With almost every album purchase it turns out my favorite songs never received radio play. I’ve owned thousands of albums, but just imagine all of the excellent music I’ve missed? With the age of digital downloads of singles, it’s all going to get worse. Full albums may become rarer and rarer in the future. I have been tripping down musical memory lane because of the other forum posts on the subject. I’d like for people to post great music here that others may never have heard. Here’s a favorite that I find myself singing quite a bit. One of my favorite talents of all time, Hoyt Axton.
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B-sides and other forgotten wonders
B-sides and other forgotten wonders
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A B-side at the start of it all (video, 2:20). The A-side was "Thirteen Women (and Only One Man in Town)"
The all time B side is "Hey Hey what can I do" It was the B side of "Immigrant Song" but it wasn't released on any album until the reissues/compilations started coming out ten years after Bonham died.
Georgia really representing in this thread. Weirdly I don’t think I bought that album when it released. I was living in podunk nowhere Louisiana at the time. Maybe I just missed its existence entirely.
One of the best B-sides ever. So-called Black Crowes fans despise this song, if for no other reason than Marc Ford doesn't play on it. As far as I can tell, anyway. This is better than 99% of the popular Crowes songs that rock radio churns out day-in, day-out:
Maggie May was the B side. DJ played by mistake, the rest is history
Sam Smith took this throw away bubblegum pop song and turned it into a heart wrenching song that makes this Monster cry, it is so beautiful: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kwHACITShSI
I absolutely love Hoyt Axton. Not many people could write things as varied as Greenback Dollar, Joy to the World, The Pusher, Snowblind Friend, and of course Della and the Dealer. I tried to find the clip of him singing it on WKRP in Cincinnati, but the clips were all crap on YT. I love that version - just him and guitar, and no overproduction.
Hoyt Axton wrote the great song performed by Steppenwolf "Snowblind Friend". He's also the guy that gave away the mogwai that started all the trouble in "Gremlins"
Here's Snowblind Friend Enjoy.