Music Recs Round You Show Me Yours

[icepixie]

It's about time for another music recs post. However, I have a problem: I haven't heard much new that's good lately. :(

Instead, I'm asking you to rec music to me! What do you like? What have you been listening to of late? Links are great, but just names and titles are good too. Lay 'em on me.

(...Okay, I lied about having nothing. Possibly I've rec'ed her before, but if I haven't, try out Lucy Kaplansky, especially these two: This Is Home, Ten Year Night.)

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[alto2.livejournal.com]

I've been inhaling Bruce Springsteen lately (I don't think you could go wrong with much of anything, but the ones on my list are Magic and Tunnel of Love), and then decided that after three solid months of the Boss in my car, I needed something radically different, so I've been listening to Lyle Lovett's The Road to Ensenada for the last week or so. I adore "That's Right (You're Not from Texas)" and "Private Conversation," which are the songs I heard on XPN that made me think perhaps I should put my anti-country prejudices aside and give him a try, but there's really nothing on the album that's not good. (And for me, car time is intensive music time--I never get to really know an album until it's been in my car for a while--so the fact that I'm not just playing him in my living room is saying something!)

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

I love music rec posts! And that website is awesome - immediately bookmarked. I hate sending people to YouTube to listen to a song.

Two songs I heard for the first time the last few weeks I'm in love with: Mumford & Sons, "Little Lion Man" (http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/s/Little+Lion+Man/2ycia8) and Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros - "Home" (http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/s/Home/2UWEeu).

And kind of going off of your recs (and those songs were lovely; I'm definitely going to see if my library has any of her CDs), here's a few female vocalists: Joker's Daughter - "Nothing is Ever What it Seems" (http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/s/Nothing+is+Ever+What+it+Seems/2wJ5Q6), Laura Gibson - "Come by Storm" (http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/s/Come+By+Storm/2p06tY), Laura Veirs - "Wide Eyed, Legless" (http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/s/Wide+Eyed+Legless/2op4sR), Anna Ternheim, "You Mean Nothing to Me Anymore" (http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/s/You+Mean+Nothing+to+Me+Anymore/2grgaa), and Frida Hyvönen, "Today, Tuesday" (http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/s/Today+Tuesday/98b3).

(I hope all these links work.)

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Seeing that you like some of the singer/songwriter folk stuff like the Wailin' Jennies (I don't have any of their stuff yet, but I've heard some and I like it), I cannot recommend one artist strongly enough: Abigail Washburn (http://www.abigailwashburn.com/). Her "Song of the Traveling Daughter" album is still one of my favorite CDs - it's a really interesting mix of American folk and traditional Chinese influences, and written about half in English and half in Mandarin. And the samples on her site from the upcoming CD sound pretty good, too. She's got a really sweet, low voice with a nice burr to it, and she's a damned fine fiddle player - I had the pleasure to see her live here in Seattle a few years ago, and was totally charmed.

Another favorite is Kate Rusby (http://www.katerusby.com/), who does a mix of original and traditional English folk songs. Check out the samples on her site, she has an absolutely stunning voice, though the songs tend toward the slow and fairly simple presentations. And then there's Karine Polwart (http://www.karinepolwart.com/songs/) - Scottish singer/songwriter, I know her mostly from a now-defunct folk band she used to sing for, but "Resolution Road" and "What Are You Waiting For?" from her "Faultlines" CD are two of my favorite songs right now, and I'm hoping to look into more. She has individual mp3s available on her site, looks like, and samples of each so you can see if they're anything you'd be into. :)