Your Top Five ...... solo music artists .

shootershill2tropics

addickson said:

Elvis Costello
Peter Bruntnell
Alejandro Escovedo
Laura Cantrell
Elliot Smith

alejandro - my word, inspired call, & ex member of the underrated, rank & file too...and peter bruntnell, new to me, thx, investigating now...

Oakster

shootershill2tropics said:

addickson said:

Elvis Costello
Peter Bruntnell
Alejandro Escovedo
Laura Cantrell
Elliot Smith

alejandro - my word, inspired call, & ex member of the underrated, rank & file too...and peter bruntnell, new to me, thx, investigating now...

Peter Bruntnell is great, does Americana very well despite being British....it reminds me that I really have should added Bevis Frond...which is essentially a one man show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHV0U0xLhn8

shootershill2tropics

i'm sure we would have lotsa music to chat about in person oakster...and bevis frond, indeed, yes, another great shout...

Bangkokaddick

Jimmy Buffett
Peter Gabriel
James Taylor
Marvin Gaye
Bob Marley

Shrew

David Sylvian would make the top ten for me, (even with his stripey nigel condition).

AddicksAddict

shootershill2tropics said:

AddicksAddict said:

Stig said:

Frank Tovey
Nick Cave
Ian Dury
Bill Nelson
Frank Zappa

Did Dury do any solo work? I thought all his music was with The High Roads and The Blockheads.

fait point, but you could argue that with many of the artists we've all listed, eg. nick cave & bad seeds etc.

That's why I tried to pick people for whom the band could have been any group of competent musicians, e.g. Elvis. Janis I'm citing because of her work after being part of Big Brother and The Holding Co.

The requirement as I understood the desire of our esteemed original poster is for people to be judged on their solo work, however I've seen his later comment so it would appear I didn't need to be so proscriptive.

AddicksAddict

shootershill2tropics said:

Bedsaddick said:

Ian Dury counts as a vote because as @shrew says it was always Ian Dury and the Blockheads

Plus i love the song - There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards

did you see the compelling film dramatization of his life?

My wife and I are extras in some of the concert footage. Andy Serkis was amazing on stage, it felt like being back in the presence of Ian Dury.

AddicksAddict

Henry Irving said:

John Martyn and Nick Lowe are very good shouts but who to drop from the top five?

I really rate Nick Lowe but, as you say, who to drop?

AddicksAddict

Oakster said:

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

Sandy Denny had the most amazing voice. Who Knows Where The Time Goes can bring me to tears.

RalphMilnesgut

Reading back how did I not choose Gram Parsons or Syd Barrett. Make mine a top seven

Stig

Good call on Barrett, his eponymous album is fantastic (the others ain't bad). Long time since I've heard any APP , might have to get on Spotify and refresh my memory.

tangoflash

Bill Withers
David Bowie
Marvin Gaye
Beck
Buddy Holly

Stig

Whilst we're on the subject of Floyd-related solos, Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports is a brilliant album, although I think that's chiefly down to Carla Bley.

Stone

Bob Marley
Van Morrison
Paul Wellar
Diana Ross
Ella Fitzgerald

McCartney

Terry Reid
Gene Clark
Bob Dylan
David Bowie
Leonard Cohen

hoof_it_up_to_benty

Paul Weller
Johnny Cash
Elvis Costello
Seasick Steve
Burt Bacharach

WestSussexAddick

Ian Hunter
David Bowie
Morrissey
Neil Young
Lissie

Also love a bit of
Thea Gilmore
Lou Reed
James Dean Bradfield
Paul Weller
Jimi Hendrix
Bjork

Badger

shootershill2tropics said:

i'm sure we would have lotsa music to chat about in person oakster...and bevis frond, indeed, yes, another great shout...

Good shout on the Bevis frond, Nick Saloman from the band used to Produce a magazine called Ptolemaic Terrascope which I used to sell on, nice bloke.

Oakster

Very contemporary top 5

Jacco Gardner (the Dutch Syd)
Doug Paisley (more to Canada than tha Arcade Fire)
Eilen Jewell (superb alt.country)
Bill Ryder-Jones (made my favourite LP of 2013)
Meg Baird (only one solo Lp but an absolute belter)

Such a lot of good music around if you take the time to discover....

lordromford

Beck
Elvis Presley
Bob Dylan
George Michael
Syd Barrett

shootershill2tropics

Oakster said:

Very contemporary top 5

Jacco Gardner (the Dutch Syd)
Doug Paisley (more to Canada than tha Arcade Fire)
Eilen Jewell (superb alt.country)
Bill Ryder-Jones (made my favourite LP of 2013)
Meg Baird (only one solo Lp but an absolute belter)

Such a lot of good music around if you take the time to discover....

well this IS a nice surprise - all new to me so a delving i will go...big thansk oakster!

bobmunro

Syd's been mentioned a couple of times now - and it's lead me to listen to him all morning for the first time in years. Profoundly disturbed through drug abuse but unbelievably talented.

shootershill2tropics

ok, now we have the attention of lotsa musos on this thread, can anyone help with a download source or ANY way of getting these:
the zatopeks - boy done good (the tune mentions going for a trial at charlton athletic & it's really good imo!)
also, thatcher on acid - outwardly we are lying, inwardly we are crying (a 15 minute agit/anarcho-punk monster - i MUST have it again, lost the 12"). hellllpppp!

illichassavedit

Jeff Beck
Jimi Hendrix
Miles Davis
Joni Mitchell
Frank Sinatra
Special mention to:
Reza Goochannejad (solo artist - never passes the ball)

Numbers

shootershill2tropics said:

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....

You got the order right as well

souladdick

Jackie Wilson
Chuck Berry
Etta James
Johnny Cash
Bob Marley
(Not my top 5 as I don't have a top 5, just 5 great artists across the Genres)

shootershill2tropics

Numbers said:

shootershill2tropics said:

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....

You got the order right as well

still chuckling, numbers....

Alex Wright

In no particular order:

Paul Simon
Peter Gabriel
David Bowie
Buddy Holly
Aretha Franklin

Cajetan

Bob Dylan
Elliott Smith
Richard Hawley
Roy Orbison
Joni Mitchell

shootershill2tropics

i am surprised to see how many times elliott smith has received a mention, had no idea that he had such a diverse following...but oh my, what a way to top yourself....