(please don't include posthumous releases)
While I was just adding a Hendrix track to my response to the Songs about Jam thread, it dawned on me, not for the first time, that Hendrix must be very close to the top of that list of artists that have had a gargantuan affect on music and are highly regarded but were only active for a very short period and with only a few albums. The JHE released just 3 albums, and then Jimi made that Band of Gypsys live album with Billy Cox and Buddy Miles, and that was it.
Janis Joplin on the other hand, a white female blues singer who proved that women could also be rock singers and sing rock in as ballsy a fashion as the men! Just 3 albums before she died.
Hank Williams, for me the grandpappy of rockabilly, rock 'n roll, raisin hell and lovin' it! Loads of singles and EPs of course and live appearances at The Opry, he was a prolific song writer and regular performer but just 2 albums before he died in 53, "Hank Williams Sings", an 8 track 10" MGM album released in 51; and "Moanin' the Blues" also an 8 track 10" MGM album.
(Nick Drake had and still has a cult following, but did he have much of an affect on the development and progress of music? Nah, not really, many others were doing the same sort of stuff at the same time.)
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