Your favorite folk/country song.

[Ja.x]

Joan Baez: the most boring concert I ever attended Over 27 years ago and unable to forget it. And I was in boring concerts

[opiadream]

When it comes to folk, what about Fairport Convention? Sandy Denny, Dave Swarbrick, Fotheringay? And the Incredible String Band? Who still remembers those names? Ah, and Lindisfarne? By the way, Led Zeppelin ? And Magna Carta ?

of course!
the 'tam lin' I mentioned earlier in the thread is the fairport version with sandy denny
My favorite song performed by her is 'the king and queen of england'
outstanding.

maybe I missed it but
no mention of steeleye span or maddy prior and the carnival band
I've always loved maddy's voice
and IMHO 'fighting for strangers' is a timeless masterpiece

[Karbon L. Forms]

OK, where do the Alabama 3 fit in?

Or The Grid

Thank you! Last train to Mashville (whole album) by the A3 for country then listen to the "CM" versions!

HA!

[Tancos]

Incredible String Band: Big Ted, The Minotaur's Song, No Sleep Blues (the story of my life), Koeoaddi There (spelled wrong, probably), Everything's Fine Right Now.

Pentangle: Everything on Basket of Light; most on their other albums with John Renbourn.

John Renbourn [Group]: All of Faro Annie, The Black Balloon and A Maid in Bedlam

Fairport Convention: Nottamun Town, Million Dollar Bash, all of Liege and Lief, Dirty Linen, Sir Patrick Spens, all the instrumental medleys

Steeleye Span: Female Drummer, King Henry, Alison Gross, Robbery with Violins, all of Commoner's Crown ....

Tim Hart & Maddy Prior: Thee Drunken Maidens

Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick: Staines Morris, The Wife of the Soldier

Pogues: pick a dozen tunes at random from their first four albums

And from the other side of the Atlantic:

Buffalo Springfield: For What It's Worth, Bluebird, Go and Say Goodbye

Flying Burrito Brothers: Devil in Diguise

Sea Train: the entire first album. As "Seatrain:" Despair Tire, Orange Blossom Special

Flatt & Scruggs: Foggy Mountain Breakdown

John McCutcheon: Barefoot Boy with Boots on

Sons of Rayon: UFO's Over New Zealand, Karma Payments, India

Metamora: Monster, Little Potato

.... and lots of acoustic guitar music: Leo Kottke, Norman Blake, Don Ross, Pat Kirtley, Stephen Bennett, etc., etc., etc.

Incidentally, anyone in the central USA who is interested in Bluegrass, folk and country music should check out Winfield, Kansas. That's where you'll find me the third weekend of September every year.

[Mighty_Hero]

favorite country song....hhmmm *scratches head*
geore jones he stopped loving her today.

[dreibel]

I forgot to mention this one album that came out about a decade ago called _Rhythm Country & Blues_ - it was a compilation of tracks recorded with both R&B and country artists covering each other's tunes. A couple of standouts were Reverend Al Green and Lyle Lovett doing Willie Nelson's "Ain't It Funny How Time Slips Away", Sam Moore and Conway Twitty's "Rainy Night In Georgia", Clint Black and The Pointer Sisters' "Chain Of Fools", and George Jones and B.B. King performing "Patches" . Some interesting genre-bending with this release. (And a treat for instrumentalists include Allen Toussaint and Chet Atkins doing a hot arrangement of "Southern Nights")

[Gridlocked]

Does Johnny Cash's cover of the NIN song 'Hurt' count?

I don't care, it's great anyway

[whyterabbyt]

"I See A Darkness" by Bonnie Prince Billie

"I Hate Trees" by the Tofu Love Frogs

"Go Your Way My Love" by Bert Jansch

[plunge]

Just caught this thread. Lots of folkies here at KVR! At least a lot of folkie name droppers. Had to wade through a lot of posts before I found the ones I wanted to mention.

Willie is classic. Recently picked up his demo sessions CD. There are some cool bits on there. In fact, a couple days ago I started working on a cover of one of the tunes from it. Hope to post it after the weekend.

Lyle Lovett is a big favorite of mine. Amazing lyrically and quite diverse musically. Saw him with Sting in Indianapolis several years back. Killer show. His latest CD (My Baby Don't Tolerate) is pretty cool, though there's a little too much Texas/San Antonio swing for my taste.

As long as we're mentioning more current folkies, I may as well confess my other songwriting hero: David Wilcox. Just about any CD of his will do, but I highly recommend How Did You Find Me Here?, that is of course if you can't make it to the live show.

[Wine]

Where would you put Tim Buckley?

And definitely one of my fav's, Ross Ryan, a great Aussie folkie!

Michael

[bluedad]

Where would you put Tim Buckley?
Michael

I wondered that myself, and decided against listing him, as all I was familiar with was much more jazz than anything resembling folk.

[Shane Sanders]

Where would you put Tim Buckley?

And definitely one of my fav's, Ross Ryan, a great Aussie folkie!

Michael

I love Tim Buckley. His track "Hallucinations/Troubador" is brilliant and full of raw emotion. You can feel his pain.

[Shane Sanders]

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.

Yes! R. Thompson. I saw him here in Nashville a few years ago on a beautiful night at a free outdoor concert. Perk of being in Nashville. He played that song with a lot of heart.

[Shane Sanders]

Other great songs:

Tim Buckley "I Must Have Been Blind"
Tim Buckley "Song of the Siren"
Tim Buckley "Morning Glory"

Roy Harper "Another Day"

Emmylou Harris "'Til I Gain Control Again" - steel guitars doing it the way it's supposed to be done

Emmylou Harris - the whole Wrecking Ball album tears me up

[Ian B]

Other great songs

Roy Harper "Another Day"

Amything, anything at all by Roy (god) Harper. The mans a total genius

How about Tim Rose? The ultimate version of Morning Dew and a fantastic version of Hey Joe