This is becoming a very interesting trend. In the past few years, obscure old timers like Ian Hunter, Alejandro Escovedo and now Garland Jeffreys have quietly been making some of the finest rock and roll music around. Anybody else we can add to this most encouraging of lists?
Just listen to Coney Island Winter, the new song by Garland Jeffreys. Not many people have come out with a better song this year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-Ur3wi97tk
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 04:34 (thirteen years ago)
that's a fantastic video and song. never heard of the artist before. thanks for that.
i never paid attention to this now over-60 artist before, and i normally dislike his backing band on this project, but lately i've found this roky erickson and okkervil river disc to be gritty and tender and heartbreaking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BosCo9tEHlw
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 29 June 2011 06:13 (thirteen years ago)
Tom Ze was born in 1936:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKFIigu46L0&feature=related
― Daniel Giraffe, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 07:10 (thirteen years ago)
(Little) Jimmy Scott's LPs from the past thirty years (he is currently 85) tend to be patchy assortments of covers, but when he nails it, he nails it. This, of course, is incredible:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiwtDoxHT2Y
dunno if he still plays, but I saw him abt seven or eight years ago & he was great!
― buffandmaxsgaydad (Pillbox), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 07:37 (thirteen years ago)
Scott Walker, obv.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 08:31 (thirteen years ago)
how old was david axelrod when he released that album on mo'wax ?[checked : 68]now i realise there are lot of folks who weren't too impressed, but they're rong, it's a great album.
― mark e, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 08:42 (thirteen years ago)
Willie Nile's been on a streak from age 56-63.
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 13:18 (thirteen years ago)
wow always thought the Jimmy Scott on that twin peaks track was a woman. amazing track - what albums of his are worth going for that sound similar to that track?
― I'm A Genius, Too! (Jamie_ATP), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 13:25 (thirteen years ago)
I love Rick Berlin, who's been making sad, funny, beautiful music (pretty much under-the-radar, unless you live in Boston) since the mid 70s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk_Bdwua7kI&playnext=1&list=PL86868368B5B5C5A5
― Have not gotten over my dancing phase (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 15:09 (thirteen years ago)
Jandek (probably born in 1945) is still going strong, I would recommend the first Glasgow CD with "The Cell" on it as a legitimate "great record".
― sleeve, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 19:58 (thirteen years ago)