Who Is The Most Under Rated Artist/Band?

Don Cherry

 

Thin Lizzy

 

'Gotta agree with you there.

mark

 

Most underrated....hmmmmm, "Future Leaders of the World", at the moment

 

seldom scene too... i forgot about em

 

thin lizzy...good choice. i saw them in concert last year w/ deep purple and joe satriani. i caught the bassists pick.

 

i agree with both... king crimson and primus are great bands...

 

yeah, primus really doesnt get enough rep... but thats good... not too many squares listen to em

 

rx bandits is another very underrated band

 

It's not the Thin Lizzy of Phil Lynott though, that was the Thin Lizzy that blew away crowds.

 

Soul Coughing

 

3 Day Binge/A Future Hero/A Place Tomorrow/Accepting Silence/Beauty is Fading/Before Leaves Fall/Broken Down/Carla Giesbrecht/Chris Epp/Christopher Oakley/Dawson/Dolphin Striker/Emerson Canada/Endless Flight/Every New Day/Everything is Forever/First Time Since/High Five Drive/Kissmetradgedy/Lives of Many/Monuments of Spring/Only Hoping/The Reception/Through the Persausion of Ambition/Wide Awake City.

 

i agree with Lucifer Sam [on the whole, how can we decide which band is most under-rated sort of thing]

and im also honestly appauled at some of your choices...most of you are thinking popularity...[and im sorry, but Led Zepellin is not under-rated, they are probobly far over rated]

you are thinking too much of what you hear on the radio [or what you dont hear for that matter]...i can name a bazillion random country artists you have never heard of and claim they are under rated cause i love them and no one else listen to them...

King Crimson
Led Zeppelin
Donovan
SRV?

these are all very well known, well respected bands and artists...

 

Les Claypool.
Buddy Guy and Phil Guy.
Charlie Christian.
Django Reinhardt.
Robert Randolph.
Larry Carlton.
Koko Taylor.
Doyle Bramhall II.
Hubert Sumlin.
Pinetop Perkins.
James Cotton.
Robert Cray.
Jimmie Vaughan.
John Mayer.
Sonny Landreth.
Tommy Emmanuel.
Carlos Santana.
John McLaughlin.
Peter Mayer.
Gary Richrath.
Ron Block.
Trey Anastasio.
Tim Reynolds.
Peter Frampton.
Dave Amato.
Bill Nershi.
Mason Jennings.
Griffin House.
Iron and Wine.
Ani DiFranco.
Erin Smith Band.
Scott Henderson.
Robben Ford.
Lyle Lovett.
Eric Steckel Band.
Barefoot Manner.
Derek Trucks.
Warren Haynes.
Duane Allman.
Dickie Betts and Great Southern.
John Hiatt and the Goners.
Keller Williams.
Leo Kottke and Mike Gordon.
Laurence Juber.
Adrian Legg.
Doyle Dykes.
Stephen Bennett.
Ben Harper.
New Monsoon.
Chet Atkins.
Merle Travis.
Mississippi John Hurt.
Jimmy Reed
Umphrey's McGee.
DJ Williams.
David Grisman
Pat Methany
Eric Johnson

etc...

I'd put BB King, but he's an icon... but I like him because he was one of the first real innovators along with guys like les paul for jazz and blues.

 

man, i donno if he was already mentioned... but sunnyland slim...

 

man, thats true... nobody fuckin knows of danzig

 

Keller Williams, Xavier Rudd, DJ Williams, Tea Leaf Green, Bela Fleck the the Flecktones, Del McCoury Band, Sound Tribe Sector Nine, Burning Spear, Primus

 

The Forgotten Rebels, from Hamilton Ontario. Been running since the mid-seventies, they rock. I have yet to meet another person who has heard of them.