Looking for good

[larryhammer]

Inspired by this post, I'm soliciting recommendations. I'm looking for stuff in the Patty Griffin/Patty Larkin/Dar Williams region of musicspace. Any suggestions?

Two possibly useful parameters: (A) I recognize that Nancy Griffith is good but find her impossible to listen to for more than a couple songs in a row. (2) I consider Alannis Morrissette, Tori Amos, David Gray, and Vanessa Carlton to be very close to the above locus, while Michelle Branch is actually working a different genre. (Arguably, Mary Chapin Carpenter is as well, the same one that has Cowboy Junkies.)

---L.

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[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Jenny Bruce might well fit in this nexus (you can listen to some of her cuts over on CD-Baby), also possibly Joan Osborne (especially if you find you like Lucinda Williams), and Paula Cole. If you aren't already reading it, the IndieCrit page is worthwhile for finding independent music that is similar to what you already like.

(and who the hell am I? Oh, I'm just the other person on LJ who listed nominal aphasia as an interest and dropped by on a blog hop)

[larryhammer]

<makes a note about Jenny Bruce and Joan Osborne> I liked Paula Cole's first album, but found the follow-up unlistenable, and recently sold the first back to the CD exchange. Thanks.

And welcome, UrlrikAkirlU. I hope you stick around — anyone who knows what nominal aphasia is probably is an interesting person. (Out of curiousity, do you have it or just interested in it?)

---L.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Paula Cole's second was not her finest hour. Reminds me: if the only thing you've ever heard of Suzanne Vega was the unfortunate single, "Luka" then it would probably be worth your time to check into some of her other stuff. Farther out into the ether, if you like Kate Bush, you should probably check out Happy Rhodes.

No, I don't have nominal aphasia in the clinical sense, where I can't even name household objects. But I think most people periodically experience a mild version, wherein the *right* noun drops out of their heads and can only be retrieved by circuitous means, and I certainly have that.

[larryhammer]

I listened to a couple of Vega's albums (admittedly a decade ago) and came away with the impression that she, like Bob Dylan, is a much better songwriter than performer. I still have one Bush album left (Hounds of Love, the least uneven), so maybe I'll try Happy Rhodes.

I don't have clinical nominal aphasia either, but nouns are the first to escape me when I'm tired.

And doesn't everyone know TNH/PNH? Seems that way, sometimes.

---L.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

I hope you stick around

I just tacked you onto my Friends list; which is where I realized we also already had tnh & pnh in common. Small planet.