― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 08:37 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/06-06/07.shtml
― kevin barking (arghargh), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 20:34 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.oldhamtinkers.com/index.html
― -- (688), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― NickB, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 08:24 (seventeen years ago) link
This second Sweeney's Men record really is fucking fanTASTIC.
― ian, Sunday, 11 April 2010 05:17 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, tracks of sweeney is some haunting stuff
― velko, Sunday, 11 April 2010 06:35 (fourteen years ago) link
anyone read this Electric Eden book (guess it is not out in the states yet)? Deals with "visionary British musicians" including a lot of british folk rockers. sounds like a good read anyway.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 22:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I raved about it in this thread:
Good books about music
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 22:12 (thirteen years ago) link
oh cool -- looks like it is being published in the states this May ...
― tylerw, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 22:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Reading it (v. slowly) at the moment. Makes me want to give Vashti Bunyan another chance.
― seminal fuiud (NickB), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 22:20 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs9PMky7Fj0
^ Fantastic clip of the Watersons singing 'Hal-An-Toe' in a pub in Hull in the mid-60's. Becoming slowly obsessed with this tune, gets me right in the guts every time.
― seminal fuiud (NickB), Friday, 14 January 2011 17:15 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEwl_nvtt8A
^ And here's the Shirley Collins version with of course that great jews harp solo in it. It's the dulcimer that really gets me though.
― seminal fuiud (NickB), Friday, 14 January 2011 17:18 (thirteen years ago) link
ah that's great, thanks for posting (the watersons clip)
― tylerw, Friday, 14 January 2011 17:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I've got this folky musician friend who's been struggling with really bad depression for the last couple of years. Couldn't work, couldn't play, was just virtually housebound for that whole time. Finally about six months ago he started gigging again and I went a long and he played that. And that whole theme of the summer finally coming after the winter... It's been on my mind a lot since then.
― seminal fuiud (NickB), Friday, 14 January 2011 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
the recent album by jo bartlett (of yellow moon band/it's jo and danny) is wonderful folky stuff, v highly recommended
― ‰(.*?)‰ (electricsound), Saturday, 15 January 2011 03:29 (thirteen years ago) link
electric eden won't be released here til May :(
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Saturday, 15 January 2011 03:38 (thirteen years ago) link
But you can get this now...
http://www.amazon.com/Seasons-They-Change-Story-Psychedelic/dp/1906002320
Looks great and there's definite crossover. Got my copy the other day.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 15 January 2011 03:49 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm a couple of chapters into Electric Eden, need to hurry up if I'm ever to finish the thing.
― Dans la Bot (seandalai), Saturday, 15 January 2011 04:03 (thirteen years ago) link
My partner gave me Electric Eden for Christmas. Perhaps I'll start reading it next.
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 15 January 2011 19:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I saw that one, Ned, but I don't know how much I want to read some pseudoacademic text on Joanna Newsom's relationship to Jacqui McShee or whatever
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Saturday, 15 January 2011 19:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Actually it's not like that at all! What I've read so far has been a lot of good straightforward history and anecdotes, Leech knows her stuff but also how to write about it well.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 15 January 2011 20:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Electric Eden was available from the Book Depositary for about 1/2 price from the time it was released last August. Free delivery worldwide if you don't want to wait until May.Largely a rewarding read, I didn't really like The wind in The willows take off bit though.
& I found Seasons They Change a little too listy. Kept changing to a new subject just as i was getting into reading about things. I think its an interesting read though.
Not sure what else to reccommend, certainly that stays on folk as opposed to including non-folk psych & prog. Seems most countries' take on prog tend to include large amounts of influence from local folk traditions. Maybe that's not so much UK/US noot sure though, certainly seems noticeable in continental European stuff.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 19 February 2011 23:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Essential Acid Folk -not all BritishI've just gone back to the original Bruton Town list after getting Shide & Acorn's Princess Of The Island, looking for more information on the band since i wasn't finding much elsewhere.This has led me to reading through a thread there talking about records people thought wwere essential in the genre. People were making lists of essential artists, this being back in 2004. Thought I'd stick a few of them up here and see what you thought
1)Comus: First UtteranceExtradition: HushFairport Convention: Liege & LiefGallery: The Wind that Shakes the BarleyGryphon: s/t: & Midnight MushrumpsJohn Renbourn: The Lady & the Unicorn, & The HermitJohn Renbourne: A Maid in BedlamJohn Renbourne: Sir John A lot ofLinda Perhacs: ParallelogramsMellow Candle: Swaddling SongsMidwinter: The Waters of Sweet SorrowMr Fox: Mr Fox, & The GipsyOberon: A Midsummer's Night DreamPaul Giovanni: The Wicker ManPentangle: Cruel SisterPentangle: Solomon's SealPerry Leopold: Christian LuciferRichard & Linda Thompson: I Want to See the Bright Lights TonightShide & Acorn: The Princess of the IslandShirley & Dolly Collins: Anthems in EdenShirley & Dolly Collins: Love, Death & the LadyShirley Collins: The Power of the True Love KnotShirley Collins & the Albion Band: No RosesSilly Sisters: s/tSpirogyra: Bells: Boots and ShamblesSteeleye Span: Below the SaltSteeleye Span: Parcel of RoguesSteve Ashley: Stroll On RevisitedStone Angel: s/tSweeney's Men: Sweeney's Men, & The Tracks of SweenyThe Albion Band: Rise Up Like the SunThe Albion Country Band: Battle of the FieldThe Albion Dance Band: The Prospect Before UsThe Watersons: Frost and FireThe Woods Band: s/tThese Trails: s/tTim Hart & Maddy Prior: Summer SolsticeTrees: The Garden of Jane DelawneyTrees : On the ShoreTudor Lodge: Tudor LodgeVashti Bunyan: Just Another Diamond Day
2)Anne Briggs 'Time Has Come'Forest - bothBert Jansch - Jack Orion & Rosemary LaneThird Ear Band - Fleance (just that song)Incredible String Band - take your pickClive's Own Band (COB) - both albumsLal & Mike Waterson - Bright PhobusTir Na Nog - firstDulcimer - firstMark FryPearls Before Swine - Balaklava & The Use Of AshesBread Love & Dreams - all threeDonovon - Gift From A Flower To A Garden (essential!!!!)BroselmachinePerry Leopold - bothEclectionFortheringayTony, Caro & John
3)Sun Also RisesNorthwindWestwindWooden HorseYoung TraditionA-AustrAgincourtBlue epitaphwater into wine bandHeronDecameronSpyrogyra
4)Carol Of Harvest,Witthuser & Westrupp,Emtidi,Langsyne,some Ougenweide,Emma MyldenbergerHölderlin's Traum
5)Sallyangie – Children of the SunJan Jukes De Grey – SorcererFuchsia – STThe Strawbs – From the WitchwoodThese Trails – STWater into Wine Band – Harvest TimeMandy Morton – Magic LadyTickawinda - Rosemary LaneTrader Horne - Morning WayJade - Fly On Strangewings
So that was mainly individual's personal choices & 4) was specifically German groups the writer would have chosen over Broselmaschine. I'm not sure if much else has emerged over the last 7 years. I don't think anybody mentioned Pat Kilroy or The New age (&the latter of these wasn't available until a couple years later anyway. Had remained unreleased until RD did it)
Stevo
― Stevolende, Saturday, 19 February 2011 23:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Sharron Kraus, yeah? didn't look below the fold but she seems to fit in here. She had a 2010 album "The Woody Nightshade" that I just listened to the other day.
― sleeve, Saturday, 19 February 2011 23:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey guys, I normally try not to spam ILM but you guys might want to know that Michael Chapman, UK folkie-rocker and guitar wizard, will be playing on my radio show tomorrow evening. 10-midnight (eastern u.s. time) on east village radio--www.eastvillageradio.com
wheeee
― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 18 April 2011 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e8W7cRo12Y
― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 18 April 2011 16:16 (thirteen years ago) link
don't think i know this guy! he sounds great.
― tylerw, Monday, 18 April 2011 17:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Tyler, his album "Fully Qualified Survivor" was just reissued on LP (and CD??) by Light In The Attic; he's really fantastic.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 18 April 2011 19:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, FQS is pretty essential. Pretty cool, Ian! I got to engineer a radio thing for a him a while back and he's still great.
― GLOWER METAL (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 03:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Looking forward to this!
― housedress? maxidress! (La Lechera), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 23:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Hmm, very cool indeed.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 23:40 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an6EoevSSIs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT9SCKnp91A
some incredibly pretty Anne Briggs-style vocals and intertwining acoustic guitar parts on Folkal Point's self-titled album from 1971. it may not be authentically English (at least half of the songs were written but Americans), but I'm not bothered. it's odd that Joan Baez's original recording of "Sweet Sir Galahad" (written about her sister Mimi Fariña after the death of her husband Richard) for the most part leaves me cold, whereas Folkal Point's cover version makes me cry. her delivery of the line, "will I fail at every single thing I try?" just devastates.
― why delonge face? (unregistered), Sunday, 14 August 2011 23:49 (twelve years ago) link
("written by Americans," I mean)
― why delonge face? (unregistered), Sunday, 14 August 2011 23:50 (twelve years ago) link
finally picked up Electric Eden today! looking forward to digging in (and listening to a bunch of brit-folk along the way)!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
I got that recently too but haven't really started it yet. Not sure why, because the few pages I read were very good.
― When I Stop Meming (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
this book is so good! i will admit that i have lost steam as i exited the early 70s, but the first 300 pages are SO SO SO WONDERFUL. you will enjoy it. spotify will be your friend along the way.
― some lady (La Lechera), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
My favourite Brit-Folk song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuJSC0o_egI
― Yo wait a minute man, you better think about the world (dog latin), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 14:33 (twelve years ago) link
I couldn't get on with that album at all when I tried it. It felt like a 'Look Around You'-style spoof of a folk record.
― Geirge Hongriot (NickB), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
i think that's maybe that's why i like it (although when you put it that way, i can see why it irks you). never heard the full album - just the song on a comp.
― Yo wait a minute man, you better think about the world (dog latin), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 14:44 (twelve years ago) link
Recommend add "Handful of Earth" by Dick Gaughan to your searchlist - an album I have never once managed to listen to without crying (tho it helps if you're Scottish or Irish)
Finally got round to following up this recommendation, a mere 6.5 years on. Blimes it's a bit good innit? Haven't started crying yet, poss due to non Scottish / Irish status. Still, thanks.
― Tim, Friday, 3 August 2012 14:30 (eleven years ago) link
New database of collected archival material, project launched by Shirley Collins!
Welcome to the Take Six website, a searchable database of the manuscript archives of several of the UK's most prominent folksong collectors.it's cool if you like to look at moldy old things like thishttp://library.efdss.org/archives/images/blunt/BLU-01-668.jpg
I recommend looking at the tree view because it's more like browsing than searching blindly for the names of songs
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Sunday, 12 August 2012 20:19 (eleven years ago) link
oops here is the websitehttp://library.efdss.org/archives/index.html
Haven't heard the first Fotheringay album, don't know how Fotheringay 2 compares, but I really like it as well as the Denny-Thompson etc Fairport, in its own. kinda folk-country way. Farm and lane and tavern music, without trying to pretend they're recording with coal oil. it's not just one where I have to doze til Denny cuts loose again, it's the whole band. So glad the surviving members came back and finished it, 40 years later or whatever. (oh and speaking of Denny-Thompson FC, the live odds and sods album Heyday is good too, despite sound quality)
― dow, Sunday, 12 August 2012 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
thanks for the link la lechera.
and dow, i think you should do yourself a favor and check out the first fotheringay record; it's great! many great songs and great playing.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Sunday, 12 August 2012 23:44 (eleven years ago) link
Every time someone on the radio talks about how Oscar Pistorius shot his girlfriend because he thought she was an intruder, all I can think about is Polly Vaughn, Jimmy, and the swan. Just wanted to put this somewhere, and it doesn't really belong anywhere I have to explain who Polly Vaughn and Jimmy are.
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 01:38 (eleven years ago) link
Or Molly and Johnny, depending on your preferred version I guess.
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 01:40 (eleven years ago) link
:)
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 02:05 (eleven years ago) link
La Lechera's springtime thread has got me singing Hal-an-tow under my breath again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhfNnurOxUY
― acid in the style of tenpole tudor (NickB), Friday, 1 March 2013 15:27 (eleven years ago) link
you should belt it loud and proud! jolly rumble-oh!
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Friday, 1 March 2013 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kahaJGFYHDc/Tsbb58QEAVI/AAAAAAAABXA/mux_tPLNTqQ/s1600/advert_rumbelows.jpg
― .... the rest look like Dudley Sutton (Tom D.), Friday, 1 March 2013 16:49 (eleven years ago) link