I've recently started reading the blog and can't help noticing that Richard Thompson is very popular around here. It got me thinking because he is one of those artists that I feel ought to appeal to me. I want to like their music and have tried to but I can't. Ry Cooder is another, I bought about four of his records in the late seventies/early eighties trying to convince myself I liked them before I accepted that his music wasn't for me.

I'm not asking people to suggest songs or records or anything like that. I was just wondering if other people have bothered persisting in this way and what were the artists?