Favorite Female

Who would you rate as the most talented female who WRITES and PERFORMS her own material?
I dig Fiona Apple and Alanis Morsette. Anyone? [img]graemlins/girl2.gif[/img]

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I like Alanis, too. There's so many I admire. There's Sarah McLaughlin, Lisa Loeb, Carly Simon, Carole King, Gwen Stefani and Cristina Aguilera did a great job on "Beautiful". She did write that one, right? [img]graemlins/lookaround.gif[/img]

Carole King. She writes perfect tunes.

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Carole King

One of my very, very favorite female rock stars is Polly Jean (PJ) Harvey. She's fantastic. She's a songwriter extraoridinare, in my opinion. And I've seen her live. She was exceedingly brilliant. On her one album, she has a song with my Thom Yorke (you know, the Radiohead guy), and its one of those tunes...just gives me goosebumps. He sings it primarily, because she said she wrote the song for him.

A useless fact that I found out only recently was that her birthday is the same day as mine, October 9th...not the same year of course. Pic of Polly:



I really recommend her music, although she's got that John Lennon style of extorting her inner emotional stuff a lot- and that's not for everyone....but still. I recommend her. She's freaking wonderful.

I love Vanessa Carlton. I think she may be better known for featuring with the Counting Crows on their version of "Big Yellow Taxi" but she has an excellent album of her own, "Be Not Nobody" and she had a lot of good songs like "A Thousand Miles", "Ordinary Day" and "Paradise."

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JONI MITCHELL !!!