Tonight I've been youtubin' some of my favorite singers and just generally reveling in some of my favorite female musicians. I guess I just wish I could have any one of their voices. I'm posting below a clip of Diana Krall. I was blown away from the first time I heard her open her mouth at a concert I saw in high school before anyone even knew her name and I still love that smoothe as honey voice. This clip is her performing another great lady, Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You" - it makes me want to cry - it's perfect. (The song also always reminds me of Truly Madly Deeply where my favorite actress, Juliet Stevenson sings a bit of the song with Alan Rickman - that's really neither here nor there, it's just where I first heard the song):
Some of my other favorite voices:
Barbra Streisand: power and passion
Lea Salonga: pure (I want to have that voice!)
K.D. Lang: crazy rad quality (check out the album "Drag")
Linda Ronstadt: one of my favorite songs of all time, "Blue Bayou"
Allison Krauss: sweet, unique sound
Patsy Cline: so many good songs
Heart: my karaoke go to
Joni Mitchell: already mentioned above, but must say "River" is another of my all time favorites.
Norah Jones: some romantic songs there.
All right, enough of this. Thanks, Musicians, for makin' life rad.
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Awesome list. Some truly classic and diverse voices there. Hmmm, I may just have to make you a CD of a few voices I've been introduced to over the last few years that I'm in love with. Hmmm....my list is forming.
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