If “you” pick up a collection of Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson, Frank Sinatra, Cole Porter, Miles Davis, Henry Mancini, Tom Waits, etc and never listened to it much before but delve into it and put it in “your” rotation, it’s “new music” to you.
Generationally some of these artists bubble up time and again, when they die, when “they turn” 100, when there is a biopic, when there is a retrospective boxed collection, when someone famous namechecks them...
Another vote for Sinatra and the GREAT Tom Waits.
“Small Change” is a masterpiece and easily the best album of the 70s. The cover included an up & coming actress (Cassandra Peterson) posing as a stripper who later became “Elvira”.
Frank...is simply the best of the best. A friend is a LA-based mastering engineer who has made CDR dupes of the studio master tapes for me including all of Frank’s hits...Nat King Cole albums, too. Many are “dry” before the dreaded reverb was added for the commercial release.
I love Tom Waits!