OT: Your favorite country folk songs

[Aluminny69]

Los Lobos performed an updated version of LA BAMBA for the 1987 Ritchie Valens Biopic "LA BAMBA."

 

[RockyMTblue2]

 

[Sole]

Taylor Swift… every song on folklore

 

[RockyMTblue2]

For me it's a tie:

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Country folk really @Kaizen?

 

[Bama fan]

@cohenzone mentioned Mary Black. She is now retired, but had a great career. Here she is singing Joni Mitchell, maybe better than Joni.

 

[Scud49]

Seeing all these country flavored names and tunes triggered some lyrics in my head from years ago - and I just found it - Pure Prairie League's "Country Song":

 

[Ozimoto]

A less well known Ian and Sylvia song. This song is about travelling salesmen, which were still a thing when I was a kid.

 

[EasyEd]

I always thought that Peter, Paul, and Mary were the best folk group. I saw many of their other songs listed on the site, but not this one, about growing up and losing our dreams and fantasies to reality:

 

[Kaizen]

Country folk really @Kaizen?

Not sure too, @RockMTblue2, .

 

[Alibi Ike]

 

[Kaizen]

The Carpenters - Yesterday Once More​

 

[Kaizen]

Carpenters - Rainy Days And Mondays​

 

[nwhoopfan]

 

[nwhoopfan]

 

[nwhoopfan]

 

[nwhoopfan]

 

[nwhoopfan]

 

[nwhoopfan]

IMO one of the greatest American songwriters ever. Not nearly as well known as many of the other contenders, a real shame. This song has been covered a bunch of times, by a who's who, so that tells you something.

 

[nwhoopfan]

 

[Kaizen]

IMO one of the greatest American songwriters ever. Not nearly as well known as many of the other contenders, a real shame. This song has been covered a bunch of times, by a who's who, so that tells you something.

"If I Needed You" is a song written by Townes Van Zandt and performed on his 1972 album The Late Great Townes Van Zandt. It was covered 9 years later by American country music artists Emmylou Harris and Don Williams as a duet, and was released in September 1981 as the first single from Harris' album Cimarron.

 

[nwhoopfan]

 

[nwhoopfan]

 

[Zarathustra]

Country folk really @Kaizen?

But I do love the PLATTERS! Depends on where " in the country" your heart is.

 

[nwhoopfan]

I can appreciate when a band that is definitely not country does something unexpected, like this. The band is hard rock/borderline metal.

 

[Zarathustra]

Country folk really @Kaizen?

Maybe he was only pretending.... THE GREAT PREDENTER, of course.

 

[nwhoopfan]

 

[nwhoopfan]

 

[nwhoopfan]

I'm sure we've already had some Emmylou, but you can never have too much.

 

[Zarathustra]

This is the "old" country version of THE GREAT PRETENDER. The Platter revisited the favorite and
it is on the CD album I have at home. Check out the PLATTERS version for an entirely different sound =
both are great. Thanks to those posting Patsy Cline!