Best folk songs

[classic33]

Paddy Reilly or the Clancey's version is better.

 

[ianrauk]

[QUOTE 3193240, member: 1314"]It's a simple love song. Depends on how one defines 'folk'. The Buzzcocks' Ever Fallen in Love is a classic folk song.

I'd even throw The Wedding Present into the hat as folk singers. They sung about everyday life.

Billy Bragg did gigs wit Joe Strummer, who played his punk songs, and described them as folk nights.

'Folk' is 'popular'.

Unless you have a better definition of 'folk music'.

'Folk' music is not about worthies with fingers in their ears. The Buzzcocks are a classic folk band.

You're being the cock by being cliched about folk music.[/QUOTE]


Give up the drink and go to bed

 

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[deptfordmarmoset]

Give up the drink and go to bed

You risk killing off a lot of folk music with that sentiment....

 

[Geoff Crowther]

And no list of "best" folk songs would be complete without something from this guy:

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlFKwY_YgZ4


Right ... I'm off to bed. S'posed to be leadin' a ride tomorrow.
G'night.

 

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[threebikesmcginty]

This is such a great version of a traditional song, it's brutal and bloody too.

 

[w00hoo_kent]

Emily Portman, Bones and Feathers, although as I can't find it on youtube I'll have to settle for Stick Stock

 

[mcshroom]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7GSI-4yZKg

 

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[classic33]

Paddy Reilly

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYngpjTCXXg

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View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGmrpMT0-yo

 

[mcshroom]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No5FkAmTaJY

 

[AlanTh]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2xODjbfYw8

 

[mcshroom]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyoJn8Ebb7I

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

View:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No5FkAmTaJY


[/QUOTE]

Have you heard her 'Yorkshire Couple'???

We saw her at Wakefield Cathedral about 3 years ago, when she did a gig there, as her brother had been a Chorister at the Cathedral! (my daughter is now)


What about Ewan MacColls version of 'Dirty Old Town'??

Mike Hardings 'Bombers Moon' (folk & tribute song) - even sadder/more poignant is his 'Christmas 1914' (especially in this 100th anniversary year)