Female vocalist recommendations

Lana Del Rey 

Dolores O'Riordan (Cranberries)

Karen Jonas (way underappreciated and for the time being pretty unknown). Start off with the track: butter 

Sylvan Esso- electro pop. Try sunburn off of her new album. No rules Sandy.

US Girls 

Julia Jacklin 

Samia 

Phoebe Bridgers 

And above all: Ashley Monroe. Try Like a Rose, one of her earlier songs. Then move on to: the Blade, Sparrow, and Rosegold

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What about Katie Melua, No 8. Album or The house. Refreshing!

My all time favorite remains Jennifer Warnes Famous Blue Raincoat and Nathalie Merchant Ophelia. Hope they make a vinyl of that one sooner than later.

Happy listening!

• Shawn Colvin
• Katie Melua
• Karrin Allyson
• Cyndi Lauper

 

Samara Joy

Lots of great names listed above.  One I didn’t see was Monica Zetterlund.  Start with Ahh! Monica! and if you like what you hear (you will) move on to Swedish Sensation and others. 

H.C.McEntire flips my trigger lately. 

Laura Veirs 

Amy Helm 

K. D. Lang 

Sophia Pfister 

Rosanne Cash

Elise Regina. Often referred to as the Brazilian Ella Fitzgerald.

 

Helen Watson

Françoise Hardy

Kate Bush

Sonja Kristina

For what it's worth since this is about the zillionth time this has been discussed.

Enjoy whoever is your cup of tea is my advice.

 

Shocked to not yet see Diana Krall or Sophie Zelmani. 

Early Jane Olivor

Loreena Mckennitt

Cassandra Wilson - Blue Light ‘til Dawn

Automatically pops up in my mind Julie London.

She is all times world champ on female voice

Check also out Sister Rosetta Tharpe

 

My two favorites.....Mary Black and Jennifer Warnes. Mary Black has a large catalog of great Irish-influenced music. No Frontiers, Babes in the Wood, The Holy Ground, Without the Fanfare and By the Time it Gets dark are favorites.  Jennifer Warnes has a large catalog as well, with some of her lesser known, The Hunter, The Well, Another Time, Another Place, some of her most enjoyable in my opinion.

Youn Sun Nah. Check out 'Voyage' and 'Lento.'

https://songwhip.com/malia/convergence

Give this one a listen.

@curtisvill +1 on Dominque Fils-Aime. beautiful voice and arresting songwriting.

@kb54 That Kathleen Edwards title should have garnered way more attention than it did when it was released. 

I never get tired of Billie Holiday.

Sarah Vaughn and Clifford Brown is a great, great recording.

Ella Fitz is good as well.

Take a listen to Dominique Fils-Aimé, her song Birds is one of my audition songs. 

I’ve been lazy, foot surgeries, off my feet for 3-1/2 months.

here’s who is laying about waiting to be put in their place

Eva Cassidy

Kate Wolf

Cassandra Wilson

Melody Gardot

Mila Drumke

Nina Simone

Abbey Lincoln

Betty Carter

Sarah Vaughan

Nancy Wilson

Maria Muldar

Chrissie Hynde

Adele

Christie Baron

Fontana Bass

Shirley Bassey

Larkin Poe (sisters)

Rising Appalachia (sisters)

Norah Jones

Joni Mitchell

Jewel

Allison Moyet

Annie Lenox

Madeleine Peyroux

Lucy Kaplansky

Alicia Keys

Ledisi

Joan Baez

Sade

Mary Stallings

Pink

Nancy Bryan

Ani CiFranco

Patty Griffin

Mariza (FADO)

Jennifer Warnes

Roberta Flack

Jacintha

Alison Krauss

Adele

Sia

Christy Baron

Elizabeth Bougerol (hot sardines)

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Peggy Lee .. start with “Black Coffee “

Patty Griffin

Jennifer Warnes (Famous Blue Raincoat), Sara Bareilles (don't know her albums, but stunning voice), Sade (Diamond Life), Kathleen Edwards (Asking for Flowers, Voyageur).

On weekends I am also a member of the Super Early Listening Club (SELC), starting at 3:30 - 4:00 AM. The power grid is better then.

You should try Kate Wolf, Kathleen Edwards, and Nancy Griffith. All are more toward the folk/bluegrass/country range.

Good listening!!

Jim Perry

Eilen Jewel, one of the best talents no one has heard. Excellent band ( Jerry Miller is her guitarist ), and her recordings are all very good. Beautiful voice that covers jazz, country, blues ,rock.... Hard to pigeon hole, probably why she isn’t mainstream. If you try one new artist this year......

 

Marilyn McCoo, Whitney Houston, Dionne Warwick.

Eva Cassidy 

Jane Monheit

Patricia Barber

Judy Collins

 

 

Kelly,

 

PM me yours and I will show you mine!

Great suggestions already, I'll add Mazzy Star, Rickie Lee Jones (the acoustic one if you need it to be totally mellow), Lucinda Williams, Lindi Ortega, Kelsea Ballerini, Phoebe Bridgers, Caitlin Canty, someone already mentioned Amber Rubarth and Natalie Merchant,  but +1 on those.

Let us know what you thought of all these recommendations.

@roxy54 thanks for the October project suggestion. I never heard of them before, which kind of surprises me, but they’re right up my alley. Kind of remind me of a cross between All About Eve and Fairport convention

- Maria Muldaur: s/t (Reprise Records).

- Lucinda Williams: anything. Try her album West.

- Dusty Springfield: Dusty In Memphis.

Erin Bode, Over and Over

Julie London

Hank Dogs, Bareback

Cassandra Wilson, New Moon Daughter

And the absolutely beautiful Anne Hills. Start with Angle of the Light 

October Project with Mary Fahl.

Natalie Merchant "Tigerlily"

Linda Ronstadt "Heart Like A Wheel"

Patsy Cline "Greatest Hits"

Joni Mitchell "Blue"

Tierney Sutton, start with Dancing in the Dark, great album.  All of the Ella Sings... Songbooks by Ella Fitzgerald, the Queen.  

I’m an early listener as well. The Breath and their Acoustic album is pretty nice.