Name your lame duck artist........

Long ago, Wilson recorded for JMT in Japan, direct to two track tape. The records are available on CD and there is even a sampler. The sound is direct and stripped down and very, very good. The singing is straight ahead mostly standards. The LPs of these sessions are long out of print, but show up from time to time.

conceptually, i'd divide the foregoing into specific categories:

1. artists of no discernible musical ability who nonetheless have value as image makers, trendsetters etc. (madonna,bon jovi, cher)
2. especially annoying ass clowns who nonetheless have musical ability (rod stewart, sting, u2)
3. artists who don't have much musical ability but aren't especially annoying ass clowns and have some visceral nice-guy appeal to their misguided, though harmless fans (jimmy buffet, phil collins)
4. artists who play execrably bad music skillfully (norah jones, dave matthews, john mayer)
5. completely worthless "artists" who have neither charisma or visual appeal and whose derivative, addle-brained product is wholly unlistenable (nickelback)

ergo, by careful analysis you must arrive at the conclusion that the single most worthless performer extant is, in fact, nickleback. who, according to billboard, have sold 30 million records, most of anyone in this decade. consider the karmic implications...

Loomis, Great "analysis"!. I agree wholeheartedly.

any rap artist on the planet

On Cassandra Wilson she reminds me of Tierney Sutton for one reason, the both have sublime voices, and really aweful choice in music.

I am very impressed with what Shelby Lynne did with her brazen rip off of Dusty Springfield with "Just a Little Lovin'" not makeing it better, or a complete copy, but rather an homage.

I actually like the Shelby Lynne album better than Dusty in Memphis.

I would love to hear a Cassandra Wilson or Tierney Sutton album of _____________ sing the Cole Porter Song Book.

Or maybe I'll just let Ella sing it again, and again, and again,

The Who was long my favorite rock band, and sadly they did suck at the Super Bowl. Nothing like the force of nature they were on their first "farwell" tour when I was a freshman in high school, in 1982, the Rosemont Horizon in Chicago. The only better concert I saw in Chicago was at some dive off of Maxwell Street my brother took me to see Koko Taylor and Johnny Lee Hooker, that was awesome.