Alan Kuperschmidt (a.k.a Al Kooper): Child is Father to the Man
 
The Frames: Fitzcarraldo & For the Birds
 
John Hiatt: Stolen Moments (a very under appreciated genius)

John Hiatt: Stolen Moments (a very under appreciated genius)
 
One of my kids gave me a coffee table book called Nashville Portraits, a collection of pictures by Jim McGuire.  The caption for a shot of the following-named gentlemen was captioned with a quote by someone whose name escapes me right now:
 
If there was a just God overseeing the world of country music, Joe Ely, Lyle Lovett, John Hiatt and Guy Clark would be selling out concert halls and arenas, and Toby Keith would be selling used stereos out of the back of his pickup truck.
 
Ain't it the truth?
 
Peter (who currently has the cans on with Hot Summer Night by my old friend Jim Post; if the voice sounds familiar, he was half of Friend & Lover, of Reach Out Of The Darkness fame)

So true!

Rush...Lakeside Park
 https://youtu.be/HxUAzTvcoTQ?t=8m11s

This lady turned me onto John Hiatt back in my young, impressionable Nashville days. She said roughly the same thing about his genius being underappreciated. And something tells me she lived in a house he'd once lived in... I may be confusing that story with someone else she mentioned. Anyway, Kathy Chiavola:  
 

 
She was (still is I guess) a session singer, voice coach, and an absolute class act. I had the privilege of playing bass with her for a couple weeks one Summer.

Wolf, you hit the jackpot on Amy Lee... Goodness, what a voice she has! I always thought I'm so Lonesome... was a Hank Williams Sr. tune.

And you were correct, Gregory.  Johnny's is just of the 25,798,290.07 covers of it - most of which are good (hey, it's a classic for a reason), but none of which can touch Hank's.  Not even Amy's.
 
Peter

Gregory & Peter ,      You are both correct ;I believe Hank Sr wrote that tune. Amy's voice put a spell on me !  
 
  Wolf

There was a thread on another forum yesterday where you were supposed to post what the first song you ever learned was. I honestly can't remember which was first... it was a bunch at once really, but it was about 1986 that I started playing bass. I would sneak the ol' man's bass out of the case and play along with cassette tapes of music I liked.  
 
I wore this one out:

My first song was Yesterday. I learned the melody on my brother's Hofner bass.
 

 
John

My first two (I can't remember which came first) were I Feel Free and Questions 67 & 68 (played in a horn band in high school and college that did a lot of Chicago).

Going Down The Road Feeling Bad, I know You Rider, and/or my friend Eric Nicholson's Captain America; learned them at the same time (I have vague memories of CA being first, but it was in the same day).
 
Peter

All Along The Watchtower, ca. 1973

When I got my first bass as a birthday gift in 1965 I learned how to play the entire first Byrds LP so I guess Mr. Tambourine Man was the first but I can't be sure.  
 
I have better memory of the first song I learned to play in a band. I was the only person in the eighth grade who even had a bass so I was asked to play with some friends for the Jr. High talent show. When we gathered to rehearse they wanted to learn Twist and Shout. We put on the record to learn it and they were impressed that after one listen I had picked up the intro line. We rehearsed the same tune over and over until we got thrown out of the drummer's house by his parents. The next day was the audition for the talent show and we passed. We were also offered a gig at a dance, little did they know we only knew one song at that point. We ended up winning the talent show and pulling together enough material to play the gig. Rock music was still pretty simple in 1966...

W. A. Mozart Sonata for violin and piano in G major, K.301/293a (No.18)
I. Allegro con spirito
Marlene Hemmer, violin

 
Wolf