although I don't know whether it was actually used there, not having seen the film.  But it's a wonderful, droning solo electric guitar piece.
"The Sights and Sounds of London Town" proves the point that he's one of the finest singing guitarists on the planet.


So rock on!
 
Well, unsurprisingly, those links aren't necessarily any good.  PM me with an email address I can send the MP3's to, if you want 'em.
 
"Dear Janet Jackson" was one of those novelty tunes, really made me laugh at the time though!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA_91AeL-Ms[/youtube]
 
I've watched/listened to this performance 6 times this week.
Florence + The Machine - Live at the Royal Albert Hall
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Florence Welch has an amazing voice.
 
I just haven't figured out Flo and La Machine.  I've tried.  It just hasn't stuck.  Same with the Grateful Dead, so maybe my brain is just broken in some key way.
 
Bagman67 said:
I just haven't figured out Flo and La Machine.  I've tried.  It just hasn't stuck.  Same with the Grateful Dead, so maybe my brain is just broken in some key way.
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That seems unlikely. it's possible to recognize talent but not especially enjoy what someone's doing. For instance, I'm that way with almost all country & western or southern rock. Some fantastic musicians able to do things I'd consider impossible. But, I'd rather hear Siamese cats in heat than listen to that stuff.

In the case of The Dead, I'm not sure what the draw is there. They've never appealed to me, either.
 
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