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Music that makes you think
Since my early encounters with the music of Joan Baez, I continue to be attracted to lyrics that give me pause, make me think. And unfortunately, today there are certainly enough issues that we need to do more than just think about ....
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Joan Baez
Probably the most significant musical influence in my life has been Joan Baez. The first artist for whom I bought multiple LPs - all of which I still own. The artist whose voice captured my imagination, whose commitment to her beliefs became a role model of which I've yet to achieve a portion of the dedication and perseverence, and a musician whose song selections and some self-penned material provided lyrics which guided me through the moods and times of my life.
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Mary Chapin Carpenter
My "Joan Baez of the 1980s and 90s". Her "scotch, smoke & honey" voice is just one of the instruments complementing the life stories that she conveys through amazing use of the American English language. Sometimes you could swear her song lyrics come from your own life!
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Susan Werner
My own description of this Chicago-based Iowa native is guitar playing reminiscent of Patty Larkin, Sarah Hickman and Shawn Colvin, with lyrics that use language with the simplicity yet complexity of Nanci Griffith, Sarah McLachlan or Joni Mitchell. Yet making the language and the instruments (guitar and piano) her own.
An engaging live performer, with a voice that, luckily for we listeners, was sidetracked from an initial path toward operatic training! Particularly well suited to the jazz / cabaret / intimate club style. Yes, I have ventured through below-zero (F) weather - on public transportation - to hear this woman sing!
Lyrics which explore the darker side of relationships and the self, some serious yet critical and disappointed, others with wry humor ("Between Trains". between relationships ... between trains... always waiting in the same train station ... but, "why do the fates above always route love through Miami")
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