Request for new singers/songwriters

Subject: RE: Request for new singers/songwriters
From: Llanfair
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 05:16 PM

Try the 2nd generation Liza Carthy, her mum and dad are my vintage. Ralph McTell is popular, my son does some of his stuff. I still love Steeleye Span, they always have something "new" on the go. I shouldn't worry, the stuff we do is coming back into fashion, what goes around comes around!! Hwyl, Bron.

Subject: RE: Request for new singers/songwriters
From: MAG (inactive)
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 05:04 PM

Am I the only one in the world who finds Andrew Calhoun's "Folksingers are Boring" a wee bit condescending ... and ... boring???

MA

Subject: RE: Request for new singers/songwriters
From: Neil Lowe
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 02:11 PM

There are so many that probably don't fit someone's strict definition of "folk".....But I think Tracy Chapman, Ani DiFranco, and Beth Orton are usually mentioned in the same sentence with the "f" word....they are more commercially oriented, too.

Subject: RE: Request for new singers/songwriters
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 02:10 PM

Vixen, it sounds as thought you've just been to a folk festival or something! (Grin!) Me, too!
Angus, your young friend is paying you a high compliment- getting inspiration from you and then using it to find his own way. More contemporarysingersongwriters who are hip and withit are Dar Williams, Cliff Eberhart, Cheryl Wheeler, Lisa McCormick, Ellis Paul... hmmmm, better go check the latest Singout...
None of these are trad in any sense of the world, and trad is where my heart lies. But these folks are often witty, fine musicians and fun to listen to.
Enjoy- Allison

Subject: RE: Request for new singers/songwriters
From: Mike Strobel
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 02:09 PM

Dear Angus, Some fellows & gales you should listen to : Andrew Calhoun, Kat Eggleston, Ralph McTell, Andy M. Stewart, fellow Mudcatters : Rick Fielding & Art Thieme............., Small Potatoes, The Kennedy's, Lui Collins, Dana Robinson, Fiddlers on the Green, Dave Carter & Tracy Krammer, Erica Wheeler, David Massengale, Michael Smith & Louise Taylor.

Subject: RE: Request for new singers/songwriters
From: Frank of Toledo
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 02:06 PM

Jack Hardy has a compilation of 10 CD's covering over 20 years of original songs, which are mostly steeped in traditional form and content; and Gillian Welch is surely one to give some time to. One particular song by Jack Hardy is the "Tinker"s Coin". This song in time will be a folk classic.......

Subject: RE: Request for new singers/songwriters
From: Bert
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 01:49 PM

Oops, mustn't forget our Shambles - Roger Gall. Search for some of his stuff in these threads.

Subject: RE: Request for new singers/songwriters
From: Bert
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 01:45 PM

Sue Trainor, Allen Damron

Subject: RE: Request for new singers/songwriters
From: Vixen
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 01:35 PM

I've been getting into Richard Shindell, Hugh Blumenfeld, Andrew Calhoun, Greg Brown, Vance Gilbert, John Gorka. Have you listened to any Jack Hardy? Try our own Rick Fielding and Art Thieme--(I just got my first CD of each, and I'm delighted with both).

Lest I sound gender-biased, for women-folks, I've been listening to Kate Wolf, Nanci Griffith, Shawn Colvin, Cheryl Wheeler, and Indigo Girls.

They're not strictly folk in the traditional sense, but in the sense they are writing songs that are accessible and memorable, they're doing it.

Just so you know what my early musical pleasures were, I was raised on Woody, Pete, Weavers, Zimmerman, Joan, Joni, Leadbelly, and Odetta.

V

Subject: RE: Request for new singers/songwriters
From: Paul S
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 01:23 PM

John Prine's still good (but different). Don't know much else. I'm into the old guys too.

Subject: Request for new singers/songwriters
From: Angus McSweeney
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 01:12 PM

I'm one of the old guys - Bob Gibson, Pete Seeger, Tom Paxton, etc, etc, up to John Prine and Steve Goodman. That's just about where my knowledge of new folk style singer/songwriters tails off. It didn't used to bother me, but the young fellow across the street started playing guitar after seeing me in a couple of coffee house gigs - he worked hard, got a nice guitar and I'm pleased (almost proud) to say that he's very popular at some of the local places now. We talk about getting together for a jam, but when I asked him what music he's playing he answered with a list of folks I've never heard of! And I didn't write any of them down! So how about some of you Hip Catter's (Hipcats? My kids cringe when I use words like that, Daddy-o. I never did when I was young, but it sure is fun to bother them now - so, like totally, way UNCOOL!) -help me out. (Sorry about the digression, but those of you who have heard from me before know it's my way) Let me try again: I would like to know who's hot in folk music today! It just might give me a chance to learn some new songs. Who do you like?