Oh look. Free Apple Music for 3 months

[dreamshark]

What should I listen to? I'm not likely to keep it, but it gives me a chance to sample some new music and see what I like. 
Of course not having the most adventurous tastes in music, my first inclination is to listen to some Dylan albums I never got around to buying and that kind of thing.  

I really don't like most music, so just random selections aren't going to work. I mostly like folk music (esp  but not exclusively trad), old rock and roll, and some country (upbeat and/or clever, not the slow whiny kind). Where should I start? Or should I just stick to old Dylan tracks?

Comments

[pameladean]

This is very chancy, of course, but you might take a look at Thea Gilmore. She's a British singer/songwriter who was raised on Dylan and Fairport Convention. She has a gorgeous voice -- she was chosen by a very thorough Sandy Denny Preservation group whose name I've spaced to finish and sing a bunch of songs Denny left unfinished at her death.

Gilmore has a whole bunch of Dylan covers, and also in 2011 just went ahead and covered the entirety of his album John Wesley Harding. I'm a huge Dylan fan, but I also love covers of his songs, and hers are great. Of her numerous original albums, I think I'd start with Avalanche.

P.

[dreamshark]

Great tip!

[ckd]

Seconded. I'm a huge Thea Gilmore fan myself.

[pameladean]

I've known you all these years and I never knew that! That's awesome.
P.

[ckd]

I was introduced to her music by a friend while sharing a room at the 2009 Montreal Worldcon, so it's been a while now. I guess it just never came up in any of our shared contexts before this.

[minnehaha]

Apple Music will let you create personal radio stations that you seed with whomever you like. It will find other things, and if you skip them, it will find less like those and more like the ones you play all the way through.

K.

[spiderplanet]

Lake Street Dive
Jesse Welles

[chasophonic]

For quite some time now my, "More people should hear," band has been The Honeycutters. Their leader, Amanda Anne Pratt, is an amazing wordsmith. They are a little more county than I usually go for, but the imagery that she delivers ... wow. I've learned a couple of her songs and plan more.

On the acoustic blues side, Chris Smither is a concert I almost never miss. Keb Mo as well.

The old folky in me is awed by the short, topical songs that Jesse Welles keeps posting.

[chasophonic]

And check out Lynn Miles

[dreamshark]

Thanks! I'm making notes!