If you haven't yet discovered Rosie Flores.....

@dekay: The last time I saw Rosie live was in 2015, at Pappy And Harriets in Pioneertown, the infamous club associated with Gram Parsons, located in the foothills just north of the I-10 freeway that connects Palm Springs/Palm Desert and Los Angeles.

I went to see Jim Lauderdale, and Rosie was sitting at a table in the audience. Late in his set Jim called her up on stage, and she did a coupla songs. A feisty little singer, songwriter, and guitarist! I saw her a few times around L.A. over the years, and she never put on a less than joyous show. She sure doesn’t look her age (74), does she?

Her last album---Simple Case Of The Blues---features accompaniment from Kenny Vaughan (from Marty Stuart’s great band The Fabulous Superlatives, my current favorite combo) and Charlie Sexton on electric guitars, Dave Roe (Johnny Cashes last upright bassist) on bass, and Jimmy Lester (one-time member of Los Straitjackets, who accompany Nick Lowe on his new album) on drums. Whatta band!

@wolf_garcia 

The unpopular music business 

Clever! 

Unbeknownst to the general public, some of the best artists in the world fall into this category. We can count ourselves lucky, whatever the reason(s) might be in our individual cases, that we discovered such music.  

bdp:

Yes, she still looks and sounds good.

I didn't know her name all these years until looking her up due to your post.

Searched her discography on Youtube, but didn't come up with any song styles that remind me of what I heard in the mid 80's.

DeKay

@dekay: Look for her 1987 s/t debut album on Reprise.

@wolf_garcia: One of my all-time favorite live shows was Rodney Crowell at The Roxy Theater on Sunset Blvd. in 2001. It was just Rodney on acoustic guitar and vocals, Steuart Smith on electric guitar, and Jerry Scheff on electric bass.

I’d seen Jerry’s name on albums for years (starting with Elvis Presley, but later with the likes of Dylan, Willie DeVille, T Bone Burnett, Sam Phillips, Richard Thompson, Elvis Costello, and Crowded House), but had never seen and heard him live (most of his work has been in studios). Hearing him live was a stunning shock: the best bassist I’ve ever heard on stage, by a considerable margin. So inventive, but always musical and in service to the song. For me that’s what superior musicianship is all about.

Rodney and Steuart were pretty good too.