Ray Davies and Pete Townshend pulled me into this thing at a personal level. Artistically I've been drawn all over the place, but Davies keeps me going.
slaw, I don’t know what you mean by "best describes you/your life as you see it." I’ll just say the band that currently really knocks me out is The Fabulous Superlatives, Marty Stuart’s "backing" band (they are actually more like collaborators), comprised of the fantastic Nashville studio drummer and harmony singer Harry Stinson (he is SOOO good), guitarist Kenny Vaughan (I first heard him live in Lucinda Williams’ band on the Car Wheels tour), and Nashville studio pedal steel great Chris Scruggs playing bass (he’s also a real fine drummer).
If you want to be as blown away as was David Letterman, watch the clip of Marty and TFS performing live on Dave’s old show, viewable on You Tube. Just insanely great.
Off the top of my head, I'd have to say Cream, followed by some Crosby, Stills & Nash, some Allman Brothers, some Stefan Grossman, with a little Santana thrown in for good measure.
This is a very interesting and provocative question OP, and I don't think one band would cover the whole spectrum for me; there would be about ten I guess. For the present, I'll say Squeeze and Beck. Both appeal to very different parts of me.
Being just 58 I hope I can play in your sandbox....
However with also being English what I grew up with is likely well different to others here.
My defining band and musician would have to be Deep Purple and Ritchie Blackmore. I just dug ( and still do) the whole fantasy escape that music truly is.
While the vast majority of my peers raved over Led Zep and Pink Floyd, I was banging my head to Purple, Sabbath and Hawkwind.
If a solo artist rather than a band can be cited, for me it's Iris Dement, then Buddy Miller. While not wishing to sound pejorative, there is a reason band members aren't solo artists ;-) .
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