What folksy female singers do you like?

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Re: What folksy female singers do you like?
« Reply #20 on: 27 Oct 2009, 10:46 pm »
A few more...

Alison Krauss
Shawn Colvin
Emmylou Harris

+1 to ones already mentioned

Aimee Mann
Lucinda Williams


George

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Re: What folksy female singers do you like?
« Reply #21 on: 27 Oct 2009, 11:01 pm »

I second Buffy Sainte Marie.  She wrote some songs that I think would surprise most people -- "Universal Soldier" (covered by Donovan), "Until it's Time for You to Go" (covered by several very famous early crooners), "Piney Wood Hills" (covered by Eva Cassidy), "Up Where We Belong" (covered by Jennifer Warnes and Joe Cocker). Not quite the same vein as "Groundhog" and "Cod'ine".

Jennifer and Joe here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFYtpTot7hQ

Also second Beverly Bivens as lead singer for the first two We Five albums.

I third Buffy Sainte Marie who also wrote "Tall Trees In Georgia" - my favorite of her songs. The version by Eva Cassidy (obviously another fav) is peerless: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVYiM4Fy2X0

Joan Baez still sends chills up through my head particularly in this, which I was lucky to hear her do live in the '80s (the clip is from Newport in the '60s): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga_l6zo5LBU&feature=related

Iris Dement and Emmylou Harris: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghVAH_WX-9I

Sylvia Fricker (Ian and Sylvia), who wrote "You Were On My Mind".

Kate and Anna McGarrigle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhuWmAk6rs8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB6-sH5jozA&feature=PlayList&p=3FF970185D30964C&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=27

Sandy Denny, of course.

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Re: What folksy female singers do you like?
« Reply #22 on: 27 Oct 2009, 11:05 pm »
Rim....

Soeur Sourire....the singing nun....



Sad about her fate....

"Sadly, she seemed ill-prepared for life outside the convent. By 1985, then in her 50s, Deckers was overwhelmed by debt, with the Belgian government claiming she owed $63,000 in back taxes. Pushed to desperation when she thought she would lose her school, she swallowed a lethal amount of barbiturates with alcohol, and was joined by her companion of 10 years, Annie Pecher, a physiotherapist and a fellow former nun. Found near their bodies was a poignant note from both, asking for forgiveness and understanding: ''We hope God will welcome us. He saw us suffer, so He should show clemency.''

How ironic. Sworn to chastity and living pure most of her life. Then her and her "companion" take the coward's way out on booze and pills. They must have been really blazed before the lights went out.

How uncharitable.

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Re: What folksy female singers do you like?
« Reply #23 on: 27 Oct 2009, 11:07 pm »
I can not believe that no one has mentioned Patty Griffin.  What an angelic voice and great song writer to boot!

Patty Griffin  http://www.amazon.com/Living-Ghosts-Patty-Griffin/dp/B000002G4U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1256684689&sr=8-1

She is incredible.

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Re: What folksy female singers do you like?
« Reply #24 on: 27 Oct 2009, 11:10 pm »
A few more...

Alison Krauss

Looks and sings like an angel :angel:

Laura

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Re: What folksy female singers do you like?
« Reply #25 on: 27 Oct 2009, 11:15 pm »
Ani Difranco
and for a group, The Wailin' Jennys


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Re: What folksy female singers do you like?
« Reply #26 on: 28 Oct 2009, 12:35 am »

I second Buffy Sainte Marie.  She wrote some songs that I think would surprise most people -- "Universal Soldier" (covered by Donovan), "Until it's Time for You to Go" (covered by several very famous early crooners), "Piney Wood Hills" (covered by Eva Cassidy), "Up Where We Belong" (covered by Jennifer Warnes and Joe Cocker). Not quite the same vein as "Groundhog" and "Cod'ine".

Jennifer and Joe here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFYtpTot7hQ

Also second Beverly Bivens as lead singer for the first two We Five albums.

I third Buffy Sainte Marie who also wrote "Tall Trees In Georgia" - my favorite of her songs. The version by Eva Cassidy (obviously another fav) is peerless: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVYiM4Fy2X0

Joan Baez still sends chills up through my head particularly in this, which I was lucky to hear her do live in the '80s (the clip is from Newport in the '60s): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga_l6zo5LBU&feature=related

Iris Dement and Emmylou Harris: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghVAH_WX-9I

Sylvia Fricker (Ian and Sylvia), who wrote "You Were On My Mind".

Kate and Anna McGarrigle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhuWmAk6rs8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB6-sH5jozA&feature=PlayList&p=3FF970185D30964C&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=27

Sandy Denny, of course.

rpf,  You found my mistake.  I typed "Piney Wood Hills" instead of "Tall Trees in Georgia".  Hey, they are both about trees and places and maybe the pine trees are tall and on a hill in Georgia--easy mistake.  :lol:  I edited my original post so later readers won't be left scratching their heads.  :scratch:

And thanks for crediting Sylvial Fricker with writing "You Were on My Mind".  I forgot to do that even though I mentioned that song and Ian and Sylvia on the thread "First five songs indelibly imprinted on your soul"    http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=72987.msg686597;topicseen#new

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Re: What folksy female singers do you like?
« Reply #27 on: 28 Oct 2009, 12:39 am »
I don't think Beth Orton is all that folksy, but I mention her because my wife thinks she sounds like "that famous 1960's folk singer," whose name neither of use could recall.

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Re: What folksy female singers do you like?
« Reply #28 on: 28 Oct 2009, 12:57 am »
Not completely folksy but I have been enjoying Zee Avi from the Brushfire label lately.  Unique kinda voice and interesting background.

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Re: What folksy female singers do you like?
« Reply #29 on: 28 Oct 2009, 01:03 am »
Carbon Glacier- Laura Viers (Nonesuch).

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Re: What folksy female singers do you like?
« Reply #30 on: 28 Oct 2009, 01:16 am »
So many of the above, and:

Kate Walsh;
Jen Ambrose.

Have fun,
Jerry

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Re: What folksy female singers do you like?
« Reply #31 on: 28 Oct 2009, 01:46 am »
Off the top of my head


Nina Nastasia
Hem (Sally Ellyson)
Martha Wainwright
Lou Rhodes
Jolie Holland
Erin McKeown
Dar Williams



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Re: What folksy female singers do you like?
« Reply #32 on: 28 Oct 2009, 02:40 am »
+1 for
Joni Mitchell
Joan Baez

Have all their LPs.

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Re: What folksy female singers do you like?
« Reply #33 on: 28 Oct 2009, 09:04 am »

        Some of my favourites:-

                      Judy Collins
                      Joan Baez
                      Maria Muldaur
                      Mary Black
                      Sandy Denny
                      Maddy Prior
                      EmmyLou Harris
                      Joni Mitchell

   Regards

  Graham


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Re: What folksy female singers do you like?
« Reply #34 on: 28 Oct 2009, 05:16 pm »
A couple more that were not mentioned already...

Catie Curtis
Mary Chapin Carpenter

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Re: What folksy female singers do you like?
« Reply #35 on: 28 Oct 2009, 06:01 pm »
Not totally folksy, but here are a few more.

Tracy Chapman
Cowboy Junkies  (Margo Timmins)
Melody Gardot
Patsy Cline
Linda Thompson (Richard & Linda Thompson, Fairport Convention)


Jim C




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Re: What folksy female singers do you like?
« Reply #36 on: 28 Oct 2009, 06:24 pm »
Patty Loveless
She can wring every heartache out of a song...

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Re: What folksy female singers do you like?
« Reply #37 on: 28 Oct 2009, 08:03 pm »
I heard Ditty Bops open for Tori Amos, and then heard them on a radio show about a year later.
Kinda blue-grass-folk, lively.

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Re: What folksy female singers do you like?
« Reply #38 on: 28 Oct 2009, 08:27 pm »
Great choices.  I have been checking them out on line.  I am adding more names.

Vienna Teng
Annie Haslam
Hope Sandoval

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Re: What folksy female singers do you like?
« Reply #39 on: 28 Oct 2009, 09:44 pm »
None! :)
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