early folk artists you may not know

you may or may not know the following artists. as someone who grew up in the 60's listening to all of these artists perform live, it surprises me that i don't see them listed or talked about here or on most other folk sites. but some of them never made it past regional popularity. if you're into folk music you might want to check them out.

tim hardin
eric andersen
karen dalton
ian and sylvia
david blue
tim buckley (jeff's father who also died very young)
kate wolf
dave van ronk
cisco houston
ramblin' jack elliot
fred neil
vince martin
carolyn hester (you may know that dylan played harmonica on her album but have you listened to that album?)
buffy saint marie

 

more people should read this

*BUMP

I know some of those, they are good

thanks

 

I only know the Tim's on that list I'll try to find some music of the others.

 

buffy saint marie was damn hard for me to find... i spent two years searching for It's My Way on p2p programs, finally found it in an antique store not too long ago.

karen dalton is a badass too.

 

wow..so glad this might have sparked an interest in some of you.

i love eric andersen and it is hard for me to comprehend why he didn't make it much bigger than he did. he played around the village (where i grew up) for years and was big on the east coast in the 60's. dylan and he were roommates for awhile. he married and moved to scandinavia (where his wife is from) years ago. if you want to hear one of his songs try searching on youtube for the song "thirsty boots". someone probably close to your ages is doing a really good job on the song on there. you might try some of the other people listed there too on youtube. if i have the time i will put together a cd of the biggest songs by the artist's i've listed here and others and offer it up to you (free of course). i love the fact that you guys are interested in this music.

here's a few things i've saved over the years that might interest you:
dylan's first ever review in the new york times


an early flyer to a dylan show


eric anderson with someone you'll recognize..this was taken backstage at
mc cabe's guitar shop in santa monica in the 80's. she and eric both played at the cafe au go go in greenwich village in the 60's. he was the much bigger star at the time.



cafe au go go in 1966..notice the names on the banner outside..eric is listed. i saw joni perform there for the first time that same year i think (it might have been in 1967?). the other shots are of buzzy lindhart playing there being backed by a 16 year old mike bloomfield. the guy barely visible in the top picture talking to a girl is john hammond junior. he's the musician son of the famous columbia records A and R man who discovered dylan
and bruce springsteen and many others

 

just found out that someone posted a rare live performance of eric andersen doing "thirsty boots" from the philly folk festival in 1986 on your tube. thought i'd mention it here.

 

!! my how i'd like to hear your stories

 

and i'd be glad to tell them to you. my family doesn't want to listen anymore...LOL.
the best part about having been around back then is having lots of great stories.

 

Heres a few others that some people might not know of
Odetta
Tom Paxton
Gordon Lightfoot
Richard and Mimi Farina

 

What about Ewan MacColl? I've never met anyone who heard of him and he made some really great folk stuff. Some of you might know his song Dirty old town, also played by the Pogues and the Dubliners.

 

you might like these-phil ochs - sandy denny with the strawbs 1968 and also the san francisco band :we five,they created some nice folk albums-you were on my mind 1965-make someone happy 1967

 

The Strawbs album with Sandy Denny is great indeed

 

what's funny is when i created the list on the first page, i decided not to mention those that you listed here thinking most people would have heard of them. but, you're right. i'm coming from the perspective of someone who has known those names most of their life and the younger posters on here (and by the way, LOTS of the people of my generation too) might not know them. thanks for adding to it!

 

They are all well known to me aswell due to my fathers love of folk music. You'd be surprised by how many of my friends consider themselves to be folk music lovers yet thet have never heard of people like :
John Prine
David Bromberg
Tom Rush

Maybe we can remind some people of their past and turn others onto something new

 

Here's some more from the dusty vaults of folk obscurity, you might have a hard time finding these though:

-Folkdove
-Sunforest
-Agincourt
-Bill & Belle Reed
-The Carolina Tar Heels
-The Ian Campbell Folk Group
-McDonald and Giles
-Elizabeth Cotten

Yeah I could go on and on, but those are just a coupl'a with some variation, some straight folk, others psych-folk. Besides those i'd second Buffy Sainte-Marie, Gordon Lightfoot, Odetta (damn what a voice), and ofcourse Tim Buckley... et. al.

Peace!

~Amadeo
www.myspace.com/TheVagabondTroubadour

Ps. There should probably be a list like this of the old Acoustic Blues greats,
The original bluesmen - before all that electric mumbo, haha...

 

I think Folk got really popular during the Viet Nam War era now again we got the wars going in Iraq and Afghanistan, I only wish more local radio stations would begin playing folk songs, why don't they? Are they afraid it might tell too much truth?

 

Not one bit, they just don't think it's 'hot'.

 

Davy Graham should be on this thread somewhere!

 

Good one, Folk blues and beyond!

 

I love Buffy Sainte-Marie and Phil Ochs! Don't Like Tim Buckley so much.