Name me an artist who didn't get the fame

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Oh yeah.  Except that's not country.  Nashville wouldn't touch it.  You'd have to record that in Memphis or Muscle Shoals.  That's what Bugs Henderson called American Music.  Speaking of Bugs.

I know nothing about country, but just listing to this thread all can ask is WTF?

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Oh yeah.  Except that's not country.  Nashville wouldn't touch it.  You'd have to record that in Memphis or Muscle Shoals.  That's what Bugs Henderson called American Music.  Speaking of Bugs.

Just listening to the metal rif in this video, it sounds like every Eagles song anyone knows.

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My godfather (who was a VERY big deal in the folk music world) said the best banjo player he ever knew ran a tuck shop in Whitehead, Co. Antrim.  No one other than the locals knew who he was and he liked it that way.

Boru

Holy shit, why do we fight all the time. MY BEST FRIEND from Oklahoma whom I met in the 2000s was raised in rural Oklahoma and lives there to this day. Don't get him started on banjos, he will talk your ear off. It would not surprise me one bit if he knew what you were talking about.

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I don't care if it is country. blues,  jazz or rock, if it includes the sax, you have me at sax. I FUCKING LOVE SAX.

We fight because you can’t stand it when people tell you that you’re wrong about something.

I promise I won’t talk to your friend about banjos unless he want to buy one from me.

Boru

[Ranjr]

I know nothing about country, but just listing to this thread all can ask is WTF?

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Just listening to the metal rif in this video, it sounds like every Eagles song anyone knows.

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The Eagles ripped off country and blues licks on par with Zeppelin.  They excelled at stealing members from Poco, first Randy Meisner then Timothy B. Schmitt, mainly because Poco was doing California pop country before the Frey and Henley.  Not that I don't like some Eagles.

I think Focus deserve more recognition for popularizing progressive rock.  This is some amazing work.

[Rev. Rye]

So, here's a couple I think would likely apply:


Vic Chesnutt:



Goddam, is this guy's life story an epic tale of triumph of the human spirit. Dude got into a major car crash as a teenager, lost the vast majority of the use of his limbs (he is technically quadraplegic, but since he could play some simple chords and walk a bit with a walker, it's not quite Christopher Reeve.) He recorded 17 albums (including 2 with 5/6 of Widespread Panic), and eventually killed himself on Christmas 2009, and I suspect it might have had something to do with the fact that his condition left him impossible to insure.

Frank Fairfield:



Dude is like the Harry Smith Anthology come to life.

Connie Converse:



How's this for obscure? She went to Greenwich village to become a singer-songwriter and left before Bob Dylan tried the same. She mysteriously vanished in 1974 and some of her recordings were unearthed 30 years later and developed a small cult following.



There's a lot more in my collection, especially if we're going to broaden the definition of "obscure." Of course, the former two actually appeared in Sling Blade and Over the Garden Wall, respectively, and Frank actually sang, so they might not be exactly obscure.

[Brian37]

So, here's a couple I think would likely apply:


Vic Chesnutt:



Goddam, is this guy's life story an epic tale of triumph of the human spirit. Dude got into a major car crash as a teenager, lost the vast majority of the use of his limbs (he is technically quadraplegic, but since he could play some simple chords and walk a bit with a walker, it's not quite Christopher Reeve.) He recorded 17 albums (including 2 with 5/6 of Widespread Panic), and eventually killed himself on Christmas 2009, and I suspect it might have had something to do with the fact that his condition left him impossible to insure.

Frank Fairfield:



Dude is like the Harry Smith Anthology come to life.

Connie Converse:



How's this for obscure? She went to Greenwich village to become a singer-songwriter and left before Bob Dylan tried the same. She mysteriously vanished in 1974 and some of her recordings were unearthed 30 years later and developed a small cult following.



There's a lot more in my collection, especially if we're going to broaden the definition of "obscure." Of course, the former two actually appeared in Sling Blade and Over the Garden Wall, respectively, and Frank actually sang, so they might not be exactly obscure.

Connie is what I am talking about!

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Leo Kottke:
An artist I love but that most people I know have never heard of.  Found an 8-Track of 'Ice Water' in the parking lot at a state park when I was in my late teens and have owned it on every format since.  I am partial to guitarists anyway but 12-string is a whole other level.

This is dueling banjos on valium. Not that I could play it. I cant carry a tune in a bucket. But if you like it, that is what matters.

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If everyone here can accept diversity in music then they can accept this.

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I know nothing about country, but just listing to this thread all can ask is WTF?

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Just listening to the metal rif in this video, it sounds like every Eagles song anyone knows.

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Holy shit, why do we fight all the time. MY BEST FRIEND from Oklahoma whom I met in the 2000s was raised in rural Oklahoma and lives there to this day. Don't get him started on banjos, he will talk your ear off. It would not surprise me one bit if he knew what you were talking about.

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I don't care if it is country. blues,  jazz or rock, if it includes the sax, you have me at sax. I FUCKING LOVE SAX.

We fight because you can’t stand it when people tell you that you’re wrong about something.

I promise I won’t talk to your friend about banjos unless he want to buy one from me.

Boru

John lives in a hovel of a closet apartment which has more coke zero than musical instruments, and mind you he loves country music and has HUGE collection of country music instruments. I am quite sure that if you wanted to buy one of his banjos, he'e be willing to listen to price. But I am also sure he won't give up his lifestyle.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

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We fight because you can’t stand it when people tell you that you’re wrong about something.

I promise I won’t talk to your friend about banjos unless he wants to buy one from me.

Boru

John lives in a hovel of a closet apartment which has more coke zero than musical instruments, and mind you he loves country music and has HUGE collection of country music instruments. I am quite sure that if you wanted to buy one of his banjos, he'e be willing to listen to price. But I am also sure he won't give up his lifestyle.

What makes you think I would want to buy a banjo? What makes you think I give a steaming shit about John’s lifestyle?

Boru

[polymath257]

I have no underground band that I like. When I saw the title here, I thought of the *artist* Yerka. That's someone that needs to be more widely known.

[onlinebiker]

I have no underground band that I like. When I saw the title here, I thought of the *artist* Yerka. That's someone that needs to be more widely known.

And R. Crumb....

[Brian37]

I know nothing about country, but just listing to this thread all can ask is WTF?

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Just listening to the metal rif in this video, it sounds like every Eagles song anyone knows.

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The Eagles ripped off country and blues licks on par with Zeppelin.  They excelled at stealing members from Poco, first Randy Meisner then Timothy B. Schmitt, mainly because Poco was doing California pop country before the Frey and Henley.  Not that I don't like some Eagles.

I think Focus deserve more recognition for popularizing progressive rock.  This is some amazing work.

I can see that. 

Just line any religion, music has a past it has infuelnce from.

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Here is another band I admire and wish it had gotten bigger than it did.

[Ranjr]

Leo Kottke:
An artist I love but that most people I know have never heard of.  Found an 8-Track of 'Ice Water' in the parking lot at a state park when I was in my late teens and have owned it on every format since.  I am partial to guitarists anyway but 12-string is a whole other level.

That's not a song you can sit down and play along with.  The odd tuning and crazy picking style are hard enough but throw in the classical themes and it's like trying to score Shubert by ear.  I imagine he influenced a lot of people like the Watkins kids and Elephant Revival group.

[Rev. Rye]

Leo Kottke:
An artist I love but that most people I know have never heard of.  Found an 8-Track of 'Ice Water' in the parking lot at a state park when I was in my late teens and have owned it on every format since.  I am partial to guitarists anyway but 12-string is a whole other level.

That's not a song you can sit down and play along with.  The odd tuning and crazy picking style are hard enough but throw in the classical themes and it's like trying to score Shubert by ear.  I imagine he influenced a lot of people like the Watkins kids and Elephant Revival group.

Wait a minute, I looked that song up and there’s no odd tuning: the intervals are standard. Everything else, however, is still difficult.

So here’s a fairly easy song from a similar guitarist:




Once you get the hang of the Open C tuning, this song practically learns itself.