60s Folk Music

Discussion in 'Folk Music' started by theacidqueen, Jan 16, 2010.

  1. RalphGower

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    No ones mentioned Pentangle, Bert Jansch, The Incredible String Band, Fairport Convension, Anne Briggs, The Watersons, Martin Carthy, John Renbourne, Comus, Jackson C Frank (who is an absolutle MUST!!) or even Steeleye Span. Of course all those are part of the British folk revival, but you cant really go wrong with any of them.
     
  2. Asmodean

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    Hell yeah, english folk rock is where it's at. With or without electric guitar it is the best.
     
  3. 0dd_Flower

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    Donovan ???
     
  4. RalphGower

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    DONOVAN! I knew i'd missed someone! Yes! Donovan, he's really overrated and my Donovan tip factoid, is that John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page and John Bonham of Led Zeppelin first played together on Donovan's single The Hurdy Gurdy Man.
     
  5. Asmodean

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    Donovan's a good example of english folk but these bolded artists from Ralphs post are among my favourite artists ever:

    So it's unneccessary to say I should check out this Jackson Frank which I haven't heard of at all :D

    Edit: it's written as Fairport Convention of course :)
     
  6. RalphGower

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    Asmodean, he's fantastic! He only released one album, which I'm sure is probably on You Tube, but he's been relentlessly covered by everyone from Bert Jansch to Sandy Denny and beyond. He was an american that came to Britain in the mid 60s (?) anyway, beautiful, soulful, moving enigmatic music which is atune with the also rather wonderful (and missed from this post, shame on us) Nick Drake.
     
  7. Asmodean

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    Cool, I'm not much of a Drake or Comus fan when compared to the sounds of jazzy Pentangle or groovy Steeleye Span sounds but I dig them nevertheless :)
     
  8. RalphGower

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    Good spot, my fingers betrayed me.
     
  9. MikeE

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    Arlo Guthrie
    Tom Paxton
    Joan Baez
    Kingston Trio

    Simon and Garfunkel (?)
     
  10. .across.the.universe.

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    my favourite are: donovan, simon and garfunkel, bob dylan
     
  11. MikeE

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    earlier than that:
    Pete Seeger
    Weavers
    Woodie Guthrie
    Hudie Ledbetter
    Bob Gibson
    Alan Sherman
    Burl Ives


    the 1960s/early 1970s:
    Pete Seeger
    Joan Baez
    Kingston Trio
    Bob Dylan
    Arlo Guthrie
    Judy Fjell
    Peter, Paul & Mary
     
  12. Dude111

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    My absolute favourite 60s FOLK music is GORDON LIGHTFOOT!!!

    His first album is insane!!!! -- 2nd is good also (All but the last song on side 2)


    HIS BEST WAS WHEN HE STARTED IN THE 60s!!!!!!
     
  13. WOLF ANGEL

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    I have a liking for the olde type group as I have got older and more into the faith witch I have.
    Anyone remember MAGNET?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkRiKeg7TPg
     
  14. Kasper van Laarhoven

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    Hi everybody,

    Here is an article I recently wrote that I thought might interest you folk lovers. It tells the story of the legendary Gaslight Café in New York's Greenwich Village. The coffee shop was the first to have Beat poets like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg read their poetry in the 50s, before folk musicians like Bob Dylan and Dave Van Ronk rose to fame here in the 1960s. A few years ago, the Coen brothers used the café as the backdrop for their great film 'Inside Llewyn Davis,' which was inspired by Dave Van Ronk's memoir.

    Here you are: http://bedfordandbowery.com/2016/12/the-story-of-the-gaslight-cafe-where-dylan-premiered-a-hard-rains-a-gonna-fall/

    Enjoy the read!

    All the best,
    Kasper
     
  15. MikeE

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    "60's or even earlier"

    Hedy West
    Lead Belly
    Bob Gibson
    Limeliters
    Roscoe Holcome
    Barbara Dane
    Ernie Marrs
    Tom Paxton
     
  16. Rots in hell

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    http://youtu.be/0IBQoi7j6gU
     
  17. MikeE

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    ^^ When I first heard Cisco Houston, I thought that he was a competent, clean (perhaps too clean) singer. A solid B. But the more I listen to him the better I like him.
     
  18. drumminmama

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    Odetta
     
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