10 Best Female Fronted Albums!

[MylesBAstor]

Sheryl Crow: Tuesday Night Music Club
Joni Mitchell: Blue
Tina Turner: Private Dancer
Linda Ronstadt: Heart Like a Wheel
Carole King: Tapestry
Fleetwood Mac: Rumours
Blondie: Parallel Lines
Joan Jett: Bad Reputation
The Pretenders: Pretenders
Janis Joplin: Pearl

[Hugh]

I give You Ms. Cole. :-)

[Johnny Vinyl]

Saw her years ago at the then named Molson Amphitheatre in Toronto.

[Johnny Vinyl]

Never figured you for a Joan Jett fan......

Interesting list...hmmm.....will have to give this some thought.

[ashandger]

Mary Margaret O'Hara - Miss America - an all time fav. Suggest every music fan listen to it once even if it doesn't appeal!!! Michael Stipe described her as Canada's national treasure.
Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones, Traffic From Paradise, Ghostyhead
Cowboy Junkies - Trinity Sessions, 200 More Miles
Joni Mitchell - Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm, Turbulent Indigo etc, etc
Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball

[MylesBAstor]

Great suggestions! Will have too follow up on your first album. Is it on LP or digital only?

[ashandger]

Miss America was available on both (I have both) so hopefully you can still find the LP somewhere. She sadly only did 1 album and then lost total faith in the industry! Huge shame. There are some videos on YouTube including Dark Dear Heart which is not on the album. Great musicians on the album including some that have played with Tom Waits I believe. Video for Body's in Trouble can be found on https://youtu.be/Z14wPTz6PdY and live version of Year In Song on https://youtu.be/wazB8ZRuPN0 ...perhaps not the best way to listen to her for the first time though. Hope you like it!

You might also enjoy Rickie Lee's great cover of Rebel Rebel on Traffic From Paradise.

[mep]

Heart-Dreamboat Annie

[Ki Choi]

joan baez - diamonds and rust Linda Ronstadt - Hasten Down The Wind

[Guest]

Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris: Trio
1987, Warner Brothers 25491-1

[Steve Lefkowicz]

Love this album.

[Guest]

Kiri Te Kanawa and Lucia Popp, others, in Le Nozze di Figaro w/ the London Philharmonic, cond: George Solti

[JCOConnell]

Is this a boxed Lp set or an open reel?

this a 4 LP box, don't know if there is tape.

[allenh]

Look past that famous song, it's a great album overall. Hated it when I got it, love it to death 20 years later...





Tracy Chapman. Standout debut album:




Also like the Blondie, FM, JJ, CJ and Heart picks.

[Billy Shears]

+1mllion for tracy Chapmans debut Album. If I had not played it to death this would still be in my top 10 of all times...

[Garth]

Valerie June Workin women blues

Suzi Q the song Evie

[JCOConnell]

Heart-Dreamboat Annie

+!

[MylesBAstor]

Heart-Dreamboat Annie

That would have been #11.

[JackD201]

It kills me how many reality show contestants tried this lady's songs and got eliminated as a result. Out of Metal and now doing music for Indie films, I just love Amy Lee.

[Johnny Vinyl]

I'm just going to list albums that I own, since they are really the only ones I can judge. The list is random and not by ranking. All on LP, except where noted.

1. Rickie Lee Jones - Eponymous debut
2. Sarah McLachlan - Surfacing
3. Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
4. Phoebe Snow - Eponymous debut
5. Annie Lennox - Medusa (CD)
6. Joni Mitchell - Blue
7. Amanda Marshall - Eponymous debut (CD)
8. Carole King - Tapestry
9. Linda Ronstadt - Simple Dreams
10. Jewel - Pieces of You (CD)

bonus selections:

11. The Cranberries (Delores O'Riordan) - No Need To Argue (CD)
12. The Pretenders (Chrissie Hynde) - Learning to Crawl
13. Sinead O'Connor - The Lion and The Cobra (CD)
14. Janis Ian - At Seventeen
15. Heart (Anne Wilson) - Dog & Butterfly

a few more bonus selections:

16. Dido - No Angel
17. Diane Dufresne - Sur la même longueur d'ondes
18. Nico - The Marble Index
19. Cowboy Junkies (Margo Timmins) - The Trinity Session (CD)
20. Sade - Diamond Life

[jazdoc]

I like a bit more of an 'edge'

Bangles "Different Light" (although I hate 'Walk Like An Egyptian')
Blondie "Parallel Lines"
Cat Power "The Greatest"
Courtney Barnett "Sometimes I Sit and Think And Sometimes I Just Sit (Best 2015 Rock LP!)
The Cults
The Detroit Cobras "Tied and True"
Eisley "The Valley"
Aretha Franklin "I Never Love A Man The Way I Loved You"
Sharon Jones "I Learned The Hard Way"
The Kills "Blood Pressures"
Shelby Lynne "Tears, Lies and Alibis"
The Pretenders
The Ronettes "The Fabulous Ronettes"
Patti Smith "Horses"
Smoke Fairies "Through Low Light and Trees"
Dusty Springfield "Dusty In Memphis"
Sugarcubes "Life's Too Good"
The Supremes "Where Did Our Love Go?"
Tribalistas "Tribalistas"

[Johnny Vinyl]

I like my women soft and sultry.....:

[allenh]

My 'edgy' list would have included Hole's Live Through This, Garbage's S/T, Lamb (Louise Rhodes) Lusty, and Portishead S/T.