Your favorite folk/country song.

[CypherOne]

Where Did You Sleep Last Night by Leadbelly.

The blues is cheating.

yeah but you haven't heard the Ferry Corsten remix.

[CypherOne]

okay, ermm, Wand'ring Star as performed by Lee Marvin...

[VariKusBrainZ]

What would your favorite folk/country song be from the "old days"?
I'm from Holland, and I have to admit that I'm not into this music for years and years.
It's just since I heard the 'Oh brother where art thou' theme 'I'm a man of constant sorrow' by the soggy bottom boys for the first time 3 years ago, and I'm still crazy about it.
I know the original is Ralph stanley's, but this Dan tyminski version sounds just so much better.

I just read your post properly

I love that tune too, f**king great, I recorded it of the TV and played it about 20 times straight and did the Soggy bottom jig all day much to my birds annoyance, the jigging bit that is, she lovs the tune too

[wrench45us]

I thought 'Where did you sleep last night?' was really 'In the pines' my old folk book had two versions one with major and one with minor chords

'I stopped loving her today' George Jones

'Mama Tried' Merle Haggard/ Grateful Dead

Graham Parson's with the Byrds 'Sweetheat of the Rodeo'
Graham Parsons with Emmy Lou Harris 'Return of the Grievous Angel'
(a friend had the Graham Parsons box set and there's plenty of evidence in there that the Eagles lifted an awful lot from Parsons)

when Skip Spence original drummer for the Jefferson Airplane and later played the Sid Barret guitarist role for Moby Grape got out of the hospital (something about an incident with an axe in a NY recording studio). He did a classic album 'Oar'
somewhere on that album is the lyric 'if you stay underneath me tonight, I'll stand by you in the day'

in a similar vein 'Tonight's the Night' -- the entire album, Neil Young

[papawillow]

every saturday morning our local community radio station plays 2 hours of western swing music,,folksy stuff with violin and rythmic acoustic guitar, amongst the brackets of heavy metal, blues, electronic,, excellent background music while reading the paper and having a coffee.

[nuffink]

Gram

[Har]

As far as country:

Anything by Johnny Cash. No question about it.

Also really like Hank Williams, some of Hank Williams Jr's stuff, David Allan Coe (who's done some damn funny stuff).

In terms of musicianship: man, if you ever just sit and listen to (or watch, if you get the chance) some of those Nashville studio players...damn amazing!!

Speaking of Hank Williams, did anyone ever hear the album by The The where he did all Hank covers? Great stuff (his cover of "I Saw The Light" was cool as hell)

Hey, does anyone remember cow-punk back in the 80's.....Jason & The Scorchers?? I loved their tune "White Lies"...sounded a little like a country version of The Clash, if you can picture that.

One of my favorite country album titles: "High-Tech Redneck" by George Straight.

Folk...hmm. Well, I've always loved Gordon Lightfoot's stuff (saw him many times in concert and always a lot of fun). CSN (and Y when available ) as well.
I also tend to like folk artists who aren't afraid to be experimental, like Dar Williams and Susanne Vega (some of Vega's stuff has been known to almost slip over into electronic/industrial, like her tune "Blood Makes Noise").

[wrench45us]

nuffink, you are correct

somehow reverted to the olde english spelling

spelling always a bit suspect, but it's amazing how well something like google adapts.

[djones]

I really like Chet atkins's Ragtime songs a lot.
Especially barbershop rag, cannonball rag, and Dill pickle rag.
Arthur smith's Guitar boogie is great too!

[pHz]

country ...

- anything by sparklehorse
- early cowboy junkies (havent heard anything recent tbh but cant imagine theyve changed much)
- steve earle

folk ...

- the pogues (obviously)
- the men they couldnt hang
- beth orton
- afrocelt
- flook

slainte rob

[CypherOne]

- beth orton

slainte rob

hmm, if suicide by tranquilisers is your thing...that's what she makes me feel like doing. Unless of course she's singing on a Chemical Brothers track

[t-willy]

[country mode from the old days]

1. John Anderson
2. Clint Black
3. Joe Diffie
4. Ricky Skaggs
5. Tennessee Headhunters
6. Brooks and Dunn


i gotta stop.......

[/country mode from the old days]

metal........unplugged

lates

t-willy

[mistertoast]

How about something new...

Van Lear Rose, from Loretta Lynn's album of the same name. Best album I've heard this year.

As for something old, Folsom Prison Blues from Cash.

And to me, Bill Monroe isn't country, it's bluegrass.

I have a hard time with all the slick overproduced Nashville twang, so I don't get to hear much country.

[bluedad]

Hey, does anyone remember cow-punk back in the 80's.....Jason & The Scorchers?? I loved their tune "White Lies"...sounded a little like a country version of The Clash, if you can picture that.

I saw them along with the Fabulous Thunderbirds back in the eighties. Can't remember their guitarist's name (Warren??) but he was a raw bluesy rock player.
great show full of energy.

I've always liked the folksy side of things
listened to Dylan religiously from the time I discovered him in 1965, through the 70's.
Love the Grateful Dead folksy as well as country tunes. Their cover of Merle haggards 'Mama Tried' off one of the live albums is killer! Loved the entire album, 'Workingmans Dead'
Cat Stevens 'Tea for the Tillerman'
Gordon Lightfoot- 'early morning rain'
anything by Johnny Cash.
Flatt&Scruggs 'Foggy Mt Breakdown'
The 3 Pickers - Earl Scruggs, Rick Skaggs & Doc Watson is marvelous stuff
Anything by Emmy Lou Harris (another Birmingham native)

[bluedad]

[country mode from the old days]

5. Tennessee Headhunters


i gotta stop.......

[/country mode from the old days]

metal........unplugged

lates

t-willy

wasn't that 'kentucky headhunters'??