I can't do just one. Here's a short list, trimmed down as much as I can stand it: Laura Nyro: Eli and the Thirteenth Confession Kate Bush: Hounds of Love Vashti Bunyan: Just Another Diamond Day Roberta Flack: Quiet Fire Anita O'Day: Pick Yourself Up Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Gospel Train
Way too many. Besides Joan and Joni: Laurie Anderson - Strange Angels Kate - Hounds of Love Neko Case - all of them Toni Childs - House of Hope Marianne Faithful - Broken English Kat Edmonson - Way Down Low Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain Nanci Griffith - There's a Light..., Last of three True Believers, Once in a Very Blue Moon Emmylou - Red Dirt Girl Melody Gardot - My One and Only Thrill Rickie Lee s/t Michelle Shocked - Arkansas Traveller Mazzy Star - So Tonight... Nina - I Put a Spell on You Stopping there...
Junko Onishi Trio, Live at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 1. Blue Skies is one of the standouts although the whole album is great. Listen to how they hammer V7 chord from 1:09-2:46 and then break into this gorgeous, gentle yet intense, hard swing:
Siouxsie - Mantaray. This goes way back to 2007 or so. She stepped out, going solo with this. It got a pretty good reception. After this album it seems to me, that she's left the music scene completely. Don't know if she has recorded or released anything following this. Great back catalogue with The Banshees
Lots of incredible albums but this is my travelog through life “You just picked up a hitcher, a prisoner of the white lines of the freeway” “Like Icarus ascending on beautiful foolish arms” “I’ve got the apple of temptation and a diamond snake around my arm” “There’s comfort in melancholy, when you do or you do not resign”
the first album that got me interested in a female artist to such a degree that it felt like a breakthrough for me as a male teenager: https://img.discogs.com/mud_pnvtZ59...)/discogs-images/R-264474-1159610478.jpeg.jpg
