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Your Top Five Solo Female Singers?

Harriet wheeler - static and silence
Rickie lee jones - pop pop
Kate bush - the dreaming
Nina Simone - everything
Suzanne Vega - 99.9F
 
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Think I'd have Merry Clayton in there, just for the backing vocals on Gimme shelter. Her own version is good, also love cover of southern man.
Kate Bush on almost every album ( not heard last couple though)
Aretha Franklin.
Sade. Will have to dig Diamond Life out again.
Sheryl Crow Tuesday Night Music Club.
 
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Bjork
Hope Sandeval
Natalie Merchant
Patti Smith
Joni Mitchell
Lena Zavaroni
Karen Carpenter
Delores Oriordan
Nina Simone
Siouxie Sioux
Kate Bush
 
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Cara Dillon, self titled
Anais Mitchell, Young Man in America
Joni Mitchell, Ladies of the Canyon
Jackie Oates, The Spyglass and the Herringbone
Laura Veirs, Year of Meteors
honourable mentions for Fenne Lilly, Julia Stone, Laura Marling... I could go on and on
 
In my mind there all inter-related and live in my gas cuboard . Who needs streaming services when I've got limewire.
 
Kate Bush
Sheila Chandra
Annie Lennox
Lisa Gerrard
Liz Frazer

All in no particular order and they may change depending on my mood.
 
Joni Mitchell
Sandy Denny
PJ Harvey
Sarah Vaughan
Nina Simone

Best female lead singer in a group? Grace Slick. No contest.
 
Martyn Miles said:
Definitely.
Probably my number one female vocalist.
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Thanks and all of the above are fantastic. That bird was just a bit shit at walking down stairs pissed.
So at the mo: Emmylou, Joni, Joan and Eva follow two paces behind. (all with better balance I hope)
 
Plant told a wonderful story about Denny arriving to do 'Battle Of Evermore' with a heavy cold. That is her doing it that afternoon on the record! He said in the same interview that "she was the best of the British girls". Sadly he didn't give a view on others but he did work with the technically sublime Krauss. Who's name I couldn't remember so I went up to the rack.. and then I realised:
We dumb bastards have forgotten the queen..Dolly!
 
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