Great ukulele singer/songwriters?

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Who's on your list for great singer/songwriters whose primary instrument is the ukulele?

I'm mostly hoping to find active players with at least one or two albums of material under their belt.

Already on my list are:
  • James Hill
  • Victoria Vox
  • Sophie Madeline
  • Julia Nunes
  • Keston Cobblers Club

Doing research for a book that will be coming out in February and appreciate the help. Thanks!

P.S. If you're a songwriter and have recorded an album, please let me know your website, youtube page, etc..
 
Fun project. While ukulele is not his primary instrument, I think you'd certainly want to consider including Eddie Vedder given his Ukulele Songs album sold nearly 70K copies in its first week.
 
Check out Danielle Anderson AKA "Danielle Ate the Sandwich". She has got a Youtube channel and several wonderful albums out. All of her songs are performed on either a Tenor or a Baritone Ukulele. They are very witty and haunting, like this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i67pbCPi8a8
 
Kate Micucci and Molly Lewis top my list for ukulele player/songwriters.

There's a group called Victor and Penny that is an amazing, jazzy kind of ukulele/guitar duet. Mostly they update old jazz and Tin Pan Alley standards, but they also write original music in those styles.
 
OK, so my two suggestions were both repeated later on. Did I do something heinous and ended up on everyone's ignore list? ;-)
 
OK, so my two suggestions were both repeated later on. Did I do something heinous and ended up on everyone's ignore list? ;-)

Sorry, I was so eager to name Danielle that I only read the other posts cursory. She really deserves it, though!
 
Since she's the head of the ukulele group I belong to, The CC Strummers, and she's really good, Cali Rose.
 
Jim Beloff. Birthed the third generation of ukulele lovers. Us latter-day players owe him lots. And lots.
 
Who's on your list for great singer/songwriters whose primary instrument is the ukulele?

I'm mostly hoping to find active players with at least one or two albums of material under their belt.


Doing research for a book that will be coming out in February and appreciate the help. Thanks!

P.S. If you're a songwriter and have recorded an album, please let me know your website, youtube page, etc..

I don't suppose IZ would be considered "active" but has thankfully prevented the current generation from associating the ukulele withTiny Tim

Has anyone mentioned Jake ? or is that too obvious ? (oh wait he doesn't sing)

But I have always thought Blue Dean Carcione was very interesting. Not the type of music I normally listen to but if I was looking for a unique sound to go with the ukulele it would be him. (and his riding a bike playing the ukulele video is awesome !)

https://www.youtube.com/user/BlueDeanCarcione/videos?sort=dd&shelf_id=0&view=0

He is on at least one album:
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bluedeancarcione
Here is an article about him from YouTubeUndeground:
http://underyoutube.blogspot.com/2013/02/blue-dean-carcione-sound-of-another-era.html
I discovered Blue Dean a couple years ago when I was looking up some old folks songs, amongst them "The Ballad of Jesse James" (Bascom Lamar Lunsford). I came across Blue Dean slamming down with his foot and scratching away on his ukulele and was hooked. But the moment he opened this mouth, this tremendously spiritual voice came out of him. As if he's transcending space and time, he brought the reality of the song to my ears, my eyes and my heart. How do you feel about it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOIgWdkGbrY
 
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I don't suppose IZ would be considered "active" but has thankfully prevented the current generation from associating the ukulele withTiny Tim

Has anyone mentioned Jake ? or is that too obvious ? (oh wait he doesn't sing)

But I have always thought Blue Dean Carcione was very interesting. Not the type of music I normally listen to but if I was looking for a unique sound to go with the ukulele it would be him. (and his riding a bike playing the ukulele video is awesome !)

https://www.youtube.com/user/BlueDeanCarcione/videos?sort=dd&shelf_id=0&view=0

He is on at least one album:
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bluedeancarcione
Here is an article about him from YouTubeUndeground:
http://underyoutube.blogspot.com/2013/02/blue-dean-carcione-sound-of-another-era.html

Tiny Tim was a mere persona that commercial interest plumbed to its inevitable depths for comedic purposes. Timy Tim was some wonderful releases and that crazy falsetto is not even half the story. He had a rich, full singing voice and many albums of wonderful music. He was not a talent on the ukulele really as a player, but as a performer, he had charm and with and wonderful capacity to relate to audiences, as well being a musicophile with an encyclopaedic knowldege of the jazz age which he always adored, promoted for posterity and dug into regularly. Can I humbly suggest folks take a look at this wonderful DVD release several years back immediately before his death: a one x one interview where he talks of his passion for the instrument and the period of music he always loved, and punctuated with brief and lovely performances. some brief performances. The short documentary is titled: "Tiny Tim's Songs and Stories of the Crooners - Crosby, Columbo and Vallee."
 
Hippie Dribble, a friend of mine used to book Tiny Tim in the late 80's early 90's. I have nothing against him other than every time someone I know learns I play ukulele, I am asked about that song.
 
Hippie Dribble, a friend of mine used to book Tiny Tim in the late 80's early 90's. I have nothing against him other than every time someone I know learns I play ukulele, I am asked about that song.
No worries brother. I just wanted to put in a shout for him given he gets a lot of bad press to this day, which i find very sad. Cheers Brian.
 
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