The Woods band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9cX22vmWcA
The Woods band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9cX22vmWcA
Colin Scot - Colin Scot
Probably the only thing I have resembling folk. Sure, I bought it for it's prog connection, but it really is great. There's no hint of the prog-style playing we know of, but it has that undefinable prog 'quality' we all know.
At one time (If memory is correct) he ran/owned a bar in Majorca. I always wondered if there was a Gong connection there.
Produced by John Anthony, appearing with Colin are : Jon Anderson, Robert Fripp, Peter Hammill, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Rick Wakeman. Import Records 1009
Somewhere in my comp is a pic of a poster where Colin opened for King Crimson. Will post here if found.
Tough question. So many great albums.
Here are a bunch of performers who are consistently good throughout their career, with my favourite two records as points of reference:
Press Gang: Fire, Dancing in Our Dreams.
Blyth Power: Pastor Skull, Fall Of Iron.
The Bushburys (Bushbury Mountain Daredevils): Urban Hillbilly, Timeless.
The Pogues: Rum, Sodomy & the Lash, Waiting For Herb.
The Waterboys: Fisherman's Blues, Room To Roam.
The Albion Band: No Roses (with Shirley Collins), Give Me a Saddle, I'll trade You a Car.
The Men They Couldn't Hang: The Domino Club, Silvertown.
Jack The Lad: The Old Straight Track, It's Jack The Lad.
Ashley Hutchings: Morris On, Son of Morris On.
Mr Fox: Mr Fox, The Gipsy.
Fairport Convention: A Bonny Bunch of Roses, Tippler's Tales.
Lindisfarne: Nicely Out Of Tune, The News.
Steeleye Span: Below The Salt, Bedlam Born.
Phew! As well as the above there are some great, obscure bands who are just as essential:
Frogmorton: Just one album, At Last, but it's an absolute corker. Truly one of the best records of the Seventies but it got lost in the tsunami of punk.
Tricks Upon Travellers: They made a few but the only one I've managed to find is a sonic explosion of savage guitar, electric fiddle & punkish vocals.A real buzz.
The Duncan McFarlane Band: Three fab albums with a metalled up mix of trad & self-written material. Again, a great roar of fiddle & guitar but with a genuine sympathy for the tradition.
Been long-winded again. Apologies. But I do love folk-rock!
Last edited by the ferret; 07-19-2015 at 09:15 AM.
I like 'em!Originally Posted by notallwhowander
Gotta add Wolf People.
Fairport, Trees and Tull are the only bands I have that are popping up in these lists. I must work to correct that.
I want to dynamite your mind with love tonight.
Totally agree about her latest two albums. (Fripp and MdConald (among others) do spot appearances too.
Last edited by Trane; 07-20-2015 at 06:34 AM.
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
Listening to the latest album ("Flow and Change") now on Spoti-you-know-what. Time to break out the bankcard and make another online purchase, methinks.
Whatever his subsequent sins, Rod Stewart released one of the great British folk-rock albums with Every Picture Tells a Story.
Does it matter that this waste of time is what makes a life for you?
Matthews Southern Comfort count?
"Alienated-so alien I go!"
Obviously:
John Renbourn
Fairport Convention
Steeleye Span
Pentangle
Nick Drake
Artists that aren't always folk, but do it very well:
Jethro Tull
Gryphon
Sally Oldfield
Ant Phillips, on occasion
Jethro Tull - Songs from the Wood
Fuchsia - Fuchsia
Tudor Lodge - Tudor Lodge
Comus- First Utterance
Gryphon- Midnight Mushrumps
Strawbs - Hero and Heroine
Jan Dukes De Grey - Mice and Rats in the Loft
Pentangle - Basket of Light
Ithaca - A Game for All Who Know
Dando Shaft - An Evening With Dando Shaft
Spirogyra - Bells, Boots and Shambles
Principal Edwards Magic Theatre - The Asmoto Running Band
Oh forgot Spirogyra. 'Parallel Lines Never Separate' is a beautiful song.
British is American.
I think you have it the wrong way round, damn traitors.
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
So many to list, my head is spinning... nobody mentioned Martin Carthy (and Dave Swarbrick). And John Martyn, before he got all funky. Ian/Iain Matthews (yes, I saw Matthews Southern Comfort) and Plainsong. Most of my other favorite artists in this genre have been mentioned already... Oh, also Mellow Candle.
Al Stewart: 'Past, Present And Future' and 'Orange'
Cat Stevens: 'Tea For The Tillerman' and 'Matthew & Son'
"Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. ". Ludwig van Beethoven
How not to want to distance yourself from the Perfidious Albion??
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
Oh I'm with the French when it comes to royalty, guillotine the lot of them.How not to want to distance yourself from the Perfidious Albion??
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
Only if I can watch.
We might as well get the Belgian, Spanish and Dutch royalties as well.
4 cuts from one blade.
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
I dunno about albums, but my all-time British folk-rock song has got to be Magna Carta - Lord of the Ages
https://youtu.be/zJlI5HdSvUE
Last edited by Mythos; 08-04-2015 at 10:01 PM.
I don't think this has been mentioned.....Steve Ashley: "Stroll On" An incredibly great CD featuring some members of Fairport Convention and even the late Kenny Wheeler. It's basically a song-cycle about the seasons and is absolutely essential for anyone who likes Nick Drake, Fairport, Sandy Denny, Magna Carta etc. Beautiful stuff!
We are the grandchildren of apes, not angels
But only we are gifted with the eyes to see
On days without FEAR, when our heads are clear
That angels, we could be
(Marillion 2016)
By the way, not to highjack the thread as he is Canadian but for an essential mellow-folk album, check out the reissued CD or Lp of hermetic Canadian folkie Bob Carpenter called "Silent Passage" featuring Emmylou Harris, Lowell George, Bill Payne and many others. One of the most haunting, beautiful albums of autumnal folk I've ever heard.
Back to British folk then....
We are the grandchildren of apes, not angels
But only we are gifted with the eyes to see
On days without FEAR, when our heads are clear
That angels, we could be
(Marillion 2016)
1. Nick Drake--Five Leaves Left
2. Nick Drake--Pink Moon
3. Nick Drake--Bryter Layter
4. Steve Ashley--Stroll On
5. Steeleye Span---Below The Salt
6. Steeleye Span--Commoner's Crown
7. John Martyn--Solid Air
8. Anne Briggs--Sing A Song For You
9. Fairport Convention--Liege and Lief
10.Fairport Convention---Full House
We are the grandchildren of apes, not angels
But only we are gifted with the eyes to see
On days without FEAR, when our heads are clear
That angels, we could be
(Marillion 2016)
Trespass
Not sure Solid air can be still considered as a folk album.... I'd say that Martyn was folk until (and maybe including) Bless The Weather
to me BTW, SA and IO (love all three) are in a class of their own
A bit as if one would consider Bucley's Lorca , Starsailor, Greetings, BA as folk albums.
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
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