Your favorite but unknown

I'd have to say:

Those Bastard Souls -- Debt & Departure

Butch

Burton Garr - "Mighty Long Road"

A few years ago, my friend Charles was visiting New Orleans record stores and this disk was impressing everyone. He brought me a copy and I have been playing it ever since. If Burton was younger, blond and tall he would be a super star. The songs are some of the best crafted blues I've ever heard. True poetry. Burton can sing and play with the best. The band is outstanding and the recording is excellent. I often use it as a test disk for evaluating gear. It is a must have!

A couple of unknowns (at least to me) that I've just recently begun listening to:

The Damnwells (think Blur meets Paul Westerberg meets Stereophonics)

Kim Richey "The Collection"

Here are a few of many LP/EP's 12 and 7 inch singles that I purchased new and were played on WNYU college radio way back in the 80's.

Alien Sex Fiend 'Smells Like Sh*t' (b/w Impossible Mission EP, 1987)
Bat Cave 'Young Limbs' (complilation LP featureing Sex Beat, 1983)
Camouflage 'Voices & Images' (German Import LP, 1988)
The Iguanas 'Iguana'/'Living In A Vacuum' (from Topeka,KS 7in.)
Static Cling 'Fire In the Cockpit'/'Brady Bunch' (from Rochester,NY, 7in.)
James Ray and the Performance 'Texas' (12in import)
Pocket Fishermen 'Amy Carter' (from ?,Texas, 7in.)
Opal 'Happy Nightmare Baby' (precursor to Mazzy Starr, 1987)
Waldo The Dog Faced Boy 'Wood' (Desert,Heat,Eternal one of my favorites, 1987)
APB (from Scotland, four 12in imports/LP, 1982-85)
Numb 'Numb' (import, 1988)
Spacemen 3 'Performance: Live at the Melkweg 6/2/88' (import, 1988)
Test Dept. 'Terra Firma' (import, 1988)
Time Zone 'World Destruction' (Afrika Bambaataa/Johnny Lydon, 12in. import, 1984)
We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It 'Bostin Steve Austin' (also 2 12in. all imports)
Liquid Sky (orginal motion picture soundtrack, 1983)

For pure pop heaven and luscious instrumentation:
The Chills "Submarine Bells"

Eric Matthews "The Lateness of the Hour" & "It's Heavy in Here" How this guy has not yet become the next Burt Bacharach I just don't know. A brilliant composer, trumpet player, and singer.

Anything by Bill Nelson (formerly of Be Bop Deluxe)