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Thread #44406   Message #654894
Posted By: Susanne (skw)
21-Feb-02 - 05:46 PM
Thread Name: Top5 desert island acoustic folk albums
Subject: RE: Top5 desert island acoustic folk albums
That's easy (in no particualr order):
- Battlefield Band, Home Ground
- Iain MacKintosh, Risks and Roses
- Cilla Fisher & Artie Trezise, dto.
- Tony Cuffe, When First I Came To Caledonia
- Various, Voices

Or perhaps
- Andy Irvine, Rain on the Roof
- Tommy Sands. Singing of the Times
- Dolores Keane & John Faulkner, Broken-Hearted I'll Wander
- Planxty, Planxty
- Christy Moore, Ride On

Or rather
- Roy Bailey & Band of Hope, Rhythm & Reds
- Martin Carthy, dto.
- Louis Killen & Johnny Hnadle, Along the Coaly Tyne
- Martyn Wyndham-Read, Ballad Singer
- Harvey Andrews, 25 Years on the Road

On the other hand ...
- Tom Paxton, Politics
- James Keelaghan, My Skies
- Bok Muir & Trickett, The First 15 Years (both vols, please!)
- Guy & Candie Carawan, The Land Knows You're There
- Dragseth Duo, Es ist ein Fluestern

If nobody knows that last one, never mind, but it's one of my all-time favourites. Poems by 19th century North German poet Theodor Storm, set to incredibly sensitive music by a local - now sadly disbanded - duo.