Five Favorite Albums By Female Artists

What are your five favorite albums by female artists? Here are mine:

Joni Mitchell - Blue
Cassandra Wilson - Traveling Miles
Patricia Barber - Modern Cool
Emmy Lou Harris - Wrecking Ball
Rickie Lee Jones - The Sermon On Exposition Boulevard

 

Joni Mitchell - Hejira
Caroline Herring - Lantana
Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball
Mary Gauthier - Between Daylight and Dark
Linda Thompson - Versitale Heart

 

I am not familiar with Caroline Herring. The Mary Gauthier is a really good choice.

 

Carole King - Tapestry
Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstacy
Joni Mitchell - The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
Sade - Lovers Rock
Enya - Watermark

 

Is this only solo artists??

Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns
Sheryl Crow - Sheryl Crow
PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
Heart - Little Queen
Elastica - Elastica

 

Cos if it is i'll change Heart and Elastica and have:

Sade - Stronger Than Pride
Carole King - Tapestry

 

Patti Smith - Horses
Joni Mitchell - Hejira
Emmylou Harris - Quarter moon in a ten cent town
Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones
Michelle Shocked - Short, sharp, shocked

 

La Luna - Sarah Brightman
The Sweetest Illusion - Basia
Homogenic - Björk
Love, Angel, Music, Baby - Gwen Stefani
Ariel - Kate Bush

 

Flutterby - Butterfly Boucher
Different Light - The Bangles
Pearl - Janis Joplin
Taking the Long Way - Dixie Chicks

and most recently => Transformation - Tal Wilkenfeld

 

My list today. It will change tomorrow.

Aimee Mann: Bachelor No. 2
Amy Grant: Behind The Eyes
Loreena McKennitt: The Book Of Secrets
KD Lang: Ingenue
Patti Smith: Easter

 

Stacey Kent-Let Yourself Go Grooveland Records
Alison Krauss-New Favorite Diverse Records
Jacintha-Here's to Ben Groove Note Records
Diana Krall-It's All for You (ORG Records ETA TBA)
Rickie Lee Jones-Rickie Lee Jones WB Records 45RPM
Joni Mitchell-Court & Spark DCC
Norah Jones-Come Away with Me Classic Records

Well seven instead of five sorry......I couldn't drop two off the list.

 

Joni Mitchell - Don Juans Reckless Daughter
Joan Armatrading - Love and Affection
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Chaka Khan - Chaka
Roberta Flack - Quiet Fire

 

joni - chalk mark in a rainstorm
carly - letters never sent
lucinda - car wheels or essence, can't decide
emmylou - pick one of the trilogy, any one
shelby lynne - love shelby

 

Yes

Yeah, that is more of what I was thinking, solo artists rather than bands like The Pretenders and Heart, but I guess whatever you know.

 

Joan's self titled album was number 6 for me and Love and Affection is also very, very good.

 

Oops

Oops, I may have screwed up and forgot about Lucinda's Car Wheels.

 

Diamanda Galas - Defixiones
Lisa Gerrard - The Silver Tree
Azam Ali - Elysium for the Brave
Patti Smith - Wave
Marianne Faithfull - Before The Poison

 

I'll have to check out Rickie's Sermon...always liked her too.

 

Laurie Anderson - Mr. Heartbreak
k.d. lang - Shadowlands
Kate Bush - The Hounds of Love
Joni Mitchell - Hejira
Ella Fitzgerald - The Best of the Songbooks

oops, haven't gotten to Billie or Cassandra or any of my other favorites...oh well...

 

Melanie - Photograph
Joni Mitchell - Hejira
Carly Simon - Another Passenger
Laura Nyro Eli & the Thirteenth Confession
Brandi Carlile (debut)

 

Letters From Sinners And Strangers - Eilen Jewel
Borrowed And Blue - Les Sampou
Live At The Ryman - Emmylou Harris
Come On Come On - Mary Chapin Carpenter
Tambourine - Tift Merrit

 

1. Astrud Gilberto : The Astrud Gilberto album
2. Dionne Warwick : Anyone who had a heart
3. Eartha Kitt : That bad Eartha
4. The Supremes : Where did our love go?
5. Carole King : Tapestry

 

kate bush ~ hounds of love
tori amos ~ little earthquakes
tracy chapman ~ tracy chapman
book of love ~ book of love
everything but the girl ~ tempramental


those are not in order.

 

Solo doesn't really work for me because they all have bands. My Top 5:

Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing
Heart - Dreamboat Annie
Pat Benatar - Crimes Of Passion
Joni Mitchell - Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
Tracy Chapman - New Beginning

 

KATE BUSH: Hounds of Love
SAM PHILLIPS: The Indescribable Wow
k.d. lang: Ingenue
STEVIE NICKS: Buckingham Nicks
JUDY COLLINS: Who Knows Where the Time Goes?
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD: Dusty in Memphis and Brand New Me
SHELBY LYNNE: Just a Little Loving