Folk LPs

[MontyVeda]

braces : check
stubble : check
waistcoat: check
tambourine: check
mandolin thing:check
unfashionable hat:check
wartime style frock: check
lots of people singing along in the video: check

it's gotta be folk music

 

[Yellow Fang]

Not sure where King Creosote lies on the folk spectrum, but his latest, From Scotland From Love, ain't bad. Also, Monk's Kitchen is pretty good if you're in a chilled mood. Neither are any good for dancing reels.

 

[Drago]

Songs From the Wood by Jethro Tull. Ok, it's a progressive rock album taking a fond swipe at folk, but it's brilliant for all that. Oh so tongue in cheek, as only Anderson can do.

If you don't mind crossing the Atlantic Gordon Lightfoot has produced some good stuff.

 

[Dan B]

I'm partial to a bit of Oysterband: Granite Years was a good compilation, albeit that it's something like ten years old now and I have no idea what they've done since

Or there's The Destroyers, if you're into Balkan folk from Birmingham

 

[threebikesmcginty]

[QUOTE 3257289, member: 259"]Smashing album - it was very sad what happened to him not long after. [/QUOTE]

Blimey, hadn't heard of him/this as far as I can remember, which is about 5 minutes, listening now on the spot, s'good.

 

[ufkacbln]

The BBC does a CD every year of the "BBC Folk awards"

A good cross section of the genre and always contains a few surprises

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I watched the folk awards last year or the year before, gawd it was dreadful, a few kids on going on about how hard they'd had to work to get noticed but failing to mention their music biz parents, some chronic hipster beards and a few old burn outs. Apart from that it was great...

 

[mcshroom]

The Unthanks and Kate Rusby have already been mentioned. I'd also throw in Passenger (All the little lights), and a singer/fiddler I like from the other side of the Atlantic is Sara Watkins (Sun, Midnight Sun)

 

[Room27]

Barafundle by Gorky's Zygotic Mynci

 

[vernon]

Chumbawamba sadly no more but evolved into a great acoustic folk-ish outfit.

I regret not going to see them sooner. I saw them at a gig two years before they split up and saw their last UK gig at Leeds City Varieties in 2012 with @CharlieB .

 

[Ganymede]

Wot no Chris Wood? My god I love that man. Lucky enough to know him too, as he's from Mr G's neck of the woods, though I've not seen him for a few years.

http://chriswoodmusic.co.uk/

 

[sheddy]

You could always tune in to BBC Radio 2 on Weds nights at 7pm

 

[avsd]

For Irish folk music Christy Moore is hard to bead. He can charm the birds from the trees. A few of his songs are biased against the English (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christy_Moore) but in general he is one of the greatest Irish folk singers. He sang in both Planxty & Moving Hearts which has been mentioned earlier Vernon. Some of my favourites are City of Chicago, Rose of Tralee (a very Irish story), Biko Drum. Easter Snow and the The Reel in the Flickering Light all from the The Christy Moore Collection 1981–1991. Enjoy.

 

[vernon]

Wot no Chris Wood? My god I love that man. Lucky enough to know him too, as he's from Mr G's neck of the woods, though I've not seen him for a few years.

http://chriswoodmusic.co.uk/

Not my cup of tea. I find him tedious along with Imagined Village. So much promise, so little delivered.

 

[MarkF]

Kip Of The Serenes - Dr Strangely Strange

Ha ha, one of the funniest things I've ever heard, Mrs F burst out laughing when the pipe/flute started. The kids are rolling around.