Music you didn't like at first... but now?

I am a big local music fan in the Portland area. Most bands I frequent have a female lead vocal singer. A bass player named Brian Cutler played with a number of musicians in the area. At one point he decided to go out and make his own album. I picked up a copy at a show. I took it home and played it a couple times and put it on the shelf. One day I got it back out after I had played every other CD I owned to death. After a few more passes I prolaimed the album genius! I started looking at the credits and realized the thing was loaded with different musicians and singers I knew on almost every track. Brian's vocals take a little bit of warming up to, but once you realize what's going, every track has something special that keeps you listening.

http://www.brian.cutler.net/music.html

Brian's album was produced under the Wrought Iron Record label of Nicole Campbell, who I have been a long time fan. I mentioned this to Nicole and she took the idea further with the next artist on her label, Dave Rummans. I highly recommend his music as well.

http://www.daverummans.com/HTML/Tunes.htm

Because of posts here. I re-listened to Jennifer Warrrens Hunter CD on my good system - fabulous. Prior I had only heard it in my car,had not paid very careful attention to it, and had it in my give away pile.

Thanks, CW i haven't tried Facing You, with alot of Jarrett (i know he's great) but the grunting and moaning he does has been an obstacle. Did it ever bug you? Thanks for the link Steuspeed, i probably ought to quit ignoring stuff just because it has vocals on it. Jennifer Warnes... sounds like a tough homework assignment (could be way wrong about this). It was a little surprising to see that Roscoe Beck (Eric Johnson's bass player) is on The Hunter.

This happens all the time but I distinctly remember the first time. It was Bruce Springsteen's, The Wild the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle. I was stationed in Thailand and bought this album. We would sit around the barracks/hut listening to music on those big Sansui or Pioneer speakers. I remember how this album was panned by my buddies and I agreed until I heard it for the maybe the tenth time or so. It blew me away once I got into it. I can still listen to Wild Billy's Circus Story and smile.

C&W. Then I moved to Nashville.

And I started to think, you know, Alan Jackson's not so bad. Tim McGraw's pretty good. Then I discovered Martina McBride. Whoa baby. Fell into, then out of, love with the Dixie Chicks. Then one day I found myself singing along, in my car, at the top of my lungs to Toby Keith's "Whiskey For My Men and Beer For My Horses". I just had to laugh.