The "other" singers you enjoy.........?


Most on this forum can name the well known great male and female (pop/Jazz) singers.....usually meaning the gift of a great voice with intelligent use of great song writers.  But what about those "other" singers of both genders that you enjoy that are not the "usual suspects"?

Roseanne Cash, Valerie Carter, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Dinah Washington, .,...gosh, even Del Shannon (Tom Petty and several other's favorite) ....Mel Torme, Chet Baker....etc. 

.....and one that many consider a great voice,  but still often left out, Roy Orbison. 

And your "other" singers?    And,....as one of the most mentioned would say...."thank you, thank you very much".


whatjd
There are too many to name but one to add to the list that only comes to mind because I listened last night is the late great wonderful singer/songwriter and South Philly’s own Jim Croce. He left us much too soon.
Two "other" singer/songwriters that I have recently discovered are Nick Drake and Tim Buckley. I can't believe it took so long, but I highly recommend both.
tonykay -- Tim Buckley is one of my favorite artists. I gotta say, though, that the one time I saw him perform, at the Troubadour some years after his peak, he was absolutely awful. At least to my ears. Sure, it was okay that he might not want to revisit his more successful days, but essentially, all he did was randomly strum his guitar and shriek.
Jim:

If you still do LP’s search Ebay for a box (mono) set of Fred Astaire recordings released by Easton Press.

I have numerous crappy recordings of Fred, but the Easton issues rival/top the best audiophile recordings of older material that go for big bucks.

No mention on Discdogs and very little WWW info on this publishing (mainly books) company.

I have 5-6 of their box LP sets (issued in the mid 80’s) and all are stellar.

They issued cassettes as well (no CD’s) based upon my WWW searches over the years.

Not a clue as to how they pulled it off, but the "sound quality" is truly mystically good for the old recordings.

Oh and...

Plus infinity on "what a MAN/SENTIENT BEING" Fred was.

DeKay