A couple more:
Mylene Farmer - Nous Souviendrons Nous
I have a Rachel Yamagata CD that just gathers dust 
Bought id 'cause I liked her name and while there is nothing to object to, in fact a lot of her stuff is ‘nice’ it just doesn’t seem to stick.
That link^ kicked off a playlist that has been running for a while and a lot of the songs are fine but don’t seem very memorable.
For fans of Dashboard - Public Transit Blues by Karen Estrella. Although it is more medium-slow and I only internally categorize it as slow due to its acousticness.
Another medium but downbeat song from Bay Faction: unfortunately the album cover is NSFW so I am breaking the link: Sasquatch .22: https ://www. youtube. com /watch?v=SJm1HG595-A
“Put Your Lights On,” by Everlast with Santana.
(Whoops! Came out in 1999. Won a Grammy in 2000, though.)
But no Rob Thomas, right?!?!
If they don’t need to be in English, here are a few in other languages:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FDRLXaf4gQ&index=42&list=PLA34046A4B9425E66
This lovely song by Danielle Brisebois was just thrown away in the background of the film “As Good as it Gets”, and as far as I know, was never released as a single.
Gillian Welch (with Dave Rawlings), Hard Times.
She’s one of those artists that are good in small doses, but over a whole album it all kind of sounds the same. I call it the “Tom Petty Effect.”
If you’re a songwrier, I want to mention again one of the clips I posted above, and comment on it. Its “Cafe Robinson” by Marie Jo Therio, a French Canadian singer from New Brunswick. She composes and sings and accompanies heself, in songs that are asymmetrical. That is, they are not plotted out to fit into a rigid geometrical form with a fixed end, but just wander on as long as the singer still has something to express, meandering according to the feeling the music evokes. Cafe Robinson goes on for over 6 minutes, letting the feeling dictate the pacing, rather than the other way around. This is a style that is typical in soukous music of West Africa, in which it is common for a track to go on for 6 or 8 minutes, because the artists still have something to say, and are not constrained to get the thing over with in the rigid Sony-imposed three minutes. If you write music, this might be an interesting thing to play with.
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If you’re a songwrier, I want to mention again one of the clips I posted above, and comment on it. Its “Cafe Robinson” by Marie Jo Therio, a French Canadian singer from New Brunswick. She composes and sings and accompanies heself, in songs that are asymmetrical. That is, they are not plotted out to fit into a rigid geometrical form with a fixed end, but just wander on as long as the singer still has something to express, meandering according to the feeling the music evokes. Cafe Robinson goes on for over 6 minutes, letting the feeling dictate the pacing, rather than the other way around. This is a style that is typical in soukous music of West Africa, in which it is common for a track to go on for 6 or 8 minutes, because the artists still have something to say, and are not constrained to get the thing over with in the rigid Sony-imposed three minutes. If you write music, this might be an interesting thing to play with.
[/QUOTE] Thanks, that's cool![quote=“jtur88, post:32, topic:750803”]
If you’re a songwrier, I want to mention again one of the clips I posted above, and comment on it. Its “Cafe Robinson” by Marie Jo Therio, a French Canadian singer from New Brunswick. She composes and sings and accompanies heself, in songs that are asymmetrical. That is, they are not plotted out to fit into a rigid geometrical form with a fixed end, but just wander on as long as the singer still has something to express, meandering according to the feeling the music evokes. Cafe Robinson goes on for over 6 minutes, letting the feeling dictate the pacing, rather than the other way around. This is a style that is typical in soukous music of West Africa, in which it is common for a track to go on for 6 or 8 minutes, because the artists still have something to say, and are not constrained to get the thing over with in the rigid Sony-imposed three minutes. If you write music, this might be an interesting thing to play with.
[/QUOTE]Ah, very nice, I’ve been looking for music of that kind, composed through rather than following some standard verse-refrain scheme…
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