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Paul Weller - Wildwood

Kate Bush - The Man with the Child in His Eyes

Jose Gonzales - Heartbeats

All About Eve - Martha's Harbour

Don McClean - Vincent

 

How about

 

Tracy Chapman - Fast Car

Damien Rice - Cannonball

Joni Mitchell - Urge for Going

Suzanne Vega - Caramel

Suzanne Vega - Marlene on the Wall

Lisa Hannigan - Ocean and a Rock

Lisa Hannigan - I Don't Know

Mazzy Star - Fade Into You

 

Hope you like some of these!

some of my favourites...

 

Damien Rice - Cold Water / Colour Me In / I Remember

Bon Iver - The Wolves / Flume / Skinny love

The Tallest Man on Earth - Little brother / Where do my bluebird fly / Love is All

Ben Howard - Keep your head up / Promise / Bones

Lisa Hannigan - Fall / Lille / Little Bird

Angus & Julia Stone - Big Jet Plane / Mango Tree / Just a Boy

Ry X - Berlin

Keaton Henson - Small Hands / Alright / Sweetheart what have you done to us

The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio / Conversation 16

Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy Jr / Casimir Pulanski Day / Chicago

Radiohead - True love waits

Hozier - Cherry Tree

Daughter - Youth / Landfill/ Shallows

James Vincent McMorrow - Follow you down to the red oak tree

Benjamin Francis Leftwhich - Atlas Hands

Kodaline - All I Want

Ray Lamontagne - Lesson learned / Empty / Jolene

Iron & Wine - Passing afternoon / The trapeze swinger / Naked as we came

Civil Wars - Same old same old

David Gray - Nightblindness

Daughter - Youth / Landfill/ Shallows

 

YES @ these, although they all sound better live!

Iron and Wine “Such Great Heights”

Sufjan Stevens “Should Have Known Better”

Villagers “Becoming A Jackal”

Bon Iver “Holocene”

Junip “Line Of Fire”

Ben Howard “End Of The Affair”

Bright Eyes “First Day Of My Life”

Damien Rice “9 Crimes”

Laura Marling “Cross Your Fingers / Crawled Out of the Sea”

Blackbud “Heartbeat”

Stateless “Bloodstream”

Grizzly Bear “Two Weeks”

 

Investigating the back catalogues of any of the artists above should give you even more suggestions - though Villagers went more electronic/pop on their later stuff - same goes for Grizzly Bear who went more rock on Shields.

Not the best at this particular genre but certainly my favourite song similar to Jack Johnson is this beaut:

 

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Not the best at this particular genre but certainly my favourite song similar to Jack Johnson is this beaut:

 

Great shout Dobbo!

 

I had forgotten about that one and it is a good example of what I am after.

 

Please keep your suggestions coming, they've been very good so far. :)

Fionn Regan 'Be Good Or Be Gone'

Itasca “Buddy”

Ryan Adams 'Wild Flowers'

Beth Orton 'This One's Gonna Bruise'

Radiohead 'Street Spirit (Fade Out)'

Nick Drake 'Riverman'

Kathryn Williams 'Breath'

Jason Mraz 'Life Is Wonderful'

Simon & Garfunkel 'Hazy Shade of Winter'

Elbow 'Asleep In The Back'

Aimee Mann 'Little Bombs'

Aimee Mann 'That's Just What You Are' (plus many others, she's a real favourite)

Damien Rice 'Aime'

Tom McRae 'My Vampire Heart'

 

Edited by dandy*

Pinball - Brian Protheroe

Gaye - Clifford T. Ward

If You Could Read My Mind - Gordon Lightfoot

After The Goldrush - Prelude

Love And Affection - Joan Armatrading

Border Song - Elton John

At 17 - Janis ian

Cats In The Cradle - Harry Chapin

Motherland - Natalie Merchant

 

 

loads more 70's tracks

 

this is my favourite singer-songwriter song for the last year, bit of a lost gem that wasn't a single and got a bit under the radar despite having a great melody and even better lyrics

 

Edited by Bjork

mitski - a burning hill

courtney barnett - depreston

sibylle baier - i lost something in the hills

judee sill - waterfall (daniel rossen of grizzly bear covered this and it's also good)

Recent stuff?

 

I love this newie from The Tallest Man On Earth:

 

 

didn't know the Tallest Man was known in the UK, but good to see!!!!!!! I thought he was only popular in Scandinavia. Here in Denmark he's quite well known and sells outs all gigs whenever he tours...

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