and here's my first entry....sans any discussion of his politics
Cat Stevens, the voice, the arrangements, lyrics, great backup vocals, and yummy as well!!


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Earl Scruggs joined
Bill Monroe's bluegrass boys in 1945, and there met lead singer
Lester Flatt, where they helped to define what we have since come to know as the sound of bluegrass music. Flatt and Scruggs left Monroe's band in 1948, and went on to record some of bluegrass music's best known classics, with a prolific career extending into the late 1960's. Flatt and Scruggs also had a several commercial successes which, for better or worse, established bluegrass stereotypes in the minds of the American public, with songs such as the Beverley Hillbillies theme song and the Bonnie and Clyde movie soundtrack. Lester Flatt died in 1979, and Earl Scruggs continues to play infrequently to this day.
"If you can't tell the difference, what difference does it make?"
aTOMiC wrote:I've yet to hear an accoustic based artist that really grabs me. XTC has turned in some interesting stuff but I was already a fan of their usual material. Maybe its the inherent laid back, folksy style I can't get into. dAN would say I'm closed minded and he wouldn't be completely wrong. Who knows once I hit 50 or so I may have mellowed to the point where I don't have to hear crunchy electric guitars with every bit of music I listen to.