Tippaporn

One more for ya, Mike. Again, I think @jvs is correct. You're just not looking in the right places. You probably won't find it on the radio. Especially here in Thailand, LOL. Try finding something new on YT that you like and then add 'playlist' to the title. You'll no doubt end up with a playlist of similar music. Sometimes a playlist pans out pretty well. Other times it's a dead end. Try avenues that you'd normally never think to go down, like world music. You might be surprised. But you will come to realize there's a whole lot of great music being played between 2000 and today. I couldn't begin to start posting all I've found. One other thing. As long as you tell yourself that today's music is sh!t don't be surprised if you blind yourself to music you'd like that's out there. Self fulfilling prophecy kinda thing. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club with Fault Line off of their 2012 Howl album.

The Black Angels with the hard hitting Young Men Dead off of their 2009 Passover release.

All Them Witches with Voodoo Chile off of their 2015 Electric Ladyland (Redux) album.

English rock band 22-20s with Shoot Your Gun off of their 2004 self-titled release.

LOL. It all comes down to personal taste. I will check out your recommendations, though, so thanks for that. 16 Horsepower with their 2001 non-album single Splinters.

Post rock UK band The Underground Youth with Veil off of their 2013 The Perfect Enemy For God release. If you're into post rock then this creative band has reams of quality material.

Ray LaMontagne performing Empty live on a BBC FOUR Session. Off of his 2006 Till The Sun Turns Black effort. A wonderfully bleak tune that almost brings a tear to the eye. And a forlorn slide guitar solo which was oh too short.

I can agree in part but if you think there is not much good new music you are not looking in the right places! There is a lot but not mainstream. jvs is correct. There's a great deal of excellent music, on par with anything that came out of the 60's. My son was here back in 2015 & 2016. While he enjoys the music of my era he quite naturally wanted to listen to the music of his era. We would go on YT and search through playlists. I would download what I liked and continue to do so to this day. I've piled up quite a library from 2000~2020. Just a taste. Phosphorescent, aka Matthew Houck, with The Quotidian Beasts off of his 2013 Muchacho release. That's a tour de force by any standard. BTW, I'd include shoe gaze to the 90's music.

The Beach Boys covering Eddie Cochran's '58 Summertime Blues. Off of their '62 Surfin' Safari LP. Vintage video with a nice '42 Chrysler Town & Country station wagon with genuine wood paneled doors. What a piece of art. Rifleman star Chuck Connors has an appearance, too. Terrible cover though, in my opinion.

True, The Beatles didn't do that number justice. Here's 75 year old W.C. Handy doing it the way it's supposed to be done on the Ed Sullivan Show on Feb. 6, '49.

The Beatles with W.C. Handy's Saint Louis Blues released on 22 Nov. '68.

More than I can count. The Rolling Stones with a cover of the Walter Brown/Jay McShann tune Confessin' The Blues performed live on The Joe Loss Pop Show in London on 17 July '64.

Ouch!

Eric Clapton and Mark Knopfler performing Same Old Blues live at Music For Montserrat in Royal Albert Hall, London '97. Would that be Phil Collins on drums? Me thinks so.

The Allman Brothers with Statesboro Blues off of their '71 The Allman Brothers Band Live At Fillmore East double LP.

Mississippi John Hurt with the title track of his '64 Worried Blues album.

Merle Haggard with a cover of Jimmie Rodgers California Blues (Blue Yodel No. 4) off of his '69 Pride In What I Am album.

Roy Buchanan with Pete's Blues off of his '72 self-titled LP.

The Who with the live version of Young Man Blues off of their '70 Live At Leeds LP.

Terry Reid with Rich Kid Blues off of his '69 self-titled debut album.

The Matadors with an excellent cover of Dylan's '65 It's All Over Now, Baby Blue. Off of their '68 self-titled debut album.

Iggy Pop with The Passenger off of his '77 Lust For Life LP.

Leon Redbone performing Diddy Wa Diddie live in '77. The white man with the black man's voice.

Tom Waits performs Tom Traubert's Blues from his '76 Small Change LP live on Rockpalast, WDR Studio L, Köln, West Germany, April 18, '77. I saw Waits on October 19, '78, in a lounge setting at the Park West in Chicago. Leon Redbone cued him up. A fantastic show.

The great Tom Waits and Iggy Pop in the humourous Somewhere In California short from Jim Jarmusch's 2003 Cigarettes And Coffee movie.