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i'm after a couple of CDs for the wife and STW has always come up with great suggestions over the last few years, so...
she tends to like slightly mainstream folky, acoustic with good melodies. last ones i've bought she really likes were the staves and laura marling, in the past melody gardot, seth lakeman etc have gone down well. definitely nothing with affected warbling nasally type voice.
any suggestions?
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Of the top of my head, have a listen to these and see what you think:
Nick Mulvey
Jose Gonzalez
C Duncan
Having heard Laura Marling's ace new single, I was going to recommend her new album Semper Femina
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...but then maybe not 🙁
Steve Gunn is decent
Rachel Sermanni
Admiral Fallow
Willie Campbell / Open Day Rotation
Julie Fowlis
She needs taking out of her comfort zone, get some Black Sabbath and Frank Zappa albums 😀
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Bit of a blast from the past, but Turin Brakes?
David Ford
Frank Turner
[i]Slightly[/i] mainstream...
King Creosote - vast catalogue, but Bombshell (2007) is his most commercial and From Scotland with Love is a more recent gem
I am Kloot - Sky at Night and Let it All In are good starting points
and +1 for Martha Tilston
Gabrielle Aplin?
Or Maybe Ezio?
+1 King Creosote
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Also consider
The Unthanks
Bat for Lashes
The Lemon Twigs
Michael Kiwanuka
Father John Misty
Julia Holter
Sufjan Stevens
Nobody mentioned that Wilco yet? saw them on Jools, theyre the sorta thing I reckon. Raved about by the mags and no doubt all over 6music.
S'all I've got 🙂
Heidi Talbot - Here we go 1, 2, 3 went down well.
if you haven't already got it Eddie Readers' "The Songs of Robert Burns" is great.
Kate Rusby, PJ Harvey, Cate Le Bon, British Sea Power
Julia Holter is a good shout, or...
cheers everyone, very entertaining sitting here going through all the suggestions and having a listen on prime.
i'll pitch one in myself too that i found saved on my wish list, i must have heard this on radio 6 a while back, Eilen jewell 'letters from sinners and strangers'.
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Sorry, been a bit busy evenings of late, only just spotted this.
One I bought recently is Agnes Obel's new album [i]Citizen Of Glass[/i], which is lovely.
I'd second Heidi Talbot, I've got most of hers, and she's fantastic live, too.
I have to mention Kris Delmhorst, she has a wonderfully warm voice, and is a superb songwriter too, I started with her third album, [i]Song For A Hurricane[/i], which I bought after seeing her supporting her friend Erin McKeown.
There's also Smoke Fairies, Paper Aeroplanes, and Bryde, the offshoot solo project of Sarah Howells, singer with the Aeroplanes.
Then there's Aimee Mann, Alice Gold, Hattie Briggs, Ane Brun, Angus & Julia Stone, Patty Griffin, Inara George, Hem, Jesca Hoop, Jenny Queen, Emma Pollock, Karine Polwart, Lisa Hannigan, Hannah Peel, who does wonderful things with a hand-cranked mechanical music box that uses punched cards, that Hannah makes herself.
Oh, and Gemma Hayes, a criminally underrated Irish singer/songwriter who's career I've been following for fifteen years; she's got a beautiful voice, is a terrific songwriter, and is a really lovely person to talk to, all of her albums are worth checking out.
There's loads more out there.
Enjoy! 😀
Of course, someone mentioned the lovely Eddi Reader, whose entire back-catalogue is worth investing in, but also there's the band she started with, Fairground Attraction, who only released one album, but a beauty, [i]First Of A Million Kisses[/i], which is getting a long-overdue re-release, remastered, with a bunch of additional material.
The original release sounds a bit muffled, the sonic equivalent to looking into a really dusty mirror, it's been crying out to be remastered, so I'm chuffed that it's finally happening.
I'll be able to get Eddi to sign this one as well! 😉
Try these.
Frank Turner - Any album but positive songs for negative people is probably as good an entry point as any (Earlier stuff is a little more shouty)
Will Varley - Kingsdown Sundown is a lovely album although all the tracks are fairly similar, Postcards from Ursa Minor is a little weirder but is a very varied album no two tracks feel all that similar.
Conor Oberst - Ruminations, possibly a bit dark and maybe a bit too Dylan but a good album none the less.
Billie Marten - Writing Blues and Yellows, Beautiful album one of my favourites this year.
Julia Holter - Have You in my Wilderness, definetly at the more pop end of folk but worth shortlisting.
Emma Pollock - In Search of Harperfield, mentioned above but it is very good
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