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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsIf you could only listen to one musical artist who would you choose?
For me, James Taylor.
alwaysinasnit
(5,066 posts)Polly Hennessey
(6,796 posts)Walleye
(31,017 posts)ClimateHawk
(211 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,926 posts)Only one?
Luciano Pavarotti
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)blueinredohio
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TlalocW
(15,381 posts)I would truly have diamonds on the soles of my shoes.
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Doc Sportello
(7,521 posts)Repertoire!
dweller
(23,632 posts)Jackson Browne 2nd choice
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SCantiGOP
(13,869 posts)Doc Sportello
(7,521 posts)I have a friend who saw Browne recently in concert. Said he did a mix of old and new songs and was great. It always amazed me that he wrote "These Days" - a song of reflection and looking back - when he was 16 friggin' years old!
dweller
(23,632 posts)With James Taylor right now
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LakeArenal
(28,817 posts)spooky3
(34,450 posts)Their good stuff -- some of it is not so good IMHO.
LakeArenal
(28,817 posts)Cars and Kinks.
vanlassie
(5,670 posts)Did you see his month long birthday celebration last summer by Irish musicians playing his music? All month? It was amazing. See Hot Press.
exboyfil
(17,863 posts)if I can include his session work with Hendrix and others, his work with Clapton, Spencer Davis Group, Traffic and Blind Faith. He represents a cross section all the way to his softer 1980s stuff that I like to listen to when I relax with my wife.
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DBoon
(22,366 posts)Chipper Chat
(9,678 posts)Or if groups are included:
The Manhattan Transfer
rogerballard
(2,879 posts)Saw them live a few years back in Traverse City, Michigan at the City Opera House. Front row seat. So exciting. Love them.
Chipper Chat
(9,678 posts)I saw them twice in Dallas the 1st time I was in the 3rd row the 2nd time I was way back about the 20th row it was not the same
rogerballard
(2,879 posts)Ocelot II
(115,686 posts)bahboo
(16,337 posts)ask me tomorrow, maybe Willie Nelson or Gustav Mahler....
Harker
(14,016 posts)That way I'd get plenty of Maria Callas in the bargain.
3catwoman3
(23,977 posts)He had a concert here in the greater Chicgo area this summer, and I so wanted to go, but deemed it too risky.
Next on my list, in pretty much equal positions, would be John Denver, Carly Simon, Carole King, Simon & Garfunkel, Peter Paul & Mary, and Crosby Stills & Nash (& Young).
I am most definitely a product of the late 60s and early 70s.
We saw John Denver at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre. It was a prefect evening in every way.
Have you ever heard anything by James son Ben? I think they sound very much alike. Mom Carly Simon disagrees, but shes wrong -
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)bottomofthehill
(8,329 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)Elessar Zappa
(13,989 posts)Trueblue1968
(17,217 posts)Skittles
(153,160 posts)because he can evoke so many emotions
jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)CurtEastPoint
(18,643 posts)Easily.
lastlib
(23,225 posts)So many of his songs I can listen to time and time again, and a different nuance every time.
"Year of the Cat"; "Time Passages"; "The Dark And The Rolling Sea" (OMG, that one is gooood!); "Modern Times"--the list goes on!
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)She's been my favorite for decades.
John Prine is a worthy runner-up.
argyl
(3,064 posts)Tikki
(14,557 posts)In any or all of his incarnations.
Tikki
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)electric_blue68
(14,891 posts)🎤 🎹 🎶🎵 🔊
But barely a hair's breath away:
U2
Springsteen w/wo The 💖 E St Band
The Patti Smith Group
(*maybe The Beatles, too)
While all of them mostly have anthemic, powerful music and singing each also has some beautiful ballad type songs.
*I know some of you might gasp at that. I did see The Beatles 2xs at the Shea Stadium.
But all these other bands I've seen at least ?15xs each.
My experience with them is so powerfully bound up with both recoreded material, and fabulous 💖 live shows!
I'm as passionate about music as I was at 12.
Just in the past 25 yrs way less money for shows, and recordings.
I still listen to Fordham U's WFUV FM for keeping up with newer (mostly, but it's not all rock, I like other styles, too) music.
malthaussen
(17,194 posts)Then again, they're a group. That's four artists. So maybe that's cheating.
Which raises an interesting question about this perennial question. Suppose I give "The Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy?" That would be dozens of artists, playing music from dozens of composers. That would definitely be cheating.
-- Mal