# Artists you discovered a little too late

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-discovered-a-little-too-late/781213>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 2, 2017, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-discovered-a-little-too-late/781213 "2017-03-02T17:15:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-discovered-a-little-too-late/781213/21 "2017-03-03T07:44:12Z")

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Adrian Borland (specifically, the Honolulu Mountain Daffodils project, but also anything he did)

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-discovered-a-little-too-late/781213/22 "2017-03-03T08:48:35Z")

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> [@Inner\_Stickler](#):
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> By the time I’d even heard of Anna Russell, she’d been dead for about 6 years. I would have loved to have gone to one of her shows.

I saw Anna Russell in Carnegie Hall, back in the 60s or 70s. “I’m not making this up, you know!”

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**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-discovered-a-little-too-late/781213/23 "2017-03-03T12:24:41Z")

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I only discovered Stevie Ray Vaughn about two months before he died. Should have gone to that show! ☹

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**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2017, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-discovered-a-little-too-late/781213/24 "2017-03-04T00:12:44Z")

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I never heard anything by my favorite singer, Eva Cassidy, until after her death, despite the fact that she lived in the same county as me most of the last fifteen years of her life.

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**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2017, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-discovered-a-little-too-late/781213/25 "2017-03-04T06:50:25Z")

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In fact, more precisely, I never heard anything by her until four and a half years after her death.

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