Beautiful Voices With Something to Say

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Dizzie

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Guess I am an old folkie. Give me a song with a message and a pretty voice to back it up. I hate the jazzy lounge-lizards. To me they are pretty voices with nothing to say.

Help me out with some new music. My more recent faves have been Emmylou Harris, some of Melody Gardot's work (faster tempo stuff), and Beth Hart. I really would like to hear some new artists. I tried internet radio but all the artists I heard sounded like they were straining. The lyrics were too complicated and the voices sounded labored. There was no natural, easy flow.

Here are a couple of old favorites from someone who passed much too early. Kate Wolf was just becoming well known but her words fell like rain on the dry desert plain. Precious and so quickly gone.



 
Ah, great stuff. Your talking my language here.
Here's another one:


Any doubts about the voices in the Mamas & Papas (Mama Cass in this case)? Live vocals here!




 
Cool thread, with some great picks here. I have to give some a try.

I'm becoming a big fan of Rachel Yamagata and hope to see her when she comes to NY in the fall:




 
Here is a young singer (14) who I don't think has made an album yet but she should be the next star. An amazing soulful voice from one so young.



 
Carmen Gomes has been mentioned often on this forum because of the beautiful sound of the downloads, but she is also a singer/songwriter with a message and a story to tell:

Thousand Shades of Blue... Inspired by the tale of Ines and Pedro, 'Thousand Shades of Blue' is Carmen Gomes' tribute to the land of her ancestors, the sea surrounding it, and the power of impossible love.
Dom Pedro, son of King Alfonso of Portugal, and heir to the throne, fell in love with Inés de Castro, a chambermaid. They became lovers and soul mates.The scandal was too much for the king who consequently ordered the killing of Ines in front of hers and Pedro's infant child. When Alfonso died, Pedro's first act as King was to have Ines' body exhumed from the grave, dressed in royal robes and carried 50 miles along a candlelit route to Alcobacá where she was crowned as his Queen. He then forced the entire court to swear allegiance to their new queen by kissing the corpse's hand. Ines and Pedro are both buried at the Monastery of Alcobacá, where Pedro had arranged that their two tombs are placed with their feet towards each other, so that on the Day of Judgement, when they raise from the grave, their very first act will be looking into each others eyes.
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from the liner notes: Sound Liaison Music Shop
 
Lyrics are generally lost on me. Lyrics are purely incidental.

I listen to music to relax.

I enjoy the voice as a "musical instrument" but I don't care what the singer has to say, which is one of the reasons I can enjoy opera in languages I don't understand.

I get more than enough of listening to what other people have to say in other media during the course of the day.
 
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