A little postscriptum on Gypsy by Suzanne Vega

In this post I mentioned that Suzanne Vega's songs Gypsy and In Liverpool were based on the same person, her first love. I saw her in concert last week and she joked about this connection in a very charming way.

By some strange coincidence, just as she was about to play Gypsy, a man from the audience shouted: "In Liverpool!" She said "Thank you for the suggestion, but not right now," and went on to tell the story about the summer camp where she taught folk music and disco dancing, and the man who inspired Gypsy taught art. She didn't mention that this man was from Liverpool, but she suddenly asked in a dreamy voice: "Are you from Liverpool, sir? You who requested the song?" That would have been a lovely epilogue to this story, if this man from her past appeared at one of her concerts and requested a song about himself. It wasn't him, though! Or at least he didn't want to admit it...

She did play In Liverpool as an encore, and it was great.

About this blog

In this blog I will attempt to list and review a thousand great songs by female artists.
I'm not using any objective criteria to measure the greatness of these songs. I doubt that such criteria exist. This is a purely personal choice by the author of the blog.
Most of the artists featured here will be female singer-songwriters, but there will be occasional exceptions -- female vocalists performing songs written by someone else or traditional songs; bands; duets with male artists.
The order of the songs has no particular meaning. I'm not saying #1 is the best and #1000 is the worst, or vice versa. I love them all.

(Can I just note how amusing it is that the spell-checking software used by Blogger marks "blog" as a mistake?)