Recommend 1970s Solo Artists

Examples I like:

John Miles
Tom Rush
Nick Drake
Chris Bell
Nils Lofgren
Albert Hammond
Bob Welch
Moon Martin
James Taylor

Anything singer-songwriter or power-poppy from this decade?

 

Nick Lowe.

 

Jackson Browne.

 

Jonathan Edwards. He had a hit with the song Sunshine. Great tune.

 

David Werner
Paul Pena
Bobby Whitlock

 

Shuggie Otis
Dave Mason
Joni

 

Elvis Costello
Joe Jackson
Garland Jeffreys

 

Emitt Rhodes
Elliott Murphy
Suzi Quatro

 

Paul Simon

jerol

 

Rodriguez
Jonathan Richman
Jim Croce

 

Ian Gomm

 

Andy Pratt
Brian Protheroe who`s Pinball is a hidden treasure.

 

David Bowie

 

Shawn Phillips, John Martyn and early Boz Scaggs

 

Jackson Browne (I assume you know of him, but he's a favorite of mine from this period.)

Melanie:

 

Saw him in concert at the local high school when that song was all over the radio...

 

Bonnie Raitt's stuff from the 70s with Freebo on fretless Precision is top-drawer.

 

Elton John

 

And another one from Bonnie and Freebo:

 

Sandy Denny
John Cale
Gene Clark

 

Terry Jacks (of The Poppy Family) - Seasons In The Sun. You may have to get past the title track (although I like it) but after that, nice pop sailing.

 

One of my absolute favorites from 1974 ... Rock Bottom by Robert Wyatt ... beautiful album. Only six songs spread out over a little under forty minutes, but it still seems to take nearly a month of days to absorb. Complex and highly emotional, yet full of breathing space. It's a highly progressive album, worked out meticulously while he lay in the hospital after his paralyzing fall. You would think Wyatt would be full of self-pity at the time, but it's more of a love album. Seeing the need to change his career goals and about to get married, it glows with optimism and maybe even joy. At other times it is both sad and funny... and always quite strange...

 

Alan Price. Start with the "O Lucky Man!" soundtrack.

 

Randy Newman
Neil Young
Tom Waits
Warren Zevon
John Prine
Todd Rundgren

 

Jimmie Speeris is just amazing.