Folk and Acoustic: Post Your Favorite Artists, Groups, and Songs

[Scud49]

Crosby and Nash - The Lee Shore, live.

I think these two, on this day, just sounded impossibly beautiful. A young David Crosby - his voice is strong, distinct, and just wonderful.

 

[cferraro04]

Laura Nyro....what a talent:

Laura was from Greenwich, CT

 

[cferraro04]

Brother Alex, doing a great rendition of James's "Highway Song":

Talented family...James, Alex and let's not forget Livingston

 

[Scud49]

Early Stones with a great acoustic number - "Play With Fire":

 

[Scud49]

Gotta post one more wonderful John Prine tune:

 

[Jackcatscal]

Great point Jack, they certainly have done some great acoustic stuff over the years. one of my fav acoustic pieces from them:

Here's what my AI companion says about the song:

"Lost Sailor" is a song by the Grateful Dead about a one-eyed sailor's journey through a demon fog and the hope for redemption and triumph at the end. The song includes lyrics such as "You're lost sailor. You've been too long at sea", "Some days the gales are howling. Some days the sea is still as glass", and "There's a ghost wind blowin' It's calling you to that misty swirling sea".

 

[Jackcatscal]

Only Jerry Garcia ventured off into that great piece of work...and the blue grass was second to none...great album

Old & In the Way​

Vassar Clements - fiddle
Jerry Garcia - banjo, vocals
David Grisman - mandolin, vocals
John Kahn - acoustic bass
Peter Rowan - guitar, vocals

Jerry playing banjo. Isn't that marvelous! He also played steel guitar. The steel guitar you hear on the recording of "Teach Your Children" by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young is Jerry himself. (Uncredited, I believe.) Per the Interweb, "He did it in exchange for them helping the Grateful Dead improve their vocal harmony."

 

[Jackcatscal]

Sinead O'Connor singing about the Irish famine. Basically the story of my great-grandfather,

 

[Scud49]

So haunting....

 

[Hoops66]

There's just something about this song...

 

[cullaville]

Original version of When the Levee Breaks..........

 

[cullaville]

 

[Jackcatscal]

So haunting....

Here's another good one from Mazzy Star" "Look on Down From the Bridge." Shoegaze music, I'm told.

 

[Jackcatscal]

There's just something about this song...

Rhiannon Giddens is a national treasure. She was awarded one of the MacArthur Genius Awards, plus a Pulitzer. And she studied opera in college. And she plays fiddle, banjo, and more. Here's another sample of her work:

 

[Scud49]

Don't think anyone has posted this superb gem from Bob Dylan:

 

[nwhoopfan]

Rhiannon Giddens is a national treasure. She was awarded one of the MacArthur Genius Awards, plus a Pulitzer. And she studied opera in college. And she plays fiddle, banjo, and more. Here's another sample of her work:

At one point she was in a band (trio I think) called The Carolina Chocolate Drops, they have some good stuff.

 

[Dogdude]

 

[Scud49]

"Across the Great Divide" - the late, and very wonderful, Kate Wolf:

 

[Scud49]

The poignant "Old Friends" - Simon and Garfunkel.

"How terribly strange to be seventy"....

 

[78AlwaysHappy]

The Folksmen. “Start me Up”

 

[August_West]

Jerry playing banjo. Isn't that marvelous! He also played steel guitar. The steel guitar you hear on the recording of "Teach Your Children" by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young is Jerry himself. (Uncredited, I believe.) Per the Interweb, "He did it in exchange for them helping the Grateful Dead improve their vocal harmony."

I've seen that before but that's not true about the harmony help, although CSN were certainly a major influence and they were all living in Marin in that era. But there was nothing formal or even informal about helping GD with Harmony, other than just hanging out .

One great thing did come from Jerry playing Pedal Steel on Teach your Children though: Graham Nash gave Jerry a Natural wood Fender Stratocaster for doing the track. That Strat became over the next couple years and a few different customizations; Alligator!

 

[August_West]

Great point Jack, they certainly have done some great acoustic stuff over the years. one of my fav acoustic pieces from them:

No acoustic instruments were used in the recording of that song.

 

[Scud49]

No acoustic instruments were used in the recording of that song.

But it sounds highly acoustic and unpluggd, so that works fine for me!

 

[White Dwarf]

Damn Tall Buildings. Saw them play Saturday night. Very talented and sounded great. Check them out.

 

[storrsroars]

46 years after its release, I'm still In love with Steve Forbert's debut album, "Alive on Arrival", and still think it's one of the top 5 or 10 debut albums I've ever heard. And despite his later hits, it's this album that best defines him, IMHO. Unfortunately, his look, his harmonica, and his earnest lyrics led critics to label him "the next Dylan", a label which nobody should have hung on them. He pretty much became a regional niche act after his third album, but still worth a ticket today.

There are plenty of uptempo numbers on the album, but this is the one that always got me.