Box - Love my box

Today will be the day of the singer/songwriter, and especially focusing on the females who may not be as well known as they should be. So give a listen on my little box to the right hand side of me blog.

Tegan and Sara are identical twins from Alberta, Canada and I discovered them when this song was played during one of the only times I watched ‘ Grey’s Anatomy’. The twins tell comic stories on stage, a throwback to when they didn't have a lot of material but still wanted to give people a full show so sisterly bickering ensued. While both twins are similarly involved in vocals and playing instruments, the singing of the lead melody often goes to whichever twin wrote the particular song. Tegan writes songs prolifically, eventually discarding most of them. Sara's songs, on the other hand, evolve slowly and methodically and almost always make it onto the record. 'Where Does The Good Go' I think is one of Tegans.

Amanda Ghost would be most known to people as the woman who wrote James Blunt's 'Beautiful' but she had her own album, and I loved it. Her obvious, raw talent landed her a major record deal with Warners in Los Angeles, but this proved to be a depressingly familiar tale of a typical much-hyped signing; a move to LA; changes of personnel within the label; mystifying lack of A+R support and promotion and the eventual need for Amanda to resort to attorneys to extricate herself. Here I have probably her biggest solo song 'Idol'. There is a great video for it as well.

You may remember her as Winifred "Freddie" Brooks in the Cosby Show spin-off A Different World. Or you may remember her as one of the 70 animated characters between 1983 and 2006 that she has voiced. Among her most famous roles was in Tiny Toon Adventures (1990) as Elmyra Duff and Mary Melody (which she reprised for Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain), Aka Pella in Histeria!, Susie Carmichael in Rugrats and its spin-off All Grown Up!, Dulcy the dragon in Sonic the Hedgehog, Princess 'Kida' Kidagakash for Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire and Valerie Gray in Danny Phantom (2004).
You may not know that she released an album with friend Lenny Kravitz (yum) and it was rather good. This is ‘Smooth my Heart’ one of my favs.