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Subject: RE: Musicians Who Influenced You
From: GUEST,twerp
Date: 21 Jan 15 - 07:23 PM

Peter Yarrow and Paul Stookey

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Subject: RE: Musicians Who Influenced You
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 21 Jan 15 - 09:53 PM

ok - something to do while I wait for my anti virus software to update...

The key influences I can recall right now:

Eddie Cochran
Pete Townshend
Mick Ronson
Wilko Johnson
Marc Bolan
Brian May
Steve Hillage
Bill Nelson
John Renbourn
Herbie Flowers
Giorgio Moroder

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Subject: RE: Musicians Who Influenced You
From: banjoman
Date: 22 Jan 15 - 06:19 AM

My Dad who was a great fiddle player and Jake burns who first introduced me to the banjo when I was about 11. (more than 60 years and I still play and make them)

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Subject: RE: Musicians Who Influenced You
From: GUEST,Sidewinder.
Date: 22 Jan 15 - 06:50 AM

Richard Stilgoe & Old Rog & Co. at The Sun Inn Beverley.

Regards.

Sidewinder.

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Subject: RE: Musicians Who Influenced You
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 22 Jan 15 - 07:36 AM

..and not forgetting my 2 earliest important influences before I started to learn guitar..

Donovan
Roy Wood

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Subject: RE: Musicians Who Influenced You
From: GUEST,DTM
Date: 22 Jan 15 - 09:02 AM

From a lyrical point of view my influences are
Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer, et al.
Beatles
Tom Waits
Leonard Cohen,
Bob Dylan
Chris Difford
Paul Simon
Randy Newman
Michael Marra

Musically,
Gershwin and all the old torch song composers
Beatles
10cc

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Subject: RE: Musicians Who Influenced You
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 22 Jan 15 - 09:09 AM

Washboard Sam, Beryl Bryden, Lonnie Donegan, Jesse Fuller, etc.
I always wanted to sing like Howlin' Wolf, sadly, I sound more like Virginia Woolf. (Da Boom!)

RtS

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Subject: RE: Musicians Who Influenced You
From: MikeL2
Date: 22 Jan 15 - 09:57 AM

Hi

Most performers who I thought did something I wanted to do better than I could.

Cheers

MikeL2

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Subject: RE: Musicians Who Influenced You
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 22 Jan 15 - 10:36 AM

Barney McKenna. I think most of us, at least in a certain age range (or do newer players still do?), who tried the tenor banjo for jigs and reels, etc. would count him in.

Another one, whose playing I learned Trip To Durrow, 9 Points of Roguery and maybe Humours of Tullow (Johnstones Barleycorn record), was Mick Maloney.

Earliest recorded folk influnce was probably Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. I didn't really discover sessions and the tenor banjo in that setting until I was about 27 and came back to the old Dubliners, etc. recordings for some tunes.

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Subject: RE: Musicians Who Influenced You
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Jan 15 - 10:53 AM

After my own family, The Watersons, particularly Norma and Mike.

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Subject: RE: Musicians Who Influenced You
From: GUEST,gillymor
Date: 22 Jan 15 - 11:27 AM

I recently discovered Laurie Hart , a fine American fiddler (she's also proficient on Hardanger fiddle and Nyckelharpa) who has a stunningly broad repertoire. She plays French Traditional and Musette, Scandanavian French Canadian, Irish, Scottish fiddle music and she does it all with impeccable technique, passion, sensitivity and joy. To me, she's one of those special musicians who comes along very rarely.

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Subject: RE: Musicians Who Influenced You
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 22 Jan 15 - 12:18 PM

'Influences' are interesting...

The ones I list are the firm concrete formative influences from my teenage years..

The special one's that last a lifetime at the core of my musical being..

Since then, other significant influences have been countless,
no less important,
but they seem to have come and gone as somehow more generalised and anonymous stylistic
and genre influences...???

.. particularly, in folk and alt. country.

I could add, that for a few years, Sly & Robbie, James Brown, and Prince,
amongst many, were immense influences.
Though now, none of them are any longer that relevant to my current musical interests and direction.

... and how can you pick just one Disco artist, when there were so many genius one hit wonders...!!!!???

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Subject: RE: Musicians Who Influenced You
From: kendall
Date: 22 Jan 15 - 02:23 PM

Pete Seeger, Wilf Carter,Burl Ives, Gordon Bok,Gene Hooper.

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Subject: RE: Musicians Who Influenced You
From: MikeL2
Date: 22 Jan 15 - 02:42 PM

hi
As a jazz fan in my youth I got as much material as I could in those days of guitarists like, Wes Montgomery, Barney Kessel, Joe Pass, Herb Ellis and Johnny Smith.

Later I used to learn from Les Paul and Chet Atkins.

Cheers

MikeL2

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Subject: RE: Musicians Who Influenced You
From: PHJim
Date: 22 Jan 15 - 03:25 PM

I started playing guitar because of The Kingston Trio.
Ted Sheafer (sp?) showed me the Carter scratch and introduced me to the Mariposa Festival and Sing Out! magazine.
Josh White was my first blues influence.
Jackie Washington inspired me to learn more than the 3 or 4 chords I was getting by on.
Seeing John Herald with the Greenbriar Boys got me interested in flat picking.
Seeing Mississippi John Hurt was a thrill and started me learning 3-finger picking.
Libba Cotton and Dave Van Ronk were early influences.
John Hartford turned me on to banjo with the Morning Bugle album.
Ralph Rinsler influenced me to play mandolin.
Geoff Muldaur was one of my favourite blues singers.
The NLCR turned me onto old timey music.
Later influences are Guy Clark, Kris Kristpherson, Townes Van Zandt, Willie P. Bennett, Hayes Carll, Fred Eaglesmith, Cathy Fink, Karen Dalton, Cris Cuddy,...

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Subject: RE: Musicians Who Influenced You
From: Don Firth
Date: 22 Jan 15 - 07:51 PM

When I was a teenager (shortly after the Big Bang) I used to listen to Burl Ives on the radio on Sunday afternoons. A program called "The Wayfaring Stranger" as I recall. He talked about historical events such as the building of the Erie Canal and sang songs related to those events. I found these programs most interesting and informative.

And then I saw a movie about a young country girl who sang lots of folk songs and who was discovered and brought to New York to sing in a night club. Suffice it to say that it didn't win any academy awards (stock, wimpy plot), but it featured a lot of singing by Susan Reed accompanying herself on the Irish harp and the zither. Glamor Girl, 1948.

When I was in my late 'teens, I knew several opera enthusiasts and we would sit around and listen to recordings (we were a weird bunch!). A couple of guys were taking voice lessons, and I started too, with the same teacher. Went around blatting tenor arias (an octave down—I'm a bass-baritone). One of the guys had an album (three 12" 78s) of Richard Dyer-Bennet. I was a bit intrigued by his renditions of "Greensleeves" and "The Three Ravens." Reminded me of a minstrel of bygone days. Interesting.

In my second year in college (English Literature, later changed to Music) I was dating a girl who was very interested in folk songs and was busily learning songs, while at the same time teaching herself to play a fine old parlor guitar she had inherited from her grandmother. Claire was having such fun with this that I bought myself a cheap-o guitar and started learning to play it and began learning songs, along with Claire.

One evening we attended an informal concert by local folk singer Walt Robertson. He held the audience spellbound for more than two hours. I decided then that I wanted to do that. A couple of days later I met Walt and hit him up for lessons. After a few months Walt suggested that I take some classical guitar lessons. He knew that I was interested in the "minstrel" approach that Dyer-Bennet used, although my voice is far different from his. Dyer-Bennet was a light tenor, whereas I am a bass-baritone (kind of like Ed McCurdy).

Over the next few years, I took classical guitar lessons from four different teachers (at different times, of course) and voice lessons from two different teachers.

Eventually, I started getting singing jobs, then a television series, which led to more singing jobs.

I would say that the singers who influenced me the most, other than Claire, who got me actively participating in the first place, were Burl Ives, Susan Reed, Richard Dyer-Bennet, long-time friend and occasional singing partner Bob (Deckman) Nelson, whose straightforward approach and clear diction are well worth emulating. And the aforementioned Ed McCurdy.

I've heard—and met—Pete Seeger, Peggy Seeger, Ewan McColl, Guy Carawan, Jean Redpath, Theodore Bikel, and Richard Dyer-Bennet, and numerous other singers at folk festivals and after-concert parties—and it would be impossible to hear singers like these without being influenced by them.

Another is Sandy Paton. I knew him in Seattle in the early Fifties, when he was just starting to sing and play the guitar, then ran into him again at the 1960 Berkeley Folk Festival after he'd returned from the U. K. where he'd learned a bunch of songs and made his first record on Elektra.

Another major influence was Rolf Cahn, who I met in 1959 in Berkeley, California, and swapped songs and ideas with several times. The guy was a bit of a genius….

—and within recent years, Gordon Bok. And the recordings of Ed Trickett and Stan Rogers.

Don Firth