I am Your Sunshine

How can you not like her.

If I say I fell in love with her the first time I heard Put Your Records, I’d be exaggerating. However, she does have this magical power to calm your nerves, like a cool breeze in the hot summer night, ease your pain and put you into sleep. Put Your Records reminded me of a song I liked quite much back in college days. It’s a Manderin song though.

Lately, the past few months, I’m drawn to this kind of soft, healing, relaxing female vocalists. Of course I’m still listening to loads of puck rock, alternative and whatnot, but sometimes I’d like to drown myself in their sweet and comforting voice. So I listened to a lot of Diana Krall, Katie Melua, and my recent fav, Keren Ann. (I can never stand Norah Jones though.) I’ve always loved female vocal. Sheryl Crow, Deana Carter, Shawn Colvin, Debbie Gibson, Lisa Loeb… but mostly I like them powerful, and the likes of Keren Ann were sort of a new territory for me.

This evening while I’m browsing through Selina’s blog roll, I came across a site which is playing Corinne Bailey Rae’s Trouble Sleeping. I instanatly recognized her voice. (However, I couldn’t find out which site it is cos I opened several site at the same time, and some of them are really ill designed, so I couldn’t locate the player. I hate people do autoplay on their site. It’s arrogant and inconsiderate. Anyways… ) It’s a beautiful song (just that I had to turned off Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde that I was listening to, or it’d be really weird.) and I think I’m gonna buy her CD. It’d be nice to add to my female vocalist collection.