One, Two... Folk You! (mix ideas?)

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At the request of an old friend who's getting an acoustic guitar for Xmas, I'm to make a mix cd of folkish/acoustic tunes that will inspire her as she learns to play for the first time. Her tastes border on pedestrian at times, so I don't want to freak her out with a disc she'll never listen to more than once. But, at the same time, I'd like it to be a little more intriguing than any compilation in this genre that she could just pick up at Best Buy or someplace similar.

I already know two songs that are going on for sure, so help me ILM denizens flesh the rest of it out.

1. Nick Drake, "Road"
2. Devendra Banhart, "At the Hop"

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 25 December 2005 04:25 (twenty years ago)

3. neil young, "pocahontas"
4. big star, "i'm in love with a girl"
5. big star, "motel blues"
6. husker du, "never talking to you again"
7. minutemen, "time"
8. led zeppelin, "bron-y-aur stomp"

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Sunday, 25 December 2005 05:28 (twenty years ago)

9. The Mountain Goats, "The Window Song"
10. Martin Carthy, "The Bedmaking"

Two very VERY different guitar styles...

― Douglas (Douglas), Sunday, 25 December 2005 06:04 (twenty years ago)

Thanks Douglas. I'd never heard Martin Carthy before, but that song's great.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 25 December 2005 06:15 (twenty years ago)

clem snide

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Sunday, 25 December 2005 09:48 (twenty years ago)

"mountain" by gravenhurst

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Sunday, 25 December 2005 10:03 (twenty years ago)

11. Leonard Cohen - Avalanche
12. Greg Brown - Further In
13. Peter Mulvey - Wings of the Ragman

― flannelmouthed, Sunday, 25 December 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

beatles. you gotta put some early beatles on it. thats how i learned how to play to guitar! well, that and matthew sweet.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Sunday, 25 December 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

I was thinking of "Blackbird," maybe at the very end.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 25 December 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

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