How About Some Folk?

[Jerry Atrick]

Lol cool, you got me. I like how that is the only point you've chosen to bring up and then you left it at that.

Frankly, I was just tired of arguing.

I said I was sorry, what more do you want?

 

[coelophysis]

Just a pair of your panties, tbph, the ones that were all in a bunch for a little while back there. I'll send you mine

 

[Jerry Atrick]

I hope they're stinky like mine :D

 

[absolute123]

I like Folk Dance and Music.
Focusrite Scarlett

 

[webbykevin]

Jackson C Clarke - American folk and blues songwriter from the 60's, he had an amazing life, was orphaned as a child, then there was a fire at the orphanage and heaps of his friends died, he suffered really bad burns all over, he got a compensation payout and used the money to buy a ticket on a ship to england, he wrote some great songs and hung around with the pentangle/john renbourn folk scene crowd for a while, one of his best was "Blues run the game" recorded by many people including simon and garfunkle, I recently saw Laura Marling cover it and the best version I have heard is Bert Jansch's arrangement, awesome guitar, anyways Clarke recorded one album in London that was produced by Paul Simon but it flopped, he went back to america and spent the rest of his life as an alcoholic drifting between living on the streets and mental asylums, he died penniless and homeless.

There are a few versions of "Blues run the game" on you tube including Clarkes original http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nubgd_4jvfA and the Jansch version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MO_Xxq3LVw

I only found out about him recently but his life story moved me and thought it was worth sharing, a true blues/folk tragedy.

 

[CoffeeDrinker]

No clue what his biography entails, but listen to this fellas:

Joe Pug

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZJtHE4TzA0&feature=g-vrec

 

[webbykevin]

No clue what his biography entails, but listen to this fellas:

Joe Pug

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZJtHE4TzA0&feature=g-vrec

That's great, thanks

 

[CoffeeDrinker]

David Rawlings and Gillian Welch are an awesome country/bluegrass/western swing duo.
My friend just showed me this video yesterday and the song just blew me away. Both how good it is and how good they perform it together.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcBfCsJW9Ts

Here's a guy I wouldn't consider a folk singer, but he's a great singer-songwriter anyway:

Ryan Adams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp_7-OW_YuU&feature=player_embedded#!

 

[EbowTheLetter]

No clue what his biography entails, but listen to this fellas:

Joe Pug

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZJtHE4TzA0&feature=g-vrec

I came in here to post Joe Pug. Coffee, you're all right.

 

[daytryptr]

Debatably folk per se, but damn good tunes none the less, the whole album is a goldmine of psychedelic influenced multi genre ear candy-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3egTE9_Hwk

Oh yeah, and Doc Watson-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VAbrnjdtYw

Donovan-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9xS424fdSI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRKsown-yEE

Blitzen Trapper-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoY9qtHm6vs

Devil Makes Tree-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE4zdYtHJG0

And this jem i came across watching the larry sanders show-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE4zdYtHJG0

 

[Jerry Atrick]

If anybody lives in or near central Texas, this Thursday, Oct 4, Ben Kweller and Joe Pug are playing the Continental Club in Austin.

BK comes on at 10pm and JP at midnight. If I can muster up the energy to stay up late on a weeknight, I just might go.

 

[Contained]

Man, I wish I could have made it to that, but funds must be saved for ACL

 

[DeathDomokun]

 

[TheDeanofGreen]

- I hope Mumford and Sons didn't get too popular too quickly - I really enjoyed their first album, but it seems like it would be really easy for them to just phone-in the next one.

I agree, but I recently purchased the new CD and I love it! The first album is amazing but I sort of life the new one better.

 

[ricardo08]

my buddy Elena bringing some english folky music over to the states. so proud :')

 

[psood0nym]

No Joanna Newsom!? Sweet Jebus on crackers. Check the lyrics:

And, Emily - I saw you last night by the river
I dreamed you were skipping little stones across the surface of the water
Frowning at the angle where they were lost, and slipped under forever
In a mud-cloud, mica-spangled, like the sky'd been breathing on a mirror

Emily

How about Father John Misty from Fleet Foxes? His songs talk about ayahuasca and poppy tea and no Bluelight love?

Owen Pallett has some good stuff.
As does Wye Oak, and Horse Feathers.

- Tallest Man on Earth is pretty boss. I agree about his new album not being up to par with his previous efforts, but its still pretty awesome.

Been talking up this guy on BL since "Shallow Grave." I agree, I miss the piercing melancholic poetry of songs like It Will Follow the Rain and Where Do My Bluebird Fly?

No clue what his biography entails, but listen to this fellas:

Joe Pug

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZJtH...feature=g-vrec

Thanks!

 

[Volundr]

Some of my favourites:





And...

 

[Volundr]

I prefer folk that leans towards Psych or Prog-Folk, but I'll post some of my loves from those genres another time.

 

[Ninae]

Some beautiful, ecstatic, folk-rock.

 

[Max Power]

^ I see your Norweigan Folk Rock and raise you Icelandic Folk Rock.