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    1. Black women with guitars?

      Ok bear with me. I like to joke that a significant portion of my music library is white women with guitars. I listen to a lot of art pop/indie, basically. Phoebe Bridgers, Boygenius, Fiona Apple,...

      Ok bear with me. I like to joke that a significant portion of my music library is white women with guitars. I listen to a lot of art pop/indie, basically. Phoebe Bridgers, Boygenius, Fiona Apple, Weyes Blood, Angel Olsen, Aldous Harding, etc.

      So where are the black women with guitars? I think that singer/songwriter trope of a woman with a guitar (or sometimes a piano) is traditionally pretty white, so what artists are you aware of that break this trend? Closest I've found so far is Kara Jackson, who I would highly recommend, by the way. Not too strict about genre here, so whatever you got is welcome.

      46 votes
    2. Odie Leigh - Treehouse Tapes (2022)

      I've been trying to work out which Odie Leigh song to post here and I can't decide, so here are five from a session that she's called the Treehouse Tapes. At the moment I'm a real sucker for this...

      I've been trying to work out which Odie Leigh song to post here and I can't decide, so here are five from a session that she's called the Treehouse Tapes. At the moment I'm a real sucker for this kind of thing - one person, minimal production, their own songs.

      Odie Leigh - A month or two
      Odie Leigh - Habits held
      Odie Leigh - Take back
      Odie Leigh - Nine lives
      Odie Leigh - [Crop circles]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_fWR3klRKo)

      (For some reason this really reminds me of the Michelle Shocked Texas Campfire Tapes which is a fantastic album but tricky to listen to because of the hateful things she's said.)

      2 votes
    3. Drop 2 Guitar Voicings

      This is mostly a test to see how well this will show up, but I'm experimenting with some text-based (I guess UTF-8) chord diagrams. If anyone plays guitar and/or has some feedback, feel free to...

      This is mostly a test to see how well this will show up, but I'm experimenting with some text-based (I guess UTF-8) chord diagrams. If anyone plays guitar and/or has some feedback, feel free to chime in.

      These are drop 2 chord voicings on the top 4 strings of a standard-tuned guitar. Arranged vertically, with each shape representing each chord piece. The gaps are for clarity, but each line ought to be successive and the patterns repeat themselves.

      Edit: Well, it seems some of the symbols aren't rendered at a fixed-width. Though, they are in the font in my editor. Hm. I guess that's what I get for using symbols for an unintended purpose.

      EditEdit: Oh, I see. Firefox is using three different fonts to render the symbols. SF Mono is my default monospace font, and it only renders the symbol. It falls back to Courier New for and Segoe UI Symbol for the rest. Interesting.

      ▢ = Root
      △ = Major 3rd
      ▽ = Minor 3rd
      ○ = Perfect 5th
      ◎ = Diminished 5th
      ◊ = Major 7th
      ◇ = Minor 7th
      ◈ = Diminished 7th
      
      Major 7 
      Drop 2 Voicings
      Top 4
      
      EADGBe
      ------
      
      ||||○▢
      ||◊△||
      
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      |||○◊△
      
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      ||△|||
      |||||○
      |||◊||
      
      ||○▢△|
      ||||||
      |||||◊
      
      ------
      
      ||||○▢
      ||◊△||
      
      etc...
      
      
      
      
      Dominant 7
      Drop 2 Voicings
      Top 4
      
      EADGBe
      ------
      
      ||◇|○▢
      |||△||
      
      ||▢|||
      ||||◇|
      |||○|△
      
      ||||▢|
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      |||◇|○
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      ||○▢△|
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      ||||||
      
      ------
      
      ||◇|○▢
      |||△||
      
      etc...
      
      
      
      
      Minor 7
      Drop 2 Voicings
      Top 4
      
      EADGBe
      ------
      
      ||◇▽○▢
      ||||||
      
      ||▢|||
      ||||◇▽
      |||○||
      
      ||▽|▢|
      ||||||
      |||◇|○
      
      ||||▽|
      ||○▢||
      |||||◇
      ||||||
      
      ------
      
      ||◇▽○▢
      ||||||
      
      etc...
      
      
      
      
      Half-diminished 7
      Drop 2 Voicings
      Top 4
      
      EADGBe
      ------
      
      ||||◎|
      ||◇▽|▢
      ||||||
      
      ||▢|||
      |||◎◇▽
      ||||||
      
      ||▽|▢|
      |||||◎
      |||◇||
      
      ||◎|▽|
      |||▢||
      |||||◇
      
      ------
      
      ||||◎|
      ||◇△|▢
      ||||||
      
      etc...
      
      7 votes