OT: Your favorite country folk songs

[Kaizen]

Hey, @Kaizen, in case you haven't seen what Dolly wrought with her song, Jolene, watch this recent feedback to her song. For anyone who hasn't seen this yet, don't judge until you see the entire clip. These women wrote and perform the song with Dolly's approval. Enjoy.

Apologize for the short diversion @Kaizen but you brought it up.

Just love those three women, great performance, thanks....

 

[JavaMan]

 

[64Zcode]

Going to go with the 'Different Country' aspect for this one. Has kind of an 'epic' feel to it.
Written by Scottish musician/songwriter Dougie MacLean - The Gael (Or the soundtrack to Last of the Mohicans)
This performance by the Shamrock Redheads. Really nice violin work here.

While looking for which version to link I found a funny comment on one of the YT videos:
"if you hear on the news a man seen running down the road, jumping over gutters and cars, with a musket in hand, wearing headphones, looking for a damsel in distress, its just me after a few scotches listening to this on repeat. makes me all sad and uplifted and peaceful and anxious all at once"
(Is it wrong to admit that I get what he means? Hope not.)

 

[Bama fan]

 

[Bama fan]

So much talent, and the empty chair just kills me. "As long as you lend a hand"

 

[Bama fan]

Amazing song, quite pertinent to the generation that was coming of age in the late Sixties. And all others, too.

 

[Zorro]

 

[Bama fan]

 

[Zorro]

 

[Bama fan]

A Jolene cover by some unknowns.

 

[Bigboote]

Here's probably Richard and Mimi Farina's most well-known song, recorded by Judy Collins among others.

 

[Bama fan]

 

[David54]

 

[Bigboote]

Richard Thompson's father was a policeman and often had to go in and clear out flop houses or bust druggies. Richard wrote this one about some of those places. Sandy Denny sang it on the Fairport album, there are loads of Richard's versions on Youtube.

 

[Bama fan]

 

[Bigboote]

Here's a real (traditional) folk song, one of my faves from Steeleye Span and one of my favorite tearjerkers ever.

 

[Kaizen]

A Jolene cover by some unknowns.

Jolen the song was ranked No. 217 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" in 2004 and No. 63 on their revised list in 2021.

The song tells of the narrator confronting Jolene, a stunningly beautiful woman, who she worries will steal away her lover/husband. Throughout the song, the narrator implores Jolene "please don't take him just because you can.

 

[Kaizen]

 

[Kaizen]

 

[Kaizen]

 

[SalinasV]

I love Nina and I love this song.

 

[HuskyNan]

 

[SalinasV]

 

[SVCBeercats]

 

[SVCBeercats]

 

[SVCBeercats]

 

[SVCBeercats]

 

[Aluminny69]

I first heard this version in 1958.
"The Kingston Trio's version remains unique among the many recorded for the quiet, almost desperate urgency of their performance, a far cry from the rollicking sound favored by nearly every other artist."

 

[Aluminny69]

 

[SVCBeercats]

La Bamba" is originally an 18th-century folk song that comes from the Verracruz region on the Mexican Gulf Coast. It also refers to a dance performed mainly at weddings.