ThisSmallPlanet Corona Playlist 1: Women Folk Who Rock

                                                     Katie Crutchfield performs as Waxahatchee. Photo: NME

ALBUMS

Waxahatchee Saint Cloud. Great New Album! from Katie Crutchfield (Waxahatchee).

Lana Del Rey NFR!: Norman Fucking Rockwell. An instant classic. Follow-up due this year.



Soccer Mommy Color Theory is a great follow-up from Soccer Mommy's Sophia Allison to last year's Her Greatest Hits

Anna Calvi Hunted (EP). Check out Courtney Barnett on "Don't Beat The Girl Out Of My Boy"

Frances Quinlan Likewise. Really good album, her first using her own name. She had recorded previously as Hop Along.




SINGLES

Billie Eilish "No Time To Die" - the new James Bond theme.

Phoebe Bridgers "Garden Song" Can't wait for her second album to come out. Really liked her 2017 debut Stranger In The Alps and her Better Oblivion Social Community Center  (2019) album with Conor Oberst.

Sharon Van Etten has two new singles: "Beaten Down" & "Starring At A Mountain" (from the soundtrack of Never Rarely Sometimes Always.) She also did a stunning version of her hit "Seventeen" with Norah Jones on the Stephen Colbert show:

ARCHIVAL

To round out the playlist, I included a (new to me) concert album of Billie Holliday: Live at Monterrey 1958, a generous selection of some of Aretha Franklin's greatest hits, a couple songs from Laura Nyro, Carole King, & Stevie Nicks, Phoebe Snow doing Memphis Minnie's "In My Girlish Days", and Nina Simone's "How It Feels To Be Free" (live at Montreux 1976).

LIVE: Carla Olson (Textones, Gene Clark, Mick Taylor)


ThisSmallPlanet Video: Carla Olson, John York & Friends Retrospective Turns Into A Celebration of The Byrds & Gene Clark at McCabe's

UPDATE: M.I.A. releases new song on Instagram:

UPDATE: After listening to this playlist a few times, it just didn't feel right to have a "Women Folk Who Rock" Playlist without Janis Joplin, for one, and a couple of others who you simply couldn't justify excluding... So here's Janis, Big Thief's Adrianne Lenker, and Brittany Howard (Alabama Shakes)...

UPDATE: This playlist wasn't meant to be a comprehensive overview of Female Artists today, merely a brief survey of some new exciting releases by artists who are women. Still, I can't help adding new artists to the playlist. Patti Smith? Of course... Aimee Mann, PJ Harvey, Y La Bamba, My Ugly Clementine... So many artists to add to the playlist...