Folk music, Does anyone still listen to it?

[tillyn]

I'm a Huge fan of folk music, (i enjoy all genres but this is my fav.) I just downloaded Harvest by Neil Young.(an oldie but goodie.) I enjoy Bob Dylan, Gordon Lightfoot,(lots more.)
I was listening to Harvest, After the Goldrush and was thinking these guys sure could write, the music and lyrics were absolutely wonderful.
After all these years their still putting out great work. (N.Y.-Prairie Wind , excellent.) What folk ,if any do you SKMBer's enjoy? :smile2:

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

Oh yes, big-big, and going back to Jimmie Rodgers, the Carter Family and Robert Johnson.

BBC TV in the UK has just finished a superb series called 'Folk America' spread out over a few weeks which traced the development of folk in the US from way back to today - if it ever comes on in your area or is released on DVD. don't miss it!

The last thing in the series was a concert filmed a few weeks ago with Judy Collins, Roger McGuinn and Carolyn Hester - marvellous!

Long days and pleasant nights

[Dana Jean]

John Mellencamp's latest CD is very folk sounding. I'm loving it.

[Haunted]

I'm a Huge fan of folk music, (i enjoy all genres but this is my fav.) I just downloaded Harvest by Neil Young.(an oldie but goodie.) I enjoy Bob Dylan, Gordon Lightfoot,(lots more.)
I was listening to Harvest, After the Goldrush and was thinking these guys sure could write, the music and lyrics were absolutely wonderful.
After all these years their still putting out great work. (N.Y.-Prairie Wind , excellent.) What folk ,if any do you SKMBer's enjoy? :smile2:

Ain't nobody like Gordo fer sure, fer sure.:biggrin2:

[JohnDalglish]

John Mellencamp's latest CD is very folk sounding. I'm loving it.

Hi,

From where I'm sitting, that augurs really well for Ghost Brothers of Darkland County.

He did a couple of songs from the album solo with a guitar on Jools Holland's show towards the end of last year, and they were very good indeed, must get the album!

Long days and pleasant nights

[Draga]

Yeah, I listen to folk music, but not American folk music. I better enjoy folk music from India, Japan, China, Africa, Arabia, Jamaica, etc.

[ladyraven]

a friend of mine brought over a cd by some guy in alaska...it was great ..will have to get his name again for everyone

[sueb84]

Huge folk fan, John and I attend the Edmonton Folk Festival every year and we're hoping to get to Calgary's again soon. Winnipeg apparently has one of the best as well, but we're afraid we'll get FOLKED out. I do hope that one day we can attend all the Alberta ones - Jasper, Canmore, Calgary, and Edmonton, but we'll have to see. I tend to lean toward the celtic and americana roots acts. I love Kevin Welch Kieran Kane, The Dead Reckoners, Show of Hands, The McGarrigles, Loreena McKennit, Tom Russell and on and on and on. John and I also always spend an afternoon at the blues stage but with our new Blues Fest they've begun to limit the acts at the Folk Fest. I cannot wait for this years - Rodney Crowell, Loudon Wainwright III, The Steeldrivers, Kathleen Edwards, Linda Tillery and Fred Eaglesmith so far. :love:

[Kim L.]

Love folk music: Dylan, Byrds / Roger McGuinn, Donovan, Tom Russell, Richard Thompson, Judy Colllins, Gordon Lightfoot et al.

[hipmamajen]

Has anyone been listening to Iron & Wine? A blog friend recently recommended The Creek Drank the Cradle, and I'm so glad I picked it up. Good stuff, beautiful and haunting.

[coolambindang]

Gordon Lightfoot is a little too hippie for me, but I love Neil Young and Bob, Does Willie Nelson count? Or is he specifically country?

[JohnDalglish]

Gordon Lightfoot is a little too hippie for me, but I love Neil Young and Bob, Does Willie Nelson count? Or is he specifically country?

Hi,

Good point. Yeah, Willie counts all right. It's only record company guys in suits that like to seperate music into strict definitions and genres, never the musicians themselves.

In just the same way that Sai King is categorised and marginalised by the establishment (IMO) as a 'horror' writer.

Many shades of grey, but no black and whites.

John Lennon, who knew something about the subject, held that ALL music was folk music because it was played and written by folk, and I'd go along with that.

The question that all musicians hate is 'What kind of music do you play?', on a par with 'Where do you get your ideas?' to Sai King, and I always reply 'Folk'n'country, rock'n'blues' to it.

Largely because I take a childish delight in replying to being asked the hated question, 'Folk'n'count....'.!

Long days and pleasant nights

[bookworm101]

Yes, I love folk music and mountain music as well. Grew up on it. All so grew up on swing, big band, rock, country, blue grass, gospel. Very musical family.

[Theregulator]

Yes, I love Neil Young. I often go to the cropredy folk festival which has an amazing atmosphere. Its the only festival where someone announces that a wallet has been found and handed in over the mic. It has a real ale bar and the whole village welcome and entertain all the visitors.

[LongTallSally]

Well, I am of the opinion that Stan Rogers died way too young. That man had a set of pipes, boy...

Yeah, I like some folk music.

[staropeace]

I liked Valdi...my folks had some of his stuff.....

Sue do you go to Blue On Whyte....the blues bar in old Stratcona?

[staropeace]

I do love the canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot....If you could read my mind.

How about Ian Tyson?

[tillyn]

I sure am glad it is still being listened too, a lot mentioned by several of you guys i also listen too. I was thinking with all the stuff out there today our younger generation is really missing out on the grass roots music that is out there. ( Woody Gauthrie, for one, the father of folk.)

[ms.darkside]

Hell yea! My answer is D. All of the above. Love it!!!:smile2: Mostly Neil Young and Gordon Lightfoot, anything I can find from the 70's usually good. Although, Disco still sucks tho, IMO.

[tillyn]

How about Murray Mclauchian a little country in there but folky too. By the way Old Gordon Lightfoot, was kind of a hippie i guess but i don't agree about his music. Do you realize the amount of artists who have rerecorded his songs and got hits from them? Relisten and rethink , me thinks!!!

[pandora]

I love Neil Young, and Bob Dylan. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
were great too. But are'n we forgetting Cat Stevens ???

[Connie Reader]

I can't say I'm too versed in Folk music, but I do like Mumford and Sons (Little Lion Man is great!). My hubby and I were just talking about this yesterday....I don't like country music, but Folk and Bluegrass definitely strikes a chord in me. I love the banjo!

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

John Lennon said that all music is folk music.

It's made by folk and listened to by folk.

John Lennon was a very clever man who lived in the twentieth century.

Long days and pleasant nights

[bobledrew]

All this Canadian content does my heart good.

There's a lot of superduper NEW music being made as well as the big guys you're mentioning:

Lynn Miles, Rose Cousins, Todd Snyder, Lynne Hanson, Justin Rutledge, Andrea Simms-Karp, Garnet Rogers, Nathan Rogers, Jill Zmud, Frank Turner, Jonathan Byrd, Josh Ritter, Melissa McClelland, Katherine Wheatley, Madison Violet, The Undesirables, David Ross MacDonald, Emma-Lee, Rick Fines, Suzie Vinnick, Wailin' Jennies, Good Lovelies, BeGood Tanyas, Dala, Fleet Foxes, Great Lake Swimmers, Gordie Sampson, Gregory Hoskisn, Sarah Harmer, Jim Bryson, Kathleen Edwards, Luke Doucet, Oh Susanna...

[muskrat]

Oh man, I TOTALLY listen to folk music. Bob Dylan is my GOD (even after he plugged in at Newport and p*ssed the folkies off!). Gimme some Dave Van Ronk, some Phil Ochs, some Kinky Freidman (Kinky? Who's Keenky?) alla dat stuff...

But then I dig ALL music to some degree or other. It is, as they say, ALL GOOD.

[bobledrew]

Great new movie about Phil Ochs (http://philochsthemovie.com/) just out now.

[JohnDalglish]

Great new movie about Phil Ochs (http://philochsthemovie.com/) just out now.

Hi,

Thankee big-big for the heads-up, Bob.

Long days and pleasant nights

[Lencho_of_the_Apes]

Hi,

Oh yes, big-big, and going back to Jimmie Rodgers, the Carter Family and Robert Johnson.

BBC TV in the UK has just finished a superb series called 'Folk America' spread out over a few weeks which traced the development of folk in the US from way back to today - if it ever comes on in your area or is released on DVD. don't miss it!

The last thing in the series was a concert filmed a few weeks ago with Judy Collins, Roger McGuinn and Carolyn Hester - marvellous!

Long days and pleasant nights

"Folk America"? And nobody on the board has jumped on this as an example of USA-bashing?

We all float down here.

[Hoofbeat]

Folk music is nice, but i dont listen to it much...

[Brian]

Meaning like that cool song by that old dude in the Watchmen credits (http://www.stephenking.com/forums/redirector.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2F watch%3Fv%3DE8D91QW2uIA)? (That was a joke.) :oo:

Did people really listen to that stuff at one point? Seems like the world has moved on for sure.

[fushingfeef]

My wife is a huge fan of almost all folk music, I like hearing it live but not a huge fan of recorded folk for the most part.
I remember the local rock music station DJ's used to refer to the 60's as the "folk scare", like it was a crisis they survived, as in "Remember the great Folk Scare of 1966?"

[Kim L.]

Love me some Fleet Foxes, Wailin' Jennies and Mumford & Sons. And for oldies, don't forget the Smothers Brothers! They still crack me up. Listen to them take on "Tom Dooley" sometime.

[gabbar12690]

ya still listen to folk music as i am a great fan of folk music... i am a great fan of folk music of india....