I also preferred Piece Of My Heart, and an excellent cover version of it by Erma Franklin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0QAxIKf8G4

but from that era, for me it had to be Grace Slick, especially White Rabbit and Somebody to Love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnS0GaiIewM

I can't start listening to these links, I'll never head out the door to go to work.

Janis Joplin and Grace Slick are two that I'd drop everything and crank it up! Such good memories!

A couple of more current big voices to distract you, Grace Potter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov8uT8DTvlw and Jennifer Nettles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhfPhnxvah0

I was certainly a fan of Grace and all things Airplane
Speaking of female voices, anyone like Heart? I listended to a lot of their early stuff, and they are a band I still need to see live.
More recently, their Kennedy Center performance of Stairway To Heaven in front of Led Zeppelin and the Obamas is awesome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u-PjvRyr0I

ps- great cover too Lex, ta

Man, this thread just gets better and better!

Gracie and her White Rabbit practically defined a generation for a while. It's a frequent flyer on my playlist.



So the band that got me into jazz, without my really knowing it, was the wonderful Steely Dan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iac-vLq6tnY&t=3s



I still can't comprehend a lot of jazz, but I do like me some John Coltrane and other music of its ilk:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m24Q78QeHA&t=46s

Heart haven't previously been on my radar, but that is a fantastic rendering of the song so I will have to delve into their oeuvre: thank you flotsam (for another former lawyer, you seem quite discerning... )!

Stairway to Heaven has never been one of my favourite Led Zepp songs: the ones that really do it for me are Ramble On, Going to California and Moby Dick (too choosy, aren't I?)

Hagatha, the charms of jazz still elude me (different strokes for different folks), but I do like some of Steely Dan's music, and I am heavily into the Dave Matthews Band who sometimes stray down that road a little.


PS Found this which looks like an interesting collaboration featuring the ladies from Heart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzeckWog7Wk

Ann Wilson of Heart has an amazing voice.

They offered a unit as part of my degree to help address those sorts of things Lex
Heart (or one or the other Wilson sister) have performed quite a few Led Zeppelin tracks. Rock and Roll is probably their best known, but Immigrant Song and Battle for Evermore are both worth a listen.
Going back to their own catalogue, here is a live (and far more recent) version of one of their signature tracks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqn0Kv4HBdM. The guitar intro is the ringtone for when my wife calls!
Thanks for the Foo FIghters link.

Thanks for that one flotsam.

Was that a law degree??

Trawling through my alphabetical list of musical artists, the letter B seems to throw up a few slightly out of the mainstream who may be new but hopefully of interest to some of you, including Babajack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI7OMs9iQBQ the Barr Brothers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp74DriyiOs and the BoDeans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q815-ZBkL_M and a good 34 track compilation album Blue Rose Nuggets Special Edition Vol 1 (which I think was very cheap on iTunes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEd_2HPJ6a8&list=OLAK5uy_m5vXpLfB_dKd6mAED8iZyPho6yMacJBWc

Arts and Law Lex. The University strongly discouraged a straight Law degree (and actively encouraged extras), on the basis that doing a double degree made you a more well rounded perosn (and they were free when I did them so it wasn't about fees). I probably agree with them.
I look forward to checlking out the links. I don't believe I know any of them. Much appreciated

Blues music from when I was a teeny bopper and blues was all brand new, and SO much better than the Beatles:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a6H-o3m7Og


And this live recording of another song brother Johnny recorded:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUXhoIf1eQU


And I'm adding this just because it's Pink Floyd and needs no further explanation:

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

Hagatha I cannot open your Johnny Winter link, but this is the one of his which did it for me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MY18yn4CFM

Your other links were great tripos down memory lane, for which thanks!

Oh, yeah That one!

The Johnny Winter link was for Highway 61 Revisited. I actually thought I'd linked to a live concert version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I06kTGxg82M

Hagatha, that link wouldn't open for me: possibly a geographical restriction. However I found some other links for him doing that song.

Meanwhile, I stumbled across this young blues artist (who was new to me) a day or so ago: one to watch I think, Kingfish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-nTAgOMK7w

The voice makes me think a little of Robert Cray who I don't think has had a mention here yet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra2Qndv_xeE

Wow. Kingfish is an amazing guitarist. I'm hearing some Hendrix and some David Gilmour in that opening solo, mixed in with the blues. Kid should go far, if the world is just.

Hagatha, your mention of Discworld in the reading thread reminds me about the excellent Sturgill Simpson one of whose songs touches on it, and who is someone I would love to see live on the strength of what I have seen on youtube - a very broad and energetic musical palate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW80ynKTmrs and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNV16tz1NK0 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO73im4J2sU
...oh and the song in question https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWx6csgGkg4

Huh. Psychedelic Country. Now I've seen everything!

Sturgill has a fine voice. I can listen to country on a limited basis, especially if it's a decent song like that one.

For a slight shift in direction, I am not sure whether you are all familiar with the wonderful Playing For Change/ Music For Change series which in some ways is a sort of pandemic preview with artists in different countries collaborating from afar: uplifting stuff and here are a few of the links https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHo1fNnXFVU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJtq6OmD-_Y https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/robbie-robertson-the-weight-ringo-starr-video-885980/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyoFFiUiOUw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHzNQuWaUzg&list=PL-x8Ol1-UMGu7v1CZoUJu0FHoJet2Yfok

The website is also worth a visit to buy some of the music https://playingforchange.com

(Many/most of you are are probably already way ahead of me on some of this...!)

Happy Birthday wishes are here for you in another thread in the Mixed Bag forum, Lex! I hope it's a good one.

Thanks Marian: it's been pretty lazy - no vigorous gardening despite good weather, and probably too much home-made coffee cake courtesy of my wife Linda!

Lex, I checked out that website. There's some good stuff on there!

Glad you like it: I bought a couple of the albums, PFC Band live in Brazil and Listen To The Music both of which I recommend

I was looking for Tim Rose singing Morning Dew on iTunes and Youtube, believing it to be one of his original songs, but discovered that it was actually written by Bonnie Dobson (another one from Canada) and was surprised that I had never previously heard of her https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZXuuKwhVvI

As part of the search I also arrived at an album Ah Feel Like Ahcid: American Psychedelic Artefacts from the EMI Vaults (24 tracks on a CD or 30 on an iTunes download) - not something I was tempted to buy, but I did think that it might strike a nostalgic chord with some of you

...but today's main event for me is this one from Playing For Change https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oL_pCjPgUg - check out Chris Pierce: quite a voice!

Now that is wonderful blues. Never gets old.