The Folk Music Thread

[Rubyretro]

This bloke's quite sad...but he can sing this difficult song..http://youtu.be/bq5yELMNz5I

[Cogidubnus]

Frog's Wedding

This bloke's quite sad...but he can sing this difficult song

Yes I've come across this clip before...but he's interesting isn't he...and it is a difficult song...wish I wasn't so bloody useless at holding a note!

All the best

Dave

[Limehouse]

It's quite enchanting! Pity about the background noise though.

[Limehouse]

Here are two wonderful songs from Joan Baez. Joan has one of the most beautiful voices I've ever heard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4BYOJ1tc-k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDuvjqO5WI4&feature=player_detailpage

[Cogidubnus]

A love affair?

Hi Julia

Now you're talking...possibly the greatest ever female voice in American folk music (ok I know that's going to raise controversy, but it's my honest view)...it's the perfectly modulated and somehow sweet tone, which you just know is backed by that gravel hardness which just occasionally surfaces...

But this link, to me at least, is the pure spirit of Joan...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_ksYL26lZE

You may not agree, but to me, somehow it represents everything I ever wanted from the 60s/70s yet never got...don't know quite why...but there it is...

All the best

Dave

[Limehouse]

Hi Dave,

I love that song! I was about 12/13, a group of us girls at school were 'into' singing, unaccompanied, in any quiet corner we could find. We sang that song! It must have been about 1970/71. We also sang 'leaving on a jet plane' and other folky stuff like 'five hundred miles'. They are ideal songs for young voices.

Julie

[Limehouse]

The greatest living folk singer (depending on how you lie your folk) and perhaps one of the greatest living humanists:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iAIM02kv0g

[Limehouse]

Folk music is not just the preserve of the English-speaking world. Many, many cultures have a folk music tradition.

Here is one I remember well from childhood.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm1anurhbeg

[Limehouse]

I love this so much. It's so sweet but funny. I first heard it in childhood - just as my sister was about to get married!

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

[Cogidubnus]

Hi Julie

Well if it's Jake then I think you'd need to go a long way to beat this one, (though so much of his stuff was so funny):-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc16o...eature=related

All the best

Dave

PS It was my mother-in-law's favourite and when she died a few years back, among other things we inherited from her...yes you've guessed it!

[Robert]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmSezwugtd8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE-BKrAAZGc&feature=related

[Cogidubnus]

Hi Robert

I must admit I'd forgotten about "On again" - god there's one I hadn't heard in years...and what a good one it is!

Thanks!

Dave

[Robert]

It is good, isn't it. One of his very best.

And so true to life.

[Robert]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM7VWT_DhA4

[Robert]

Specially for Dave :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6OHD2uCpfU