Great music released by artists in their 70s and beyond

[notjosh]

Having a listen to Fats Domino's Love You Till the Day I Die from Alive and Kickin' for the umpteenth time and it's a beautiful piece of work. Distills everything that was great about his sound with the classic piano triplets, simple melody and sweet lyrics that all somehow combine to be more than the sum of their parts.

Bloke was 71 when he recorded that. So what other artists have recorded some of their best work after hitting 70? Others that occured to me were:

Johnny Cash's American IV (released at 70), featuring the heatbreaking Hurt and a lovely take on In My Life, amongst others.

Dr John's Locked Down (71) with a bevy of brilliant tunes, including Kingdom of Izzness and Revolution.

[Video Game Fan 2000]

Link Wray? He could shame noise rock bands right until the he had to quit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh7RmD0hayA sounds like the Wipers

[sutin]

Sparks.

That is all.

[Johnboy]

Alan Vega

[DrGreggles]

That Monkees album they did for their 50th anniversary.

EDIT: Good Times!

[The Mollusk]

Fred Durst. I'll be back to bump this thread in 20 years, you'll see.

[non capisco]

That Monkees album they did for their 50th anniversary.

EDIT: Good Times!

'Me and Magdalena' off that is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.

[Wacky Homemade Badges]

Without wanting to get all Radio 3 about it, Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs probably trumps it all.

[idunnosomename]

There are a few composers yes. Ralph Vaughan Williams was born 1872 and his Symphony 6 of the late 1940s is a chillingly bleak meditation on the atom bomb. Starts in two keys a semitone apart simultaneously. Pretty heavy stuff.

[jobotic]

'Me and Magdalena' off that is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.

Really is. I started crying listening to that while I was walking to a meeting. Like a schmuck.

Pretty sure I was only aware of it because of this place - maybe it was you.

[chabrol]

All of Mississippi John Hurt's post-'rediscovery' albums, particularly Today!

A definitive take on 'Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC18_XEAe2o&ab_channel=RodrigoSerrano

[NoSleep]

Check out Elza Suarez' (b.1930) three most recent albums (A mulher do fim do mundo (or The Woman of the End of the World)2015, Deus é Mulher 2018, Planeta Fome 2019), where she reinvented herself after a long career as an MBP artist, turning to something that has a hard edged, latin-tinged, post-punk, hiphop, r&b feel to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfQCs9HZWRk

[NoSleep]

R.L. Burnside had a good run in his 70's ranging from straightahead acoustic & electric blues through to an experimental and variable amalgam of blues & hiphop on his last album, A Bothered Mind.

[notjosh]

That Monkees album they did for their 50th anniversary.

EDIT: Good Times!

Had a listen today, really enjoyed it. A couple of the tracks sound a bit too much like pastiche of the 60s sound for me, but the slightly indie-tinged ones felt like just the right amount of development of their style.