This morning I was futzing around on Amazon and iTunes, and got to thinking about contemporary Jewish music. I grew up on Debbie Friedman\u2019s music, and (unfortunately) there aren\u2019t going to be new albums. So I started looking at some of my other collections (the five Ruach albums, a Sounds Write sampler, and an Artists Booking International sampler) to see if I might identify some new artists to explore. Some of the artists I found are more familiar to me than others. So, I figured I\u2019d post a little poll, even though I\u2019m sure most folks aren\u2019t familiar with all these artists…<\/p>\n
ETA: Facebook friends, please remember: You can vote in this poll. You just need to comment first, logging in with your Facebook ID to Livejournal, which creates you a quasi-LJ account. You could also create your own LJ account (free) by visiting the account creation page<\/a>.<\/p>\n ETAA: If you want to investigate any of these artists, SoundWrite\/Transcontinental Music is a good place to start<\/a>. Just search on the artist\u2019s name. Here are some direct links: Visions<\/a>, Dan Nichols and E18ghteen<\/a>, Julie Silver<\/a>, Beth Schafer<\/a>, Jeff Klepper<\/a>, Sababa<\/a>, Josh Nelson Project<\/a>, Rick Recht<\/a>, Doug Cotler<\/a>, Peri Smilow<\/a>.<\/p>\n ETA3<\/font><\/sup>: Yes, I\u2019m familiar with Craig Taubman<\/a> (and Cindy Paley<\/a> as well), and I even have some of their albums. However, I find their music aimed a little too much at the family audience. Of course, feel free to suggest specific albums to prove me wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This morning I was futzing around on Amazon and iTunes, and got to thinking about contemporary Jewish music. I grew up on Debbie Friedman\u2019s music, and (unfortunately) there aren\u2019t going to be new albums. So I started looking at some of my other collections (the five Ruach albums, a Sounds Write sampler, and an Artists Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-4307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lj-xfer","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}