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Tanya Donelly has a great voice.
if you like joss stone I reckon you absolutely love duffy - amazing voice
Not mentioned yet?
Florence and The Machine
Sarah Maclachlan
KT Tunstall
Alison Krauss
Miranda Lee Richards
Early Maria Mckee, esp the Gotta Sin To Get Saved album
and for some unknown reason Taylor Swift has several great tunes......
Emily Hayes
Aimee Mann
Emma Pollock
Kris Delmhorst
The Wailin' Jennies
Jackie Oates
Karine Polwart
Siobhan Donaghy
Cerys Matthews
Little Boots
Gemma Heyes
Erin McKeown
Taken By Trees
Shawn Colvin
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions
Dot Allison
Polly & The Billets Doux
School Of Seven Bells
Howling Bells
Imogen Heap
Auf Der Maur
Heidi Talbot
Inge Thomson
Goldfrapp
Joan As Policewoman
Baskery
Lisa Hannigan
A Camp/The Cardigans (Nina Persson)
Tegan And Sara
The Like
Sam Phillips
Maria McKee
Inara George
Kate Rusby
The Joy Formidable
Lou Rhodes
Shelby Lynne
Eddie Reader
Emmylou Harris
Dar Williams
Camille
Courtney Tidwell
Eileen Rose
Siobhan Maher-Kennedy
Joan Osbourne
Alison Krause
Mindy Smith
Kasey Chambers
Me'shell N'degéocello
The Indigo Girls
Linda Ronstadt
Patty Griffin
Feist
Star 69
Beth Neilsen Chapman
Voice Of The Beehive
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Sandy Denny
Macalias
Jennifer Warnes
Cara Dillon
Scarlett Johansson
Stephanie Dosen
Fever Ray ( Karin Dreijer)
The Smoke Fairies
The Unthanks
Beccy Owen
Neko Case
Polly Scattergood
Eleanor McEvoy
That's by no means a complete list, I'm sure I've left loads out, but it'll do to be going on with. 😉
GJP - MemberI should have added that I have just ordered a new NAIM power amp and pre to follow so looking for stuff that will stretch it.
Shush, or the STW piranhas will strip you limb from ear...
Talk about it here:
http://forums.naim-audio.com/eve/forums/a/frm/f/48019385 😉
Xipe Totec - Thanks. Are they just random names with a few artistes thrown in - fairly sure I have heard less than one in 10 of those 😳
Mr Woppit - I joined that NAIM forum a couple of days ago (shame).
It seems fairly active - but makes us STWers look like the most normally balanced group of people ever to have walked on our good planet earth. Bike obsessiveness is nothing compared with those Hi-Fi chaps
Alice Russel, in her own right and also pops up on a lot of tru thoughts other artists stuff
Lisa Hannigan, the lovely voice from alongside Damien Rice, good videos too
Mara Carlyle, plays the saw
Imelda May, got some go
They are not random names, they were obtained from the stacks of cd's sitting just behind my head while I was tapping out the list on my phone, but if I was to drag my laptop out and have a rummage through the 8000 or so tracks in iTunes I'm sure there are plenty more, like Mary Hopkin, who's album 'Earth Song Ocean Song' is rather lovely. I've been buying records since the late 60's, cd's since '82, and going to concerts since '73, and I have an insatiable thirst for discovering new music. Try buying [i]The Word[/i] magazine every month, it has an excellent free cd on the front with sample tracks from their reviews, and Cery Matthews on 6Music plays lots of really interesting new stuff.
Of the list I put up, you'd be surprised how many I've actually seen, and of those, how many I've had the opportunity to meet.
Laura Marling
Emmy the Great
Peggy Sue
Pearl and the Puppets
Polly Scattergood
Kirsty McColl
Ida Maria
Dot Allison
The Beautiful South
another vote for Alison Krauss , shame she has a face like a bag of hammers
Mayra Andrade
Lisa Hannigan + 1
Jesca Hoop
Alison Moyet - The Voice album
Eva Cassidy....
Here's one or two more:
Shivaree
Hem
Pentangle
Lush
Curve
Eliza Gilkyson
Blood Red Shoes
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Altan
Kathleen Edwards
Sheryl Crow
Cowboy Junkies
The last one in particular would be good on your system; their first album, [i]The Trinity Sessions[/i], was recorded in an old church with a single suspended microphone, so the acoustics are superb. Don't bother with Fairground Attraction's [i]First Of A Million Kisses[/i]. It's a lovely album, to be sure, and all the instruments are acoustic, and Eddie has an incredible voice, but the mastering sucks, it's like a mirror covered with dust, and really disappointing when heard on a quality system. Eddie's album [i]Driftwood[/i] is much better, a beautiful recording. The track [i]Old Soul[/i] has an amazing acoustic drum, possibly a bhòdraìn, that has real deep bass that moves serious air.
I have a feeling that your bank account could be under a degree of pressure for awhile... 😀
Gin wigmore- one of the most original voices to appear for a long time.
Fuzzy
Jale
heather Nova
Goldenhorse
Fur Patrol
Holly Smith
Anika moa
The Geraldine fibbers
Horse
Nina Simone
barb jungr
Cowboy Junkies Trinity Sessions is a quite brilliant albumn. For more up to date stuff I like HMS Ginafore
Susan Tedeschi
Lorna Fothergill
Thanks for all the suggestions - plenty for me to research. Just been down to my local HMV for a look around - not the widest selection but couldn't wait until the middle of the week if I were to order on-line.
Came back with
Duffy
Mazzy Star
Some early PJ Harvey (only £3)
Er and somehow a James Morrison album slipped into the mix.
Will try some find some Gillian Welsh, Cowboy Junkies and that Cash Cow or whoever she is at the start of the thread. Nothing going cheap in HMV though today.
Don't recall Kate Bush appearing the lists - not that I was ever a huge fan. Don't think anyone has mentioned Tracey Thorn either - is she still going?
would second or third imogen heap, cat power.
coco rosie i havent seen mentioned.
I noticed Geraldine Fibbers got mentioned, wow, didn't think anyone else knew of them. Saw them at Reading, in '95 I think, along with Star 69. Loved both, bought their albums, but they both seemed to vanish soon after.
Whatever you do if you get a Cowboy Junkies cd make sure its trinity sessions
+1 for Alela Diane.
Neko Case - Fox Confessor or the new one...production is amazing on both.
Santogold (pretty different to the two above though 😉
Mariah Muldaur
+1 for Linda Ronstadt, Maria McKee and Alison Moyet...
Grace Slick?
Carol Decker?
Belinda Carlisle?
Bee and Flower with the amazingly sultry Dana 🙂
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I can't beleve nobody has mentioned the very talented and very pretty Nerina Pallot (pronounced palloh).
Don't think anyone's mentioned Bat For Lashes yet either. The second album is very well produced. Think somewhere between Kate Bush and Bjork, kind of poppy electronica, but in a good way.
Brandi Carlile +1
and http://www.myspace.com/lykkeli Lykke li she was on the same Jools holland show from last year as Brandi? look up on you tube
Aretha Franklin?
Also worked on a gig last week with a lass called Florence Rawlings who had a decent voice in a sub-Janis kinda way.
Oh, and Billy Holiday, obviously...
Thinking for Tuesday from the BBB, cross between Crissy Hind and Swing out Sister, farly punchy. Might go and se them on Fri in Winch if I don't get caught by the beer monster.
Paramore, Hayly is the lead singer and rather nice IMO..
Still worth keeping with: Siouxsie - her 2007 solo album Mantaray is really, really worth checking out.
From the past: Shirley Collins - the definitive windswept moors female folk voice or, from a very different tradition: Morita Doji. In recent years I like Sharron Kraus' and Larkin Grimm's take on folk traditions.
At the heavier end of things I love doom/stoner band Acid King's Lori S' voice - in the context of doom anyway 🙂
Also love Aqua Nebula Oscillator for an acid punk/garage psych hit.
Oh, and has no one mentioned the endlessly inventive Kate Bush?
Julie Fowlis
Amy Macdonald
Emily Smith
Joan Osborne
Hazeldine
Bic Runga
Lucinda Williams
Judy Tzuke (sp)
Ah yes, the lovely Judy Tzuke, she'd slipped my mind. Her daughter Bailey is a very good singer, too, in a different style.
Meshell Ndegeocello
Janis Joplin
It seems most of my favourites are covered. I'd second (third?) Joan as Policewoman, Ida Maria and Thea Gilmore and add Siouxsie to the list. Mantaray was a cracking solo album. And Gabriella Cilmi nice too. Will go and see The Joy Formidable for the 4th time soon.
...there's only one.
AHU.
*sigh*
Siouxie Sioux
Polly Styrene
jolie holland
the gossip (beth ditto)
So are people actually readding the original post? Slowjo?
[i]searching out some [b]new[/b].. female vocalists.
I am excluding PJ Harvey from the list at the moment as looking for something a little more [b]laid back[/b].[/i]
Poly Styrene? Yeah, new, laidback. Like it.