ITT: Folk Music

I can't find a proper thread on this so I'm starting one. Just wanted somewhere to post a couple of fantastic videos but who knows where we'll go? Wd prefer not to have freak stuff in here but i'm not a fascist so

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM_1gLvySHw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzNqp-1iWUs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs9PMky7Fj0

can't remember if these have been posted on ILX recently but goddamn this is the biz

Love this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YRqLwtZ20Q

the other great family of English folk music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ9-uWXU4oU

what i especially love about the Watersons vids is the documentary bits - sense of the folk scene as being a viable, thriving and not at all square-looking community back then

nice thread, i've been listening to this excellent comp recently

http://www.honestjons.com/label.php?pid=27428

the lal waterson track that opens the rec, and gives it its title, is pure wickermanesque spook-folk melancholy, and there are also two excellent nic jones tracks unavailable elsewhere on cd.

I'm a big Nic Jones fan so I'll check that out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2PxsHBv0ps&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLD76C48B4EDF8DFEA

This slays

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsC60FkIhEA

is this discussion limited to English folk music?

I hope not

That first Watersons album is so good. Really need to wade further into their stuff.

nah crut any folk-y music of any nationality is good imo, wd like it to stay more on the acoustic side i guess cos there are other folk rock threads but it's such a wavery line and i'm not the boss of anybody

Anyone had any good folk music encounters "in the wild" recently?

My most recent one was walking alond the prom at Sidmouth and coming upon a group of ponchoed-up panpipe dudes banging out a chill version of that old peruvian folk classic, 'Geordie'.

http://www.losblanquillos.com/media/galeria/34/9/1/8/0/n_real_zaragoza_varios-1690819.jpg

I had folk music encounter with Dick Gaughan at a motorway service station recently, "Just stoppin' off for a cup a tea and a pish", were the great man's words when I enquired what he was up to

:D

I saw Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick last week. First set a bit doddery, second set AMAZING. My partner asked Carthy about the "lost" 1972 Lal & Mike Waterson album Bright Phoebus, which also features Carthy, Maddy Prior, Tim Hart & Norma Waterson - there was a BBC Radio 4 doc about it the other week. Carthy told him that the reissue rights had been acquired by a "bastard", from whom no artist royalties flow. His advice: grab a free copy. So we did:

http://witchseason.blogspot.com/2007/06/cheap-red-wine-in-my-drunken-brain.html

It's a superb record.

I didn't know it was lost! <-------- Chic Murray punchline to "Do you know the Battersea Dog's Home?"

Eh alright, have been meaning to hear that for ages. xp

You're in for a treat

Yeah, I'll get on the case there.

BTW your anecdote would explain that one verse in Craigie Hill:

He said, "My dear, don't grieve me or yet annoy my patience
You know I love you dearly although I'm going away
I'm going to some foreign nation to have some urination
And maybe a quick cuppa, from the motorway café."

'café' to rhyme with Americ-ay

but of course!

You had to admire Swarbrick's resolve. 70 years old, double lung transplant, tracheostomy hole in his neck, walking stick, hearing aids, loose teeth, runny nose... and still he played like an angel, with wisecracking humour intact.

Christ, he was at death's door like 10 years ago, when I was really into folk music, it was all "Poor old Swarb, he's not got long left", him and that Megrahi geezer just keep going on and on

Anne Briggs is in that second Watersons clip that NV posted. Is that the only existing footage of her or what?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m791NEfDMrQ

^ oops I guess not!

there was some old footage of her on folk britannia iirc

Sure I've seen film of her hanging about in Ireland with Johnny Moynihan

Oh shit yes, she pops up in this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpAGKahR9sQ

Well worth watching in its own right btw.

Last 30 seconds is lol.

great clip, i need to watch the whole program now

There's a trailer park near my mom's house, I saw near, but it's a 20 minutes drive on dirt roads. It's the kind of trailers you pull behind your truck. Anyway on weekends they have bluegrass and ole-tmey music played mostly by ole-timers. I've only been once, but it's fun. A lot of bikers drive there on the weekends and it's a varied mix of people. Lots of moonshine and sort of square dancing, but know quite square dancing. That's the closest I've come to folk "in the wild."

Anyone seen this?
http://www.guardianoffers.co.uk/mall/productpage.cfm/GuardianOffers/_65812/-/Here%27s-a-Health-to-the-Barley-Mow

Looks kind of amazing...

I mentioned on another thread getting a beautiful copy of this on the weekend for $5 (not so much as a surface tick):

https://i.postimg.cc/PNnw46j2/newport.jpg

Quite a document. Feels like the absolute apex of folk music as a--for a short time, maybe even the--dominant force in the culture, just before the Beatles come along. I've seen the Dylan/Baez duet on "With God on Our Side" before--I think in Murray Lerner's documentary Festival/. Phil Ochs and Tom Paxton are on here, Pete La Farge too. And the Freedom Singers are incredible, almost drony and trance-like at times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrGntTuh8O4