Playing bass and singing lead?

Does anyone know of any songs with a female singing lead while also playing bass?

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Sheryl Crow did a lot of these. Here’s one with Eric Clapton:

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Gail Anne Dorsey showing how it is done…all class under pressure.

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Amazing! Thank You for this. Gail Ann Dorsey is a goddesses!

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I grew up to this lady. Excellent.

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Another classic, Meshell Ndegeocello -


I need to check out her solo work, I’m not really familiar but it’s probably awesome!
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Janice-Marie Johnson from Taste of Honey.

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This woman blows my mind.
How. Do. You. Do. This??

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Ooh cool, hadn’t heard of her! I like the mix of super-gnarly-fast synth bass and the vintage-y Jazz bass pops.

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Tina Weymouth!

If you’ve never seen them (or Talking Heads) live, yes, Chris Frantz really is the chattiest drummer evar :slight_smile:

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There is a new Tal Wilkenfeld record out, where she apparently is also singing now (apart from playing the bass) - might be worth checking out!

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Michael Steele…played bass and was Lead singer for the Runaways early on…also on some non Bangles sounding songs she wrote, led and played. Maybe some Crash Wisdom songs also? Also some covers like “I’m not Talking”.

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Geddy Lee, Sting, Paul McCartney, and Kip Winger are the ones I can think of.

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Hi there! Jean Millington of the awesome 70s all female band “FANNY” plays bass and sings lead.

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Kim Gordon often sings lead.

Kim Deal did occasionally.

I think I got Tina Weymouth above :slight_smile:

And of course, Kiyoshi.

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Tal Wilkenfeld didn’t use to sing much, but now she does more routinely:

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Whoa. She opened for The Who? That’s awesome.

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Yeah, she also played with Jeff Beck when she was, like, 19!

It is a bit of an “infamous” video because of how the contours of the bass and the contours of her body, uhm, line up nicely :rofl::joy:

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