Folk Bands Recommendations

Subject: RE: Folk Bands Recommendations
From: michaelr
Date: 09 May 11 - 08:08 PM

Capercaillie and Shooglenifty for a more modern take on folk.

Subject: RE: Folk Bands Recommendations
From: J-boy
Date: 10 May 11 - 01:25 AM

The Battlefield Band.

Subject: RE: Folk Bands Recommendations
From: Bounty Hound
Date: 10 May 11 - 07:10 AM

No one mentioned Fairport yet??

And if it's rocky folk you are looking for, gratuitous self promotion coming up here:

The Bounty Hounds


John

Subject: RE: Folk Bands Recommendations
From: GUEST,BBP at work
Date: 11 May 11 - 06:27 AM

I'll second Duncan McFarlane Band and Blackbeard's Tea Party!

www.duncanmcfarlane.co.uk

His Acoustic band did a great gig at Mansfield last night.

Deirdre

Subject: RE: Folk Bands Recommendations
From: ranger1
Date: 20 May 11 - 11:58 PM

I really like a group called Circled By Hounds from (as close as I can tell) Portland, Oregon. You can get their stuff on CD Baby.

Subject: RE: Folk Bands Recommendations
From: J-boy
Date: 21 May 11 - 12:01 AM

What ranger1 said. Malinky ain't bad either.

Subject: RE: Folk Bands Recommendations
From: Neil D
Date: 21 May 11 - 12:42 AM

If you like Great Big Sea, here is another grand band from Newfoundland. "Heave Away" by The Fables

Subject: RE: Folk Bands Recommendations
From: Neil D
Date: 21 May 11 - 12:56 AM

I'll try one more time. The Fables

Subject: RE: Folk Bands Recommendations
From: stallion
Date: 21 May 11 - 06:23 AM

echo banjiman, Blacbeards Teaparty are a great live act too, and Paul Young has one of the best "Folk" voices I have heard in a youngster for a long time, they sold out the Black swan Fc twice in one week and at a recent rock venue pulled in 250 youngsters.   They can often been seen busking in York and Mike Harding bought a cd on the street and played a track on Radio 2. They will be performing at the York W/E Festival of Folk (3,4 & 5th of June)on the afternoon of Sunday 5th of June, as of course will be a plethora of others, come and join us!

Subject: RE: Folk Bands Recommendations
From: DrugCrazed
Date: 29 May 11 - 12:13 PM

The impossible is nothing :)

I'm working through the list, if anyone is interested about what I'm listening to, it's available here

Subject: RE: Folk Bands Recommendations
From: GUEST,Joe G
Date: 29 May 11 - 01:18 PM

Dave beat me to Tickled Pink. I don't think anyone has mentioned Home Service yet - Alright Jack is my favourite folk album and the Mysteries is very good too. Can't wait to see the reformed band at Shrewsbury.

John Tams solo CDs are excellent too.

Subject: RE: Folk Bands Recommendations
From: GUEST,lively
Date: 29 May 11 - 01:25 PM

what fun - just dipping into your list there drugcrazed.
so how does the funky sounding 'grooveshark' work then?

Subject: RE: Folk Bands Recommendations
From: DrugCrazed
Date: 29 May 11 - 02:46 PM

Grooveshark is pretty much the web version of Spotify, except Grooveshark haven't gone with the "I'm going to change my terms of service and make people pay for basic usage". Not that I'm bitter.

Find an artist, and listen to it. It isn't as clean as Spotify - people appear to upload music to it and GS sort out the licensing later, meaning you can have horrible listings. Search for Blind Guardian and you'll see what I mean - and I have a few playlists that I use for various purposes. I like it, and it doesn't infuriate me. The only thing I want is collaborative playlists. Would make my life a lot easier in a thread like this.

Subject: RE: Folk Bands Recommendations
From: Ann N
Date: 29 May 11 - 03:49 PM

Just spent two afternoons in great sessions run by Lowp Well worth listening to :)

Subject: RE: Folk Bands Recommendations
From: GUEST,lively
Date: 29 May 11 - 04:32 PM

"The only thing I want is collaborative playlists. Would make my life a lot easier in a thread like this."

Mmm, presumably that could be doable (at least in some fashion), by all members of a certain group of individuals possessing the password to the same account. Though needing a shared email address for it, might complicate matters.

For a larger group (like Mudcat for example) you'd probably need to have certain individuals managing the account via which others would submit their lists. Though that could get too messy.

I think I'm just waffling meaninglessly actually..

Subject: RE: Folk Bands Recommendations
From: DrugCrazed
Date: 29 May 11 - 04:41 PM

Spotify has the ability for people to subscribe and add stuff to a playlist. Granted, they can also delete things but I kind of trust you lot :)

Lowp added to the list.

Subject: RE: Folk Bands Recommendations
From: Nicholas Waller
Date: 29 May 11 - 07:45 PM

Fairport Convention's 1969 Liege and Lief is one of my favourite all-time albums in any genre. Sandy Denny was in the band at the time.

More recently, there is The Owl Service, "formed by Steven Collins in 2006 as a vehicle to explore his love of cult British films and television of the 1960s and '70s, the great outdoors, and the sound of the English folk revival". They sound a bit like older British band Pyewackett, two t's and not to be confused with US rock band of the 70s Pyewacket (one t).

A local Somerset-based band I like is Dragonsfly (with an s, so not Dragonfly), "a Celtic-Eastern-Folk Fusion band with a unique sound born from the band member's musical tastes and influences. This vibrant and original five-piece interlace instruments as diverse as bagpipes, hurdy-gurdy, bouzouki, mandolin, tabla, electric bass, saxophones, vocals and more resulting in groove-driven music that is passionate, high-energy, tender and entrancing". Hear them on Myspace - their own website seems woefully out of date, referencing 2009 gigs, but they must still be active as they are at the Priddy Folk Festival this year and appear to be second headliners topped only by the Eliza Carthy Band. They really are local - last I heard they were based in Draycott, three miles from Priddy (and about four miles from me in the other direction).

There's also Jez Lowe and the Bad Pennies; he seems to be continually on tour, with or without the Pennies. He was also part of The Darwin Song Project, an 8-artist song-writing retreat week with a live concert and a live CD celebrating the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth in 2009. Not a band as such, though the effect is pretty band-like.

For a noisy frenetic instrumental dancey band try Sheelanagig from, I think, Bristol.

All these people are on Spotify with at least one album, except Sheelanagig. Most are also on we7.com in the UK (a web-based music site co-founded by Peter Gabriel).

Subject: RE: Folk Bands Recommendations
From: Nicholas Waller
Date: 29 May 11 - 08:00 PM

Also, if you like The Pogiues you might like The Men They Couldn't Hang, who sound a bit like an English version of them. The only album I know at all well is Silvertown, which has a great song referencing a Turner painting and the engineering works of Brunel, called Rain, Steam and Speed (the video/song takes about 20 seconds to get started, so don't whack up your volume too high. Also, the visuals are a bit low-budget literal-minded).

Subject: RE: Folk Bands Recommendations
From: Nicholas Waller
Date: 30 May 11 - 07:00 AM

Oops, wrong URL above, this is Sheelanagig.

Subject: RE: Folk Bands Recommendations
From: ranger1
Date: 30 May 11 - 10:55 AM

I'm surprised no one has mentioned The Corries yet.

Subject: RE: Folk Bands Recommendations
From: DrugCrazed
Date: 15 Sep 11 - 11:11 AM

Resurrecting this thread because now I have Spotify on my laptop. So, any other Spotify users who'd like to add suggestions to this playlist.

I like most of the songs on there (though Bellamy is on the list of "to listen to"). Just throw them on and I'll get to them - and the suggestions on here I'll try and add when I get round to it.

Subject: RE: Folk Bands Recommendations
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 15 Sep 11 - 09:04 PM

Is not the expression "Folk Bands" an oxymoron?