Let's talk music, no genre boundaries

It is a dead end to listen music  only by nostalgia and it is a dead end to listen music with no nostalgia at all ...

Why ?

Music understanding and feeling are developed in  different stages in each of our life...

It is then normal to be nostalgic and listen again "Moondog" i discovered at 20 for example as i do times to times...I listen to him differently now...

It is normal to discover new musical languages too ...

But the more we internalized a new experience, the more it will have a growing  meaning in later stage in our life and then we will listen to it differently with nostalgia and sometimes surprise about what we missed or what we overvalued......

« I am nostalgic only about the woman i did not love anymore.»-- Groucho Marx

@audio-b-dog + 1

Richard Thompson was originally with British folk-rock band Fairport Convention; if you like this kind of music made by some really superb musicians and singers, I would recommend checking them out. When Richard left the Fairports, he also made a number of excellent albums with his then-wife, Linda Thompson. Any Richard and Linda Thompson album is well worth a hearing.... 

@stuartk, @larsman 

I am listening to Richard Thompson now. He reminds me more of Gordon Lightfoot than Van Morrison. Kind of a north country sound with Celtic rhythms thrown in. I will listen to him with his wife Linda next. BTW, I watched the documentary on Gordon Lightfoot. It was 11:30 and I wanted something I could turn off in 15 minutes and go to bed. I stayed up past one to finish it. A fascinating story.

On the assumption that most of you don't know Van Morrison's range, I'm posting a song off "Veldon Fleece," an album most of you have never heard of. For those who will indulge me, please listen to the band's setup. It's basically a jazz band. And Van Morrison's voice is another jazz instrument. He does things with his voice that are far beyond what I've ever heard with a rock singer. Maybe a jazz  singer?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcoLgQ1HVYc

@audio-b-dog 

You don’t like genre classifications. That’s your prerogative. I don’t mean to come across as hostile but when you continue to make assertions like: "it’s basically a Jazz band", (speaking of Van Morrison), you sound like you’re intentionally trying to jerk peoples’ chains.  The fact is, many of us still find genre classifications, in spite of their admitted limitations, useful. Let’s not argue about something not worth arguing about. 

On another topic, here’s a great example of R. Thompson.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4exilEoExXk

And another, with Linda;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqViJyweNV0