What are your favorite musical discoveries of 2011?

BluJu · 2011-12-18T20:32:43+00:00

I'm interested to see what bands or musicians you discovered this year. I found 2 that really stick out. Both do covers of pop songs but really take them to...

What are your favorite musical discoveries of 2011?

Werner-Carstens

A German guitar player called Tomas Blug really impressed me. His live DVD called Guitar from the heart is a lesson in tasteful playing. Has anyone heard of him before?

Wizard

Local music shops have never heard of Imelda May.
So much for trying to buy it
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Keira-WitherKay

3 guess's who my musical find of 2011 was....... ?

the one and only Jim campilongo .......... he has been a find and influenced me hugely

from experimental instrumental
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to chilled solo guitar
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to jazz with a country feel (yep using a pedal steel in his jazz band )
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to xmas carols on a tele
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lets just say i discovered him this year in about jan or feb and by mid year i shelved my jazz box and amp modellers and i bought a tube amp and a fender usa tele just to get that tone ........ and i looooove it ?

i also discovered brad paisley but i'm bored of him already but Jim campilongo strikes the right chord for me ( pun intended)

Squonk

Pinch wrote: A German guitar player called Tomas Blug really impressed me. His live DVD called Guitar from the heart is a lesson in tasteful playing. Has anyone heard of him before?

I have a Guitarist DVD, where he plays a song and then breaks it down, awesome player, knows the Strat inside out, he also demo's a Hughes and Kettner amp. Must try and get the Live DVD.

AlanRatcliffe

Pinch wrote: A German guitar player called Tomas Blug really impressed me. His live DVD called Guitar from the heart is a lesson in tasteful playing. Has anyone heard of him before?

I've checked him out - a very nice, very melodic player. Obviously very influenced by Jeff Beck (not quite as sweet a tone though).

Ray

Wizard wrote: Local music shops have never heard of Imelda May.
So much for trying to buy it
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I oredered Mayhem from takealot or loot cant remember but in the meantime you should be able to get it in ovi or somewhere.

DonovanB

I reckon my favourite discovery this year was the Graeme Watkins album on Nokia Ovi for R40

Album of the year for me.

Nicholas-L

for me I'd have to say Night Wish

BMU

Come on guys, at least give a clue what genre or type of music each of these acts are. (Some of you did, most didn't) Just to be able to prioritize what to click on first.

Nicholas-L

Nightwish is symphonic metal? I think. Some Scandanavian group. originally Opera meets Metal... new vocalist is some what different though

skinymike

Alan Ratcliffe wrote:
Delta Male wrote: Mumford And Sons!!!
+1. Almost forgot them.

Good performance here from the Grammys:
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I cant stop listening to this band! Been listening to this and only this! Most epic band for a long time

FruitarGeek

As tall as lions

Nitebob

Nightwish something similar to Within Temptation?

Mannemarak

i actually started listening to a bit of country...not the slapstick country or the afrikaans country one might get, but pure good storytelling type country...

It also is so much easier to play most of the songs, only require acoustic and knowledge of 4 chords ?

Bob-Dubery

Mannemarak wrote: i actually started listening to a bit of country...not the slapstick country or the afrikaans country one might get, but pure good storytelling type country...

It also is so much easier to play most of the songs, only require acoustic and knowledge of 4 chords ?

Well there's a lot of people in country who crack all the old jokes like "there's no money past the 5th fret" or talk about "the dusty end of the neck" ?

But there's a lot of very fine players. Guys like Darrell Scott or Tim O'Brien or Ricky Skaggs (to name but three out of many) who are very fine players, often on multiple instruments. From there you might try a bit of Martin Simpson who sort of has a foot on each side of the Atlantic, works in that story-telling mode and is a fabulous player on guitar, slide guitar, lap steel and banjo and in several styles.

Nitebob

I like to sing and listen to country, and I have one very simple reason. If you're over 30, you cannot even enter into singing competitions anymore. Most singers in the pop genre have a 'shelf-life' There are a few exceptions like the Stones etcetera, but that (I assume) is only if you're super-popular. I'm sure you get what I mean....

Country however...even local guys like Bobby Angel, Tommy Dell, and Lance James are still getting gigs well into their 70's

Bob-Dubery

Nitebob wrote: I like to sing and listen to country, and I have one very simple reason. If you're over 30, you cannot even enter into singing competitions anymore. Most singers in the pop genre have a 'shelf-life' There are a few exceptions like the Stones etcetera, but that (I assume) is only if you're super-popular. I'm sure you get what I mean....

Country however...even local guys like Bobby Angel, Tommy Dell, and Lance James are still getting gigs well into their 70's

Not just country. A good example being Robert Plant, now in his 60s and still going very strong. Not resting on his laurels either.

The last few years I've seen plenty of live acts where there's a fair sprinkling of grey hair (or even a shortage of hair!).

Tom Jones is still doing well - but he still has the voice as well.

It's about audiences that value craft over fashion.

Nicholas-L

@Nitebob... Yes Nightwish is very similar to Within Temptation.

dee

Alan Ratcliffe wrote: Someone else I discovered retroactively this year - Blues Traveller.

On of my all time fav' songs are by them:

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Also, the greatest song/band I discovered last year:

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