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David_D
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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? Edited by David_D - December 30 2023 at 08:07 |
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quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
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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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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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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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Hard pass.
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The Prog Corner
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MortSahlFan
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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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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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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 Edited by The Dark Elf - December 27 2023 at 18:16 |
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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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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: Edited by David_D - December 30 2023 at 12:15 |
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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. Edited by Floydoid - January 03 2024 at 11:35 |
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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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