What Is Your Favorite Music Artist?

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Mudder and Glass Scrather reflect a lot of my tastes. Hey....I have an 18 year old and a 16 year old - and the latter plays in a hip-hop band (he is the bassist) - although he is on a 6-week furlough from the band to be up at Interlochen Music Camp this summer. Will be visiting him at the end of this week.

I have to like almost everything these days - they won't ride in the car with me otherwise!

Our family tends not to listen to country western - but did you know that it is the single most popular form of music in the US today?

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Roger Garrett
 
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Far far FAR and away for me is Eric Clapton ... absolutely obsessed with that man ...

I'm a tremendous blues fan, though, and that means anything by SRV, Buddy Guy, BB, Muddy, John Lee Hooker, Freddie King, Albert King, Albert Collins, the Alisons, and of course Robert Johnson will generally be welcome. Some of the newer blues guys like Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Johnny Lang, Corey Stevens and such will also get play on my stereo.

After that, it's all the good Rock from before I was born. My taste in Rock is about a generation prior to my birth. I was born in '75 and that's about the same year the pickings start getting slimmer for me ... Allman brothers, Dire straits, Skynyrd, creedence, eagles, etc etc etc ... quite a bit of that. Almost all of my favorite rock bands can be very easily traced back to most of the blues guys listed above....

My tastes are generally about emotion and soulful lyrics and presentation. Technical proficiency is a big deal, too. A 3-chord song may hit the charts, but a man who can play it with gusto will always win out :)
 
Originally posted by ozmandus<br />

<b>Snippit- Snippit real good!</b>

My wife is from the musical world.. her parents were big in the Houston area theatre back when she was growing up so we get a lot of more classical and operatical (if thats a proper word) type music...
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You are all a bunch of young kids, and most are still wet behind the ears! [:D] I don't consider myself old but I loved the old R&R songs and people like
Chuck Berry,
The Shirelles
The Crystals
Vogues
Lettermen
Smoke Robinson and his generation of other singers
Statler Brothers,
Peter and Gordon
Bobby Fuller
Creedence Clearwater Revival
The Tokens
. . . to name a few

And then there are the Classicals!

I went to a dance in Memphis in '63 or '64 in which Chuck Berry played and sang (much like the band in "Back to the Future"). He already had a some hit songs out but for some reason he was not a "Star" at the time. But I knew his music and loved it. The band opened with 4 or 5 songs and everyone danced, - then Chuck came up and started singing. I immediately took my date to the edge of the stage and watched. My date wondered what was I was doing. Everyone else (probably a couple of hundred) were dancing when I looked around. "Idiots that don't know greatness" I thought. Then just before the end of the first song, I looked back and everyone was standing looking and listening in awe. After that, everyone quit dancing and we had a concert at dance prices!

Priceless! He did his version (the fore runner) of what became known by later generations as the "moon walk," by Michael Jackson.
 
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<br />You are all a bunch of young kids, and most are still wet behind the ears! [:D] I don't consider myself old but I loved the old R&R songs and people like

<b>Great Balls of Snippage!</b>

And then there are the Classicals!

I went to a dance in Memphis in '63 or '64 in which Chuck Berry played and sang (much like the band in "Back to the Future"). He already had a some hit songs out but for some reason he was not a "Star" at the time. But I knew his music and loved it. The band opened with 4 or 5 songs and everyone danced, - then Chuck came up and started singing. I immediately took my date to the edge of the stage and watched. My date wondered what was I was doing. Everyone else (probably a couple of hundred) were dancing when I looked around. "Idiots that don't know greatness" I thought. Then just before the end of the first song, I looked back and everyone was standing looking and listening in awe. After that, everyone quit dancing and we had a concert at dance prices!

Priceless! He did his version (the fore runner) of what became known by later generations as the "moon walk," by Michael Jackson.
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Yeah! that was back when music came on fragile discs of made of vinyl.
 
Well this is a hard one. I listen mainly to country (real country, back when it was western, y'all know what I mean?) However, my tastes range to Jazz, The Blues, Folk, Classical, heck even some rock & hip hop at times.

But to narrow it down to just one? I guess I have to go with The Storyteller himself, Tom T. Hall the master of country ballards. [;)]
 
I'll go sometimes for a year and never change the radio station and maybe go for months listening to my MP3 player but for the last 2 years while working I listen to audio books. I go to the library and get some good ones and the day just flies by. If you have never listen to an audio book you don't know what your missing.
 
Depends of the mood

Rock: Clapton, Santana, Jethro Tull, Jimi,

Jazz: Oscar Peterson, Miles Davis, Dizzy, Weather Report

Blues: Bo, Mo Keb, Muddy,

Any Classical, Hawaiian Slack Key,
 
wasn't going to chime in, but i couldn't help but notice that there aren't any bluegrass fans on here!

bill monroe, flatt & scruggs, stanley brothers ( i could go on and on, but i'll spare y'all [:p] )

i was glad to see some nods to the country musicians as well (back when country meant country) hank, george jones, moe bandy, ray price, lefty frizzel, keith whitley...

but i pretty much appreciate all music and have listened to it all at one point or another.

to quote a steel pulse song (great reggae group), "life without music, i can't cope"
 
The Doors, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jefferson Airplane, Buck Owens, Emmy Lou Harris,Box Car Willie, Willie Nelson, Sam Cook,The Beach Boys, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly,Porter Waggoner, Waylon Jennings, but most of all the sound of a big inch Harley @ 6,000 grand about 3 in the mornin after 3 or 4 6 packs and some smoke..........but that's just me..........
 
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