Favourite Non-folk/trad/blues artists

Subject: Favourite Non-folk/trad/blues artists
From: teddy_bear_picnic
Date: 12 Feb 07 - 02:11 AM

To be honest, I don't listen to that much other than folk music.

My favourite rock groups are the Fairport Convention and the Pentangle, and the various solo careers of their respective members. But those are probably closer to folk to the usual rock.

I do have a soft spot for Lou Reed, however.

and I like Jonathan Richman, but you can't really call him rock either.

So that's me, what about you?

Subject: RE: Favourite Non-folk/trad/blues artists
From: Alec
Date: 12 Feb 07 - 02:51 AM

Well The Beatles always have had & probably always will have a special place in my affections.Dylan (most of his output doesn't fall into the categories you exclude)Kate Bush.
I like Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald,Edith Piaf, Nat "King" Cole.
Given my liking for Ballet,Tchaicovsky is pretty special to me.
There's something about a Brass Band that has a particular resonance.
We only get the one lifetime & there is so much great music.
Whatever you like is O.K.

Subject: RE: Favourite Non-folk/trad/blues artists
From: Maxine
Date: 12 Feb 07 - 03:12 AM

I love The Eagles. I also like a lot of Country music (the shame, but there, I've admitted it) - old and new alike. Some of it is dreadful but some very good and with it's roots very obviously in folk music. Am 40 in May this year and seriously considering a trip to Nashville....the Grand Ole Opry is calling me. Has anyone been?

Subject: RE: Favourite Non-folk/trad/blues artists
From: Scrump
Date: 12 Feb 07 - 04:38 AM

What's the purpose of your question, teddy_bear_picnic?

I'm sure many of us like different sorts of music outside whatever we think of as 'folk', but it would be good to know what you are getting at - are you doing some kind of survey to see what other types of music are most popular with folk fans?

(As for me, I like music that would be categorised in lots of different genres by the record companies - in no particular order: pop, rock, country, classical, opera, jazz (mainly Dixieland but I do like some 'modern' stuff too), and more. If I think it's good I'm happy to listen to it, whatever label somebody else sticks on it!)

Subject: RE: Favourite Non-folk/trad/blues artists
From: teddy_bear_picnic
Date: 12 Feb 07 - 11:11 AM

Just interested, that's all. No kind of survey, for fun I suppose.

Subject: RE: Favourite Non-folk/trad/blues artists
From: GUEST,Wayne
Date: 12 Feb 07 - 11:53 AM

R.E.O. Speedwagon, Toto, Kansas, Pride of Lions, Within Temptation, Arena, Barclay James Harvest, The Enid. Rock music with strong tunes, basically.

I'm also keen on singer-songwriters like Dan Fogelberg, Gordon Lightfoot, Al Stewart, Crosby, Still & Nash, etc.

Locally, (W Yorks) there are some great performers: Leodis, Waking The Witch, The Raindogs, Kawme D., Juie Ellison, none of whom are particularly folkie.

Subject: RE: Favourite Non-folk/trad/blues artists
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Feb 07 - 12:24 PM

Maria Callas, Ella Fitzgerald, but Fred MacDowell blows me away.

Subject: RE: Favourite Non-folk/trad/blues artists
From: bubblyrat
Date: 16 Feb 07 - 12:55 PM

I love full-on,brassy,loud classical pieces: The Firebird, The Great Gate at Kiev( from Pictures at an Exhibition ),The conclusion to Bolero,ditto Holst"s Planet Suite, that kind of thing.AND---I am crazy about those big,ballsy,fairground organs from Belgium & Holland. A couple of years ago, I was at the Great Dorset Steam Fair,where there are always dozens of such organs ( or "Orgels) & I found a particularly large & splendid-looking model from Holland. I went round the back to place a "request " with the owner / operator,as many 'afficionados' do, asked for the march "Aces High", from the eponymous film, and went back and stood about ten feet away,and it was the most incredible musical experience !! You can feel all the vibrations from the organ-pipes, and it"s like drowning in an ocean of notes !! Wonderful!!

Subject: RE: Favourite Non-folk/trad/blues artists
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 16 Feb 07 - 01:21 PM

Steve Miller Band

Subject: RE: Favourite Non-folk/trad/blues artists
From: Wesley S
Date: 16 Feb 07 - 05:33 PM

Little Feat and The Who

Subject: RE: Favourite Non-folk/trad/blues artists
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Feb 07 - 05:51 PM

Maxine, my son went to Nashville several years ago and absolutley loved it. He and his then girlfriend spent a whole night going from one "pub" to the next soaking up the unending music. He will be 37 this spring.

Eagles, Beatles, Keith Secola and his Wild Band of Indians, lots of other Native American music, Aqua (yes!, Bare-naked Ladies, Red Hot Chili Peppers, classical, esp. Mozart and Beethoven's Violin Concerto, some musicals, and bunches and bunches more...we grew up with all kinds of music.

Subject: RE: Favourite Non-folk/trad/blues artists
From: CharleyO'Neill
Date: 17 Feb 07 - 09:11 AM

Harold Wilson and The Labouring Men