Best folk songs

[classic33]

Scottish song more commonly sung by the Irish.

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2HjKIAjgkg

 

[ianrauk]

Watch out for Julie Fowlis on the opening ceremony of the CG? She is wonderful.

 

[ufkacbln]

Another fine band is Runrig.

They have a knack of hitting the right tone.

The wonderfully moving:




.. and perhaps the ultimate Scottish anthem:

 

[robrich]

Beautiful song and yes, it does come under the 'folk' banner!

 

[mcshroom]

See anything wrong with this old picture?
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As you mentioned the spinners, one of my favourites: -

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6v2jRqjHzg

 

[Yellow Fang]

I like folk music music, but it is such a vast category. You might put Fleet Foxes one end of the scale and Mongolian throat singing on the other. I suupose I like the Appalachian folk songs the best. They did a better job preserving the British Isles' folk tradition than we did ourselves.

 

[Yellow Fang]

I like folk music music, but it is such a vast category. You might put Fleet Foxes one end of the scale and Mongolian throat singing on the other. I suupose I like the Appalachian folk songs the best. They did a better job preserving the British Isles' folk tradition than we did ourselves.

 

[RWright]

One of my more recent favorite bluegrass bands doing a folk song, at least I think it is folk. I had never heard it until I saw this on Youtube


This is another one they do that I really like. It is folk to me. I guess folk can also mean something a little different to different people and in different places. But these two are two of my most recent favorites.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

And two more from Ireland, one done justice by a Yank


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntt3wy-L8Ok

I must admit I do like (& have somewhere on 12" single) this by The Men They Couldn't Hang

The still ,sadly, missed John Peel once said of it (& it's stuck in my mind, as it does everytime I hear it)

"It's the barely suppressed anger that makes this such an outstanding track!!"

 

[Globalti]

I've been listening to folk all my adult life and in the last few years I've grown tired of the whole "dead on" Paddy scene and gone in search of more interesting stuff. Here's an example of what I mean: July by Amy Petty, a superbly mysterious and subtle song that builds gradually to a crescendo then fades away. In her intro she describes it as "a requiem of sorts".


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys0tu-wO54s

(If you can find the studio version it's actually more atmospheric)

Here's another remarkable sound I've discovered: First Aid Kit, two Swedish sisters with great voices and harmonies. This is The Lion's Roar; try to ignore the silly video:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl5FdvRR4pQ

 

[ufkacbln]

I always wanted to form a band called Folkwind... doing primarily Hawkwind covers but in a folky style. The only one I've got is a slowed down finger picked version of Urban Guerilla, but my tuneless singing and sketchy ability on the guitar doesn't really do it justice.

What about the Wurzels? Are they folk?

Lemmy did this.....

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Here's another remarkable sound I've discovered: First Aid Kit, two Swedish sisters with great voices and harmonies. This is The Lion's Roar; try to ignore the silly video:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl5FdvRR4pQ[/QUOTE]
I've heard them on 'Radcliffe & Maconie', they were in session (I think??) last year

 

[MontyVeda]

Beautiful song and yes, it does come under the 'folk' banner!

beautiful song!

this is also worth a mention...

 

[Geoff Crowther]

Finally, some friends of mine, Sheesham & Lotus & Son, an Old Time (early folk blues) trio... playing live in an orchard around these parts.

I just love that. Brilliant!

 

[Vapin' Joe]

I just love that. Brilliant!

Me too, great!


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvFqVgz1AGo&feature=related