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

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.

Rosie is superb and she’s been great for a long time. Simple case of the blues is a wonderful album

By the way @dekay (a song could be written with that rhyming line ), Rosie’s s/t album was produced by Pete Anderson (Dwight Yoakam’s producer back then), with James Intveld (a Neo-Rockabilly favorite, and her boyfriend at the time) playing bass and singing harmony, Greg Leisz on lap and pedal steel along with dobro, Donald Lindley on drums (on loan from Lucinda Williams), and Billy Bremner (of Rockpile and The Pretenders fame) playing electric guitar. A fantastic album!