Chicks With Guitars

If anyone's taste runs towards jangle pop, they might want to check out Marti Jones. She sings like an angel and she's married to the noted singer/songwriter/producer Don Dixon. Her songs are generally (tho not always) less introspective than some listed above, but they're tons of fun in their own right. She also has great (and ecclectic) taste in cover material; ranging from lots of John Hiatt, to David Bowie's "Soul Love", to Joe Tex's "You Got What It Takes (To Take What I Got"). My wife and I used the Dixon/Jones arrangement of this song for our first dance.

Her album, "Used Guitars", is a gem and her "Live At Spirit Square" is a great overview of the Marti Jones catalog (nicely recorded by Dixon, too).

Another (related) fun choice is Marti's friend Amy Rigby (they sometimes perform together as Cynical Girls, which is a Marshall Crenshaw reference, I think). Amy's very funny lyrics are worth the price of admission alone.

Marty

Quirky, frenetic, and amazing at times, Marnie Stern.

Grace Potter is COOL!

I think I mentioned Nancy Elizabeth a ways up in this thread but I have been listening to her first album, Battle and Victory and really wanted to suggest it specifically. She is a really interesting artist who mixes in all sorts of instruments, vintage and current, from all over the world (Not unlike David Eugene Edwards of Woven Hand/16HP fame and it has that Woven Hand sort of vibe minus the Christian subtext). She also sings in a sort of Joanna Newsome nontraditional tone. All in all it makes for a very cool record that I really enjoy. She is an artist I plan to pay attention to.

Just to refresh, I started this thread to explore female singer/songwriters, not chicks with blazing guitar skills as some took it. I don't care at all if that is what you care to post/suggest however just did not want you to expect it from mine:).....

I started this thread to explore female singer/songwriters, not chicks with blazing guitar skills as some took it.

Richard, I think the confusion is that the technical term for the genre you are after is "Girl with Guitar." "Chick with Guitar" is not a genre. ;)

Amelia Curran's "War Brides" is a winner, and a nice recording. (But I'm enjoying Sharon Isben, too.)

Not GwG strictly speaking, but in the neighborhood and excellent are: Robinella, Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter, and Crooked Still.

Eva Cassidy's GwG collection, "Simply Eva," is -- as might be expected -- supernatural. Best version ever of Wayfaring Stranger.