"Discovering" Music

I have found over the past few years, quite a struggle to find new music that I like. I don't know, this hip hop and rap stuff just does nothing for me. When I turn on the radio, its all you hear and we have only two radio stations here (not including CBC aka sleep radio). But perhaps my parents felt that way about Disco and Rock and Roll, who knows. Anyhow, what I have been finding lately though, is that I am discovering more and more classic rock and folk music that I like. Most of these artists I have heard of before, but other than their top hits, had not heard much from some of them. Perhaps their song might be in a movie I've seen recently. And I was just a spud when much of it first came out.

So now, instead of grumbling about the local radio station playing "today's" music, I sweep the net looking for more and more 60's and 70's folk/rock music. One song leads to that musician's career discography, and before I know it, I have rediscovered some great musicians of the time. They might not be everyone's taste, but I am finding some really great stuff. Comedic sketches by musicans were popular and some of this stuff just cracks me up. Now, I'm not talking about stuff like Eddie Murphy, hardly a musician, or Cheech and Chong (which are BOTH hilarious, but they are hardly musicians. But I just discovered Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant" and it is just hilarious! Check it out sometime if you get a chance. I had come across Arlo on my Woodstock DVD as I wrote about earlier this week, and so thought I would check out some of his other stuff, and I find that I quite like it.

another group I recently "discovered" - Blind Faith. They only put out one album, and were together for short while, and it comprised of Eric Clapton, Steve Windwood, and Ginger Baker, Rick Grech. I had heard one or two of the tracks from it over the years, but didn't really look into who Blind Faith was, although I should have recognized the vocal talents of Eric and Steve, but missed it. I saw the song "Can't find my way home" on a couple of movies this winter and so looked up the group, found the cd on e-bay, and its now one of my favorites cds.

so if you're finding it hard to hear music you like on the radio, dial back a few decades and check out some of the fantastic music that has been around for years.