Following Spotify's recommendations, in my experience, leads nowhere. Never found a new Neil Young/Joni Mitchell/David Bowie that way. Then, this morning, I clicked on Vic Chestnutt, thinking well, obviously not. I was wrong. Have not stopped listening to him all day.
Chesnutt. Not Chestnutt.
For example, this: a love song to death.
It's the notes. The lyrics are great too, unusual and dark and witty but I'm more taken with his melodies being beautiful but not predictable. Melodically, so many new singer-songwriters have a beautiful texture and production but you just know where the notes are going.
This one, a song about fame, actually about Michael Stipe, has Stipe on backing vocals, but also musically was clearly massively influential on Stipe for REM's later sound.
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