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KEZ · Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 1:47 am Post subject: KT Tunstall

This woman rocks. She is awesome. Everything she sings. Kinda like Nora Jones to me. My favorites are:

Black Horse and the Cherry Tree
Funnyman
Suddenly I see
Other Side of the World
Saving my Face.

She's got the most wonderful voice, IMHO. She's an alto, which I prefer for listening music. The lyrics are original and the guitar accompaniment is subtle, rhythmic and wonderful.

I don't know too much about music, but I love her stuff.
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Coldfire · Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 1:29 am Post subject:

I discovered her when I heard Suddenly I See on the radio a few months ago and couldn't get the damn song out of my head. I love it, though.

Her live solo performances are veeery cool and incredibly awesome and unique. She has an electronic looping system, and - well, just watch it (link below!). But, seriously, doing your own back-up? That takes skill, and metronomic discipline. And foot coordination. o.O (Watch the whole thing - she does some pretty awesome crazy stuff towards the end.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIO2qpSsUTA
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KEZ · Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 3:37 am Post subject:

That is...amazing. Wow. Most girl's would just get a band. Go her doing it all herself.
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BarbJacobs · Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 12:22 pm Post subject:

I love this gal- there are a couple of songs of hers I was starting to work on to do a solo acoustic thing. She's right in my comfortable singing range unlike most of the stuff I try to sing that are songs by women. I used to be able to hit some higher notes, but today- notsomuch!

The looping thing is very cool and actually lot of folks are doing it. A local friend of mine: http://www.billyheller.com/BillyHeller/PageInfo/Home.aspx who is amazingly good was using this set up at his last gig I saw. It really looks like fun. You do have to be able to count good though. ^_^

~B

Jerle · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:57 pm Post subject:

once again I'm out of the loop. Who's this woman you speak of?
I need to get out more. Seriously.
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