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    Posted: December 27 2023 at 01:44

Singer-Songwriter is not a genre I've been very fond of, but I've enjoyed some albums over the years, 

which not least are (in more or less chronological order):


Bob Dylan  (USA)  -  Highway  61 Revisited   (1965)

Marek Grechuta / Anawa (PL)  -  Korowód   (1971)

Al Stewart  (UK)  -  Year of the Cat   (1976)

Tracy Chapman  (USA)  -  Tracy Chapman  (1988)

Sinead O'Connor  (IRL)  -  The Lion and The Cobra   (1987)

Tanita Tikaram  (UK)  -  Ancient Heart  (1988)

Suzanne Vega  (USA)  -  Solitude Standing  (1987)

PJ Harvey  (UK)  -  To Bring You My Love   (1995)


How about you?



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John Lennon Plastic Ono Band
Joni Mitchell Ladies of the Canyon
Brian Wilson Smiley Smile
Marvin Gaye What's Going On
Tori Amos   Little Earthquakes

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Joni Mitchell - The Hissing Of Summer Lawns/Hejira
Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown/Summertime Dream
Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
Neil Young - Harvest/After The Goldrush
Cat Stevens - Tea For The Tillerman
James Taylor - Sweet Baby James
Carole King - Tapestry
Nick Drake - Pink Moon/Bryter Later
Jeff Buckley - Grace
David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Sean Trane Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 27 2023 at 03:03
Joni Mitchell - Don Juan/Hejira
Neil Young - Nowhere/Rust Never Sleeps/Psych Pill
Van Morrison - Astral Week
Nick Drake - 5LL/Pink Moon/Bryter Later
Jeff Buckley - Lorca/Starsailor
David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name


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Hard pass.
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anything by John Lennon
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I honestly con't know where to draw the line... Lots of folk artists I don't know whether to include or not. I wouldn't originally have considered PJ Harvey myself.

Joni Mitchell: 
St aka Song to a Seagull, Clouds, Ladies of the Canyon, Blue, For the Roses, Court and Spark, The Hissing of Summer Lawns, Hejira, Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
Leonard Cohen:
Songs of Leonard Cohen, Songs From a Room, Songs of Love and Hate, New Skin for the Old Ceremony, Recent Songs
PJ Harvey: 
Is This Desire?, I Inside the Old Year Dying, Let England Shake, Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea, To Bring You My Love
Sufjan Stevens: 
Michigan, Seven Swans, Illinois, Javelin
Scott Walker: 
3, 4, 2, 1
Nick Drake: 
Five leaves Left, Bryter Lyter, Pink Moon
Judee Sill: 
St, Heart Food
Gene Clark: 
No Other
Linda Perhacs: 
Parallellograms
Vashti Bunyan:
Just Another Diamond Day
Sibylle Baier:
Colour Green

...oh and Tim Buckley: his seven first
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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

I honestly don't know where to draw the line...I wouldn't originally have considered PJ Harvey myself.

I've followed here RYM's classification and was some suprised myself to see PJ Harvey's To Bring You My Love labelled as Singer-Songwriter, and they tag it as Alternative Rock too.

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I've just done one album per artist that I would think would fit sufficiently well.

Weyes Blood - And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow (2022)
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (2005)
Nick Drake - Pink Moon (1972)
Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms (1970)
Douji Morita - A Boy (1977)
Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter - SAVED! (2023)
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
Susan Sundfor - Music for People in Trouble (2017)
P J Harvey - White Chalk (2007)
Roy Harper - Stormcock (1971)
Fiona Apple - When the Pawn (1999)
Emma Ruth Rundle - On Dark Horses (2018)
Joni Mitchell - Heijira (1976)
Joanna Newsom - Ys (2006)
Scott Walker - Scott 3 (1969)
Robert Wyatt - Shleep (1997)
Laura Marling - Once I Was an Eagle (2013)
Anna von Hausswolff - Singoing From the Grave (2010)
Tim Buckley - Lorca (1970)
Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs (1970)
Cat Stevens - Mona Bone Jakon (1970)
Julia Holter and Jenny Hval when they count..
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Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything without a shadow of a doubt! It's my all time #1 singer-songwriter kinda album! The reason it's not AWaTS is because that one's more of an experimental/prog kinda album rather than a traditional singer/songwriter one.
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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

I've just done one album per artist that I would think would fit sufficiently well.

Weyes Blood - And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow (2022)
Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter - SAVED! (2023)
Susan Sundfor - Music for People in Trouble (2017)
Roy Harper - Stormcock (1971)
Joanna Newsom - Ys (2006)
Anna von Hausswolff - Singoing From the Grave (2010)
Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs (1970)
If this is the correct genre too, I'll add them all to my list as well.
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Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Roy Harper - Stormcock
Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
Neil Young - After The Goldrush
Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark
Cat Stevens - Tea For The Tillerman
James Taylor - Sweet Baby James
Carole King - Tapestry
Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Gillian Welch - The Revelator
Jim Croce - You Don't Mess Around With Jim



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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:


Singer-Songwriter is not a genre I've been very fond of, but I've enjoyed some albums over the years, 

which not least are (in more or less chronological order):


Bob Dylan  (USA)  -  Highway  61 Revisited   (1965)

Marek Grechuta & Anawa (PL)  -  Korowód   (1971)

Al Stewart  (UK)  -  Year of the Cat   (1976)

Tracy Chapman  (USA)  -  Tracy Chapman  (1988)

Sinead O'Connor  (IRL)  -  The Lion and The Cobra   (1987)

Tanita Tikaram  (UK)  -  Ancient Heart  (1988)

Suzanne Vega  (USA)  -  Solitude Standing  (1987)

PJ Harvey  (UK)  -  To Bring You My Love   (1995)


How about you?


probably david bixbys old to quetzacoatl or most ov jandeks discog from 1978 2 1990
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https://connieconverse.bandcamp.com/album/how-sad-how-lovely

Wikipedia:

"How Sad, How Lovely is the first album collecting music from American singer-songwriter Connie Converse, released in 2009. The guitarist and singer had disappeared over 30 years prior and this compilation is made up of some of the few recordings she made in the 1960s..."

"...folk performer Robert Forster characterized the release as "both a historical document and a living, breathing album", noting how Converse may have single-handedly shifted American folk music from political music and work songs toward the confessional emphasis of singer-songwriter music: "doing this, alone and unaided, making a deep and marvellous connection between lyric and song that allows us to enter the world of an extraordinary woman living in mid-twentieth-century New York"."
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote David_D Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2023 at 07:18

Grechuta's Korowód is my most favourite album and as much proggy as being Singer-Songwriter (Polish Sung Poetry). 
Both the whole album and this title track are amongst the greatest Polish Rock classics:



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Tanita Tikaram's Ancient Heart may not be a very well-known album, but I've been fond of it since its release in 1988, and I've enjoyed 
its honest, special mood and stylish simplicity. Here's a sample of it:



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Jeff Buckley - Grace
Al Stewart- Year of the Cat
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Carole King - Tapestry
James Taylor - Mud Slide Slim
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Bob Dylan - Desire
Carly Simon - No Secrets
Judee Sill - s/t
Judee Sill - Heart Food
Buffy Sainte-Marie - She Used to Wanna Be a Ballerina
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
Melanie - Candles in the Rain (TBH all her albums from 'Born to Be' through to 'Gather Me')

All classics IMO from the heyday of the singer songwriter explosion.

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I've discovered quite a few new singer-songwriters over the last year or two. The best of them is MG Boulter from Southend - see http://www.mgboulter.co.uk/.


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Video for one of MG Boulter's best songs

I also recommend the very wonderful Jenny Sturgeon


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