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I've been listening to a bit of Lana del Rey and Florence etc and now I'm after some recommendations on good female singers please.
Any ideas.
Eva Cassidy, cowboy junkies, Natalie merchant,
Emeli sande, Norah Jones, and little dragon(I know it's a group)for me, 3 different sounds but all enjoyable, old 60s acts knock the socks off most of the crap today though especially when looking at female vocalists
How long a list do you want? I'm particularly biased towards female singers, but at 3.00am it's a bit late to compile one now.
I'll just leave you with a track by one of my absolute favourites coveting another, from the Vinyl tv series soundtrack:
A proper list tomorrow.
Beth Gibbons
Ok this is a list of who I like so far. ....
London grammar
Goldfrapp
Yeah yeah yeahs
Adele
Ellie Goulding
Lana
Florence
Some sia stuff
Lucy Rose
Gabrielle Aplin
Caitlin Rose
Daughter
Angus and Julia Stone
First Aid Kit
Bat for Lashes
Birdy
Paloma Faith
Nouvelle Vague
Some great stufffrom all these people - IMO!
cheers
Shiny
Kate Rusby
Lou Rhodes
Nina Simone.
Regina Spektor: "This is how it works. It feels a little worse. Than when we drove our hearse. Right through that screaming crowd."
I'm gonna go Country on Y'a. Carrie Underwood, Smoke Break..
And I know she's just become the "latest thing" but I really like Laura Marling, but have to be in the right mindset..
Good call on Barnsley Lass Kate Rusby.
The inimitable Janis at Monterey:
Beth Hart:
Lissie.
PJ Harvey.
Sia, earlier stuff as opposed to the more pop focused later stuff.
Mazzy Star.
Already said but Kate Rusby.
My favs:
Aretha Franklin
Mavis Staples
Debbie Harry
Emmylou Harris
Kate Bush
Bonnie Raitt
Karen O
Joan Baez
Joni Mitchell
Wendy James
Also liking the new Julia Holter album
Daughter
Beth Orton
Sharon Van Etten
Cat Power
Wapaint
Damn, forgot Cat Power, good call.
Emmy Lou Harris
MIA
Taylor Swift
Natalie Merchant
Indila
Robyn
Kelis
Little Boots
Gabby Young
EMA
Bjork
Amy MacDonald
The Staves
Kristin Hersh
Sia
Shirley Manson / Garbage
Eva Lazarus
Billie Holiday
Kirsty Hawkshaw
Erykah Badu
Ann Peebles
Ella Fitzgerald
Emily Haines - Metric
Russian Red
Tracy Chapman
Beth Orton
Emiliana Torrini
Sarah maclachlan
Tori Amos
😉
Alice Russell, should be way better known than she is, keeping it niche I guess.
Or more folksy, Cara Dillon and Lisa Handicap.
Anybody saying Beth Orten needs to listen to more music...
From the pile of CDs nearest the player (M40, natch 😉 ):
Alabama Shakes (sorry can't think of her name off hand)
Julia Holter
Susanne Sundfor
Natalie Prass
Meg Baird
Sharon Van Etten
From my head:
Bjork (on massive Bjork binge at the moment More to life than this currently on repeat!)
Gillian Welch
PJ Harvey
Chan Marshall (Cat Power)
Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond)
Roberta Flack (go listen to Reverend Lee!)
Sister Sledge
The ESG girls
Roisin Murphy (check out The Truth - Handsome Boy Modelling School)
Patti Smith
Stina Nordenstam
Can't believe no one has mention Kylie yet. Shame on you.
PJ Harvey - already mentioned
God Help the Girl (Belle and Sebastien spin off)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Help_the_Girl
Taylor Swift
Dolly Parton
Nobody can say my musical tastes are too narrow
60s acts knock the socks off most of the crap today
Christ! me dads on STW!
Also LoneLady.
Bjork: More To life Than This (go on, say ghetto blaster again.... 😳 )
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Sandy Denny
Beth Orton
Kate Bush
Good singers and musicians, you can have both.
Nai Palm from Hiatus Kyote
Lianne le Havas
Aretha Franklin
Dixie Chicks
Amy
Julie Fowlis
Agree with loads already mentioned, but have to add Sinead O'Connor to the list. Hasn't done anything truly great for ages and of questionable sanity, but on her day has/had a truly astonishing voice and intensity.
Agnes Obel.
Gorgeous voice
Can't believe Elizabeth Fraser hasn't been mentioned yet.
Sade
too many to mention -
good shout for Liz Fraser
saw Natalie Merchant above (at start)
Harriet Wheeler (Sundays)
Tracy Thorn (Everything but the Girl)
Julie Fowlis
Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh (Dual et al)
Alison Krauss, too
Mikaela Davis - harp action.
Lzzy Hale!
Carole King.
Emma Pollock
Savages
I strongly second Cowboy Junkies. Margot Timmins' voice and performance is fantastic.
One of their best known, called 'Misguided Angel':
And for the Velvet Underground fans, a cover of Sweet Jane:
Many of my favourites already posted. Will add Handsome and Gretly, first heard their music (Take my Sorrows) on a Trans Savoie video. EP very good too, Waiting was one of our wedding songs.
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Lianne le Havas as already mentioned
Nina Simone has got to be on your playlist.
A lot of my favourites have already been covered. Julie Fowlis has an amazing voice, if you like that then Karen Matheson has to be on the list too.
I do like The Duke Spirit, Liela Moss has a great voice. And for turning it up to 11 you can't beat Sleater Kinney.
Karen Carpenter. Wholesome, pure, rich and complete.
Brian Molko
Lots already listed so I will add
La Roux
Ha! +1 for the lovely Brian 😛
+1 for Sarah Maclachlan. Such a beautiful voice.
+1 Elizabeth Frazer
Julianne Regan (All About Eve and lots of backing vocals for The Mission) *
* stupid spellchecker. Corrects "vox" to "box" but can't see the missing s in mision
natalie merchant.... my favourite singer/songwriter of all time. Try her second solo album, Ophelia. Stunning
Catelebon
Maria McKee
Madonna up to Ray of Light
Siouxsie Sioux
Just remembered Kizzy Crawford, very creative with the loop pedals too.
Lisa Hannigan
Never harms when they are also easy on the eye
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It obv. depends what you are looking for but how about these for different from many of the others mentioned:
Karen Matheson
Eddie Reader
Karine Polwart
Kate Rusby
or for something totally different:
Medieval Babes
Ann Wilson!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Whoa what a voice.
Kim Gordon? Don't get me wrong, I'm a major fan. But I'd never go as far as calling her a 'good' singer 😯
As recompense however, I will leave you this:
Yeah its not their song I know but yes!
Kim Gordon? Don't get me wrong, I'm a major fan. But I'd never go as far as calling her a 'good' singer
Distinctive maybe? 😀 She has made a living, and quite an influential one, at it.
Cheers slimjim78! 😉
Eddie Reader no but Karine Polwart ftw every time
the wonderful Kathryn Joseph, if you ever get the chance to see her live, do no miss it
confusingly that isn't her in the video
Kristin Hersh (both solo and Throwing Muses)
Marissa Nadler
Nadine Shah
Many favourites already mentioned, +1 for Natalie Merchant, that woman can do it all, I love "Leave your sleep", so diverse.
Two of my more folky favs are the very winsome Jackie Oates, try the Hyperboreans album it's just sublime and from across the pond Gillian Welch, rootsy, down home bluegrass.
Piaf
Jewel Kilcher
Polly Paulusma
Tracy Chapman
.. + Annie Lennox - also seems thoroughly decent and thoughtful person..
At present SIA just blows me away from the current point in time
Angela Gossow?
FKA Twigs - just very very talented IMO...
Great singer? Dunno about that but I love Courtney Barnett's album. I really like her voice, great lyrics and fantastic tunes.
Pretty much every female singer/songwriter/band-member I was going to list has already been listed, which is rather wonderful, but there's a few others, like Ane Brun, Arc Iris, Auf Der Maur, The Bangles, Beach House, Gemma Hayes, Belly, (now reformed, recording and about to announce tour dates in the UK/US) , Lush, (same as Belly, after a twenty year break!), Beth Rowley, Hattie Briggs, Bridie Jackson & The Arbour, Trembling Bells, Mother, Promise & The Monster, Sea Of Bees, Mechanical Bride, Cara Dillon, Camera Obscura, Catatonia/Cerys Matthews, Chairlift, Howling Bells, The Civil Wars, Heidi Talbot, The Drink, Kris Delmhorst, Patty Griffin, Rachel Sermanni, Paper Aeroplanes, 9Bach, Smoke Fairies, Thea Gilmore, Courtney Barnett, Curve, Daisy Chapman, Dar Williams, St Vincent, The Dear Janes, Dubstar, Emmy the Great, Feist, Fiona Apple, A Fine Frenzy, Françoise Hardy, Hanna Peel, Hem, Inara George, Jane Siberry, Jennifer Warnes, Jenny Queen, Jenny Lewis, Jesca Hoop, Joan As Policewoman, The Joy Formidable, Kacey Musgraves, Karen Dalton, Keren Ann, Katzenjammer, KT Tunstall, Ladyhawke, Laurie Anderson, The Like, Linda Ronstadt, Lisa Hannigan, Lone Justice (Maria McKee's original band), 'Til Tuesday (Aimee Mann's original band), macAlias (Karine Polwart and Gill Bowman), Martha Wainwright, Lucy Wainwright-Roche, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Mary Epworth, Monkey Swallows The Universe, Mulu, Nancy Kerr, Neko Case, Piney Gir, Poliça, Rachel Zeffira, Rae Morris, Linda Thompson, Rickie Lee Jones, Rilo Kiley, Rosie Vela, Sam Phillips, Scarlett Johansson, School Of Seven Bells, Serafina Steer, Shawn Colvin, Shelby Lynne, Sheryl Crow, The Staves, Steeling Sheep, The Submarines, Tehan and Sara, The Indigo Girls, Thrum (Monica Queen supplied vocals on an early Belle and Sebastian EP), Tift Merritt, Tiny Ruins, The Unthanks, Voice Of The Beehive, The Wailin Jennys, Warpaint, Zola Jesus, 6 Day Riot.
That's just going through what's on my phone, should be enough to keep the OP ticking over for a while! 😆
Apologies if she's already been mentioned but I'll add Isobel Campbell.