@reubent: Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives, imo the best music combo in the world at the moment. What a group! Drummer Harry Stinson is a world-renown drummer and harmony singer (he is not just a session drummer, but also a session harmony-vocalist), guitarist/singer Kenny Vaughan is a master Telecaster stylist who was in Lucinda Williams' road band on the original Car Wheels tour (he has a fine solo album out), bassist/pedal steel guitarist Chris Scruggs is a 1st-call Nashville studio player. And then there’s Marty! He and Buddy Miller, the best band leaders working today.
Nick Lowe is a long-time favorite. I saw him with Dave Edmunds in Rockpile live in 1980 (three nights in a row at The Country club in Reseda California, with Moon Martin opening the show), in their time the best Rock ’n’ Roll band in the world imo. He was a big favorite in the Power Pop community I was a part of in L.A. in the 90’s and early-2000’s. He came to town early in the decade, with his new band containing some great UK musicians. His opening act on the tour were Dann Penn & Spooner Oldham. What a double-bill! For anyone not familiar with Penn & Oldham, look them up. Master songwriters, heroes of Nick Lowe. The fact that they were opening for he is a cruel injustice, but that’s showbiz for ya.