Your favorite folk/country song.

[Sepheritoh]

...Pete Seeger and



...Woody Guthrie!

Yes, Yes. How could we forget?

[seldom]

one of my absolute favourite albums is "songs of ewan maccoll", sung by dave burland, tony capstick and dick gaughan. just stunning. ewan maccoll was a much much better songwriter than singer if you ask me. his radio play things are pretty legendary too.

i have been lucky enough in the last year, steeleye span (prog folk?) with support (!?) by ralph mctell. that was a helluva gig, although being a good 25 years younger than most of the audience was a bit disturbing.


of course many of the other musicians mentioned in this thread are of the utmost quality also.

[Meffy]

Seatrain: Ah well, one track anyhow. :-)

...Pete Seeger and



...Woody Guthrie!

Oh yeah. And let's not omit Arlo just because he's over there sittin' on the Group W bench.

Another favorite early folk-rocker of mine: Spider John Koerner. Anyone NPR-ish enough to listen to Prairie Home Companion (hem, hem, guilty) might have heard him performing as "Outdoor John and the Sears Catalog."

[aMUSEd]

Has anyone mentioned Pentangle? (as a group and as 5 fine solo artists).

Favourites of mine as well.

Also one of the best songs ever is "Vincent Black Lightning" by Richard Thompson.

[Mr Arkadin]

Cigareets and Whisky and Wild Wild Women

I'm My Own Grandpa

dunno who they're by but they're very funny.

[SecondSkin]

Well, you asked at the right place.

-S.

Well I guess I did. I honestly don't think I have thought of RAF or the Kinsmans in a dozen years or more. Great memories, though. I remember them being on one of the late night TV shows (Carson or Letterman) in 1984, I didn't even know they were going to be on...it was like discovering a treasure in your own attic.

Cowboy Nation does sound interesting, though their website still directs you to MP3.com, so I guess they are still at odds....

Mark

[opiadream]

tam lin

tennessee flat top box

[Steven West]

Now we're talkin!

Rose Colored Glasses - Roy Conlee

And hell - anything with a peddle steel and has Country and Western in it's title. New Country I can do without!

[deastman]

All time favorite- anything by Gordon Lightfoot

Also, most of the other artist already listed, so I won't bother repeating them...

Although I'm too young to be a true folkie (current age 34), I did have the privilage of seeing Pete Seeger and Odetta in concert at Stanford University when I was about 5 or 6, and I still remember it vividly. Also, I grew up in the same town as Joan Baez, and went to school with her son who ended up being close friends with another friend of mine. For whatever thats worth...

[Bonteburg]

Just inside the Pearly Gates over there
I'm no born#again Christian or anything, but this 1920ish number is just so cool! Wonderful southern delivery too!
Unfortuately Ilost the casette it was on

Marco

[VicDiesel]

every saturday morning our local community radio station plays 2 hours of western swing music,,folksy stuff with violin and rythmic acoustic guitar,

Western Swing is not folksy. If anything it's "jazz with fiddles". Check out Asleep at the Wheel. They regularly play straight jazz such as "One o'clock jump", which is a Basie tune.

Bob Wills (is still the king) had some fine improvising musicians in his band.

V.

[Har]

Also one of the best songs ever is "Vincent Black Lightning" by Richard Thompson.

Damn fine song...can't believe I forgot Richard Thompson. I only recently discovered his stuff after hearing so much about him for years.

[dreibel]

definitely Johnny Cash. Went to see him around '92 at the local fair one summer with June Carter, put on one killer show! That was around the time "American Recordings" came out.

others I like include Dwight Yoakam (his guitarist and producer Pete Anderson is one cool and dangerous player!), Blue Rodeo (legendary Canadian country-rock band, with two great singer/songwriters in Jim Cuddy and Greg Keillor), Junior Brown (traditionalist with untraditional instrument, his Guit-Steel, with which he can go from Ernest Tubb to Hendrix), Willie Nelson (his _Stardust_ album is beautifully done), Haggard, Buck Owens, Carlene Carter (her 90s output is fantastic), The Judds (Naomi and Wynonna were a great team), Conway Twitty (he had a great catalogue of songs and could be quite controversial), Lyle Lovett (odd but very satisfying songwriter, _Pontiac_ and _Large Band_ are must-haves), Mary Chapin Carpenter (beautifully sardonic and funny songwriter, check out "I Feel Lucky"), Dolly Parton (getting past her up-front personality , she does have a great voice and some classic songs) .

unfortunately you can't hear much of the older country these days, as much of it has been pushed off the airwaves by the poppier and manufactured "New Country", of which I must admit I was a fan until I realized how many people weren't getting to hear what country was all about.

[VicDiesel]

Junior Brown (traditionalist with untraditional instrument, his Guit-Steel, with which he can go from Ernest Tubb to Hendrix),

What a player! Real Texas blues. Good voice too.

unfortunately you can't hear much of the older country these days

Every thursday 7-10pm on wdvx (.com). I believe they don't play anything less than 25 years old.

V.

[Ian B]

Has anyone mentioned Pentangle? (as a group and as 5 fine solo artists).

Favourites of mine as well.

Yep, I did on the previous page

Also one of the best songs ever is "Vincent Black Lightning" by Richard Thompson.

As a 'huge' Thompson fan, I can't see the attraction of this song at all, it does nothing at all for me I'm in the minority tho'....
On the other hand 'A Heart Needs A Home' > 'Beat The Retreat' > 'Withered And Died' > 'Calvary Cross' > 'For Shame Of Doing Wrong' > 'Strange Affair' (not sure if he penned this) get better as time passes