After posting about the state of the music getting air-play these days, and the strength and beauty of Joni's lyrics, I thought it would be interesting to see some examples of artists who we think "should" be more widely known. I've got to know artists here that I would never have otherwise known about, for example, Jonatha Brooke, Willy Porter, Ani Difranco (although those last two might be the influence of one particular lister)!
So who are some "unknown" artists, that we should know about? I'll start the ball rolling, by putting in a big plug for Dave Dobbyn, a NZ singer-songwriter. He's very well known here, and has had a number of "hits" but I think he deserves a much wider audience. Some of my favourite Dave Dobbyn lyrics include: >From "Language": When my tongue won't move, you have it tied with your heartstrings >From "Just Add Water": You're walking in unarmed you know you're bound to fail, where the price of freedom is to want for nothing more >From "Beside You": This is for you standing up to a bone-chilling wind, this is for the failures you collected from my sin, this is for your lonesome tears I never dried, this is for you hanging in in the hope that it never dies Another of my favourite NZ artists is Shona Laing, but there are too many good lyrics to choose from! Hell ___________________________________ "To have great poets, there must be great audiences too." - Walt Whitman Hell's Home Page - NEW & IMPROVED! http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hell/index.html
