Thanks, I’ll have to watch it when time allows.
And in reference to what a fool said, there are great bands that travel the small club circuit for years on end, survive and even thrive, Red Wanting Blue is one of them, these boys have been on the road a dozen or more years, and it shows in how tight they play, how developed they are musically, the Gramblers are another one. Ray Wylie Hubbard. How has this guy survived being the most obscure of the obscure for what, 4 decades? And then, in one of his talking blues he says of the long gone 13th Floor Elevators, as the best rock and roll band ever, and I nod, damn right (with a proper perspective, to be sure.)
I have pulled out of mainstream as well, mainstream has always been a sewer, with exceptions in the 60s, and short periods since then. I remember when Lyle Lovett was being played on mainstream country radio in the 1980s, before it went to hat acts and stayed there to this day.
I always hope to find new acts or new old that I somehow missed, and thse threads sometimes help. I recently apologized sincerely on Fakebook to Shannon McNally for not having heard of her until last year, when she released a superb album recorded over several previous years, with Dr John, Vince Gill (a great guitarist, Norm!) among others of songs by Bobby Charles. Check her out! It’s a dirty shame an artist like her is not on top of the charts worldwide.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRgJ2K3O4pM
Yup, I know about VG ;)
The Shannon chick surely has talent. But I can tell you exactly why she will never be mainstream...and of course, you know this so I’m not telling you anything ;)
She isn’t immeadiately shoveable into a size 0 dress for a 1 year popularity throwaway cycle, nor can she be mistaken for a just out of high school girl.
Katy perry can be autotuned or revoiced entirely with Melodyne...and is. But this woman, talented as she is, cannot so easily be ‘photoshopped’ on stage and built into an image to sell to tween girls as a pseudo stripper.
Of all the things wrong with this business...that’s the biggest problem.