Seriously, right? Whatever happened to the Lilith Fair? And why doesn’t anyone seem to care? Are we saying more about the music or the listeners, if we’re saying anything at all, and if so, what? I couldn’t say for sure.

I was reading Jim Gaudet’s post Ani Difranco, I Am Drunk Leave Me Alone and it got me wondering where are the new female vocalists, which lead me down a wondering road of vague ideas to a Lilith Fair of performing females from the late nineties.  Not that I ever cared about the concert event itself, but I was a fan to many of the performers (of which, I believe, one Ani Difranco was not).

Now I find myself, many years later, trying to identify the new women of yesteryear who can write, perform, and sing without the help of a computerized sound, but I’m left with nothing.  Is it that they exist and I’m too far removed to know what’s happening on the scene, or have the true songstresses truly been replaced?

Lilith Fair Gone, Not Missing was first posted to justinll.com on August 19, 2009.