Here's a tune with a Neil Young and Crazy Horse "Cortez the Killer" feel to it.

 

"JM" by Strand of Oaks - Indiana based band lead by Timothy Showalter

 

Brief background about song:

 

"JM" stands for Jason Molina.

 

Jason was the primary singer/songwriter for the bands Songs: Ohia, and Magnolia Electric Company who was from Indiana who died last year at the age of 39 caused by alcoholism.

 

Although often repetitive in his song writing style, Jason Molina did write and perform some undeniably interesting, typically slow melancholy tunes with an interesting likable tone to his voice.

 

Timothy Showalter of "Strand of Oaks" here is paying tribute to Jason Molina with this song "JM"

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf2O3OAQjng

Here's a tune with a Neil Young and Crazy Horse "Cortez the Killer" feel to it.

 

"JM" by Strand of Oaks - Indiana based band lead by Timothy Showalter

 

Brief background about song:

 

"JM" stands for Jason Molina.

 

Jason was the primary singer/songwriter for the bands Songs: Ohia, and Magnolia Electric Company who was from Indiana who died last year at the age of 39 caused by alcoholism.

 

Although often repetitive in his song writing style, Jason Molina did write and perform some undeniably interesting, typically slow melancholy tunes with an interesting likable tone to his voice.

 

Timothy Showalter of "Strand of Oaks" here is paying tribute to Jason Molina with this song "JM"

 

 

Here are two songs that perfectly demonstrate the style of the late Jason Molina of Songs: Ohia

 

In his sparse arrangements he gets a lot of mileage.

 

In the "Coxcomb Red" tune the line "The World Is So Pale Next To You" does it for me.

 

 

Then (I fell in love with them when I saw them at a club in Baltimore in 1978):

 

And now.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf2O3OAQjng

 

Very cool...enjoyed that very much. That was awesome on so many levels. :thumb:

Back when I was listening to the likes of Yes, ELP, etc., I ran across this group.

 

Vocals are almost a note-for-note copy of Yes. Doesn't mean they're terrible; just derivative.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf2O3OAQjng

 

Saw this a few months ago. Incredible cover....

Before the Stones made it famous.

 

Your Stairway to Heaven post reminded me of this:

 

Got to see Bettye LaVette a few years back perform a spectacular sit down show in a high school auditorium in Cincinnati with only a couple hundred in attendance.

 

She was amazing and freakishly still very much unknown.

 

Ah, the music I grew up on.

 

American Bandstand used to be on the cutting edge.

 

I liked the folkies, too.

 

A classic from The Summer of Love.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8THWF09D9w

Classic cover of a classic.