Folk music

I'm looking to expand my collection when it comes folk music. Any ideas how to continue?

So far I have Iva Bittova, Sur Sudha and Zakir Hussain. A mixture of East European and Indian.

Please, no electronica/folk music hybrids. I want the real thing.

Do you mean "world" folk music or traditional English/American folk music- or both?

I guess both

If you are in the mood for something different, try the psychedelic folk band Comus, the release First Utterance is a good one.

Sure! I like folk-psych too.

Ok, here are some of my favorites (some obvious, new and old)

Nick Drake

Pentangle

Bert Jansch

Bob Dylan

Great Lake Swimmers

Donovan

Simon + Garfunkel

Fairport Convention

Mississippi John Hurt

John Fahey

Bon Iver

Kings of Convenience

Espers

Iron and Wine

Vashti Bunyan

Forest

Steeleye Span

Andrew Bird

Fleet Foxes

Alela Diane

I could go on for a while, but I'm sure others have some good recommendations...

I've heard Pentangle, very good from what I remember.

  On 8/27/2010 at 10:49 PM, headonist said:

I've heard Pentangle, very good from what I remember.

Yessir, the way Bert Jansch and John Renbourn compliment each other on guitar is mindblowing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBpfdjpBniM

i've been listening to this guy a lot lately. i guess this isn't folk at all, more gospel/blues. but there's something folky about it.

bert jansch, nick drake, basically any of the english folk artists from that period in the sixties/early seventies. jackson c. frank has one of the more tragic stories i've heard as far as musician's lives go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxOouYO5tY4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmDybuYTuoM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnmgT8syOxA

i'm a convicted and unrepentant folkie. i HIGHLY recommend The Watersons (traditional vocal folk) and the (somewhat related) Martin Carthy.

xxx, I love your mashup.

tunng is very good

they have electronic elements but oh well.

i'll just leave this here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0DqPSF2fyo

ahhhh gordon lightfoot, you beardy canadian alcoholic, you are my secret love.

my fave folk group is the incredible string band

i first heard about them when boc name dropped them in an interview

they play psychedelic folk and i even heard they influenced the stones

their best album probably:

Yes, I LOVE Incredible String Band. At one point all I'd do is visit shroomery.org and listen to their discography while wanting to redecorate my place with all kind of rustic things. Still haven't done shrooms yet though, sadly.

While not indicative of their early sound, I really really love this song:

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this is more raga/12 string guitar stuff than just straight up folk but really do check out robbie basho

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bKOzAQibzA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfomkIqzE4Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYaGChm8RWw

Robbie Basho

John Fahey

Jack Rose

Six Organs Of Admittance

Hush Arbors

Steve Gunn

Steven R. Smith

Milton Cross

Hala Strana

i know someone said jackson c frank already but i thought id mention him again. some really amazing tracks by that guy. he didnt record much, but everything he did was pretty strong, from the young folkie years to the new york city bum years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opTQURS6p2k&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jEQ8goYo_s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msWzLvvDutw

although hes more lo fi and abstract than anything, i really enjoy jandeks folkier tracks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maHbR_OZUq8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1indGfwbUfI

  On 8/28/2010 at 2:47 AM, fox said:

i'm a convicted and unrepentant folkie. i HIGHLY recommend The Watersons (traditional vocal folk) and the (somewhat related) Martin Carthy.

The Watersons are brilliant, my favourites. I just spent £50 on a copy of Bright Phoebus, which I highly recommend, my favourite folk LP and a top 10 all time album of any genre for me. Never been reissued, and might never be given the situation of the copyright owner. Radio 4 did a documentary about the album some time back.

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Hopefully seeing Martin Carthy live in October.

In the last couple of weeks have bought 3 Pentangle LPs, 3 ISB, a bunch of Topic releases, a well rare Nic Jones, a couple by Bert Jansch (Moonshine, Transatlantic Sampler), some Euro-medieval and a bunch more I can't remember. It's all I'm buying at the moment really. The best of the bunch might this one though:

Not often you see Cornish language folk.

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  On 9/1/2010 at 10:46 AM, xy_politics said:

  On 8/28/2010 at 2:47 AM, fox said:

i'm a convicted and unrepentant folkie. i HIGHLY recommend The Watersons (traditional vocal folk) and the (somewhat related) Martin Carthy.

 

Hopefully seeing Martin Carthy live in October.

ye lucky bastard

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Not often you see Cornish language folk.

i'd be curious to hear a rip of that, it's those fascinating oddities that i love about folk, finding those old mostly forgotten strings hanging down from another time.

synanthesia ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMTr-LlcfbY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uHXgOiwXcQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-hWi2N0J2M&feature=related

  On 8/28/2010 at 4:39 AM, kaini said:

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http://www.pickled-egg.co.uk/Sunne%20Song.mp3

kaini, who is that? it's sounds a bit like Jasper Leyland to me.

  On 9/1/2010 at 6:18 PM, fox said:

  On 8/28/2010 at 4:39 AM, kaini said:

:wub: :wub:

http://www.pickled-egg.co.uk/Sunne%20Song.mp3

 

kaini, who is that? it's sounds a bit like Jasper Leyland to me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalle

their first album is absolutely beautiful, and seeing them live in a room of <100 people was one of the best gigs i've ever been to.