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Your favorite obscure song

What song in your music inventory do you consider a barely known hidden gem? Like a well kept secret know only to a few that you can listen to over and again.

For me it's 'Roads to Moscow' from Al Stewart's 'Past Present and Future' album.

The music, the lyrics, the story it tells is- to be just slightly hyperbolic- brilliant.

Check it out, especially if your a WW2 history buff.

Thank you for your attention on this matter.😁

thecarpathian
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The great Chris Whitley-- first released on vinyl by Classic Records, one of the few albums that Michael Hobson released as a first recording, not a reissue:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y85fXmbNm7Q 

Go to track 8

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Trixie Whitley, Chris' daughter, who did some great recordings with Daniel Lanois, she eventually left the States, went back to Belgium. This is from her tour, released as a studio EP, 1,000 copies. This one is live, from Ghent:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odG0iwEx4_k

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Cressida- Asylum- Munich-- from the original Vertigo Swirl catalog-- this is a rare record as an OG UK pressing. Influenced Mikael Akerfeldt of Opeth: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ht2ZipB_sA

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Patto, second album, Hold Your Fire, Vertigo Swirl, not easy to find, with the great Ollie Halsall on guitar: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCZ8ahuRFVc

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I'm out for a while. Enjoy. 

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