British Folk (and Revival)

yeah, i take it back anyway. i was trying to think of something that i would have considered too old-fogeyish to listen to in the 80's, but i liked a lot of that canterbury stuff even then. and other pastoral folkish prog like curved air and such.

http://www.furious.com/perfect/shirleycollins.html

Yeah, the new Vashti Bunyan album has only two or three memorable cuts. As stated before; it's pretty, but also pretty unsubstantial (Maybe I'll get an e-mail from her, too!).
Still, I ADORE "Just Another Diamond Day" and her work with AC with all my heart.

Seconding the Mellow Candle respect. Swaddling Songs is a gem.

Anyone here familiar with Fionn McCool (sp?) I read about them in a newsletter over the past year, and I can't remember where. Maybe Other Music? They were a 70s band who were compared to Mellow Candle.

I love this stuff!!!

introduction to British Folk Music of the 1960s, a fine two CD set.
Donovan, Bert Jansch, The Incredible String Band, Pentangle, et cetera

The Oysterband are also not bad, Freedom and Rain with June Tabor is quite likable.

NICK DRAKE
BRIDGET ST. JOHN
MIDWINTER
STONE ANGEL
TIR NA NOG
JAKE HOLMES
ERIC ANDERSEN
KAREN DALTON
LINDA PERHACS
JUDEE SILL (reissue this year)
AGINCOURT
FLESH MAGGOTS
ANNO DOMINI
MAGNA CARTA
COMUS
SPIROGYRA
BARRY DRANSFIELD
DAVID ACKLES
BILL FAY
DAVID BLUE
TOM RAPP & PEARLS BEFORE SWINE
STEVE TILSTON
NICK GARRIE
GARY HIGGINS (reissue this year)
AMAZING BLONDEL
SPRIGUNS OF TOLGUS
GRYPHON
NUMBER NINE BREAD STREET
RICHARD & MIMI FARIÑA
TIM BUCKLEY
ARLO GUTHRIE
TOWNES VAN ZANDT
PHIL OCHS
JONI MITCHELL
JOHN RENBOURN
KATE & ANNA MCGARRIGLE
THE YOUNGBLOODS
FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS
MARTIN CARTHY
TOM PAXTON
FRED NEIL
CAT STEVENS

DEVENDRA BANHART DAY -- BANDS CONFIRMED SO FAR
DEVENDRA BANHART
VASHTI BUNYAN
VETIVER
ESPERS
BAT FOR LASHES
JANA HUNTER
THE METALLIC FALCONS
DANIELLE STECH-HOMSY
BERT JANSCH

There are worse reasons to go to Camber.

"FOLK IS BACK!" mrs anne ouncer, on the number one this week.

thirded! i know i've big-upped them here before.

Beyond the Carthy/Swarbrick and Nic Jones level of recognition, there are people like Pete Coe and Chris Foster (who are both still playing) that have made some excellent albums over the years. Also, I am surprised that Swan Arcade are not mentioned more often - I strongly urge anyone to check them out. I think you can get a couple of compilations of their albums that are now unavailable.

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It looks like he's another cult/off the critical map type UK artist who got fucked over by his record company (see also: bill nelson) w/no hope of recompense, & who is not "big" enough to get enough publicity to rectify this?

I'll stick an order in for his new self-produced CD, I think.

I ordered a copy of the forthcoming CD, anyway, looking forward to hearing it.

And Folk

I started to say Folk Routes/New Routes is stunning. I love the way DG adds a bluesy twang to the likes of Nottamun Town. Wonderful.

Espers I find pretty but they don't really have the songs. Maybe I need to give them more time, but live, they only got going in the last song.
Lucky Luke are great and as lovely as the record is they sound quite different live. More stripped down, with a more rockin' rhythm section. It really suits them, and Lucy's voice is getting stronger all the time.

Espers... oh dear. What is the point in this day and age of somebody doing the same old version of 'Rosemary Lane' ripped off from Anne Briggs or Bert Jansch? And doing it completely insipidly and unoriginally, moreover?

There's something a lot weirder about hearing the great above-mentioned Duncan Williamson sing an ancient traditional ballad such as, for example, 'The Lady and the Blacksmith' (Child #44) than there is about the output of some wispy-bearded bedroom boy with a copy of 'Pink Moon', a sampler an acoustic guitar.

Then again, most of what passes for contemporary 'traditional' British music such as Kate Rusby, Jim Moray and the dread Cara Dillon, et al, is IMO just as unpalatable. Your best best is to go back to the field recordings, the proper singers.

I love electricity too.

But don't you think that some great art can come out of romanticism?