Great music few are aware of. Any genre.

Yup Bill, Emerson got a lot of credit for being a "Classically" trained keyboardist playing Rock music. He did that, though, not by using Classical compositional knowledge (ala Brian Wilson, Van Dyke Parks, Randy Newman, Gary Brooker, a few other Pop and Rock keyboardists, especially Garth Hudson of The Band) to create new, song-form music, but rather by playing music written by Classical composers for an orchestra, in a Rock band. For me, that didn’t work---it sounded silly. Pictures At An Exhibition, written by Mussorgsky for solo piano, but better known in the version orchestrated by Ravel, played by a Rock band? Uh, no thanks. In contrast, Garth Hudson used his knowledge of music theory to play great Classically informed parts in his organ playing in The Band. Matthew Fisher did the same in Procol Harum. That’s more like it! For me, at any rate.

Not talking about the ELP or prog stuff, just straight piano playing, classical style. No pretensions of it being prog or rock. Yeah, I dug the The Band quite a bit back in the day. I was simply giving Emerson his due for being a superb keyboard player.

Jimmy LaFave
Start with "Cimarron Manifesto" or "The Night Tribe"

Poetic Austin (by way of Oklahoma) songwriter/rocker/Dylan devotee. His voice may not be to everyone’s taste. Think of a male early Lucinda Williams, the way his voice breaks and cracks. I like it just fine. He made great, rich music. He left us last May but his music deserves to live on and on.

Yeah Bill, and Emerson's grim ending was shocking. Not being able to play anymore was more than he could bear. Richard Manuel, pianist of The Band, did himself in too. Broke my heart, and Eric Clapton's too. He was a great admirer of Richard.

Umbersun is great. Thanks. Might want to check out

SPK -- Zamia Lehmanni: Songs of Byzantine Flowers