Oh, A Girl Called Eddy is GREAT, a really unsung record. Richard Hawley produced that record, and you should definitely seek out his solo records if like that one. Kitty Foss wrote: Well, thanks for the welcome, and for the recommendations! I'm excited, I haven't heard a lot of the ones you mentioned, Bob. Interesting, though, I feel the way about Feist as...I think it was James...feels about Winehouse. Affected vox, blah songs, doesn't really move me. But hey, opinions, opinions, opinions... Another woman I LOOOVE is A Girl Called Eddy. I heard she had a falling out with her producer (forgot his name...Richard Hawkins, was it?) so I hope she gets up and gets another album out. Best, KF On 9/23/07, bob wrote: > > ...and to some, if it's obscure, it MUST be great. > Be your own judge and jury. Talent, whether mainstream or under the > radar, always manages to surface and sustain...most of the time. > Never understood why Nick Lowe, Delbert McClinton, and others never > broke through... > > bob > > > Stewart Mason wrote: > First off, Kitty, welcome. Always very good to see some new blood > here. > > However, you'll quickly learn that there's a small contingent of > Auditeers for whom anything that achieves any level of mainstream > commercial success is automatically beneath contempt. So there you > go. > > But if you haven't heard her yet, do check out Sharon Jones: as > someone else mentioned, producer Mark Ronson has used her backing > band, the Dap-Kings, on both Amy Winehouse and Lily Allen's albums. I > think her 2005 album NATURALLY is a good starting point. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kitty Foss" > To: > Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2007 11:56 PM > Subject: Re: What do you want to like? > > > > Just curious- who are these singers as good as Winehouse? > > I'd love to find some good new music (new to me, anyway)...esp > > female > > singers. > > > > --------------------------------- Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us.