[Closed] Favourite folk songs

I love Mumford and Sons

🙂

One of many.

The Peat Bog Faeries, Runrig, Capercaillie, Shoglenifty, Afro Celt, Wolfstone.....

Should I go on?

A Miner's Life
--Heard someone singing it in a pub.

Emily portman is amazing... listen to 'stick stock' and a song called 'dear Julia' by Lucy ward is anothervfave

Erin gu bragh by dick gaughan, sorry can't do links from my phone

Canadee I O, Nic Jones. Probably spelt completely wrong. Listen to the guitar playing.

Plus loads and loads of others.

The Sally Garden is a cracker, best heard at closing time, sung by a toothless elderly gent with a booming voice (me usually). Proper traditional English folk song.

Lots of stuff by The Boys of the Lough is just brilliant - too many to mention. Not very fashionable just now, but Planxty have come out with some diamonds too.

So much good contemporary American stuff floating about now too - I'm enjoying Josh T. Pearson's Last of the Country Gentlemen and a few albums by The Carolina Chocolate Drops.

Any thing by The Unthanks

I remember hearing this song for the first time. Just stopped the car and sat in total silence ,absorbing every delicious moment of it.

These guys generally float my boat when I'm in the mood for some impromptu folk-ish listening.

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Track from the EP State Hospital.

I have had the new album (Pedestrian Verse)on repeat from the first play.

Beautiful ,bleak stories

Cara Dillon's False False never fails to send shivers down my spine

Zippy, a pretty much perfect song that, did you know that Sandy was fourteen when she wrote that?
Probably my favourite 'folk' song, but there's loads that come under 'roots', or Americana as well, Emmylou Harris' [i]Prayer In Open 'D'[/i] can just break my heart if I'm in the right frame of mind.
The Unthanks [i]King Of Rome[/i], is another one; I first heard it on RadMac's show on 6Music, and it caught me at a vulnerable moment and had me in bits. Also Kate Rusby's [i]My Young Man[/i], from [i]Little Lights[/i], another heart-breaker about a wife's love for her husband, health broken from working the pits.
This could start a [i]very[/i] long list... 😀
[edit] [i]My Young Man[/i] is about Kate's Grandparents, so she sings from the heart:

And here's the Unthanks:

It's [i]supposed[/i] to be funny. 🙂

The Battle of Sowerby Bridge were fought on the 44th o’ March,
The King's Cross Fusiliers turned out, all marchin’ as stiff as starch.
They marched as far as Bolton Brow and the enemy hove in sight.
And they called us generals nasty names and challenged us to fight.

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An assortment of nu-folk

Martin Simpson is on in Reeth in March if you fancy mixing a good ride and a bit classic folk music. Cannot remember the date but its normally a Friday.

Never any good with money by Martin Simpson is also one of my current repeat plays. Really touching song.

You showed me eyebright in the hedgerow,
speedwell and travellers joy.
You showed me how to use my eyes
When I was just a boy;
And you taught me how to love a song
And all you knew of nature's ways:
The greatest gifts I have ever known,
And I use them every day.

Ray LaMontagne, " Trouble "

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Kate Rusby, " Village Green..."

John Martyns early stuff is some of the best quitar based folk music I've heard.

and anyone who writes a song about a motorbike is ok with me, even name checks Box Hill.

Nice to see 'Barnsley lass getting a couple of mentions. Can't do the link thing but 'the imagined village' is an interesting album - bit hit and miss, but some good stuff on it all the same.

" alas I cannot swim " by Laura Marling

" Norton black lightning 1952 " by Richard Thompson

Excellent Drac. Try googling 'summer of 75' by Reeves and Mortimer.

is this a trick question?

Ooh Mr Potatohead ,you're in trouble!

Gotta be these.

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The challenge in light of this new pic is you may now need to recalculate the order in which they get punched.

Why so zippykona ?

Just found this on youtube.

4 minutes of tuning up followed by a great song. Proper folk.

feels like folk to me, anyway.

When runrig were good..

And wee bit more uplifting, although folk rock - Frightened Rabbit

Canadee I O, Nic Jones. Probably spelt completely wrong. Listen to the guitar playing.

This.

" alas I cannot swim " by Laura Marling

And That.

Nick Drake Cello Song

Woody Guthrie:

Billy Bragg:

tx1138- have you listened to " mermaid avenue " by billy bragg , wilko and natalie merchant singing rare woody guthrie songs fron ther archive

Why so zippykona ?
Its a Vincent not Norton. That could get you lynched in certain circles.
Sorry to be picky.

Which probably comes under the 'Things that make me proud to be British' banner, rather than favourite folk songs, but still.
Absolutely bloody hilarious.

oops wadda mistake to make !!!!I've only been listeneing to the feeler for the last 35 years

tx1138- have you listened to " mermaid avenue " by billy bragg , wilko and natalie merchant singing rare woody guthrie songs fron ther archive

I'll check it out, thanks. Not a folk music fan per se; just love some of the Woody Guthrie music though. recently saw Will Kauffman do a performance and talk about WG; absolutely fascinating. Came from a typically racist white poor working class background, then used music to attack and expose the ignorance, fear and hatred that divided America at that time. A truly remarkable man.

Keep your ears open for Tom Palmer.
Used to play in Sussex and Kent but decamped to Cornwall.
Talk about a person that gives it their all. He has a chat and a laugh between songs but once he shuts his eyes he's off.

If Portishead had started in 1969 instead of 1996, they'd probably sound like this.

If you like these then the "Folk Is Not A Four Letter Word" compilation is well worth checking out.

McTell

McLean

Paxton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrgS94hxuJ0

Corries

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_cEebAlirk

Drake

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IUqN9ozmhw

Gaughan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F-r737DciY

MacColl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wj7xZf8xm8

Cash

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdSIlVZhsDw

Peter, Paul and Mary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OCnHNk2Hac

Hall& McGregor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhIn_iw6a1g

Runrig

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6gKErYgdGs

Fisher

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm_2Tj_neso

Imlach

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPgEWfhtJ88

Reader

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2T9545bdm4

Capercaille / Mathieson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKfp7_G7UlQ

+1 to Martha Tilston

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Dick Gaughan

Lau Just awesome tunes and musicianship

Hinba

No-one's offered Four Hairy Sweaters singing 'The Wild Rover'. Which leads to no to 'Baker Street'.

And hasn't anyone else been moved by Oysterband's Coal not Dole.

Blackwaterside. By Bert Jansch:

or Anne Briggs:

She moved through the fair. Ragga'd up by davey Graham:

http://youtu.be/U0h-XICWlSA

John Barleycorn by Chris Wood. Haven't checked this video out for qwulaity but the very on Lark Descending is ace:

http://youtu.be/htTbtb4zyQM

Also his England in Ribbons is phenomonal.

ETA: sorry posting from work. The IT nazi's got the computers locked down and I'm a bit pushed for time, need to clicky linky instead 🙁

More Kate, Awkward Annie.. Live Cambs Folk Festival.

Roddy Woomble (Idlewild)'s three solo albums are all excellent.

Have a listen to this. Could be a bit to traditional for some but you should listen to some of this so you know how messed up some of the songs have become. It the Copper Family.

That lovely Rusby lass is from Cawthorne, the Stockbroker belt of Barnsly. Her uncle used to have a great chippy in Penistone.

+1 BoardinBob's choice. Sublime...

my god, no bert jansch yet...check out nicola for an album

Anything by John Renbourn for me. I can listen to him all day.

Bert Jansch and John Martyn are top players too.

And good to see Vin Garbutt in here.

Steeleye - Marrowbones

Some of you may be interested to know I'm currently doing a project to find people's favourite folk songs. Dozens of songs have been nominated already and the quality of the songs chosen have been superb. In a month's time the results will be compiled into a list on my music to die for website http://musictodiefor.wordpress.com.

Voting is still open and you have until the end of April to send me your own lists of favourite songs.

Here's how to vote :

Email me at nctwall@hotmail.com with a list of up to 25 of your favourite folk songs.

To aid you, I've published a list of 100 of the top contenders so far, with accompanying youtube videos - http://musictodiefor.wordpress.com/all-of-your-best-loved-folk-songs/ .

This is only a guide and you’re free to nominate other songs not on the list if you wish (preferably along with the artists who you think perform them best). Also if you like someone else’s version of any of these songs then it would be good if you could indicate whose version you prefer.

The Good Ship Kangaroo by Planxty. Excellent song about female perfidy.

This means a lot to me.

Oh! Butcher

"And good to see Vin Garbutt in here." He is playing at Reeth 12th July.

Friday 12th July - Vin Garbutt has recovered from bat flu which caused his 2012 Reeth cancellation. His 5 previous appearances have all been sell-outs. Support by Tipperary’s Paula Ryan on marimba/tongue drum, guitar and a variety of percussion instruments including bodhran, djembe and darabuka. Tickets £11 (door £13).

get your ticket From www.wegottickets.com/reethmemorialhall

combine a good night in a small friendly venue with a great bike ride the day before and/or after.

Karine Polwart seems to be very consistent with great songs. Also Eddie Reader has some good songs in recent years, her album of Burns songs is fantastic.

Not really into folk but sometimes partial to music that is influenced by it.

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Great acoustic guitar...

Cracking thread.

I really like singing The Arran Convict

Chuair mathair mise dhan taigh charaideach,, my father sent me to the house of sorrow. Stunning

This Thread reminded me of this. Vin Garbut, digging out the Ash and racking in the cash, underneath the sea where no man ought to be 😀

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A bit of Swiss folk

I love Eddie Reader, got all of her albums, and seen her live a few times too, but I think this is possibly my favourite of her songs:

Tim Buckley did a great version of it, too.

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=ip38V6UCzmk