If you haven't yet discovered Rosie Flores.....


.....it would be my pleasure to bring her to your attention. She's well known and respected by her peers, but has a disappointingly-low profile with the music buying public. I won't bore you with her long backstory, but this short conversation with Otis Gibbs should give you an idea of what she is all about:

 

https://youtu.be/4BGJuTaDqmw?si=YGagHy7dLNzOwMVbation

 

 

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@wolf_garcia 

The unpopular music business 

Clever! 

Unbeknownst to the general public, some of the best artists in the world fall into this category. We can count ourselves lucky, whatever the reason(s) might be in our individual cases, that we discovered such music.  

 

bdp:

Yes, she still looks and sounds good.

I didn't know her name all these years until looking her up due to your post.

Searched her discography on Youtube, but didn't come up with any song styles that remind me of what I heard in the mid 80's.

 

DeKay

 

 

 

@wolf_garcia: One of my all-time favorite live shows was Rodney Crowell at The Roxy Theater on Sunset Blvd. in 2001. It was just Rodney on acoustic guitar and vocals, Steuart Smith on electric guitar, and Jerry Scheff on electric bass.

I’d seen Jerry’s name on albums for years (starting with Elvis Presley, but later with the likes of Dylan, Willie DeVille, T Bone Burnett, Sam Phillips, Richard Thompson, Elvis Costello, and Crowded House), but had never seen and heard him live (most of his work has been in studios). Hearing him live was a stunning shock: the best bassist I’ve ever heard on stage, by a considerable margin. So inventive, but always musical and in service to the song. For me that’s what superior musicianship is all about.

Rodney and Steuart were pretty good too. wink

 

Rosie is superb and she’s been great for a long time. Simple case of the blues is a wonderful album