Artists or Bands that you've 'discovered' late in life.

[twelvebears]

OK by 'discovered' I don't mean unheard of weirdos that nobody knows about, but well known groups or artists whom you had either ignored or not really got into before, only to suddenly realise they are actually awesome.

My opening gambit, and particularly sad as they are long gone now, Talking Heads!

Really very, very good, and particularly impressive on some of the live recordings.

[morris_minor]

<hangs head in shame> Fleetwood Mac :doh: </hangs head in shame>

[Roy S]

Spirit

[John]

In the last year I got into Ben Harper, Govt Mule Tom Waits and Anna Calvi
For me I like my musical tastes to keep developing but now understand that others have different view points

[Reid Malenfant]

Ian Boddy
Steve Roach
Robert Rich

All in the last year apart from I think I had one Robert Rich CD previous to 2011 :eyebrows:

[Haselsh1]

Porcupine Tree

;)

[Haselsh1]

OK by 'discovered' I don't mean unheard of weirdos that nobody knows about, but well known groups or artists whom you had either ignored or not really got into before, only to suddenly realise they are actually awesome.

My opening gambit, and particularly sad as they are long gone now, Talking Heads!

Really very, very good, and particularly impressive on some of the live recordings.

I adore their collaborations with Brian Eno.

[jazzpiano]

Phillip Walker
and two "unheard o weirdos" - Mouse in the Traps and New Colony 6

[sparrow]

I only discovered Jazz about 10 years ago.

[Spectral Morn]

The Doors


Regards D S D L

[Z-A]

Lol, Miles Davis, never got it, so I never made the effort, then it just clicked, engaging to say the least.

[bobbasrah]

Al deMeola, Steve Hackett, Bregovic, Ian Gillan, Paco diLucia, Bela Fleck, Stanley Clarke, and many others that had been forgotten....then revisited

[JJack]

I have a big one who I somehow missed: one Robert Zimmerman (Bob Dylan).

Had a free ticket to one of his concerts in 2005 and - even though the voice was a mere shred of his past - finally "got it"

When his early albums came out on SACD I dug deeply into his work.

[Straff]

Jennifer Batten. Who said the best guitarists have to be blokes? She is awesome. Jeff Beck eat your heart out. Incidentally I learned about her whilst listening to 'Woman's Hour'. It pays to broaden one's outlook :)

A sample

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNQK9RpOloc&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=AVGxdCwVVULXdTooktWJEn3WHCpjL4E7XT

[Alex_UK]

Far, far too many to mention all of them! A few notable ones that I had NEVER heard of until I found this forum...

Jeff Buckley
Mazzy Star
System 7
Ozric Tentacles
The Pentangle

Think I'd better stop there - those easily off the top of my head and I bet if I went through my music collection I would be in triple figures with bands I've only got into since being here!

[Smoker]

Archie Shepp

love this, youtube doesn't give him any justice tho.
v/qyfj45gzDn4

too many to choose from, just listen with eyes closed