Suggest one obsure album we all should hear

It’s a Beautiful Day, album or disk White Bird 1967..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8Pp7gmoj_o

some, very long term, legal hassle keeps the original album off of Tidal

It's not on Qobuz either. 

Should have been an out-of-the-park Americana hit album.  Terrific instrumentals with original songs and great vocals.  These two were a perfect match in the studio - one can only hope that they will eventually record together again.

LoseTo Win by Kelley Mickwee and Jed Zimmerman

Been a Bruce Hornsby fan for decades but just stumbled across his live album, Intersections.

His cover of Madman Across the Water is my new favorite audiophile track.

Try it.  I think you’ll love it.

Not quite obscure anymore - thankfully - but at the time

Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

Saw them at The Black Cat in DC around 98 when this first came out. Compared to their first album it was a departure and, initially, a bit disappointing. They were opening for Supersuckers. The club was nearly empty they played this straight through.  Despite being considered by some to be an experimental ‘noise’ band - they played this note for note. Nothing was an accident. We left before the headliners even came on - didn’t want to ruin it. There was a line of a few hundred outside that had skipped the opening act - it sold out. Fools. 
 

They dropped out after this album but The Gerbils (The Battle of Electricity could also make the grade here) kept some momentum going. Rumors as to why abound. Some say Jeff just got tied of everybody asking what the lyrics meant. I always assumed he dropped music to write more - or to avoid the limelight.