Favourite folk music please

[SuperBunny]

Am looking for new things to listen to.

TIA

i agree

Seth Lakeman
Cara Dillon
Christy Moore
Show of Hands
Kate Rusby
Kerfuffle
Tanglefoot
Levellers
Spiers & Boden, Bellowhead
Last Night's Fun

Oyster Band, esp with June Tabor
Albion Band
Pentangle
John Renbourn
Medieval Babes
Flogging Molly

This thread is fab - I am inspired

For discovering folk artists I havent heard before I like Mike Hardings Radio 2 show - at 7pm on Wednesdays?

white magic.

actually they are more psychadelic, but still worth a listen nonetheless!
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levs are folk goddamnit. proper folk is all drowned lovers and inappropriate up-the-duffness not twee warblings. if you'd heard them do lowlands of holland for their encore at glastonbury many many years ago you wouldn't be arguing with me dafty they're folk to the core :P

I like Seth Lakeman too, I saw him shopping the other week and it took me ages afterwards to figure out who he was. I knew I knew him from somewhere!

Silly Wizard- The Loch Tay Boat Song has me crying every time.

John Kirkpatrick plays a mean squeezebox, and sings nicely too.

Bob Dylan goes without saying (in my mind)

Will look for the R2 prog on Listen Again. This is a great thread - I was only expecting a couple of replies so thanks everyone.

This is one of my favourite songs - Not necessarily this version but DS and I often sing it together. The Water is Wide - Bob Dylan cover

I love bob was named afterv the song visions of johanna...i also have a little dylan of my own chessy but true

Me too Quad (DS, not my name) - went to see Bob when I was pg and DS seemed to dance around all night. Was meant to be my name if I were a boy but I only found that out after I named my DS.

oh wow thats cool...haven't seen bob live for a while, saw him a few years back and was right on the barrier at the front...for that night it was just me and bob

Oh, how fab. I think he is the best performer I have ever seen. They seemed to have no set list - he would just quietly mention a song and they'd all start playing it. His fiddler was amazing too.

i'm not saying the levellers arn't folk, jesus man i've been following them from day 1, but they are punk influenced (and i doubt they would take that as an insult.)

and i'm not arguing with you...

you can listen or just walk away.

daftpunk - would you call Flogging Molly punk/folk?

hi RB. ..do you ever regret posting an innocent comment about something as unimportant as a bands musical "roots"?

fwiw...mark chadwick (he who is folk to the core) started out in a glam rock band.
ha ha ha

RB; i don't know enough about them to comment...

I don't know a lot myself, but DS & DD both play them & I put 'Drunken Lullabies' as my ringtone when DS rings,so I've heard it a lot (well, the first few seconds anyway ) Sounds quite punky to me...
DD likes the Levellers too - she was at Beautiful Days this year- and she's definitely more of a punk than folk fan.

lol dafty you appear to be taking my banter much more seriously than intended apols - truce?

yeah...i'm much more punk than folk...folk music is ok..(appeals to about 4 veins in my body)...whereas punk still gets to all of me. that's why i like the punk/folk/rocky/ type bands...(levellers/pogues) because they're exciting.... only so much kate rusby singing about strawberry jam i can take...

Can I put a mention in for Kirsty Mcgee. I think she has a fabulous voice. i discovered her thanks to my ds waking at ungodly hours and heard her track "coffee coloured strings" playing on radio 2. I'll try and work out how to link to her......

lol @jam. i'm a musical tart couldn't claim affinity to any type of music in particular, but i do have a fairly high folk tolerance. to me there's usually a few people who do something so well there's no point listening to anything similar.

btw the comment about levs at glastonbury wasn't some points scoring thing, just something that's stuck with me forever since as my perfect folk moment. had spent previous 40 mins or so pogoing with a particularly cute crusty boy stranger, then they came out with something totally traditional and blow us all away