Happy Rhodes!
I was gonna miss the edit window, but that first link in lisiate’s post was to Mr. Yoder performing Tears For Fears’ Everybody Wants To Rule The World in his backyard.
The ETA link I posted is to Mr. Yoder performing Tears For Fears’ Everybody Wants To Rule The World in his backyard with Tears For Fears!
How many drummers does it take to change a light bulb?
None! They have a machine that can do that now!
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kirkrapine, was that meant to be in some other thread? Because I can’t see how it’s remotely relevant here.
Those aren’t drums!
I always find it odd when I look up some actor on IMDb and find out that I’ve been watching them for years without realizing it. It happened with Eli Wallach and Tasha Martel. Wallach was amazing as Tuco in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, but he could clean up and play an insurance agent or a judge. Martel played T’Pring (Spock’s fiancee) in Star Trek, and she was also in Demon with a Glass Hand on The Outer Limits and dozens of guest roles back in the '60s and '70s.
I’ve always wondered if the best compliment you can give an actor is to say that you didn’t recognize them.
All the Tom Hardys of this world…
Steve Morse is IMHO the best guitar player in the world. After being voted by Guitar Player magazine best overall guitar player in the world enough times that they had to retire him and after putting out multiple albums with the Dregs he left music to become a commercial airline pilot. Thankfully he was able to come back and get some good paying gigs and pursue his own music as well. Despite some severe tendonitis issues he is still fantastic. I saw him on the Dregs reunion tour and I’m seeing Flying Colors next month.
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Musically, there’s this fella named Chris Smither that (almost) no one knows about. Boy, he’s good! And good news: Now you all know! 
This is a great example!
Being a guitar “player” (kindof), I appreciate when musicians put up pages like this one that Chris put up:
He uses a lot of different tunings, so it is nice to have this reference.
Cyndi Lauper should have received the accolades heaped on Madonna. I think Cyndi was and still is the more talented individual.
Trivia note: Cyndi Lauper is the only woman to date to receive the Best Score Tony all by her lonesome. She wrote the songs for Kinky Boots all by herself with no help from anyone, male or female, and got the Tony for it.
So there. Theatre always recognizes real talent.
And she did it all while suffering from the heartbreak of psoriasis!
Christ, you don’t know the meaning of heartbreak, buddy, 
Doug Stanhope is a pretty well respected comedian. His comedy isn’t really mainstream but he is one of the best comedians working right now. However when he does shows he usually only sells a few hundred tickets per show.
Townes VanZandt.
Agree, and I’d put Stewart Lee on that level as well.
Stanhope scares me in the way that he seems to think in complete, coherent comedy paragraphs…even while rat-arsed. He’s like a comedy Hitchens.
Danny Gatton was considered by some to be among the finest guitar players in the world. He had virtually no popular acclaim. He was the house band for a small-sh DC nightclub called Club Soda. He was Django Reinhart-level brilliant, but instead of French jazz, he played country/rock and was over the heads of his live audiences. He killed himself the same year Kurt Cobain did.
Garry Wills is the best writer on American politics and history and has been for decades. It’s not that he’s completely unappreciated (since his material still occasionally appears in The New York Review of Books), but he should be more generally known. He’s 85 years old now and has slowed down in his writing.
I’m not sure if this fits the requirements of the OP, but an argument can be made that Paul Revere & The Raiders were highly underrated and (even more so) underappreciated. Here is a recent article that makes that argument.
He’s considered a comedian’s comedian. He mentors a lot of comics. E.g., he has helped out Mrs. FtG’s relative who is a comic of similar ilk. He does small time benefit gigs, too. Nice guy who does out-there comedy. So not easily pegged for the purposes of promotion.