Fave Folk Album?

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Did you stop at that Bob Dylan comp or have you stolen all of Alan Lomax's field recording from the Smithsonian?
What is your favorite Folk (Not Folk-Rock...FOLK) album?

― Lord Custos 2.0 beta, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Okay, this was vague.
Howsabout Fave European Folk and Fave American Folk?

― Lord Custos 2.0 beta, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Pacific Coast Rambler" - The Original Harmony Ridge Creek Dippers...

― jel --, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Shirley Collins & the Albion Country Band "No Roses"

― Norman Phay, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm gonna go with Anthems in Eden, but otherwise same answer as Norman (minus the Albion band).

― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Recently, it's Joseph Spence's Happy All the Time.

― Lee G, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

LOUDON WAINRIGHT III - ALBUM II

― Chris, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

John Fahey's "God, Time and Causality" or the Carter Family "Wildwood Flower" (but that's usually filed under Country).

― o. nate, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Closest I ever got to folk - Mike Oldfield and Maggie Riley. Oh, and that Led Zep song with Sandy Denny on it. I tried Richard Thompson and John Martyn but, oh I don't know. I find their singing and songs...CONDESCENDING, somehow. Every single song seems to be patronising some female who (according to the song) is just too boring and unworthy to find the attraction of drunken, brawling 'wanderers' like our lovable narrators. Hence songs' attraction as cover-version fodder for every unemployed lank-haired new-age sensitive ponce who ever disgraced an open-mic night. This is one of those genres that I find myself digging up every trivial reason imaginable to postpone checking out, should I just give it up? (Do 'Slow Train Coming', 'Self Portrait' and 'John Wesley Harding' count? I have those)

― dave q, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Richard & Mimi Farina. RIP.

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Check out "Amigo" by Arlo Guthrie

― Steve K, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

shirley and dollly collins' "sweet primroses" is pure beauty...richard and linda thompson's "i want to see the bright lights" is as lyrically dark as anything i've heard..check 'withered and died' if you don't believe me. is elizabeth cotton folk music? raw emotion and the most truthful guitar. today kate rusby is making it work all over..and perhaps to a lesser degree, kathryn williams

― jack slack, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Fifth Edition of The American Folk Box

― anthony, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the roches - the roches hehe

― olly 360, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

and skip james today !

― olly 360, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

fave european folk : Jorg Haider and his dancing tirollers.

― olly 360, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

best english folk album i would wager is lal waterson and oliver knight's "once in a blue moon" - spine chillingly wonderful. word is out that "bright phoebus" is rereleased so MUST finally see what the fuss is with that one...

june tabor is the best british folk artist i have ever seen, but sadly no album has quite managed to QUITE do her justice. first live musician to turn me into a blubbering wreck...

― chris browning, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey, my cousin plays fiddle w/ Harmony Ridge Creek Dippers!... I got in free once. Right now: Bert Jansch's "Moonshine"... with "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", a duet with Mary Hopkin: lovely.

― Andy, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'Rosemary Lane' ~ Anne Briggs. No instruments, just the voice. Devestating.

― DavidM, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm less enthusiastic about folk than country. Besides Dylan, I love Joseph Spence and Woody Guthrie and like Richard Thompson a great deal.

― Martin Skidmore, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

with you on anne briggs. goddess like. amazingly powerful voice

and harmony creek drippers were the OTHER time i blubbed like a baby at a concert. victoria williams. sigh....

― chris browning, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Songs of Leonard Cohen

― A Nairn, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(Do 'Slow Train Coming', 'Self Portrait' and 'John Wesley Harding' count? I have those)
No but Another Side and Freewheelin' definitely do.

― Lord Custos 2.0 beta, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Fave 'authentic folk' album = Love Death A The Lady - Shirley & Dolly Collins.

Fave 'Folk Rock' album = Love Chronicles - Al Stewart

― baxter wingnut, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

dragnet

― mark s, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Is anyone here familiar with a Finnish Folk band called Tenhi... very bleak and almost black metal-y but without screaming or any electric guitars.

― dog latin, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

speaking of death metaly folk, anyone heard comus' "first utterance"? bloody terrifying. full of songs of madness and blood and lunacy. rather scarey as sung in such a normal folky way. even more scarey is the dogs dinner of folk hell of their second... not good

― chris browning, Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'Unhalfbricking' by Fairport Covention - the more they sound like the Byrds or Moby Grape, the better I like 'em. Their Dylan covers are sublime, and 'A Sailor's Life' makes clear the VU/folk connection (just listen to those early demos on the 'Peel Slowly' box set for further proof.)

― Andrew L, Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Nic Jones - Penguin Eggs

― g, Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Death In June - But, What Ends When The Symbols Shatter

― Siegbran Hetteson, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The first Michelle Shocked - The Texas Campfire Tapes. Kind of songwriter folk of one of my favourite female voices.

― alex in mainhattan, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Stereototal!

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

June Tabor's original _Peel Sessions_ EP (the one with "Lord Bateman" on it). If you want a full album, Martin Carthy's _Crown of Horn_ or Värttinä's _Oi Dai_, which admittedly pushes the pop angle more.

― Douglas, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

twelve years pass...

fave folk album I've never heard:

Hally Wood - O Lovely Appearance of Death: American Folk Songs of Sadness and Melancholy

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I've only heard 4 tracks, but it's really great stuff — (mostly) unaccompanied hymns and ballads reminiscent of Jean Ritchie's early recordings. it's seemingly very hard to come by, so if anyone knows where to find it online, please speak up. I feel like this and a lot of early Elektra releases are overdue for a reissue.

― disinclination loops (unregistered), Sunday, 7 September 2014 22:27 (eleven years ago)

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