Simone Simons from Epica is releasing a solo album on August 23, the music video for the track Aeterna (music written by Arjen Lucassen) was released yesterday. How perfect for today, as it's @Kitty's #MittwochMetalMix and @loewe's #MusicWomenWednesday 🥰
A tender and powerful song about the innocence of childhood and the loss of a parent. The production stands up so well, with layers of strings over a rock band supporting the expression of her amazing voice.
In the 1970s and 1980s she produced a string of brilliant albums, with songs steeped in love, sexuality, nostalgia, childhood, experience, regret and growing older.
A year ago I knew nothing about her. RYM tagged her as "pop" (among others) yet... she was in the program for Wacken '23! Whatever she would make, I could not miss it. If she was in Wacken, she must be worth of it. And oh my she was.
And she is releasing a new album in a month and I am curious to see what she will come up with. For now, a new single.
Some of my favorite Alison Krauss songs, listed below. 💜
"On November 21, 2019, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts. She was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in September 2021"
Isobell Campbell's new album Bow to Love comes out later this month, and I LOVE this first single '4316'. I've been fairly obsessed with it since it came out a couple months ago. 😂 Pretty serious earworm. Kinda reminds me of Sheryl Crow or something (who I also dig).
Normally I go for someone a bit off the beaten path b/c all things equal, might as well promote the artist who needs the recognition worse, but when you get someone achieving mainstream pop success with a song this fucking brutal it deserves recognition. #MusicWomenWednesday
Today I pay tribute to a departed female artist, Nancy Griffith.
Nanci Caroline Griffith (July 6, 1953 – August 13, 2021) was an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter.[ She appeared many times on the PBS music program Austin City Limits starting in 1985 (season 10). In 1994 she won a Grammy Award for the album Other Voices, Other Rooms.
Griffith toured with various other artists, including Buddy Holly's band, the Crickets; John Prine; Iris DeMent; Suzy Bogguss; Judy Collins and The Everly Brothers.[3] Griffith recorded duets with many artists, among them Emmylou Harris, Mary Black, John Prine, Don McLean, Jimmy Buffett, Dolores Keane, Willie Nelson, Adam Duritz (singer of Counting Crows), the Chieftains, John Stewart; and Darius Rucker. Griffith had a backing band which she referred to as the Blue Moon Orchestra.
with respect, I post a recent tribute album to this wonderful artist.
Lyrics:
9 to 5 / For service and devotion
You would think that I / Would deserve a fat promotion
Want to move ahead / But the boss won't seem to let me
I swear sometimes that man is / Out to get me
They let you dream / Just a watch 'em shatter
You're just a step on the boss man's ladder / But you got dreams he'll never take away