Singer/Songwriters Today
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- The Basics
These aren't your mum and dad's singer-songwriters: contemporary troubadours learned the lessons of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, James Taylor et al., and threw them into a fresh, modern mix where everything from folk to soul and lo-fi electro-pop is fair game. In fact, any of the old-school balladeers would have been as pleased as punch with our selection opener, "Someone Like You," but it's Adele who co-owns that composition (along with fellow GRAMMY®-winner Dan Wilson). Roses Kings Castles (aka Babyshambles cohort Adam Ficek) lays his unique vocal imprint on the excellent "One Born Every Minute" and Joanna Newsom favours the piano, rather than her trademark harp, on "Easy".
We highlight some of the most distinctive vocalists among this talented bunch, in Next Steps.£20.38 The Basics
Name Artist Time Price 1 Someone Like You ADELE 4:45 £0.99 View In iTunes 2 Candy Paolo Nutini 4:58 £0.99 View In iTunes 3 Rambling Man Laura Marling 3:16 £0.99 View In iTunes 4 El Camino Amos Lee 4:02 £0.99 View In iTunes 5 Am I Forgiven Rumer 3:28 £0.99 View In iTunes 6 Woman, When I've Raised Hell Josh T. Pearson 6:59 £0.99 View In iTunes 7 Wish I Stayed Ellie Goulding 3:40 £0.99 View In iTunes 8 Where the Dreams Go to Die John Grant 6:03 £0.99 View In iTunes 9 This Old Dark Machine James Vincent McMorrow 4:14 £0.79 View In iTunes 10 Looking for a Girl Teddy Thompson 3:23 £0.79 View In iTunes 11 You and Your Heart Jack Johnson 3:12 £0.99 View In iTunes 12 The Story Sara Ramirez 3:45 £0.99 View In iTunes 13 Something Good This Way Comes Jakob Dylan 3:37 £0.99 View In iTunes 14 Godspeed Jenny Lewis 4:33 £0.79 View In iTunes 15 (Still A) Weirdo KT Tunstall 3:40 £0.99 View In iTunes 16 The Mocking Bird Kate Rusby 4:11 £0.79 View In iTunes 17 Wishes and Stars Harper Simon 3:01 £0.99 View In iTunes 18 The Magic Joan As Police Woman 4:09 £0.99 View In iTunes 19 God Willin' & the Creek Don't Rise Ray LaMontagne & The Pariah Dogs 3:09 £0.79 View In iTunes 20 Easy Joanna Newsom 6:03 £0.79 View In iTunes 21 End of the Day Doug Paisley 3:40 £0.79 View In iTunes 22 The Tide Pulls from the Moon William Fitzsimmons 3:39 £0.99 View In iTunes Total: 22 Songs - Next Steps
The current crop of singer-songwriters doesn't neglect the singer side of the equation; they've got voices that grab you by the soul and demand both your attention and your loyalty. Jesse Sykes' cracked and echoed desert-dust whisper on "Hushed by Devotion" imparts the feeling that you're listening to a singer who exists outside of time as we measure it, London's Jonathan Jeremiah invests every natural note with passion and tenderness on "Happiness", a signature expression of his lightly orchestral brand of acoustic soul, and Alela Diane's warm tone soaks straight to our hearts on "The Wind", which is delivered like a secret wrapped in a dream.
In Deep Cuts, our singer-songwriters take you from the South of France to California, via the Isle of Mull.£20.56 Next Steps
Name Artist Time Price 1 Faster Than the Setting Sun Fyfe Dangerfield 3:40 £0.99 View In iTunes 2 Jagged Melody Scott Matthews 4:14 £0.99 View In iTunes 3 Hollow Point Chris Wood 7:38 £0.79 View In iTunes 4 My Name Is Trouble Keren Ann 4:12 £0.99 View In iTunes 5 Haunted Bird Iain Morrison & Daibhidh Martin 3:54 £0.79 View In iTunes 6 When I'm Alone Lissie 3:40 £0.99 View In iTunes 7 Remember Misty Miller 3:07 £0.79 View In iTunes 8 Happiness Jonathan Jeremiah 3:01 £0.99 View In iTunes 9 Smile for No One Sarabeth Tucek 3:02 £0.99 View In iTunes 10 Hushed By Devotion Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter 8:22 £0.79 View In iTunes 11 Old Black Dodge Sean Rowe 3:45 £0.99 View In iTunes 12 How Am I Doing? Anna Waronker 2:26 £0.79 View In iTunes 13 Trampoline Aaron Wright 2:55 £0.79 View In iTunes 14 Shroud Nathaniel Rateliff 3:33 £0.79 View In iTunes 15 Wouldn't Women Be Sweet Tom Williams & The Boat 2:47 £0.79 View In iTunes 16 Long Live the Queen Frank Turner 3:28 £0.99 View In iTunes 17 Love Is Won Lia Ices 5:23 £0.79 View In iTunes 18 Stuck Under September Alexander Wolfe 7:11 £0.79 View In iTunes 19 Jewelly Box Ady Johnson 4:01 £0.79 View In iTunes 20 The Wind Alela Diane 4:30 £0.79 View In iTunes 21 Trying Kate Walsh 3:26 £0.79 View In iTunes 22 Sorrow The Winter Mountain Band 4:06 £0.79 View In iTunes 23 Shanghai Cigarettes Caitlin Rose 3:52 £0.79 View In iTunes 24 Neopolitan Dreams Lisa Mitchell 3:13 £0.79 View In iTunes Total: 24 Songs - Deep Cuts
A memorably eccentric or colourful name is no guarantee of singer-songwriter success, but when it's appended to undeniable natural talent and stunning tunes . . . well, now we're really cooking. Roddy Woomble supplements his band work for Idlewild with solo releases, and 2011's The Impossible Song & Other Songs, conceived and recorded on the remote Scottish Isle of Mull, opens up with the feel-bright, up-tempo track "A New Day Has Begun". Elsewhere, Californian import Morgan Manifacier, who owes his alliterative moniker to a childhood in Southern France, impresses with banjo-backed "Liberty Street" from his 2011 debut album, Grande.
£17.99 Deep Cuts
Name Artist Time Price 1 A New Day Has Begun Roddy Woomble 4:36 £0.99 View In iTunes 2 The Thief Sarah Harmer 3:25 £0.79 View In iTunes 3 Atlas Hands Benjamin Francis Leftwich 2:51 £0.79 View In iTunes 4 Nervous Grin Ruarri Joseph 2:38 £0.79 View In iTunes 5 I'd Rather Be With You (Radio Edit) Joshua Radin 2:43 £0.99 View In iTunes 6 Lost and Found Johnny Flynn 3:41 £0.99 View In iTunes 7 Don't Tell Me That It's Over Amy Macdonald 3:15 £0.99 View In iTunes 8 We Won't Run Sarah Blasko 4:00 £0.79 View In iTunes 9 Stick Stock Emily Portman 3:01 £0.79 View In iTunes 10 Lines Written In Winter Fionn Regan 3:57 £0.99 View In iTunes 11 Billowing Sea Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo 3:44 £0.79 View In iTunes 12 Lay Down Your Tune for Me Howard Eliott Payne 3:14 £0.79 View In iTunes 13 Take My Hand Matt Berry 3:10 £0.79 View In iTunes 14 Real Men Can Wear Pink Freya Abbott Ferguson 3:51 £0.79 View In iTunes 15 The Woods Polly Paulusma 5:04 £0.79 View In iTunes 16 Valentino Diane Birch 2:49 £0.99 View In iTunes 17 Rockpools Martha Tilston 4:38 £0.79 View In iTunes 18 Pride and Joy Brandi Carlile 4:20 £0.99 View In iTunes 19 Manhattan From the Sky Kate Voegele 3:31 £0.79 View In iTunes 20 Feels Like Home Edwina Hayes 4:14 £0.79 View In iTunes 21 No Milk Today Joshua James & The Forest Rangers 4:01 £0.79 View In iTunes Total: 21 Songs - Complete Set
Today's singer-songwriters are a wildly varied cast of characters — there are sweet-voiced chanteuses (Ellie Goulding, Lisa Mitchell) and down-home story-tellers full of gravitas and grit (James Vincent McMorrow, Laura Marling). Wily wordsmiths who nail our sympathies and emotions with pin-point poetic imagery (Fyfe Dangerfield) stand shoulder-to-shoulder with soul-slinging singers (Amos Lee) who deal in deceptively straightforward statements. The one thing they've all got in common is a rock-solid sense of their own individuality and a brightly blazing artistic identity that can't be ignored. So whether you're in the mood for some mellow, folk-flavoured pub vibes or slow-burning, funk-infected grooves, this is the place to meet a batch of fascinating new friends who've got their own, unique, unforgettable stories to tell.
£58.93 Complete Set
Name Artist Time Price 1 Someone Like You ADELE 4:45 £0.99 View In iTunes 2 Candy Paolo Nutini 4:58 £0.99 View In iTunes 3 Rambling Man Laura Marling 3:16 £0.99 View In iTunes 4 El Camino Amos Lee 4:02 £0.99 View In iTunes 5 Am I Forgiven Rumer 3:28 £0.99 View In iTunes 6 Woman, When I've Raised Hell Josh T. Pearson 6:59 £0.99 View In iTunes 7 Wish I Stayed Ellie Goulding 3:40 £0.99 View In iTunes 8 Where the Dreams Go to Die John Grant 6:03 £0.99 View In iTunes 9 This Old Dark Machine James Vincent McMorrow 4:14 £0.79 View In iTunes 10 Looking for a Girl Teddy Thompson 3:23 £0.79 View In iTunes 11 You and Your Heart Jack Johnson 3:12 £0.99 View In iTunes 12 The Story Sara Ramirez 3:45 £0.99 View In iTunes 13 Something Good This Way Comes Jakob Dylan 3:37 £0.99 View In iTunes 14 Godspeed Jenny Lewis 4:33 £0.79 View In iTunes 15 (Still A) Weirdo KT Tunstall 3:40 £0.99 View In iTunes 16 The Mocking Bird Kate Rusby 4:11 £0.79 View In iTunes 17 Wishes and Stars Harper Simon 3:01 £0.99 View In iTunes 18 The Magic Joan As Police Woman 4:09 £0.99 View In iTunes 19 God Willin' & the Creek Don't Rise Ray LaMontagne & The Pariah Dogs 3:09 £0.79 View In iTunes 20 Easy Joanna Newsom 6:03 £0.79 View In iTunes 21 End of the Day Doug Paisley 3:40 £0.79 View In iTunes 22 The Tide Pulls from the Moon William Fitzsimmons 3:39 £0.99 View In iTunes 23 Faster Than the Setting Sun Fyfe Dangerfield 3:40 £0.99 View In iTunes 24 Jagged Melody Scott Matthews 4:14 £0.99 View In iTunes 25 Hollow Point Chris Wood 7:38 £0.79 View In iTunes 26 My Name Is Trouble Keren Ann 4:12 £0.99 View In iTunes 27 Haunted Bird Iain Morrison & Daibhidh Martin 3:54 £0.79 View In iTunes 28 When I'm Alone Lissie 3:40 £0.99 View In iTunes 29 Remember Misty Miller 3:07 £0.79 View In iTunes 30 Happiness Jonathan Jeremiah 3:01 £0.99 View In iTunes 31 Smile for No One Sarabeth Tucek 3:02 £0.99 View In iTunes 32 Hushed By Devotion Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter 8:22 £0.79 View In iTunes 33 Old Black Dodge Sean Rowe 3:45 £0.99 View In iTunes 34 How Am I Doing? Anna Waronker 2:26 £0.79 View In iTunes 35 Trampoline Aaron Wright 2:55 £0.79 View In iTunes 36 Shroud Nathaniel Rateliff 3:33 £0.79 View In iTunes 37 Wouldn't Women Be Sweet Tom Williams & The Boat 2:47 £0.79 View In iTunes 38 Long Live the Queen Frank Turner 3:28 £0.99 View In iTunes 39 Love Is Won Lia Ices 5:23 £0.79 View In iTunes 40 Stuck Under September Alexander Wolfe 7:11 £0.79 View In iTunes 41 Jewelly Box Ady Johnson 4:01 £0.79 View In iTunes 42 The Wind Alela Diane 4:30 £0.79 View In iTunes 43 Trying Kate Walsh 3:26 £0.79 View In iTunes 44 Sorrow The Winter Mountain Band 4:06 £0.79 View In iTunes 45 Shanghai Cigarettes Caitlin Rose 3:52 £0.79 View In iTunes 46 Neopolitan Dreams Lisa Mitchell 3:13 £0.79 View In iTunes 47 A New Day Has Begun Roddy Woomble 4:36 £0.99 View In iTunes 48 The Thief Sarah Harmer 3:25 £0.79 View In iTunes 49 Atlas Hands Benjamin Francis Leftwich 2:51 £0.79 View In iTunes 50 Nervous Grin Ruarri Joseph 2:38 £0.79 View In iTunes 51 I'd Rather Be With You (Radio Edit) Joshua Radin 2:43 £0.99 View In iTunes 52 Lost and Found Johnny Flynn 3:41 £0.99 View In iTunes 53 Don't Tell Me That It's Over Amy Macdonald 3:15 £0.99 View In iTunes 54 We Won't Run Sarah Blasko 4:00 £0.79 View In iTunes 55 Stick Stock Emily Portman 3:01 £0.79 View In iTunes 56 Lines Written In Winter Fionn Regan 3:57 £0.99 View In iTunes 57 Billowing Sea Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo 3:44 £0.79 View In iTunes 58 Lay Down Your Tune for Me Howard Eliott Payne 3:14 £0.79 View In iTunes 59 Take My Hand Matt Berry 3:10 £0.79 View In iTunes 60 Real Men Can Wear Pink Freya Abbott Ferguson 3:51 £0.79 View In iTunes 61 The Woods Polly Paulusma 5:04 £0.79 View In iTunes 62 Valentino Diane Birch 2:49 £0.99 View In iTunes 63 Rockpools Martha Tilston 4:38 £0.79 View In iTunes 64 Pride and Joy Brandi Carlile 4:20 £0.99 View In iTunes 65 Manhattan From the Sky Kate Voegele 3:31 £0.79 View In iTunes 66 Feels Like Home Edwina Hayes 4:14 £0.79 View In iTunes 67 No Milk Today Joshua James & The Forest Rangers 4:01 £0.79 View In iTunes Total: 67 Songs
Customer Reviews
the story
good collection of songs, however it should have included the original version of 'The Story' by Brandi Carlile not the cover by Sara Ramirez. IMO.
Where is ed sheeran?????😠
The best singer songwriter of today isn't here (but I agree Diane birch is good). Add ed sheeran and you would get five stars.
SInger Songwriters Today
I would love to review this but it wont allow me to purchase for some reason
