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Congrats to our Melanie Shrawder and her husband, Matt Ittigson, on the birth of their first child, Henry Austin Ittigson. He was born at 8:14pm on April 10th in Pittsburgh. Hank weighed in at 8.05oz. and stretched out at 20.5 inches. All are doing well!
Amazon has published a truly bizarre list of “The 100 Greatest Singer-Songwriter Albums of All Time.” It starts off fairly predictably, with Blonde on Blonde, Astral Weeks, Pink Moon and Nebraska all in the top 10, but takes detours past some real head-scratchers on its way down to 100 — Bill Callahan’s Woke on a Whaleheart and Secrets of the Beehive by David Sylvian both make the list, for example. (How many people have even heard these? Or heard OF them?)
The order is puzzling, too. For starters, how does Suzanne Vega’s mid-career release Nine Objects of Desire beat out Tori Amos’s groundbreaking debut?
Other oddities: do an overwhelming number of Tracy Chapman fans really prefer New Beginning to her self-titled album? And why would Sea Change be the only Beck album to make the list? Is it because, of all his records, that’s the only one Amazon’s editors would qualify as “a singer-songwriter album”?
What do you think? What makes a record a singer-songwriter record? What’s missing from this list? Leave a comment below.
