OT: A favorite folk song

[rvwsleep]

Phil's most popular song

 

[Bezzz]

This was it for me...1967. I was coming of age in 7th grade, first major crush. Susan, still dream of you.

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

Diamonds and Rust, either Dylan or about him, sung by among others, Joan Baez and Judy Collins. An odd favorite.

 

[boontonbomber]

Kingston Trio : Zombie Jamboree

 

[Replicant]

 

[Intpseeker]

Crooked Still's Aoife O'Donovan

 

[johnnyc]

A Mighty Wind is Blowin'.....New Main Street Singers, The Folksmen and Mitch & Mickey.

 

[msf22b]

You guys are just too young
First there was, Leadbelly, Woody and then the Weavers!!!

My fave for today...that I sang to myself coming home today:

Banks of Marble
:

Ramblin Boy
(actually a Pete Seeger solo)


Erie Canal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2xTIvxyJIg

 

[Dove]

New stuff from Lucinda...

 

[ThisJustIn]

Patty Larkin's "Helen" is a wonderful ode to Maine old-timers and folks "moving in."

I love this coast like I love my sons
I love the wind like my daughter
Used to be I knew everyone
'cause everyone was born here...

 

[mhshuskies]

Crooked Still's Aoife O'Donovan

Aoife is terrific!

 

[meyers7]

A Mighty Wind is Blowin'.....New Main Street Singers, The Folksmen and Mitch & Mickey.

Excellent, excellent documentary.

 

[DogWarden]

Kingston Trio - M.T.A.

 

[VAMike23]

 

[Icebear]

 

[Icebear]

I really enjoy traditional Celtic folk from Cape Breton and some of the the younger adaptations. Above is The Coaltown Road by the Barra MacNeils.

 

[DobbsRover2]

Something from JT, with that classic cover.

 

[EasyEd]

I always think of folk songs as songs that make you want to change the current state of things, like eve of destruction:

 

[UcMiami]

Not sure it really qualifies as it originated as a Hymn and has been a spiritual classic for centuries, but it gets picked up by so many different performers and genres - and the version in Alice's Restaurant was the one I was thinking about but can't find so an Arlo and Pete version is my first listing:


And to bring this back to Uconn - a version by Judy Collins (married to a Uconn prof in the early 1960s and performed at various faculty parties around town - my parents remembered hearing her sing informally - and on the Uconn radio station live):


And finally another version out there - with interesting notes in the listing about its origin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G72NucLEGM

Of note - the author the Reverend Newton - started life as a slave trader.

 

[Intpseeker]

Springsteen got into songs that Pete Seeger had popularized. He ended up touring with The Sessions Band, an amazing group of musicians. This is from Dublin (the Dublin Live album is a gem). Factoid: the banjo player is Dr. Greg Listz, who took a break from Crooked Still to tour with Springsteen. Oh, and his PhD is from MIT in microbiology.

 

[Kaizen]

Not sure anyone remembers Blondie . She was really hot in my college time.

 

[cockhrnleghrn]

No folk music thread is complete without one of my favorite artists, Tracy Chapman.

 

[VAUConnFan]

It was necessary to look up the definition of a folk song so as not to contribute a song that does not meet the criteria. although still not sure, here is the original 1939 version of Mbube the South African song that has been reworked into the very popular The Lion Sleeps Tonight.

 

[meyers7]

It was necessary to look up the definition of a folk song so as not to contribute a song that does not meet the criteria. although still not sure, here is the original 1939 version of Mbube the South African song that has been reworked into the very popular The Lion Sleeps Tonight.

A "re-working"

 

[CL82]

No folk music thread is complete without one of my favorite artists, Tracy Chapman.

Good album.

This is probably my favorite off of it.