Favorite One-Man-Band Albums

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Permalink Reply by Tim on February 3, 2011 at 9:26pm

No doubt Jason Falkner should be on this list

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Permalink Reply by Quinn M. on February 4, 2011 at 12:33pm

Wow, all kinds of great recs!  Looks like a trip to the record store is in my future.

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Permalink Reply by billsifer on February 5, 2011 at 11:56pm

my favorite literal one man band is Abner Jay. Hasil Adkins is killer. Reverend Deadeye and Scott H. Biram are two great modern literal one man bands. if you like your rock and roll raw do not miss either one of these dudes in concert.

 

my favorite one man albums are Prince's first couple and Vivadixsubmarinetransmissionplot by Sparklehorse.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Collins on February 8, 2011 at 8:01am

I thought "Emitt Rhodes" was better than "McCartney" hands down. "Something/Anything" probably tops my list. Here's one that's a bit obscure - "Harmony, Courage, Joy & I.Q.", credited to "The Sonata Form," which appears to have mainly been Gladhands leader Jeff Carlson, with ocasional help from a few family members. And judging from the credits, K.C. Bowman played all, or nearly all, the instruments on "Fresher Tin Villages," a very cool song cycle from a few years ago.  I'm a very big fan of Richard X Heyman...his wife Nancy plays some bass on his albums, but he's pretty close to a one-man band, even playing drums for The Doughboys when he's not working on his own stuff. Drums are usually the stumbling stone for these one-man-band affairs, but RXH is really solid in that area.

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Permalink Reply by Quinn M. on February 12, 2011 at 2:57pm

Thanks, Eric.  I'll definitely check out your other recs as we seem to have similar tastes.

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Permalink Reply by Juha Hämynen on February 10, 2011 at 5:28am

Jesse Fuller:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBME_J0pf3o

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Permalink Reply by Eric Collins on February 12, 2011 at 9:10pm

Quinn - Cool! But I'd say don't even bother trying to find the Sonata Form CD, it was a limited release and I had to chase it for two years before finding a copy. "Cornerstone" and "Basic Glee" are two of my favorite Richard X Heyman CD's. I think the KC Bowman can still be found on the usual online CD outlets.

 

Oh, and P.S. Come on without, come on within...

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Permalink Reply by Quinn M. on February 13, 2011 at 12:58am

I have both of those Heyman albums and love them both.  I will keep an eye out for KC Bowman.

 

Cheers!

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Permalink Reply by Brian Seretsky on February 13, 2011 at 3:03pm

I still love the Steve Ward CD Opening Night which I might have bought from Not Lame in 2000. And Peter Adams' "I Woke With Planets In My Face" from 2008 is a nice Beatley slice. Both these guys doing it all in their mom's basement or spare bedroom, maybe.

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Permalink Reply by Harry on April 25, 2011 at 4:52pm

Anything by Todd Rundgren, he's in a class by himself on this topic.

 

But I am ecstatic to see the mention of Adam Schmitt up above.

Any lovers of power pop generally, and of Tommy Keene especially, need to hear his 3 records.

It's criminal he didn't keep going...he's move into producing only now, I gather....but his albums are tremendous....

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