2016: a new year for music....


With all of the music icons leaving us lately, we need some new music for a new year. Here's one I'm enjoying....Aoife O'Donovan "In The Magic Hour". Any others?
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bdp24, FWIW, Gurf Morlix started playing with Lucinda in '85.  I know she was playing in Austin in '75 or, at the latest, '76. 
bdp24, I mentioned it because I know for sure she was auditioning guitarists in the mid-70's.  This I know because I was one of the ones who flunked the audition.  The upside was that her manager borrowed my Mac 2300, my mics and my PA speakers for a Leo Kottke show a bit later--I got in free, and I guess if I had pressed the matter I could have gotten to meet Leo.  At any rate, for a youngster it was kind of cool.
bd24, it was in Austin. I don’t think I ever went out to hear her live so I can’t tell you what sort of backing she used back then. I didn’t really know who she was, I was just looking for work that involved a guitar rather than a hammer or shovel. I’ve seen Kottke live four times, once per decade, since the 70’s. I guess it’s time again for that. His between song jive is as good as his playing. I’ve enjoyed meeting and (usually) playing with some of my heroes from high school days. Sometimes enjoyable, sometimes not. The strangest encounter was when a guy I was talking to at a bus stop in upstate New York turned out to be the bass player for the Blues Magoos, a band I liked in the 60’s. Most of the other situations were planned or less surprising, at least. Wish I’d met Brian back in the day but he was off the road when I started going to hear them. And, chances are slim I could have met him. How did your meeting come about?

BTW,  I haven't heard Miss Lou Ann in years but I've always liked her voice. She used to sing at Antone's regularly in its heyday (and her heyday).

bdp24, I can't imagine having two such encounters with Brian Wilson.  Man, that is so sad.  I've heard him in interviews where he seemed somewhat comfortable, somewhat lucid.
And, no, I never heard Paul Skelton unless he happened to be with Cornell Hurd when I caught his band.  You know, Austin is a great place to catch live music and to show what you can do but it doesn't pay well here.  Maybe it's the same everywhere, I don't know.  At least we don't pay to play--that seemed to be catching on in LA when I was there in '88.  At any rate, I make a living teaching and play more or less for fun.