Never been a country music fan but Johnny Cash transcended the genre. I did like "Hank Williams Back" by Leon Russell though. IIRC the okie rocker did well with the country music crowd on the one.
Never been a country music fan but Johnny Cash transcended the genre. I did like "Hank Williams Back" by Leon Russell though. IIRC the okie rocker did well with the country music crowd on the one.
None of those country ones were obscure to me but I only knew about half the rockers no surprise considering most of them were out b4 I was alive.
Any MoTown. I grew up with that and the Blues. 95% of my friends were black when I was in Florida, and I also listened to MoTown, R&B, Blues, rock, acid rock. Motown still is one of my favorite music styles of all time and the Blues pretty much transend all the genres because everyone does covers. Most of Cream's big hits were old blues songs (Standing at the Crossroads), as were most of Led Zeppilins (Dazed and Confused, Whole Lotta Love, etc), the Yardbirds, Alvin Lee...the list goes on still to this day.
I was probably one of two white kids in my whole town who went to see the big blues players at the "black community center" in the "black" part of town. I saw Gate Mouth Brown, Albert, Freddie, and BB King, Muddy Waters, Johnny Guitar Watson, Buddy Guy and a mess of other folks for about a $1 a ticket... When I was grounded ( a standard for me) I would sneak out, meet a buddy of two, hop the train where it slowed down on the outside of our property and we would bail when we hit 'colored town' and have some fun.
For those sensitive PC correct younger people, I used black and colored because that was how it was back in the day in the late 60s. We had a white section of town...very uptight, close minded, redneck...and we had the much cooler black section of town..White and black bathrooms and all the rest of that total lameass ****.
Sean, none of those bands are forgotten, except maybe Zager and Evans, one of the early one-hit wonders.
Looking at lists, I noticed no one mentioned Strawberry Alarm Clock
Fleetwood Mac when they were still a great blues band in the 60s
Jefferson Airplane
Edgar Winter's brother Johnny Winter
Golden Earring
Procol Harem
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
It's a Beautiful Day
Velvet Underground (Lou Reed)
The Band
Little Feat
Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen
Mountain
Mott the Hoople
Blue Oyster Cult
Dr. Hook
Bachman-Turner Overdrive (and The Guess Who before that)
The Doobie Brothers
Did I miss any?
Hey Rob, you included both The Band and Mott the Hoople which are a couple of my favorites. They also played in concert together in what had to be among the oddest combination of bands ever. I loved it!
You can imagine the reaction of the typical Band fan when Mott played All the Young Dudes as well as the Mott fans reaction when Garth Hudson did a 15 minute accordion solo!
Those were the good old days!
Chicago Transit Authority's very first release. The rest of the stuff Chicago did (as Chicago) pretty much blows as it was such commercial pap.
Hall and Oates
Jethro Tull up to and including Aqualung (They had 2 releases prior to that, This Was and Stand UP)
Pat Travers
Tommy Bolin
Leon Russell
Blodwyn Pig
Small Faces/Faces with Rod Stewart
Jeff Beck, who was also in Small Faces/Faces with Rod...and in the Yardbirds with Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page.
Here are the choices we had for music at my senior prom. Yeah, the asshats I went to school with voted for Wayne Cochran over Buffalo Springfield. I didn't go.
Hells yeah Johnny Horton! I hear Cherokee Boogie every time I go see the bands that do both Rockabilly and Early Country.
Fan of Robin Trower here, too. Never much cared for Procol Harem.
J Giel's Band
Susie and the Banshees
B52s (old and newer)
Old Chili Peppers up to Blood Sugar Sex Magic (After that, all they have been playing is commercial pap)
George Clinton in all of his manifestations: Funkadelic, Parliment, P-Funk All Stars, etc.
Infectious Grooves/Suicidal Tendencies
Savoy Brown
Dusty Springfield
Otis Redding
ELO
Zappa
Jim Croce
Pure Prairie League
Jerry Jeff Walker
Jesse Winchester
Steve Goodman
Jonathan Edwards
Otis Rush
The Flaming Groovies
Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes
Eric Burden and the Animals
JJ Cale
Albert King
John Hiatt
Richie Havens
Taj Mahal
Dio
Accept
Kix
Circle Jerks
Aerosmith
Dave Brubeck Quartet - I wanted to play saxophone when I was younger cause of this guy and Clarence Clemons hehe
I had "Live at Oberlin" for a long time. It was great!
Miles Davis
Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters
Steely Dan
Crusaders
Jeff Beck Group
Johnny Guitar Watson
Brothers Johnson
Dazz Band
Gap Band
Arthur Brown
King Crimson
Black Oak Arkansas
Johnny Clegg and Savuka
Fela Kuti
Mountain
Allman Brothers Band (through Eat a Peach. The rest of their music was junk after that)
Sea Level (Jaimoe Johanson's band after the Allman Brothers break up...pretty creative)
Cactus
We should probably start a "gone and hopefully forgotten" section of all the bands that played AM total crap back in the 60's and 70's:
Paul Revere and the Raiders
Hollies
Turtles
America
Monkees
Dylan (Yeah, he can write good stuff. It just takes musicians to make them sound good...)
Joan Baez
Joni Mitchell
James Taylor
Jackson Brown
Abba (Gag....)
Milli Vanilli (Spew.....)
This list is almost endless There was NOTHING on AM radio that was worth a **** and AM radio is what a lot of us grew up with. There were good pirate radio stations -loosely called Radio X -(remember the ZZTop song? due to the Fm frequencies that they were broadcasting on, that were great FM stations, but you had to be in the right spot to pick them up.
I spent some time Googling this stuff when Pete was putting in my new front door so I won't add any more since I cheated
I am surprised at how close Rob's memory is of musicians I liked. Jesse Winchester is one that I suspect few have heard of and Taj Mahal who's more familiar is one of those I saw very early on. As a matter of fact the first time I saw him was in an empty storefront in Chicago's Old Town where I was one of maybe 10 people there. Seeing Dylan in concert during his transition to electric was probably the most memorable. First half was acoustic and when he walked on stage with an electric guitar for the 2nd half most of the audience walked out. Great stuff!
Neil Young
Gerry Rafferty
Bruce Springstein
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