folk artists you don't 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.

Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer. Oh, and Greg Brown.

i really like these two tom paxton albums. both early 70's. both have a great sound. he lets his hair down a little so to speak. his 60's albums don't do much for me. these two i own and listen to:

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http://oldies.s3.amazonaws.com/i/boxart/simu/69/090431697320.jpg

who will say a kind word for:

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Kingston Trio

I just don't get how they even happened

Steve Earle obviously looks like a guy with some dark secrets. You probably don't want to fuck with him either.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bVcOTsLIZPA/TiYx2vKwNgI/AAAAAAAAAMM/cDFI506QYuo/s1600/steve_earle.jpg

i've never really gotten a foothold on laura nyro. i've tried :/

try new york tendaberry, donna! its a very deep and satisfying listen. and probably her most accomplished/fully-realized album.

there are some heartbreaking moments on that album...

i can't listen to steve earle at all. his voice...

i tried with steve earle, i did. but i'm just not feeling it.

i don't fuck w guy carawan

i like steve earle! i guess it's more accurate to say that i went through a steve earle phase, but i don't really listen to him much anymore.
still, i like him!

but he is country imo, not folk.

he's new americana folktry

He's a bit too "roots rock" for me at least from what I've heard

laura nyro has many beautiful moments , her version of 'The Bells' gets me every time. I don't fuck with Steve Earle and I have tried.

I dunno, I'm from Ohio. To me he sounds country. I know he had that record when he got super fat and played bluegrass
http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/DxUbIuKGTjc/mqdefault.jpg
, but if you look at the guy, and his life, to me he's country. However, I'd believe he could be from Detroit in this picture.

http://bombsite.com/images/attachments/0001/0131/earle3_body.png

I'm not trying to convince anyone to like him, but just to say he's not horrible like the Kingston Trio.

btw i am aware that what i said about the first picture was uncharitable, and i am sorry.

But that's what so disappointing about Steve Earle, he showed so much promise in his younger. I don't know what happened, but he let us down.

Steve Earle seems like kind of his own thing that I do not fuck with. I just kind of don't know what to do with his music even though I can't pinpoint anything particularly bad about it.

Most New Americana, I just do not suffer gladly.

i like the kingston trio! haha, i like most of those late 50's/early 60's pop folk groups. their records always sound really good and i like the pop arrangements of olde tyme folk songs. they were making them new again! i mean the weavers kinda started that whole thing on a bigtime level, but i'd much rather listen to the limelighters than the weavers. or that alan arkin group with erik darling (i like the rooftop singers too):

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

yeah i haven't gotten over my distaste for that sound since i was a kid! i remember my parents thinking that i would like it, and they played a record for me and i turned up my nose super hard and said i didn't really get why it was so great. i was like 7 or 8. what a brat!

anyway i am sorry i insulted the kingston trio. i think this kind of folk music is too light and happy for me.

i think the kingston trio were actually the most...uh..credible? of those groups. they did some great songs. i mean just as introduction to a lot of those songs they were influential to a lot of people. i think they're entertaining. there are sooooo many lesser-known groups that put out records. be kinda cool to collect them. i also love the forgotten late-50's/early 60's female folk singers who put out records on tiny labels. there were a ton of those too even pre-joan. some of them are great. lady fair ballads and the like.

I grew up in a pretty folky family, especially my grandparents -- they were true Chicago lefties who held hootenannies at their home. My grandma had a duo that was invited to open for Pete Seeger on tour once, but she had a family and declined to go. Her guitar was even borrowed for the Weavers reunion at Ravinia when someone's guitar broke. Anyway, I sort of rediscovered this stuff in my own teenaged/college years, and I think when I started to find out about all the awesome stuff on folkways and the lomax records and the like (which they did have some of) and then started digging through grandma's record collection, I was sort of offput by the more polished sound of all the kingston trio and joan baez and even odetta, that they owned, and I sort of felt like "you're so cool, why do you own all this stuff and not more of the REAL shit." But I did score a badass memphis minnie record from them. Anyway for them and for Pete Seeger there was a whole philosophy underpinning everything that was overtly political, whereas I was more just on some kind of adolescent quest for authenticity and rawness.

they were gateway drugs those people. dylan will tell you that. dave guard was a cool dude. i treasure this album even though i never play it cuz its an early judy henske sighting.

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took me FOREVER to find that album. like, 20 years ago. be easier now.

Steve Earle haters, listen to this heartbreaker:

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

Written in prison!

I think Steve Earle is good at what he does, I just don't have that much space in my life right now for Serious Songwriters Thinkin Baout Things

He's got some dumb rockin' stuff, too!

if you don't fuck with Chris Smither.... you should

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTreyRyUCH4

I like the greenbriar boys!

I would have said Dan Fogelberg, but the other day I heard a song on the radio without knowing it was him, and really dug it. Long Way Home (Live In the Country) off his first album. I was guessing it was Poco as I was listening. Am I hopeless?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNcBXL2eYMQ

Bob Neuwirth's Havana Midnight is the one I really don't fuck with--one of my favorite records by anyone.

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

Kingston Trio are classic! A lot of people were either crass or humorless in the early 80s. Not the Kingstons!

as much as i love john stewart's solo records, i've never really given the kingstron a try. i think they scare me.
hoyt axton's greenback dollar remains the one to beat for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6MG2abVe6g

Sandy Denny. or Anne Briggs. or Tim Hardin

duuuuuuuuuude.....