sobo Posted May 16, 2003 Share Posted May 16, 2003 Woodie and Arlo Guthrie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobBob Posted May 16, 2003 Share Posted May 16, 2003 Sounds like Gowans likes good music, but I don't like that moniker "folk music," which has a sissy/commie connotation. You've reeled off some of the great blues, country, bluegrass artists and call 'em "folk." My old man amassed a huge collection of music, a lot of it old bluegrass, country, and C&W. Lucky for me, at 80 he figured out how to burn CDs, and recorded or downloaded/burned some great ones for our kids. I listen to them as much as they do. to him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobo Posted May 16, 2003 Share Posted May 16, 2003 Winter listed a few of my other faves (Kottke, Prine, Baez, Dylan, etc.). Â My old man had a bunch of stuff when I was a kid by the Mamas and the Papas; Peter, Paul & Mary; Joan Baez; The Cowsills; New Christy Minstrels (or something like that) all around the time of our early involvment in Vietnam. Haven't heard that stuff in years. Â Like RobBob's old man, my old man put it all down on reel-to-reel tapes back then. I could listen to it, if I ever set up my Akai deck again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bronco Posted May 16, 2003 Share Posted May 16, 2003 (edited) Hank Williams Sr. Merle Haggard Johny Cash Cris LeDoux Some of Lyle Lovitt er Luvit is pretty folksy too. Â Edited May 16, 2003 by Bronco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snoboy Posted May 17, 2003 Share Posted May 17, 2003 Mr._Natural said: the be good tanyas interesting canadian goth grass  And I went out with one of them so many years ago... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted May 17, 2003 Share Posted May 17, 2003 holding hands at the roller rink in grade 8 does not count Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nolanr Posted May 17, 2003 Share Posted May 17, 2003 Another of the newer generation of folk singers I like pretty well is Iris Dement, haven't seen her mentioned yet. Definitely agree w/ Allison Krauss, Gillian Welch, Nanci Griffith, Emmylou Harris. I like to think "folk music" is a fairly all encompassing term. Definitely bluegrass, blues, old school country, that kind of stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carolyn Posted May 18, 2003 Share Posted May 18, 2003 winter and paco took my list! Â but they forgot Michelle Shocked and Shawn Covin. Â (I was wondering how long it was going to take to include bob dylan!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Off_White Posted May 18, 2003 Share Posted May 18, 2003 RobBob said:I don't like that moniker "folk music," which has a sissy/commie connotation. Â Ahh of course, how about Utah Phillips? Its the between song stories that he really excels at, but he does have a deep love of American folk music, with a healty dose of the labor politics version. Of the brits, there's also Billy Bragg, though he's more of the doc marten's wearing faux folk variety. Check out Golden Delicious or the solo stuff by Pete Krebs (in GD as well as the long lost Hazel, decidedly NOT folk). Â E-Rock, Giant Sand has had more members than you can shake a stick at. Covertino and Burns (Calexico) were mainstays, and defintely still tour with Howe Gelb, but Giant Sand has always been Gelb's baby and he just fills in the roster with buddies as needed. He has gone all adult and shit lately, I miss the older sloppy rock and rage of the earlier years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan_Harris Posted May 18, 2003 Share Posted May 18, 2003 Do any of you listen to Jack Gladstone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pope Posted May 19, 2003 Share Posted May 19, 2003 Sons of the Pioneers. Jimmy Rogers. Bob Dylan with Johnny Cash. Those would be my suggestions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crackbolter Posted May 19, 2003 Share Posted May 19, 2003 Bluegrass: Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs, Doc and Merle Watson, Jerry Garcia with Old & In the Way (Peter Rowin, David Grisman, John Kahn, Vassar Clements), The Carter Family, Del McRory, John Hartford  Rock:  Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Allman Brothers, Bob Dylan, The Dead, Janis Joplin, Simon & Garfunkle  Blues:  Robert Johnson, Lead Belly, Pink Anderson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winter Posted May 19, 2003 Share Posted May 19, 2003 Yeah, that's Del McCoury, and he's got the hottest Bluegrass act around right now. I think they are playing the Oregon Gardens, 30 minutes south of Portland in late July or something like that. They put on a great live show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobBob Posted May 19, 2003 Share Posted May 19, 2003 While I enjoy a variety of music, I submit that the best 'folk music' is the music made by black folk while I was growing up: Â Sam & Dave, Jerry Butler, Stevie Wonder, Percy Sledge, Smoky Robinson, Jackie Wilson, Marvin, Otis, Aretha, Four Tops, Edwin Starr, Junior Walker, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allthumbs Posted May 19, 2003 Share Posted May 19, 2003 that's not folk music nitwit, that's R&B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobBob Posted May 19, 2003 Share Posted May 19, 2003 My point, traskman, is that the term 'folk music' don't mean shit. Soul-based R&B is just as much "American folk' as bluegrass is. Â And that old Big Rock Candyass Mountain type worker-rights shit is just commie music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allthumbs Posted May 19, 2003 Share Posted May 19, 2003 I'll buy that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlpineK Posted May 19, 2003 Share Posted May 19, 2003 You should have been in 11worth yesterday to hear Jeff Hansel go off on a rant about folk music  You like folk music well folk you..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nolanr Posted May 25, 2003 Share Posted May 25, 2003 Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder are playing some pretty hot bluegrass these days, seen them live a couple times. I like Del McCoury and the boys, too. Â What about Steve Earle? He's kinda all over the place, some kinda rock, some more folkish story song stuff, some bluegrassy. Some a bit on the commie side of things. He's got one of those gruff, raspy voices that sounds good in spite of itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Attitude Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 nonanon said: I’ve been hearing some buzz about Mickey and Mitch, lately, but so far I’ve been afeared to go see them. Maybe I'll find a nice empty theatre this weekend. Spinal Tap goes folk as the Folksmen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Szyjakowski Posted May 28, 2003 Share Posted May 28, 2003 JGowans said: Hey folks, Â I'm interested in hearing more material from American Folk Singers of days gone by such as Tom Paxton. Any suggestions? Who's your favorite? not sure if said but LizPhair and Calexico are modern folk worth checkin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGowans Posted July 10, 2003 Author Share Posted July 10, 2003 Hey, thanks for all the suggestions. I've been checking out the local record shops. Also, I bought tix for the Ani Defranco show at the Pier on July 18th. solo acoustic. A waste of money or well spent dollars? Anybody else going? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobBob Posted July 10, 2003 Share Posted July 10, 2003 I tried to find a pic of that Animal House scene, the where Blutarski smashes the folk-singer's guitar on the stairs... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erik Posted July 10, 2003 Share Posted July 10, 2003 GOWANS Â IT WILL BE QUITE ENTERTAINING, THE SHOW AND THE AUDIENCE. I AM SURE YOU WILL HAVE A WONDERFUL TIME. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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