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| Favorite scream in rock? Bob Weir - Not Fade Away; Estimated Prophet; St. Stephen Janis Joplin - Piece of My Heart; Ball & Chain Another vote for Merry Clayton | |
| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato @stuartk Yep, that's the one! | |
| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato @bdp24 Speaking of Mike Bloomfield (one of my first guitar heros in my early teens), below is a link to a fascinating story that he wrote himself (with illustrations by R. Crumb!) about his experiences with Big Joe Williams in Chicago. It's a gr... | |
| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato @tyray It sound like to me you’re just guessing? And you have no clue? I wondering where you live and what live venues you go to see Jazz? Jazz (and blues) is the one music that is our own. It is played all over the US and the world. I don’t car... | |
| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato @tyray That's good stuff and I intend to check out more of it, but....it doesn't really disprove what I said about the listening habits of young people in general. If I wanted to take the time, I'm quite sure I could find videos from dozens of j... | |
| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato And: Do conglomerates churn out torrents of garbage purely out of the evilness of their cold hearts, or are they merely rational economic actors who produce what the buying public demands? This certainly raises the question of whether there are... | |
| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato @bdp24 The last time I saw Iris was in late '23 at the Kate Hepburn Theater in CT (tiny place seats a few hundred or so) and she was accompanied by Liz Draper on bass and Myra Burnette on guitar, two youngish musicians from Minnesota. I've seen ... | |
| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato @immatthewj Oops, sorry about mixing up who I was responding to! As far as not hearing much Dylan in the latter half of the 60s and early 70s, that was likely due to the fact that he got married, had kids and took a hiatus from touring starting... | |
| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato @immatthewj How much effort have you put into exploring contemporary songwriters? I would confess not all that much. But in a way that makes my point. During the 60s and 70s you didn't have to search high and low or put a great deal of effor... | |
| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato @ jssmith It's easy to cherry pick a few lyrics from any era that are unsophisticated and even silly. But I don't think this discussion is about the worst of any era, it's about the best. And, in my opinion at least, the best of the 60s, 70s, ... | |
| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato Re: "Good Morning, Little School Girl" While the Grateful Dead was one of many groups and artists who performed and/or recorded it, the song and lyrics are generally credited to Sonny Boy Williamson. Like most blues songs, however, Sonny probably... | |
| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato @bdp24 - I think we’re talking about two very different things. I’m aware of just about all the artists you mentioned and I do stay fairly up to date on the new young artists entering the scene. Like you, my tastes lean toward the catch-all Americ... | |
| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato But where are the young Rodney Crowells and Iris DeMents and Buddy Millers? They're all still marvelous songwriters but they're from another era. Who's going to carry on when they're gone? Taylor Swift? Olivia Rodriguez? Ed Sheeran? No thanks. | |
| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato Maybe people who listen to the radio wouldn't listen to oldies stations if there was anything better on the new music stations. In your previous comment you mentioned Lucinda, Timmins, and Earle, but as great as the are they're all in their 60s. ... | |
| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato "As for the 21st century, I'm hard pressed to think of anyone who deserves to be mentioned or compared to any of the above songwriters." Totally agree. Most of the best songwriters of the 21st century got started in the 20th century. Try to name ... |