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I thought I would start a thread on little known (?) singer songwriter types. The emphasis here is on story telling and lyrics more than musicianship.
Maybe you know some, or all. Feel free to comment or add some more.
I may start another thread about blues guys who are still playing and are worth seeing live. Unless you beat me to it.
I’ve had the good fortune of seeing the first three at the Ark in Ann Arbor, MI.
Todd Snider. Funny as hell. He lives in East Nashville and sometimes plays in the bars there in a garage band kind of way. At the Ark, when some heckler shouted for “Freebird” Todd complied. “I only know the chords though” and played for quite a while. “Had enough Freebird yet?”
Ballad of the Devil’s Backbone Tavern http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcXdr8cCl-w
Play a Train Song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nCLCsLEoXg
Iron Mike’s Main Man’s Last Request http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31nEQFLc-W4Greg Brown His music varies a lot. He was in a pan pipe phase for a while, that didn’t do anything for me. Covenant is his bluesiest album, and that is another story entirely. Further In is another great one.
‘Cept you and Me Babe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJFqzWfGWEg&feature=related
Blue Car http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS8CdCPogSc&feature=related
Further In http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwYa0L8ioI8Fred Eaglesmith – very quirky guy live. Lately it seems like he has been trying to write some hits to make some money. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
I can’t find a good youttube version of his song 49 Tons but the first lines are classic –
If there were seventeen cars out in my back yard, boys in blue were calling my name, semi- automatics up on the rooftop, they just want to talk to me. I’d tell them what they wanted to hear, the only thing that I knew: Forty-nine tons of diesel locomotive couldn’t drag me back to you.Wilder than Her http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsDL7GIn1uw
Townes van Zandt. Inspired by Lightning Hopkins, with a country turn. Brilliant lyrics.
No Deal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n9-Ok0reog
To Live is to Fly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5wrzwINOJM&NR=1
Waiting Around to Die http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTGKzWDakK8&feature=related
Colorado Girl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhp7ArGqy0c
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