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This starts with a brief self-indulgent rant but I swear I move on.
When I first moved to the Boston area I got sucked in a bit to the local folk scene. I was already a big Indigo Girls and Dar Williams fan and I thought a whole bunch more great female folk artists would be awesome. But there's a problem... most of them aren't great. I have heard any number of female folk singers (I won't name names because I'm not mean) who are completely interchangeable. Its as if someone decided a long time ago that it was okay for women to sing half assed in wispy scratchy voices about their pain through lyrics consisting entirely of cliches and generic mournful commentary while strumming the same 3 chords on an acoustic guitar and that was good enough, given them a record deal. I am largely disillusioned with the folk scene but there are a few gems to be found among the masses of mediocrity out there, even if you take Dar and the Indigo Girls out of the equation.
( Here be the LADIES! )
When I first moved to the Boston area I got sucked in a bit to the local folk scene. I was already a big Indigo Girls and Dar Williams fan and I thought a whole bunch more great female folk artists would be awesome. But there's a problem... most of them aren't great. I have heard any number of female folk singers (I won't name names because I'm not mean) who are completely interchangeable. Its as if someone decided a long time ago that it was okay for women to sing half assed in wispy scratchy voices about their pain through lyrics consisting entirely of cliches and generic mournful commentary while strumming the same 3 chords on an acoustic guitar and that was good enough, given them a record deal. I am largely disillusioned with the folk scene but there are a few gems to be found among the masses of mediocrity out there, even if you take Dar and the Indigo Girls out of the equation.
( Here be the LADIES! )
