As a sort of thank-you for the dozens of playlist regulars I have picked up from these, I put together a 10-song playlist for you here: https://wesleymead.wordpress.com/2024/10/07/10-wonderful-wes-songs-for-will/ I suspect given your encyclopedic knowledge you'll already be familiar with a few, but hopefully there's one or two newbies there.. (Please don't feel obliged to peruse, I appreciate you're busy and no-one wants to be asked to listen to a bunch of random stuff for the hell of it - it's very much an "if you have a spare half-hour" deal!)
Haven't had a chance to go through all of it, but there are definitely some names I don't know, and I'm looking forward to listening. I will say, though, that although I haven't followed his career in recent years, I definitely know Geoff Byrd and wrote about him back when I was a contributor to the late, great Amplifier Magazine. Very much a great pop songwriter!
So glad to hear you know Geoff! He has had a slow but steady, mostly crowdfunded, latter-day career. I speak to him occasionally and he’s certainly a nice guy but his politics have led him down some.. interesting paths and he’s had a couple of ventures down the conspiracy-ish side of YouTube the last 5 years or so, which is a shame
Once again, so much greatness here.
As a sort of thank-you for the dozens of playlist regulars I have picked up from these, I put together a 10-song playlist for you here: https://wesleymead.wordpress.com/2024/10/07/10-wonderful-wes-songs-for-will/ I suspect given your encyclopedic knowledge you'll already be familiar with a few, but hopefully there's one or two newbies there.. (Please don't feel obliged to peruse, I appreciate you're busy and no-one wants to be asked to listen to a bunch of random stuff for the hell of it - it's very much an "if you have a spare half-hour" deal!)
Haven't had a chance to go through all of it, but there are definitely some names I don't know, and I'm looking forward to listening. I will say, though, that although I haven't followed his career in recent years, I definitely know Geoff Byrd and wrote about him back when I was a contributor to the late, great Amplifier Magazine. Very much a great pop songwriter!
So glad to hear you know Geoff! He has had a slow but steady, mostly crowdfunded, latter-day career. I speak to him occasionally and he’s certainly a nice guy but his politics have led him down some.. interesting paths and he’s had a couple of ventures down the conspiracy-ish side of YouTube the last 5 years or so, which is a shame
Can’t tell you how much I appreciate these playlists! I won’t even try. It’s just…a lot.
Upgraded to paid. That’s better than words, right?
I mean, words are great, but they don’t pay the mortgage or my daughter’s college tuition bills, so…thank you for that *and* the words!
Little more steering…
The Linus of Hollywood side-project 'Palmdale', with Kay Hanley of Letters to Cleo. Extra-reduced power-pop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0Nweo7TIlw