Top 5 female singer/songwriters

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The new erato

May 30, 2015, 06:11:41 AM
Kate Bush
Joni Mitchell
Kate and Anna McGarrigle (I count them as one)
Tori Amos
Janis Ian

Sergeant Rock

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May 30, 2015, 07:39:01 AM Last Edit: May 30, 2015, 08:01:47 AM by Sergeant Rock
Emmylou Harris

Iris DeMent

Lucinda Williams

Kate and Anna McGarrigle

Patti Smith

Here's Iris singing her most famous song (heartbreaking nostalgia) with Emmylou singing harmony.

https://www.youtube.com/v/FikZwgj89HI
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#2
May 30, 2015, 07:41:41 AM
I don't have many, but Alison Krauss has long been a favorite.

71 dB

#3
May 30, 2015, 11:38:14 AM
Carly Simon
Kesha Rose Sebert

That's it for me.  0:)
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Papy Oli

#4
May 30, 2015, 12:22:59 PM
5 personal favourites :

Joni Mitchell
Gillian Welch
Dusty Springfield
PJ Harvey
Margo Timmins (Cowboy Junkies)

Bonus pick : Astrud Gilberto - She could sing the Yellow Pages next to my deathbed, i'd die happy  8) 

Olivier

Sergeant Rock

#5
May 30, 2015, 12:38:12 PM
Quote from: Papy Oli on May 30, 2015, 12:22:59 PM
Gillian Welch
Dusty Springfield
Margo Timmins (Cowboy Junkies)



Love their voices, their styles, but are Margo and Dusty songwriters?

Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

Papy Oli

#6
May 30, 2015, 12:44:34 PM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on May 30, 2015, 12:38:12 PM

Love their voices, their styles, but are Margo and Dusty songwriters?

Sarge

ah point taken, I had not considered songwriters exclusively  :blank:
Olivier

Sergeant Rock

#7
May 30, 2015, 12:48:31 PM
Quote from: Papy Oli on May 30, 2015, 12:44:34 PM
ah point taken, I had not considered songwriters exclusively  :blank:

No matter...I thought of both women too when I considered my list. They are fantastic interpreters.

Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

Papy Oli

#8
May 30, 2015, 01:11:07 PM
Iris DeMent is the new one to me, thank you for that one, Sarge... checking her songs on YT has stopped Gulda there and then   ;D
Olivier

Sammy

#9
May 30, 2015, 01:23:55 PM
Rickie Lee Jones
Grace Slick
Janis Joplin
Linda Thompson
Judy Collins

Sergeant Rock

#10
May 30, 2015, 01:24:29 PM
Quote from: Papy Oli on May 30, 2015, 01:11:07 PM
Iris DeMent is the new one to me, thank you for that one, Sarge... checking her songs on YT has stopped Gulda there and then   ;D

You have to hear her duet with John Prine...great song, very funny.

https://www.youtube.com/v/CCObON5sJzU

Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

Daverz

#11
May 30, 2015, 01:38:52 PM Last Edit: May 30, 2015, 01:42:36 PM by Daverz
Joan Armatrading is certainly my favorite.  After "rediscovering" her, I bought every one of her records I could lay my hands on.

After that I'm not sure, as I only have a few records of other singers.  Maybe Laurie Anderson, Suzanne Vega, Natalie Merchant, Hope Sandoval, and Kate Bush.  I also admit to being a sucker for "Celtic" pop like Enya and Loreena McKennit.

...Jesus, how did I forget Patti Smith?

The Six

#12
May 30, 2015, 02:22:43 PM
Carole King

NJ Joe

#13
May 30, 2015, 03:30:08 PM
Kate Bush
PJ Harvey
Joni Mitchell
St. Vincent

Three-way tie for 5th:  Laurie Anderson, Bjork, Lucinda Williams
"Music can inspire love, religious ecstasy, cathartic release, social bonding, and a glimpse of another dimension. A sense that there is another time, another space and another, better universe."
-David Byrne

San Antone

#14
May 30, 2015, 06:01:52 PM Last Edit: May 30, 2015, 06:11:55 PM by sanantonio
Joni Mitchell
Lucinda Williams
Sheryl Crow Karla Bonoff
Imogen Heap
Shawn Colvin

Fixed.

The new erato

#15
May 31, 2015, 12:03:27 AM
Bonoff is good, always liked her.

vandermolen

#16
May 31, 2015, 03:27:15 AM
These are my favourites rather than top necessarily:

Imogen Heap
Kate Bush
Lisbeth Scott
Judie Tzuke
Suzanne Vega
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

The new erato

#17
May 31, 2015, 03:31:26 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on May 31, 2015, 03:27:15 AM

Judie Tzuke

Welcome to the cruise. Had that on a long lost cassette tape and it got a lot of play at the time. Has she done anything significant besides that album?

vandermolen

#18
May 31, 2015, 04:51:47 AM Last Edit: May 31, 2015, 04:57:33 AM by vandermolen
Quote from: The new erato on May 31, 2015, 03:31:26 AM
Welcome to the cruise. Had that on a long lost cassette tape and it got a lot of play at the time. Has she done anything significant besides that album?

Well, I love the song 'Stay with Me Till Dawn' and I have several of her albums and like 'Wonderland' and 'I am the Phoenix'. I heard the former in a pub about 15 years ago and asked them what it was - I had never heard of her. I have seen her live twice and really enjoyed it. My daughter thinks that my taste in 'pop' music is appalling. Having said that I think that she came to and enjoyed one of the Judie T concerts.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ilM2yfKHIbM
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

escher

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May 31, 2015, 12:47:49 PM Last Edit: May 31, 2015, 12:49:22 PM by escher
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on May 30, 2015, 07:39:01 AM


Iris DeMent

one the greatest singers ever, in any genre.

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