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

[nwhoopfan]

 

[Aluminny69]

Anyone else remember Hootenanny from the early sixties? Live Music. Lead singer Barry "Eve of Destruction" McGuire.

 

[nwhoopfan]

 

[nwhoopfan]

 

[nwhoopfan]

 

[nwhoopfan]

 

[nwhoopfan]

 

[nwhoopfan]

All their stuff has some folk elements to it, but not as much as their early songs.

 

[nwhoopfan]

 

[Kaizen]

 

[Kaizen]

 

[Scud49]

 

[boontonbomber]

Heard them at Memorial Hall in Shelburne Falls,Mass before they were known at all. Listening to them, we began to wonder what a group with a sound like that was doing playing at an out of the way place like that. But it was really early on for them.

 

[husky8273]

IWT

 

[Scud49]

RIP Richie Havens. You left us with incredibly wonderful music like this:

 

[SalinasV]

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Hopefully not a repeat. His singing of what is now a classic has evolved over a long career.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

An old song, many wonderful versions of it out there, including Emmylou Harris. This has gotta be one of the most heart rending songs I've ever heard, from probably the most heart rending movie I've seen.

Haunting, horrible and so beautiful.

 

[Kaizen]

A beautiful song from The Brokeback Mountain,

 

[Ozimoto]

My favorite Gordon Lightfoot song.

 

[Scud49]

One beautiful and very introspective song from Erica Wheeler:

 

[Scud49]

I think this one from the 60's has been pretty much forgotten about:

 

[Scud49]

Great stuff from Iris DeMent:

 

[Hoops66]