A few months back I read an article/review on some singer-songwriter and make a mental note to seek out his music. Frustratingly, I forgot the artist's name, and my searches on google and amg haven't turned up anything helpful. For what it's worth, here's what I remember about the guy:
-he's American -he plays guitar and sings -presumably he falls into the folkie/americana camp -he has a nice baritone voice, comparable to Fred Neil but maybe a little more gravelly -he was in his 40s or 50s (i.e. kinda old) when he started recording music -he recorded his debut in the mid to late '90s, and he's released at least a few more albums since then -on the cover of his live album is a photo of a brightly-lit café at night. Oddly, it reminds me (in terms of lighting more than anything else) of the cover art for Fred Neil's Bleecker & Macdougal
This is all fairly vague, I know...but if anything rings a bell, I'd be thankful if you could throw out some names for me to look into.
― hawth, Thursday, 13 December 2007 05:13 (eighteen years ago)
Did I mention that he's American?
― hawth, Thursday, 13 December 2007 17:42 (eighteen years ago)
some people who it could possibly be but probably isn't since none of them meet all those criteria:
robert earl keen johnny dowd malcom holcombe jon dee graham
― tipsy mothra, Friday, 14 December 2007 06:13 (eighteen years ago)
Mem Shannon kind of fits a lot of your list -- American guitar player, baritone, started to record about ten years ago in his mid-thirties, plays blues but he's made records for folkie Shanachie and Hannibal, and on this record cover he's inside a cafe:
http://www.emusic.com/img/album/106/046/10604602_155_155.jpeg
― dad a, Friday, 14 December 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)