Really surprised no one has had noel gallagher down!
Yes - bearing in mind the number of people who have put down lead singers of groups who have released a couple of minor solo albums as "solo artists", NG might count with his one? Or do the High Flying Birds preclude him from the list?
Really surprised no one has had noel gallagher down!
Yes - bearing in mind the number of people who have put down lead singers of groups who have released a couple of minor solo albums as "solo artists", NG might count with his one? Or do the High Flying Birds preclude him from the list?
Really surprised no one has had noel gallagher down!
Yes - bearing in mind the number of people who have put down lead singers of groups who have released a couple of minor solo albums as "solo artists", NG might count with his one? Or do the High Flying Birds preclude him from the list?
Alex Chilton (& Chris Bell for I am the Cosmos) Lee Hazlewood (was lucky to see him live before he died) George Jones (pure & 'proper" country during the 50s/60s) Laura Cantrell (best contemporary female country singer in my book) Sandy Denny (for North Star Grassman alone)
Listen to these artists regularly - also love a bit of Messrs, Lowe/Young/Dylan etc but they've got enough vites
edit - just realised I missed out Gram Parsons - (sorry Laura you've been bumped)...arghhh EmmyLou Harris.....oh well
i am amazed, given the tremendous nominations for "best solo artist", that the seminal, venerable and highly influential townes van zandt hasn't received a mention...from oakster maybe, given your inspired list?
very quickly, off the top of my (too many drugs in the past) head, here is my disordered top 5 soloists;
billy bragg townes van zandt jules shear richard buckner van morrison (though not so much after veedon fleece) burial sandy denny terry reid warren zevon morrissey ryan adams bob marley rickie lee jones neil young pj harvey krishna das roky erickson damien rice nils lofgren daniel lanois jackson browne zbigniew preisner nick cave eno john martyn mary margaret o'hara jonathan richman moby wah! david bowie sinead o'connor joe frank gram parsons john lennon bob dyland so many more....
very quickly, off the top of my (too many drugs in the past) head, here is my disordered top 5 soloists;
billy bragg townes van zandt jules shear richard buckner van morrison (though not so much after veedon fleece) burial sandy denny terry reid warren zevon morrissey ryan adams bob marley rickie lee jones neil young pj harvey krishna das roky erickson damien rice nils lofgren daniel lanois jackson browne zbigniew preisner nick cave eno john martyn mary margaret o'hara jonathan richman moby wah! david bowie sinead o'connor joe frank gram parsons john lennon bob dyland so many more....
I saw Roky Erickson live last year - dazed & confused just about sums it up these days but he is an absolute legend....
soooo sad what the psychiatry industry did to an already off-kilter roky - but my word, bermuda, interpreter, clap your hands, i have not been here before, annnnnd 2 headed dog, rock hard monsters!
very quickly, off the top of my (too many drugs in the past) head, here is my disordered top 5 soloists;
billy bragg townes van zandt jules shear richard buckner van morrison (though not so much after veedon fleece) burial sandy denny terry reid warren zevon morrissey ryan adams bob marley rickie lee jones neil young pj harvey krishna das roky erickson damien rice nils lofgren daniel lanois jackson browne zbigniew preisner nick cave eno john martyn mary margaret o'hara jonathan richman moby wah! david bowie sinead o'connor joe frank gram parsons john lennon bob dyland so many more....
very quickly, off the top of my (too many drugs in the past) head, here is my disordered top 5 soloists;
billy bragg townes van zandt jules shear richard buckner van morrison (though not so much after veedon fleece) burial sandy denny terry reid warren zevon morrissey ryan adams bob marley rickie lee jones neil young pj harvey krishna das roky erickson damien rice nils lofgren daniel lanois jackson browne zbigniew preisner nick cave eno john martyn mary margaret o'hara jonathan richman moby wah! david bowie sinead o'connor joe frank gram parsons john lennon bob dyland so many more....
i said 5 not 55!
Five is just torture though Beds, all those brilliants artists being missed out.
very quickly, off the top of my (too many drugs in the past) head, here is my disordered top 5 soloists;
billy bragg townes van zandt jules shear richard buckner van morrison (though not so much after veedon fleece) burial sandy denny terry reid warren zevon morrissey ryan adams bob marley rickie lee jones neil young pj harvey krishna das roky erickson damien rice nils lofgren daniel lanois jackson browne zbigniew preisner nick cave eno john martyn mary margaret o'hara jonathan richman moby wah! david bowie sinead o'connor joe frank gram parsons john lennon bob dyland so many more....
i said 5 not 55!
Five is just torture though Beds, all those brilliants artists being missed out.
True but if i made it more it would be a nightmare to make a Charlton Life top 10. Takes me long enough to do it from the top fives!.
very quickly, off the top of my (too many drugs in the past) head, here is my disordered top 5 soloists;
billy bragg townes van zandt jules shear richard buckner van morrison (though not so much after veedon fleece) burial sandy denny terry reid warren zevon morrissey ryan adams bob marley rickie lee jones neil young pj harvey krishna das roky erickson damien rice nils lofgren daniel lanois jackson browne zbigniew preisner nick cave eno john martyn mary margaret o'hara jonathan richman moby wah! david bowie sinead o'connor joe frank gram parsons john lennon bob dyland so many more....
i said 5 not 55!
Five is just torture though Beds, all those brilliants artists being missed out.
True but if i made it more it would be a nightmare to make a Charlton Life top 10. Takes me long enough to do it from the top fives!.
for me, little care about the popularist final 10, than the diversity of suggestions that might turn me on to some obscurities i may have missed...
very quickly, off the top of my (too many drugs in the past) head, here is my disordered top 5 soloists;
billy bragg townes van zandt jules shear richard buckner van morrison (though not so much after veedon fleece) burial sandy denny terry reid warren zevon morrissey ryan adams bob marley rickie lee jones neil young pj harvey krishna das roky erickson damien rice nils lofgren daniel lanois jackson browne zbigniew preisner nick cave eno john martyn mary margaret o'hara jonathan richman moby wah! david bowie sinead o'connor joe frank gram parsons john lennon bob dyland so many more....
i said 5 not 55!
Five is just torture though Beds, all those brilliants artists being missed out.
True but if i made it more it would be a nightmare to make a Charlton Life top 10. Takes me long enough to do it from the top fives!.
for me, little care about the popularist final 10, than the diversity of suggestions that might turn me on to some obscurities i may have missed...
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Tupac
Nas
Neil Young
Tracey Chapman
Aretha Franklin
Youssou N'dour
Van Morrison
Elvis Presley
Sort out the running order and you have a nice Pyramid Stage evening there.
P.S. There are so many it is more or less impossible to do this list.
Jackie Leven
Marvin Gaye
Chris Wood
Kate Bush
Lee Hazlewood (was lucky to see him live before he died)
George Jones (pure & 'proper" country during the 50s/60s)
Laura Cantrell (best contemporary female country singer in my book)
Sandy Denny (for North Star Grassman alone)
Listen to these artists regularly - also love a bit of Messrs, Lowe/Young/Dylan etc but they've got enough vites
edit - just realised I missed out Gram Parsons - (sorry Laura you've been bumped)...arghhh EmmyLou Harris.....oh well
Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Gregory Issacs
Jimi Hendrix
Paul McCartney
Eric Clapton
Joni Mitchell
billy bragg
townes van zandt
jules shear
richard buckner
van morrison (though not so much after veedon fleece)
burial
sandy denny
terry reid
warren zevon
morrissey
ryan adams
bob marley
rickie lee jones
neil young
pj harvey
krishna das
roky erickson
damien rice
nils lofgren
daniel lanois
jackson browne
zbigniew preisner
nick cave
eno
john martyn
mary margaret o'hara
jonathan richman
moby
wah!
david bowie
sinead o'connor
joe frank
gram parsons
john lennon
bob dyland so many more....
Lou Reed
Pink
Elton John
Adam Ant
James Morrison
Neil Young
James Taylor
Richard Hawley
Plus i love the song - There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards
David Bowie
Neil Young
Bob Dylan
Donovan (yes really, even though I think he's a bit of a berk :-)