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@audio-b-dog + 1

Richard Thompson was originally with British folk-rock band Fairport Convention; if you like this kind of music made by some really superb musicians and singers, I would recommend checking them out. When Richard left the Fairports, he also made a number of excellent albums with his then-wife, Linda Thompson. Any Richard and Linda Thompson album is well worth a hearing.... 

@audio-b-dog - that Laura Nyro song is called 'Stoned Soul Picnic'.... 

@audio-b-dog - That Ken Burns Jazz series is great, yeah? I don't even like jazz and I thoroughly enjoyed that... 

@hilde45 + 1

@audio-b-dog - John Fahey - straight outa Takoma Park, MD. He can really take you on a journey with just one acoustic guitar. Brilliant records, brilliant live performances.... 

@audio-b-dog - Indeed, he may have resided in the Bay Area for awhile. His record label, Takoma Records, was named after Takoma Park, and there are lots of suburban-DC Maryland references in his song titles, like 'Dance of the Inhabitants of the Invisible City of Bladensberg'.

I think I may have seen him at Freight and Salvage or the Starry Plough. I'm from MD but have lived in San Francisco for 50 years. 

@audio-b-dog - I don't do operas and the only time I've seen the symphony was with Metallica at Berkeley Community Theater and with a band, at the symphony hall, doing the music of Jerry Garcia. 

A number of years ago I decided to take a Gideon's bible from a hotel I was staying in and I read the old and new testaments from cover to cover just to see what all the fuss was about, and that passage probably stuck in my memory more than anything else (except for all that psychedelic stuff in Revelations and the instructions for building an ark). 'Lest they become as thorns in your side'.... 

The Jews were told by their God to take the Holy Land by force, killing everyone who lived there.

@audio-b-dog - and I believe that was when they returned to their ancestral home after wandering the desert for however long they wandered the desert for. 

@audio-b-dog - I glance at this thread now and then. My take is that if I want spirituality, I'd go to some church, but I don't do spirituality or churches. I don't experience any art form for 'spirituality'. I like my arts, be they music, films, television, or books, visceral.... Different people get different things from the arts. 

@audio-b-dog - Very true, though my soul needs more energizing than soothing! 

I speak for nobody but me, but I think what most people would think of as 'souls' don't exist. I don't believe in any kind of afterlife/afterdeath, other than as recycled atoms. The music of the spheres!

'Spiritual depth' I perceive as conscience. But everybody has their own definitions, I reckon. 

@audio-b-dog - "No way is that jazz" is what a lot of purists said about Miles Davis' music starting with 'In A Silent Way, and continuing with 'Bitches Brew' on onward... That's the only kind of 'jazz' that I happen to like, too... So Van can be jazz...

@toddalin - Prog rock has never gone away; check out some of the great many prog rock YouTube channels for a start; plenty of it still going on all over the world. May not sound like Gentle Giant, but that's what Gentle Giant recordings are for. Hopefully 'prog' extends past that.... 

Since I disagree, I can't decide if I'm a mindless drone or a technicolor rat. 

@desktopguy + 1 - I'll go with the whole package - I'm a mindless, technicolor drone rat! You're probably right about the gray, though.... 

@audio-b-dog - some examples of prog rock artists would include Yes, Genesis, King Crimson, Rush, Gentle Giant, Van Der Graaf Generator, and more contemporaneously, Steven Wilson and his projects and with Porcupine Tree. When he tours, he plays to sold-out theaters around the world, so there is still an audience for this. Dream Theater is another very popular contemporary prog band. 

@toddalin - well, that's a new one on me - I've never heard of Loggins & Messina mentioned in the same paragraph as 'prog rock'; they have good songs, but when did they change from that country-folk-ish pop? Are any mellotrons involved? 

Those are certainly great examples of 'Yacht Rock' in there; I'd throw in Boz Scaggs and Pablo Cruise as well. Are you a fan of them?