talk about this "early freak folk" compilation i found on spotify

the weird america that was newer than the old weird america but not as new as the new weird america. on goldenlane records, which is a sub-label of cleopatra.

The Advancement – Stone Folk
Jim & Jean – Time Goes Backwards
Help Yourself – Strange Affair
Fraser & DeBolt – Stoney Day
Soul Concern – Sunshine Day
Billie Spears – I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
Pete Seeger – Barbara Allen
June Bugg – Every Night When The Sun Goes In
Dock Boggs – Sugar Baby
Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston – Gypsy Davy
Hoyt "Floyd" Ming & His Pep-Steppers – Indian War Whoop
Chubby Parker & His Old Time Banjo – King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O
Peter Cook – The L.S. Bumble Bee
John Jacob Niles – The Cherry Tree
Frank Proffitt – Tom Dooley
Carolyn Hester – Malagueña Salerosa
Glenn Yarbrough – Buffalo Boy
The Highwaymen – Michael, Row The Boat Ashore
Donna Fargo – Happiest Girl In The Whole USA
Help Yourself – Alabama Lady
Merle Haggard – The Fighting Side Of Me
Anita Carter – All My Trials
Soul Concern – I Wish I Knew How It Feels To Be Free
The Fool – Keep On Pushin'
Sandy Posey – Born A Woman
The Coachmen – Goin' Down The Road
The Serendipity Singers – The New Frankie And Johnny
Mitch Greenhill – Sweet Wild Turkey
The Easy Riders – Eddystone Light
Henry Jerome & His Orchestra – The Blue Tail Fly
Glenn Yarbrough – More I Cannot Wish You
The Highwaymen – I'll Fly Away
Frank Hutchison – Stackalee
Joyce Grenfell – Folk Song
Fraser & DeBolt – Don't Let Me Down
The Serendipity Singers – Don't Let The Rain Come Down (Crooked Little Man)
Mickey Gilley – Rocky Top
Dock Boggs – Pretty Polly
Anita Carter – (Love's) Ring Of Fire
Jean Shepard – I Didn't Know The Gun Was Loaded

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61OR7VPe7uL._SS500_.jpg

weird mix! and some of it is country but country is folk.

worst cover ever. and there is nothing freaky about any of it.

the fool and sandy posey on the same comp. that doesn't happen every day.

no, it's not especially freaky! donna fargo?

some good stuff on there though! don't need pete seeger or glenn yarbrough in my life though.

Plenty of good stuff there, but some crap. Thematically and logically it makes no sense and (to me) would be difficult to slog through. Seems like it must have been stuff compiled primarily because it was easy to license.

i don't get what this compilation is.

I remember when that Donna Fargo song was a hit. I also remember some gum brand with the ad campaign "I Didn't Know The Gum Was Loaded" to promote their gum that was filled with flavored liquid. I'm not old enough to remember "Sugar Baby" rockin' the Victrolas but big do I love that song.

makes even less sense than 'freedom rock.'

i don't get what this compilation is.

i think it's just a quick cash-in with some older folk and country songs that were cheap to license.

they should have put Jim & Jean's phil ochs cover on there instead of the one they have on there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvK1n6ArYMc

at least i can imagine what freedom rock sounds like

i know few of these artists and none of the songs so where would i start?

"hey, is that early freak folk? Turn it up, dude!"

i found this while searching for john jacob niles. some of his child ballads are freaky, but i wouldn't call that "freak folk." o.g. freak folk would be like private press christian-hippie stuff.

at least i can imagine what freedom rock sounds like

inspirational quote.

i got yer carolyn hester freakfolk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtM5io_IwPU

i know few of these artists and none of the songs so where would i start?

depends what you're into. this collection is a strange mix of sunshine pop, greenwich village folk, pop-country, and trad-appalachian stuff. my taste leans toward the sunshine pop ("sunshine day" by soul concern) and the greil marcus fodder ("sugar baby" by dock boggs or the "indian war whoop" by hoyt "floyd" ming and his pep-steppers).

xp inspirational quote or fighting words?

yeah the dock boggs and hoyt ming were the only ones i knew and soul concern is great. i guess i was thinking things that sound like the byrds or the laurel canyon influenced things that would be on fallout / sunbeam / psychic circle

i like things like caroline peyton and judee sill but that's less folk and country and more straightforward fm gold

like, why the fuck is "michael, row the boat ashore" on here?

john jacob niles is kinda freaky imo (re yer search source) but not freak folky if you get what i mean. but he is the best, and go way from my window is a++++

does it count as an xpost if i am just responding to an old post after showing up late. well it does now

this anita carter version of "all my trials" is v v pretty tho.

peter cook and dudley moore? including that novely single is a bit freakish....

does anyone know anything of the band 'help yourself', who appear to otherwise only exist on other compilations of this sort

ask ned raggett:

http://www.allmusic.com/album/help-yourself-mw0000848932

help yourself is awesome. ian to thread.

you can get everything they recorded for less than $25

http://www.amazon.com/Help-Yourself-Beware-Shadow/dp/B000024XTN

http://www.amazon.com/Strange-Affair-Return-Ken-Whaley/dp/B00000JTB7/

Listened to this comp this morning after I saw the mention on your Facebook. I enjoyed most of it, but yeah, thematically speaking it's 'wha?'

all four Help Yourself albums are on spotify. i've skimmed all of them and i guess the first self-titled album is the one people are interested in bc it's the most "psych" but the fourth album The Return of Ken Whaley is my favorite based on limited listening. it's a weird shaggy album with great song titles like "pioneers of the west in the head" and "jesus what are little kids for"