Lou Reed always tried to perform his most well-known songs in a way that would wrongfoot his audience, Robert Quine (looks like an accountant or a Bilko doppelganger) perhaps the greatest guitarist of the 80s and almost unknown,
There's always a connection/association - Whitley Bay in my case - paternal grandfather lived there - hitch-hiked up there for several summers with my sister in our mid teens. Music memories - unbelievable no ? Edit: This stuff came out almost 50 years later !
I see some Irish Folk music in here - so here are some lesser known artists from that land that you might like: First two are from a native Irish speaker/singer, Lasairfhíona Ní Chonaola, then a stomping tin whistle player called Mary Bergin, then a medical doc called Seán Smyth who also is handy on the fiddle, and then a classical-style guitarist, Pat Coldrick, who composes his own material. Apparently he was a kitchen cabinet maker during the Celtic Tiger era but has returned to music- this instrumental song, Lament, is one he wrote for a girl he lost touch with and found out year's later that she had died - it is a beautiful instrumental.
When the Royal Philharmonic are added posthumously to the King, I think it makes for a great rich sound combination.
