Overshadowed by bandmates

1-Floyd Snead/Three Dog Night. 2-Brad Whitford/Aerosmith. 3-Roger Glover/Deep Purple. 4-Alex Lifeson/Rush. 5-Cedar Walton/Various. 6-Marty Balin/Jefferson(Airplane-Starship). 7-Maury Muehleisen/Jim Croce. 8-Jack Bruce/Cream. 9-Robby Krieger/The Doors. 10-Ron Carter/Various.

Let me second Audiofeil's listing of Chris Hillman. His Byrd's songs were some of their best, and his post-Byrds output is just amazing. He made a bunch of great solo albums (on Bluegrass-label Sugar Hill), and was the leader of The Desert Rose Band, who made some real good music.

Plus one for Chris Hillman. Also really love the Souther, Hillman, Furay band. Kinda like Little Village, a supergroup that never gained traction despite great talent and a really good (better than that in the case of SHF, IMO) album.

I recently picked up a copy of the SHF album Marty, but haven't heard it yet. The Little Village album was a little disappointing to me, considering how great they were on John Hiatt's Bring The Family album. I think it may have been because the ground rules were that no one was allowed to bring in any already written songs, the songs they recorded were written on the spot. Not necessarily the best way to write! Plus, it was too democratic---drummer Jim Keltner got to provide material, and it sucks!

I saw them live, and the contrast between their solo-written songs and those collaboratively-written was stark. But their playing was just what you would expect---world class. Cooder's solo on Hiatt's "Lipstick Sunset" was the best I've seen/heard live! He had a pile of about a half-a-dozen little combo amps and as many guitars, but, as usual, played mostly his pale-blue Strat.

Perhaps not better, or even as good, but; I've always thought Leo Lyons of Ten Years After was overshadowed by bandmate Alvin Lee.