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Norah Jones a tinge short

I love female vocals, Kd Lange, Linda Rondstat, Bonnie Ryatte to name a few. And I love Norah Jones voice, So I ran out and purchased come away with me. Though I could easily listen to it, I was a tad dissapointed in the reocording quality on CD. I could hear her mic shean (glare), tinny and a tad thin, which kept her wonderful voice from ringing clear through my Theil 3.6s. I tried some Sheryl Crow bam she was right there in my living room. I tried the Norah CD again and the sound thined and tinned. I was saddend, anybody else share this same opinion, or dissagree?
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kck
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Perhaps the lousy production is a blessing, given the one-note inability of this 'singer' to do much with a song. Yeah, I know how popular she is. Wonder if she would be so without the looks and the marketing engine behind her. I had a friend GIVE me her cd. I gave it back.
kck
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04rdking, at home we call her "Snore-ah Bones". The 'singing' is so bad it is almost painful at times. Someone needs to put her out of her misery.

This is all the more painful as I have seen her illustrious father, the incredible Ravi Shankar, perform live a few times in small venues. And her stepsister, Anoushka Shankar, is quite good at what she does but she doesn't share a fraction of the fame.

Actually, I don't blame Snore-ah per se... if I could convince someone I had some talent although that was the farthest thing from the truth, I'd be happy to take the poor saps' money. Move over PT Barnum, there's a new game in town and her name is Snore-ah.
kck
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Ken, no that was a long time ago, different friend.
kck
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Well, I sorta started this free-for-all and must chime in here, not so much on the Snore-ah issue (I've said what I wanted to say) but on the OTHER question: "Do women singers sing anything but love songs?".

Hell-O? Can you say the one-of-a-kind Nina Simone?

And NOT ONE mention yet of the too-good-to-mention-in-the-same-thread-as-Snore-ah-but-forgive-me-I-just did: Lucinda Williams? Who also happens to be a great songwriter, who can put so much emotion into a song, whether it's love, eroticism, anguish, anger, or (sometimes) lightheartedness it puts you inside her head and inside her heart? I really don't care whether anyone agrees with what I think but if no one has mentioned Lucinda yet I really think you need to at least give her a listen.

Others I like, some of whom are criminally underrated: Linda R., EmmyLou, Nanci G (sometimes), Jennifer W., Alison K., Anita O'Day, K.D. Lang, Paula Cole, Margot Timmins...

Diana K. can sometimes be fun to listen to, not in small part due to great production quality, which actually makes for good audition tracks, as does Jacintha.
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