Favorite female singer-songwriter types

Subject: RE: Favorite female singer-songwriter types
From: fat B****rd
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 03:45 PM

Unless I've missed her in previoius posts, the late Judee Sill is, IMO, one of the best of the 70s lady singer songwriters. In fact of any decade.

Subject: RE: Favorite female singer-songwriter types
From: GUEST,The Mole Catcher's unplugged Apprentice
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 03:50 PM

It occurred to me, while out at the shops and being a piano player myself....

Carole King

Charlotte (tapestry)

Subject: RE: Favorite female singer-songwriter types
From: fat B****rd
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 03:56 PM

Good one, Mole Catchers etc. I love Carole King's stuff. Right back to "It might as well rain until September"

Subject: RE: Favorite female singer-songwriter types
From: Jane of 'ull
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 03:59 PM

That sadly deceased and fragile genius, Judee Sill. Tori Amos when she takes her head out of her bottom, and yes the lovely and local Edwina Hayes.

Subject: RE: Favorite female singer-songwriter types
From: Wesley S
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 04:04 PM

Have we left out the lovely Mimi Farina?

Subject: RE: Favorite female singer-songwriter types
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 05:37 PM

I hope Sandy Denny's been mentioned a few times!

Subject: RE: Favorite female singer-songwriter types
From: GUEST,The Mole Catcher's unplugged Apprentice
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 05:43 PM

"I hope Sandy Denny's been mentioned a few times!"

Speaking of Fairport...Judy Dyble

and
Judy Dunlop

Vikki Clayton

Polly Bolton

Cathy Lesurf

Charlotte (racking her brains on Ma and Pa's piano stool)

Subject: RE: Favorite female singer-songwriter types
From: van lingle
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 05:58 PM

Heidi Talbot, late of Cherish the Ladies, is worth checking out. Recently released In Love+ Light but I'm not sure how much of her own stuff she writes. Tish Hinajosa is also very special.

Subject: RE: Favorite female singer-songwriter types
From: number 6
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 06:02 PM

Tunesmith ... "I hope Sandy Denny's been mentioned a few times!"

she has been previously mentioned in this thread, and deservedly so.

... and with I think Jacqui McShee should receive some accolades in this thread.

biLL

Subject: RE: Favorite female singer-songwriter types
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 06:02 PM

Some who haven't been mentioned (or were overlooked by me), in no particular order:

Karine Polwart, Alison McMorland, Frankie Armstrong, Judy Small, Peggy Seeger,

as well as some great singers, even though they don't / didn't write many songs:

Ray Fisher, Cilla Fisher, Dolores Keane, Eleanor Shanley, Heather Heywood, Jean Redpath, June Tabor and Norma Waterson

Subject: RE: Favorite female singer-songwriter types
From: open mike
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 08:33 PM

Laurie Lewis www.laurielewis.com
the Late Great Kate Wolf www.katewolf.com
Cheryl Wheeler www.cherylwheeler.com
k.d.lang www.kdlang.com
Emmylou Harris www.emmylou.net
Linda Ronstadt http://lindaronstadt.com/, http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/
Stephanie Davis www.stephaniedavis.net
Juni Fisher www.junifisher.com/
Joni Harms www.joniharms.com
Linda Williams of www.robinandlinda.com
Kathy Mattea www.mattea.com
Kate Campbell www.katecampbell.com/
Sally Van Meter www.sallyvanmeter.com
Tammy Fassaert http://www.island.net/~tammyfas/
Kathy Kallick www.kathykallick.com/
http://www.island.net/~tammyfas/
Cathey Fink and Marcy Marxer http://www.cathymarcy.com/
Sarah Elizabeth Campbell http://www.myspace.com/sayraliz

Many of these gals were in the famed Blue Rose Band
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Rose_(band)
Blue Rose were an all-star all-women band that played
bluegrass music. All of the musicians in the group are
solo artists in their own right, who joined together to
record an album as a group in 1988 for Sugar Hill Records.

O.k. i guess i have a few favorites...hope you don't mind!

Subject: RE: Favorite female singer-songwriter types
From: GUEST,Suffolk Miracle
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 08:16 AM

Well, Belle Stewart wrote Berryfields of Blair so that makes her a female singer-songwriter. Shall we now stop the competition?

Subject: RE: Favorite female singer-songwriter types
From: Anne Lister
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 08:22 AM

and obviously no one likes me ...*sniff*


Anne

Subject: RE: Favorite female singer-songwriter types
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 08:32 AM

I do I do I do !!!!!

"Anne" a.k.a. Tabster is Anne Lister, brilliant songwriter. (I should not try to cook dinner and post to Mudcat at the same time, brain obviously can't cope...)

Subject: RE: Favorite female singer-songwriter types
From: BK Lick
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 02:19 PM

Jo Mapes

Subject: RE: Favorite female singer-songwriter types
From: Whistlepenny
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 02:33 PM

Anne Lister, stop sniffing, your songs are great - Moth is one of my all time favourites.

Haven't seen Eddi Reader's name yet - http://www.eddireader.co.uk/ - and the late great Kirsty McColl has to be in there.

Subject: RE: Favorite female singer-songwriter types
From: Grab
Date: 05 Mar 08 - 12:26 PM

If we're thinking Tori Amos, don't forget the original - Kate Bush. The girl recorded "Wuthering Heights" aged 16, meaning she wrote it aged 14 or 15. Now that's pretty amazing, if you ask me.

I'd second Joan Armatrading. Saw her a few months back, and she was great. It seems to be unusual for women to have such big stage presence without doing much, but JA has it in spades. She also rocks as a guitarist.

Beverley Knight and Duffy, from more recent soul stuff. Both have great voices. I'd like to see BK doing more - she's not had a new CD out for a while now.

A couple of relatively unknown English singers. Jane Taylor is a fantastic singer and writer, both live and recorded. Abbie Lathe is a bit ho-hum recorded but great live, especially with some of the covers that her band does.

And very locally, Jacqui Carnall from Cambridge is pretty bloody good and deserves recognition.

Graham.

Subject: RE: Favorite female singer-songwriter types
From: The Mole Catcher's Apprentice (inactive)
Date: 05 Mar 08 - 01:17 PM

"don't forget the original - Kate Bush"

I'm not sure what you mean by original, but (and she has already been mentioned) Sandy Denny definitely pre-dates the likes of Kate Bush, Tori Amos etc..etc..

and Anne...as a bit of a late comer...I love your songs!

Charlotte (the view from Ma and Pa's piano stool)

Subject: RE: Favorite female singer-songwriter types
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 13 Apr 13 - 12:00 PM

I would have to say that Kate Bush is an original in the true sense of the word..she has written wonderful, eccentric songs, has been her own producer and is a consumate musician. She has written some of the best songs of the last 30 years or so,

Subject: RE: Favorite female singer-songwriter types
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Apr 13 - 04:20 PM

I was just introduced to the music of Tracy Grammer and think she's quite good.

Subject: RE: Favorite female singer-songwriter types
From: GUEST, Paul Slade
Date: 13 Apr 13 - 04:59 PM

Mary Gauthier - especially for "I Drink" and 'Sugar Cane".

Subject: RE: Favorite female singer-songwriter types
From: Jeri
Date: 13 Apr 13 - 06:49 PM

I don't think Tracy Grammer has written any songs, but I might have missed something.

I do like Kate Bush. I think Florence & the Machine must have been influenced by her. So different from others. (Perhaps that's what was meant by "original" above.)

A lot of what I like these days involves a song here or there and not one songwriter all the time. I don't know if that says something about singer/songwriters or me.

Subject: RE: Favorite female singer-songwriter types
From: GUEST,Larry Saidman
Date: 13 Apr 13 - 09:05 PM

Check out Cheryl Wheeler.

Subject: RE: Favorite female singer-songwriter types
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 13 Apr 13 - 11:15 PM

Judy Small..up there with Stan Rogers I think. Pat Humphries writes true classics.

Subject: RE: Favorite female singer-songwriter types
From: David C. Carter
Date: 14 Apr 13 - 07:16 AM

Laura Nyro

Gillian Welch

Subject: RE: Favorite female singer-songwriter types
From: ranger1
Date: 14 Apr 13 - 08:13 AM

Anna Coogan.

Subject: RE: Favorite female singer-songwriter types
From: Elmore
Date: 14 Apr 13 - 10:58 AM

Rosalie Sorrels. Recently retired.

Subject: RE: Favorite female singer-songwriter types
From: pdq
Date: 14 Apr 13 - 11:33 AM

open mike suggests Linda Ronastadt and Emmylou Harris as songwriters.

I doubt that Linda has written and entire song ever in her life.

Emmylou may have tried to late in her career.

Some under-appreciated ladies are Mary McCaslin, Gail Davies, Kate Wolf and Lacy J. Dalton.

Subject: RE: Favorite female singer-songwriter types
From: Janie
Date: 14 Apr 13 - 11:46 AM

Canadian singer/songwriter Lynn Miles

Subject: RE: Favorite female singer-songwriter types
From: Bert
Date: 14 Apr 13 - 12:47 PM

Don't worry too much about that pdq, I too love all female singers whether they write songs or not.

And don't forget Hot Soup.

Subject: RE: Favorite female singer-songwriter types
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 14 Apr 13 - 02:28 PM

Priscilla Herdman

Subject: RE: Favorite female singer-songwriter types
From: Allan Conn
Date: 14 Apr 13 - 03:53 PM

As well as many of the other already mentioned I like Dar Williams too.