folk artists you don't fuck with

seriously though if you've never been a prine fan but you've never heard the first prine album listen to it cuz its really good and fun and you will like it.

i don't listen to jo ann kelly in the same way that i don't listen to karen dalton. its not like i'm a purist or anything but again - like what i said about country records - i'd rather just listen to the blues. like, the blues blues. i don't listen to koerner, ray, and glover either. or other folkies who sang the blues. i don't listen to the holy modal rounders. i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? or blues rock in general.

(there are always exceptions. i adore tim hardin to death and he did the blues. heck, i adore DION to death when he did the blues. and i love dylan obviously. but in general...i can't even really listen to mose allison.)

i LIKE doc watson, but i'd rather listen to clarence ashley or bill monroe or norman blake or whatev

( i mean judy henske used to be my goddess when i was younger. but she was just so over the top sophie tucker + bessie smith + beatnik + pop + force of nature that it worked for me/her.)

feels like the right thread to admit i've owned woody guthrie's 'dust bowl ballads' for years and never listened to it.

i don't fuck with ramblin jack elliott.

i think a little doc goes a long way for me. hear one nice track and its nice but i don't need hours of him. i just really like country music! c&w, you know. 50s, and 60s, and 70s, mostly. i get all the olde-tymey picking and playing i need from that. and for bluegrass and more folky olde-tyme i'll listen to REALLY old stuff. i just don't listen to 70's and 80's and beyond guitar/fiddle/banjo albums much at all.

woody's dust-prog concept album is pretty fucking great though! a whole bunch of songs about dust is just a cool idea if you ask me.

maybe there are more than one? i have the purple label rca record of dust songs. i own next to no woody albums. i don't own any leadbelly albums.

Shuji Inaba

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-kgrksYtbY

i LIKE doc watson, but i'd rather listen to clarence ashley or bill monroe or norman blake or whatev

― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Wednesday, September 26, 2012 2:14 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^just got Old & New by Norman Blake (old flying fish one)...really good! dude can play like a motherfucker!

I don't fuck with the limeliters either. And after discovering and loving Kate wolf I dug around for similar artists but never found one I liked so I guess I don't fuck w Kate wolf central coast types though I love Kate wolf.

kate wolf is great. she has one of the saddest songs of all time.

norman blake is so great, dig it alllllll.

What song????

I was thrilled to find kw's debut album for 3 bucks a couple years back, more thrilled to see it was autographed. Didn't know at the time she passed away in the 80s. :/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFmRA_UMVwY

do you fuck w rosalie sorrels, omar_little?
she has 'a voice' and while i don't think she's a genius or anything, she has some really great songs.

that kate wolf song is amazing

I guess I don't fuck with Gale Garnett, I've listened to 2 of her records, but can't find much to love.

You don't fuck with Utah Phillips.

i find the olivia records catalog fascinating but aesthetically difficult to fuck with

http://archive.org/details/LesbianConcentrate

Berkeley Women's Music Collective who backed Woody Simmons with Nancy Vogl, and Linda Tillery are great records.

Tom Waits. In that brief period that he was sort of folk-y.

Heartbeats accelerating is slept on , great songs even if production can be iffy
Diamonds and rust is amazing, she shoulda wrote more, otherwise don't really fuck with her

scott i am sad you dont dig the koerner ray glover stuff theres some great stuff in there imo

also although i am late to the party whoever was not down with the mcgarrigles is missing out for sure they are amazing.

ive done sound for bunches of these peeps and all of them are pretty awesome in person. if i was ranking them in order of goodness tho it would be

richie havens
holly near (no seriously live she was amazing)
doc watson
arlo guthrie
john prine

never really fucked w/ christy moore or planxty, might fuck w/ them one day tho

and yeah diamonds and rust is all time, but idk why i always have some sorta joan baez vs janis ian thing in my head and joan always loses

Planxty are so exciting, chieftains are the ones who I'd like to care about but snooze city

Odetta leaves me pretty cold, sorry folkways

Anyone who hasn't fucked with Christy and/or Planxty has a beautiful thing in their future

Liam O'Flynn looks like a dude with some dark secrets

i am totally ignorant wrt to planxty - where do i start?

this is the opposite of the question at hand, but anybody who hasnt spent some time w/john jacob niles has wasted their life just fyi

Bill Morrissey.

first 3 planxty records are A+, can't go wrong with the s/t debut. real heads would say start with precursor band sweeney's men, then on to christy moore's prosperous where the planxty musicians first coalesced, then finish it off with andy irvine/paul brady duo album

i really got into irish folk after college because rock music seemed to be going nowhere, but the local university/public radio stations that played some irish folk would also play horrible (then) contemporary folk music like john gorka and i was confused as to how anybody could listen to such garbage. this was like the early 90s.

pete seeger

harry chapin

if you got beef then bring the ruckus
folklore records ain't nothin' to fuck with

i should fuck w/rosalie sorrels maybe. where to start?

Why Isn't Rosalie Sorrels Hip With Hepcats??? She's Great!

i kinda love all her records. or all the records i own by her anyway. which is a bunch. later live album where she tells stories before the songs....ahhhhhhh, so amazing!!!!!!

speaking of christy moore, this album is one of my favorite things to listen to this year. so beautiful. kind of an irish nick drake vibe at times. christy's brother. changed his name to luka bloom.

http://www.popsike.eu/pix/20110416/160574538365.jpg

album is called *treaty stone*. probably find it easier on cd somewhere than vinyl. album makes me swoon.

I re-listened to Kate & Anna McGarrigle's self titled today and I guess I wasn't ready for it the first time around. It's gorgeous and very tender. I take it all back! Which later records should I look for?

buy them all. won't cost you much.

but definitely dancer with bruised knees.

So many of these dudes, dozens really, live or die on the basis of their production, or how well subsequent acts or peers covering/revering them revealed an intrinsic merit. There's this whole class of peripheral but important folkies, from the Muldaurs to Tom Paxton, that I know I've heard, but for the life of me I just can't summon specifically what they sing or sound like. Yet I still know why I know their names, if that makes sense.

xpost "Matapédia" is a nice late career disc.

matapedia is so weird and wild and so close to my heart but your mileage may vary as they say online.