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Charles Olney's avatar

TIL that Norah Jones is the daughter of Ravi Shankar!

Also, while I mostly agree that the early Rosanne Cash records are only so-so, her later stuff is exceptionally good. She's had five great albums in the 2000s. The River & the Thread from 2014 is probably the best, but Black Cadillac is also great.

Chris Dalla Riva's avatar

Ive heard nothing but good stuff about her, so I had high hopes. Thats good to hear. I’ll have to check out her later records.

Gerald Clark's avatar

You could do the reverse and listen to parents who are less famous than their offspring....

Tim Buckley, McGarrigle Sisters or Loudon Wainwright, I'm sure there's more!

NickS (WA)'s avatar

I can also recommend Justin Townes Earle. Maybe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_River_Blues

Chris Dalla Riva's avatar

Love this record. A great (sad) biography about him just came out.

NickS (WA)'s avatar

I'm a fan of Teddy Thompson (who is definitely less famous than Richard & Linda Thompson).

Kai's avatar

And another son following his more famous father: Jakob Dylan fronts the Wallflowers. They are not bad.

Aaron Murray's avatar

I thought the first Wallflowers album would’ve made the list for sure

Chris Dalla Riva's avatar

We’d both heard the biggest wallflowers record so skipped it

Kai's avatar

That fun article reminded me if a couple of young drummers who all followed their dad's in their profession.

Rufus Taylor, Jason Bonham, Nick Collins and Jay Weinberg all drum for a living. I wonder if they same goes for other instruments.

John Bajwa's avatar

You should check out Baxter Dury, whose father was the lead singer of the Blockheads. Even he admits that he has a voice like his father's, but his music is miles away lyrically and sound wise. His latest two albums are excellent, and so are the Night Chancers and It's a Pleasure.....

Ken de Poto's avatar

I’m a massive Blockheads fan so I’m upset I didn’t know about this in time to have pitched it. Definitely gonna listen later

Kristin DeMarr's avatar

This was fun!

Inhaler (Bono’s son’s band) sounds a lot like U2 (the first time I heard it, I thought “oh this band is a total wanna be U2 band” lol and my sister said she thought it *was* U2).

Interested to see what Violet Grohl does.

Ken de Poto's avatar

Chris and I both thought of Violet Grohl and were upset the album wasn’t out yet

Kristin DeMarr's avatar

Right! I haven’t seen a release date yet, but have liked the singles she’s put out so far!

Kristin DeMarr's avatar

Coming back to say she does have a release date: May 29th

Wayne Robins's avatar

I think you sometimes listen too earnestly. “What Kinda Girl” is sung by Roseanne Cash, but written by Steve Forbert. It is meant to be whimsical, the rhymes deliberately off-kilter. An album a day doesn’t allow much time for subtlety: it seems like a chore rather than a pleasure.

Chris Dalla Riva's avatar

It’s fun! Listen to an album and talk about it with your friend. Great way to bond and find some new tunes

Ripple's avatar

Grahame Lesh, son of Phil, is carrying his dad's and Grateful Dead's legacy forward. He's received a lot of heat as a nepo baby but he's improved tremendously on guitar. Voice is ok. This past month he played a bunch of shows in the NYC area and San Francisco with large ensembles composed of different members of the larger GD/jam community and they were high quality, creative takes on the GD songbook. His band Midnight North where he plays original material is quite decent..

clarke kelly's avatar

Rosanne Cash’s 80’s albums are a high-water mark of C&W’s new Beatles-influenced generation, along with her husband Rodney Crowell’s WB LPs.

John Seal's avatar

For guaranteed disappointment, check out the entire ouevre of Baxter Dury, son of Blockheads' singer Ian Dury (Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick, etc). Baxter has recorded oodles of albums, not one of which can hold a candle to his dad's.

Darius Mullin's avatar

Doesn't fit the "heirs" theme, but I have always enjoyed Joanne Cash's album 'Breaking Down the Barriers.' She is Johnny's sister, and has a duet with her niece on it. Also a duet with Kevin Max of DC Talk, which is surprising and also probably my favorite track. It's not an album that will blow you away, but it is quite charming.

Nick H's avatar

That's an interesting theme, especially with the constraint that they can't be more famous. I suspect that there are a lot of cases where the child/grandchild is more famous. I wonder how many there are where it's a close call, like with Norah Jones and Ravi Shankar? I bet that's the smallest set.

"...he can indeed right a big chorus."

As in make it right? Or should that be write?

Charles Olney's avatar

Julio and Enrique Iglesias feel pretty similarly famous to me? Miley Cyrus is more famous than her dad right now, but I bet they're pretty similar over the course of their whole careers.

Nick H's avatar

Miley's had way more success than Billy Ray. He just had the one earworm hit song and one other good* one that I can think of.

*For certain values of good.

Charles Olney's avatar

Yeah I thought he had more hits. Checked the discography and it was more sparse than I imagined. Miley definitely the much bigger star, then.

Nick H's avatar

I'm not sure about Julio and Enrique. It sounds right to me (that they've had a similar level of success), but my knowledge of their careers is very limited.

Ken de Poto's avatar

Miley Cyrus was actually the example I used as to what’s not allowed. I think a case could have been made for Enrique though and now I wish I thought of that!