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.

[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.

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