Album of the Year

Henning · Post by **Henning** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 12:47 am

For just one day -
I called you back

Bobbie · Post by **Bobbie** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 6:37 am

Bonnie Prince Billy

Tim · Post by **Tim** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 1:48 pm

Allison Crowe - This Little Bird. Or maybe Josh Rouse - Subtitulo, Sparklehorse - Dreamt for Lightyears in the Belly of a Mountain, or the Bonnie 'Prince' Billy one too...

Bobbie · Post by **Bobbie** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 5:24 pm

Hey Timster.. I was just acknowledging that it was Bonnie Prince Billy singing the song Henning posted - making sort of an absent minded comment to myself, I guess, while thinking that I really liked hearing it, and should buy the album. My own album of the year is still Tom Waits - Orphans. Or maybe even Ray LaMontagne - Till The Sun Turns Black. I like your choices, too, even though I admit I don't know all of them... :--)

B

Kevin · Post by **Kevin** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 1:37 am

My favorite from last year is Nellie McKay and Pretty Little Head.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJZY-Czcp2E

ehh... this one however isn't from the album.

PS: henning, you rock! \m/

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 1:45 am

I think Nellie McKay is the really REALLY rockin' young woman I discovered ~ somewhere ~ a long time ago... either when I was still on the Sony Board or just come here... I believe she was playing in New York at the time. I remember raving and exclaiming about her at the time. I'll check the link when I can actually get to it!

~ Elizabeth

Kevin · Post by **Kevin** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 2:15 pm

I think Nellie may be 20 by now, so a long time ago means that she would have had to have been really REALLY young... she did however originally sign with Sony. .. so perhaps this is the same person.

And btw, while Pretty Little Head is my favorite album from last year I prefer her first album Get Away From Me (a play on Norah Jones' Come Away With Me) over the second. It's a cross of showtunes, jazz, and hip-hop - does this describe the Sony board artist?

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 4:07 pm

Well, "a long time ago," Internet time for me... I didn't begin using it until circa 2000-2001. Her name sounds to be exactly the one, though, and I know she was very young. May not be the same one, but sure seems it. I just need to do something different with the math.

~ Lizzy

Adrian · Post by **Adrian** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 11:19 am

This Little Bird by Allison Crowe is also my favourite - of last year and longer. I'm happier, though to hear the album tops Tim's list ( :

(And, Lizzy, I do hope your copy arrived safely.)

Nellie McKay was born on April 13, 1982 which makes her 25 this Spring. As is not unusual in the music biz, myths are created - and the one about Nellie's age was perpetuated for while, before her Dad spoke up, and one publication obtained a copy of her birth certificate. Apparently it was believed, by artist or label, it'd be better to promote her as a child prodigy. It's not as if being in your 20s is aged!

best wishes for this upcoming Year of the Pig!

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 1:25 pm

Dear Adrian

~

(And, Lizzy, I do hope your copy arrived safely.)

I wrote you very soon after it did

! I told you how I had listened to it over New Year's whilst camping and wished you G~dspeed in feeling better

. I believe it was email vs. PM, so I'll hunt to find for resending. Thank you, again, no matter

! Allison's album is very worth having and buying to get it; and I'm immensely grateful that I do and didn't need

to ~ thank you, too, for clarifying Nellie's age. I know beyond all shadow of doubt, now, that she is the same one... the prodigy feel, the same as with Allison.

I'm glad you called my name, but sorry for the reason. I'm thinking now that I never returned to comment here! Maybe, even, to comment elsewhere!?! "This Little Bird" is stupendous... that's a word that fits Allison's huge, yet tender, voice and range. Her voice and lyrics ~ glorious. Did I not comment here somewhere, and only to you privately? If so, it was an oversight, as I learned of her here through you! I apologize, and I thank you again, Adrian

. It's my pleasure

.

Love,
Lizzy

Adrian · Post by **Adrian** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 1:38 pm

Dear Lizzy - well, now I'm happy I mentioned it, too!

Chalk it up to faulty emails - I've not heard and worried that your mailing address may have changed. And, these days, with health so much in mind, I also fear that is a possible cause for silence. I shall be happy that I just have an unreliable mail-server!

(I wasn't anticipating comment here - but, apparently, this is where we now we can communicate! Happy to hear from you - and camping over New Year's sounds fun! You're definitely in a warmer place!

And, thank you, I am almost 99% in good health, now!)

love, Ad

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 1:50 pm

Hi Adrian ~

"Almost 99%" works for me in those cases

. It's looking like it does for you, too ~ you're here

. Wishing you a victorious 1% to take you to the top, as I know you are when at a hundred

!

Yes, definitely warmer here, though sometimes still chilly... oh, complain, complain, complain

.

Wonderful to see you here, again, Adrian.

Love,
Lizzy

Adrian · Post by **Adrian** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 3:57 pm

What a lovely avatar you have!

Here's to your health!! Thanks for your kind, warm, words!

To all - Sláinte mhaith! - may the best music fill our days and years.

see you in another thread or two (browser is super-slow tonight)

peace, Ad

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 4:42 pm

What a lovely avatar you have!

Thank you, Adrian. My avatar was a love gift from Judith Fitzgerald ~ a woman whose work and being I love, respect, and deeply admire ~ and I love it, too

. Thanks

.

Here's to your health, as well

!!

Love,
Lizzy

Kevin · Post by **Kevin** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 11:59 am

Thanks Adrian, that was informative; it never occurred to me that Sony might be lying! On the chance you just happen to know things - - was this the extent, effectively, of Sony's marketing campaign? I ask because while there are some artists I like who I know will never receive radio play, at least on stations that tend to have listeners, there are others, Nellie being one, who to these ears have a good number of radio friendly songs, and yet they too are not to be heard or seen on top 40, mtv etc... at least in the States - I can't say anything about other places.

Also, I just listened to Allison Crowe on youtube, a few videos uploaded by you I believe, and liked what I heard - particularly "Scared."