S/D Parent/ Child musicians

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I. List the artists with artistic children
II. Rate each
III. Determine if the parents or the children are more often the better artists.

Tim/Jeff Buckley
Loudon/Rufus Wainwright
Jim/AJ Croce
Pete Escovedo/Sheila E
June/Carlene Carter
Johnny/Roseanne Cash
Frank/Nancy Sinatra
Nat/Natalie Cole
John/Jason Bonham
Ringo/Zak Starkey
John/Julian Lennon
Yoko Ono/Sean Lennon

.. Right now, looks like the parents are winning..

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Ravi Shankar / Norah Jones

Another result for the parents.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Joe/Sam Brown
Marty/Kim Wilde
Ozzy / Kelly Osbourne

I am as yet undecided who wins out of those though.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Elvis / Lisa Marie
Ricky Nelson / uh, Nelson

Children! ;o)

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Murray/Brian Wilson
Jan/Eddie Van Halen
Frank/Dweezil Zappa
Clint/Kyle Eastwood (if playing a DJ in a movie counts)

― dave q, Friday, 9 January 2004 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Jeff/Tim and Rufus/Loudon are close to call - i would go for the son in each case here though.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Brian Poole / Alisha's Attic

Hmm....

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Bob/Ziggy Marley

parents seem to own this by and large

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

John Coltrane vs. Ravi Coltrane
JS Bach vs. JC Bach

Parents rock!

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Julio / Enrique Iglesias - no score draw

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

June/Carlene Carter ..

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Marion / Paul and Barry Ryan (one to the kids)
Lena Horne / Jamiroquai (I may be wrong here)

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

The jazz edition:

John & Alice Coltrane/Ravi Coltrane (parents are obv. better, but that doesn't mean the son is bad at all)

Von Freeman/Chico Freeman = Von

Ellis Marsalis/Wynton, Branford, Jason, and Delfayo = I like Ellis, but Branford's the one who's pushed forward the most.

Freddie Waits/Nasheet Waits = Nasheet is way, way better. One for the kids.

Dewey Redman/Joshua Redman = tough one. Kid's got the chops, but Dewey's got the originality. I read an interview recently where he was saying how he could take out his son (musically)! So Dewey wins.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Ian / Baxter Dury
Eric / Charles Mingus

Another couple to votes for good ole pa.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Naomi / Wynnona Judd - just doesn't bear thinking about too hard.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Lena Horne / Jamiroquai (I may be wrong here)

Isn't Jay Kay's mother Karen Kay?

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:32 (twenty-two years ago)

That's the bunny.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

ornette/denardo coleman => everybody wins.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyone else remember Old Skull, the band that one of the Tar Babies' sons had? Parents I guess, but the kids were only 9.

http://services.windowsmedia.com/artistpic/P15591C5CI8.jpg

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Old Skull were great for 9 year olds. I didn't know one was related to a Tar Babies member.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Two of 'em were sons of the Tar Babies drummer, I think. Hence the SST merch one of them is wearing.

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Edgar Froese/Jerome Froese

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Which leads one to recall The Stinky Puffs, of course.

I thought this thread was going to be about parents and their children who recorded/performed together, such as The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, and probably loads of folk bands.

Who else is there like that?

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Edgar Froese/Jerome Froese!!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Mel/Pam Tillis

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Fuck, my mind has gone blank. I can remember The Stinky Puffs but not who it was that recorded with her dead father from beyond the grave, using old vocals. Who was it?

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Natalie Cole.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

That was a shocking bad record.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Osmonds/Osmond boys

― Jim Janse, Friday, 9 January 2004 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Thank you Mark

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought this thread was going to be about parents and their children who recorded/performed together, such as The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, and probably loads of folk bands.

Martin & Eliza Carthy
The Copper Family (which TOTALLY ups the stakes as I think they also include grandchildren now)

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Hank/Hank/Hank Williams

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Karlheinz/Markus Stockhausen
Frank/Nancy/Frank Jr. Sinatra

― dave q, Friday, 9 January 2004 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I was kind of thinking of the Copper Family. Eliza rules, she is possibly my fave person I've ever interviewed ever.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Pete/Emma Townshend
Marc/Rolan Bolan
Judy Garland/Liza Minelli

― dave q, Friday, 9 January 2004 15:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Also Judy Garland/Lorna Luft

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought this thread was going to be about parents and their children who recorded/performed together, such as The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, and probably loads of folk bands.

THe Cowsills & The Carter Family.

ANd to a lesser extent, the Partridge Family, which still kinda counts because Shirley Jones and David Cassidy actually did sing, although they weren't really mother/son.

Also: Jack Cassidy/David Cassidy/Shaun Cassidy

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Bobby Bare / Bobby Bare Jr.

― BrianB (BrianB), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Charlie Haden / Rachel

-- go Pops.

― christoff (christoff), Friday, 9 January 2004 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Doesn't the Haden son go by Spain?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 9 January 2004 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, and the Treacherous Jaywalkers before that if we're trainspotting

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 9 January 2004 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Ooh!

Pete & Coke Escovedo/Sheila E. and Alejandro Escovedo (are they siblings, or cousins or something?).

I haven't heard much of the older generation, but Latin session musicians vs. SHEILA E, c'mon!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 9 January 2004 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha:

Olu Dara/Nas: Nas all the way, Olu Dara kinda sucks. I mean, he's okay for some accompaniment, but pitting him against Nicholas Payton in Kansas City was just cruel.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 9 January 2004 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

McGarrigles/Loudon Wainwright III/Rufus Wainwright... I don't know if I've ever heard a Loudon song, I just know him as the awakward dad from "Undeclared." So Rufus, for "Ciagrettes and Chocolate Milk."

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Friday, 9 January 2004 18:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Master P/Lil' Romeo

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 9 January 2004 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)

jimmy webb / webb brothers

don't know enough about jimmy webb to compare. webb brothers are ok.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 9 January 2004 18:39 (twenty-two years ago)

search: the mamas and the papas / the beach boys

destroy: wilson philips

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Saturday, 10 January 2004 02:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Bob Moore (Elvis' bassist) > R. Stevie Moore

nothin' 'gainst Bob but I'd vote for the kid

― (Jon L), Sunday, 11 January 2004 04:10 (twenty-two years ago)

ozzy / kelly osbourne!

― tylero, Sunday, 11 January 2004 06:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Michael Been from the Call/that one guy in Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (don't know which)-that's a toughie; they're equally mediocre

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Sunday, 11 January 2004 07:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Marty/Kim/RICKY Wilde.

― may pang (maypang), Sunday, 11 January 2004 07:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Don/Danielle Spencer

― Jole, Sunday, 11 January 2004 08:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Olu Dara doesn't suck. The solo on Life a Bitch might be the best instrumental solo in a rap song ever.

― sym (shmuel), Sunday, 11 January 2004 20:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Greg Allman & Cher -> Elijah Blue
Neil Finn -> Liam of Betchadupa
Serge / Charlotte Gainsbourg
Bob / Jacob Dylan

― Jeremy (Jeremy), Sunday, 11 January 2004 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Woody/Arlo Guthrie

― A Nairn (moretap), Sunday, 11 January 2004 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Rashied / Amin Ali
a great drummer/ a very good bass player

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 11 January 2004 23:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, Jimmy Garrison/Matt Garrison.

An obviously great upright bass player and a rumored to be very good electric bass player (I haven't heard him yet).

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 12 January 2004 01:52 (twenty-two years ago)

don/neneh cherry. that's a difficult one

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 12 January 2004 01:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Ustad Alla Rakha and Zakir Hussain

I think son wins on this one.

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 12 January 2004 02:56 (twenty-two years ago)

also Don/Eagle Eye Cherry, not as hard.
Michael Mantler & Carla Bley / Karen Mantler. I think I've only heard a little snippet of Karen, so who knows (tho' my money's on the 'rents).

― nickn (nickn), Monday, 12 January 2004 04:43 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.checkeredpast.com/imgs/spanicboys-shot001.jpg

The Spanic Boys, father/son

― weather!ngda1eson, Monday, 12 January 2004 06:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I just noticed today that Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers do the themesong to the PBS Kids' show Arthur...and I've always wondered why I liked it...

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 12 January 2004 07:42 (twenty-two years ago)

x-post to way back --> Jad Fair was the step-dad of Simon Fair Timony, that is until he and Sheenah Timony were divorced. ex-Stepdad Jad wins by a landslide. (the other kid in the band was Lee Ranaldo's son, Cody Linn Ranaldo.

― jack cole (jackcole), Monday, 12 January 2004 09:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Looked through this thread once again - and, un'droolin'believable as it seems, didn't see Peter/ Caspar named yet. So,

Peter / Caspar Brötzmann

Seen'n'heard them play in the same band only once, like a dozen years ago, when it was still pretty tricky to figure out what the jung 'un was really up to. - And quite soon after that Caspar's repute suddenly flowered wildly...

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:08 (twenty-two years ago)

The Staples Singers (Pops/Mavis etc.)
Carole KIng - Gerry Goffin/Louise Goffin
Ry Cooder/Joachim Cooder

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Doesn't the Haden son go by Spain?
-- Huckleberry Mann (handsomishbo...), January 9th, 2004.

After a quick search -- Spain is the name of the band Charlie's son, Josh, plays with -- also, Rachel was joined by sister, Petra, in That Dog.

I still don't think that the three surpass the one.

― christoff (christoff), Monday, 12 January 2004 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Come to think of -- Folk and Bluegrass bands got to have more generational binds than any other genre.

Doc / Merle & Richard Watson -- Doc, of course.
Earl / Randy Scruggs -- Earl
The Del McCoury Band -- Del's got the whole package
The Cox Family -- Daughter, Suzanne's heavenly voice has got my vote

― christoff (christoff), Monday, 12 January 2004 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Ewan McColl/Kirsty McColl. Don't ask me to pick which is the better though.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

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