Folk LPs

[threebikesmcginty]

This originates from an English folk song, The Oxford Girl, anyway if you'd care to listen it's wonderfully gruesome.

 

[dan_bo]

What about Clannad? Yes, I know some of their work doesn't really qualify as "folk", but it's nice listening anyway, especially the Gaelic tracks.

Yeah Clannad are mint.

 

[Fnaar]

The Unthanks are pretty damn good...

 

[MontyVeda]

and from across the pond... The Folksmen

they did a stack of great albums such as...
Truckin'
Hitchin'
Wishin'
...all pure folk.

then it all went wrong with Saying Something... two words and two Gs was almost as bad as Dylan going electric.

 

[morrisman]

As a traditional English folkie anything by

The Watersons
The Young Tradition
John Kirkpatrick
Brass Monkey
Shirley Collins

 

[vernon]

Not really folk though are they ?
Still going and playing at Southend later this year.

I'm seeing them in Newcastle in May.

 

[vernon]

Regional/International Folk
High Level Ranters - 'Ranting Lads' makes a good starting point for Northumbrian folk
Dan ar Braz - great Breton/celtic music
Alain Stivell - great Breton/celtic music
Skilda - fantastic band with electric Breton pipes
Ragu Dixit - Multi multilingual Indian folk with celtic undertones

 

[User169]

Hillbilly Tape Music from Henry Flynt. Good vid too!

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqUtxnCI_F8

 

[Salad Dodger]

Show of Hands, and/or the solo albums by Steve Knightley from Show of Hands.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Jake Thackray?

 

[accountantpete]

Amazing Blondel?

 

[srw]

The Benjamin Britten arrangements, either in the classic recording with the composer and Peter Pears or in the complete Hyperion edition. They take folk song straight into the realm of art song without losing their essential folkness.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

If you thought Mumturd and Sons were shïte check out this bollocks.

Modern folk slagging...

http://thenoisemadebypeople.wordpress.com/2013/02/27/ho-hey-and-the-scourge-of-mainstream-folk/

 

[Venod]

Chumbawamba - The Boy Bands Have Won

Richard Thompson - Rumour & Sigh

Martin Simpson - Prodigal Son

Show of Hands - County Life

Martin Stephenson - Beyond The Leap Beyond The Law

Martyn Joseph - Thunder & Rainbows ( The Best That We Could Find)

Mark Knopfler - Golden Heart

 

[Over The Hill]

By a mile the best folk group around at the moment is the Fleet Foxes

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