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Originally posted by Wishimay:
Mah kid and I both really love Bob Seger's "Old Time Rock N Roll" First time I heard it was on the school bus when I was six, loved it ever since

There's a ton more, but I'm not awake yet.

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Originally posted by ecgordon:
There's great music from all decades, and then there's a lot of crap in all decades too.

I'm twice your age, 6String, so I grew up listening to Elvis and Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry and Roy Orbison. I lived through the folk/hootenanny phase of the late '50s/early '60s, which morphed into the new folk/rock of Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs and The Birds and Buffalo Springfield. Then there was the British invasion. The usual question in those days was "The Beatles or The Stones?" and my reply was usually "The Animals and The Kinks" instead.

Then came the super groups, Cream and Blind Faith, Led Zeppelin and Emerson, Lake and Palmer, King Crimson and Pink Floyd. The late '70s did suffer due to Disco, but music bounced back big in the '80s with Dire Straits, The Cars, REM, The Pretenders, The Police, The Talking Heads, etc. The '90s saw grunge bands like Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails, Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, etc.

I too don't care that much for traditional country music, at least not what is being promoted by Nashville and the major labels, but I have several favorites that skirt that genre and mix it with rock and blues. Check out Steve Earle, and later his son Justin Townes Earle. There's also Todd Snider, The Old 97s, Yarn, Susan Tedeschi and Lucinda Williams.

I love Bob Dylan, but he's just my second favorite solo performer, number one being the late Phil Ochs. Since 1968 my favorite group has been The Band, and I don't see that changing any time soon.

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Originally posted by ecgordon:
Besides Roy Orbison and Tom Petty, the Traveling Wilburys were Bob Dylan, George Harrison and Jeff Lynne (from Electric Light Orchestra). After Orbison died they were going to add Del Shannon ("My Little Runaway") to the group, but then he died before they were able to record anything with him.

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