Back in the heyday of TV I found so many good artists from watching Later… with Jools Holland. He’d book a couple of big-name bands to draw viewers, alongside a bunch of unknowns he wanted to give exposure to.
It also taught me that there is no type of music that can’t be dramatically improved by a boogie-woogie piano solo if the artists are into it.
For me it was the weekly telephone song votings on the radio.
They often deliberatly put niche stuff in there up for vote that then stuck with me :-)
Back in the heyday of TV I found so many good artists from watching Later… with Jools Holland. He’d book a couple of big-name bands to draw viewers, alongside a bunch of unknowns he wanted to give exposure to.
It also taught me that there is no type of music that can’t be dramatically improved by a boogie-woogie piano solo if the artists are into it.