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05 Dec 11 - 03:15 PM (#3268897) Subject: BS: Folk Personality of the Year From: GUEST,Valerie Moss Since we have had so much controversy over Sports Personality of the Year, I thought I should ask people to vote for their Folk Personality of the Year. Unlike Sport, I don't think we will be struggling for nominees somehow!! |
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05 Dec 11 - 06:17 PM (#3268976) Subject: RE: BS: Folk Personality of the Year From: Little Hawk My pick for that is Lynn Miles. No joke. She's a fantastic performer and songwriter. |
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05 Dec 11 - 06:27 PM (#3268986) Subject: RE: BS: Folk Personality of the Year From: Bill D Which year? Most of my votes go to some who are dead now.. ☺ I see VERY few of those vaguely 'folk' persons in current spotlight. |
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06 Dec 11 - 07:22 AM (#3269206) Subject: RE: BS: Folk Personality of the Year From: banjoman Sir Arthur Plate - little known but much revered collector of ancient nursery rhymes and songs |
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06 Dec 11 - 09:56 AM (#3269274) Subject: RE: BS: Folk Personality of the Year From: Elmore Pete Seeger. How original of me. |
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06 Dec 11 - 11:05 AM (#3269295) Subject: RE: BS: Folk Personality of the Year From: Little Hawk Bill, just go to the folk festivals. You will see some present day folksingers who are absolutely as good as it gets. We have so many fine folksingers in Ontario alone that it's just amazing. I can't get over how much talent is out there these days. (and almost none of it gets heard on the radio...) |
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06 Dec 11 - 11:57 AM (#3269317) Subject: RE: BS: Folk Personality of the Year From: Big Al Whittle The thing about Sports personalities - they tend to have a short career. Whereas with folksingers , they tend to get better the more miles they have on the clock. So its important to honour sports personalities in the short time they are before our eyes. I think I'd prefer a Folk Music Hall of fame - like the Rock and Roll Music Hall of Fame. Obviously Ewan, martin Carthy, Ashley Hutchins, Nic Jones, Derek Brimstone, Noel Murphy ....is he an honorary English man, Dick gaughan, Peter Bellamy. Bert Jansch I suppose the real traddies ... the Copper family, Sam Larner etc. |
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06 Dec 11 - 12:21 PM (#3269331) Subject: RE: BS: Folk Personality of the Year From: Bill D Little Hawk... I DO go to festivals when I can. It's not a matter of being 'good', but rather of style and subject matter. I DO hear some current singers who strike a chord with me, but all too many are just riding a personal wave that feels awkward. Many just feel like an odd branch of current 'pop' music. It takes a huge amount of time to sort thru 100 examples to find 3-4 I really like..........and I have thousands of MP3s, LPs and CDs to listen to which suit MY admittedly 'purist snob' tendencies. ;>) |
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06 Dec 11 - 12:53 PM (#3269349) Subject: RE: BS: Folk Personality of the Year From: lefthanded guitar Big Al I do like your idea of a folksinger Hall of Fame. Rolling Stone just had an issue celebrating the top 100(!) guitarists, but was niggardly in choosing folk performers- as I remember only Bonnie Raitt and John Fahey (both whom I'd nominate) were included. SO many more from the folk and even folk rock genres belong. My vote for folk performer of the year: Joan Baez |
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06 Dec 11 - 12:53 PM (#3269350) Subject: RE: BS: Folk Personality of the Year From: Elmore Earlier I picked Pete Seeger because of all the buzz surrounding his occupy wall street appearance. If You're looking for first rate young performers, I recommend Elizabeth Laprelle. Also, check out John Doyle and Jim Malcolm's recent solo work. |
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06 Dec 11 - 01:38 PM (#3269374) Subject: RE: BS: Folk Personality of the Year From: Little Hawk I would happily vote Joan Baez as the folk performer of ANY year (since 1959). I would do much the same for both Mary Chapin Carpenter and Lynn Miles. Lynn Miles is a Canadian singer, Bill. I don't know if you've ever seen her perform live (she does tour the States), but if not, I hope you get the chance to. She's as good as it gets. Check out her videos on Youtube. |
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06 Dec 11 - 02:16 PM (#3269396) Subject: RE: BS: Folk Personality of the Year From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray No contest really : Mudcat's own Spleen Cringe. |
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06 Dec 11 - 07:50 PM (#3269550) Subject: RE: BS: Folk Personality of the Year From: Bill D Well, Little Hawk, I watched about 5-6 of Lynn Miles, and she is 'good' (strong, moving voice) at what she does, much as Kate Wolf was good a number of years back. It is just that I don't usually care for the general subject matter: songs of the heart and poignant reflections on 'relationships'. I can see why you like her, as she does bring Joan Baez & Mary Chapin Carpenter to mind....but I never paid much attention to them either. (Joan did do 'some' trad material, and she was/is an icon of sorts.) Now...someone mentioned Elizabeth LaPrelle, who knows all sorts of music, but is fast becoming a new voice in preserving traditional Appalachian music and has a **voice** that is amazing. That is what I will go out of my way for...(and did recently) There are some of her on YouTube also.... |
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06 Dec 11 - 08:03 PM (#3269554) Subject: RE: BS: Folk Personality of the Year From: Bill D I was sitting about 20 ft. from her as she performed "The Hills of Mexico This blows me away. |
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06 Dec 11 - 08:11 PM (#3269556) Subject: RE: BS: Folk Personality of the Year From: Bill D And leading the song with Wayne Henderson and friends on The Crooked Road Tour I also saw one of these performances |
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06 Dec 11 - 08:13 PM (#3269557) Subject: RE: BS: Folk Personality of the Year From: Bobert Mighty fine claw-hammer picker, Bill... B~ |
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07 Dec 11 - 01:27 AM (#3269652) Subject: RE: BS: Folk Personality of the Year From: Little Hawk I just watched Elizabeth LaPrelle do "Hills of Mexico" in that link you posted, Bill. Great trad sound! I don't think a person could sound much more traditional than that. She's got the perfect voice for it, and she even looks the part. It's not the kind of music that I'm generally out looking for, though. I prefer contemporary singer-songwriter stuff with really fine lyrics and really good music and singing too, because it's about people, things, and situations of my own historical time, and I can relate to that directly. Don't get me wrong. I also like the old trad stuff like "Hills of Mexico"...I like it a lot...but it's sort of a sideline to what I like the best, which is the more modern songs such as have been written by Mary Chapin Carpenter, Bob Dylan, Lynn Miles, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, and so many others. Folk music to me is not primarily the stuff out of the distant past (although that's certainly a significant part of it)...but the stuff that's unfolding in our lives right now. So I guess you and I are following a somewhat different path in our approach to folk music, and that explains why you haven't paid much attention to Joan Baez, Mary Chapin Carpenter or Lynn Miles...whereas for me, they are the main event, and the old trad stuff such as Elizabeth LaPrelle is doing is definitely enjoyable...it's interesting...it's good to hear...but it's not the main event. It's just a matter of having different areas of interest. |
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07 Dec 11 - 05:37 AM (#3269711) Subject: RE: BS: Folk Personality of the Year From: Big Al Whittle I say! none of you foreign Johnnies in our English Folk Music Hall of Fame. After all we must draw the line somewhere. |
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07 Dec 11 - 06:58 AM (#3269740) Subject: RE: BS: Folk Personality of the Year From: GUEST,I Don't Know I think it would be a lovely idea, nominations from me would include Joan Baez, Kate Rusby, Martin Carthy, Richard Thompson & Christy Moore. for a band Oysterband, Fairport, Levellers, Pentangle & Incredible String Band. |
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07 Dec 11 - 07:53 AM (#3269758) Subject: RE: BS: Folk Personality of the Year From: Mr Happy What's a folksinger? I'll get me mac! |
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07 Dec 11 - 08:39 AM (#3269783) Subject: RE: BS: Folk Personality of the Year From: GUEST,I Don't Know @what's a folk singer@ Fred Jordon |
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07 Dec 11 - 10:19 PM (#3270212) Subject: RE: BS: Folk Personality of the Year From: Elmore This thread is totally screwed up. If you're talking about current singer/songwriters I pick James Keelaghan, Richard Thompson, David Francey, Tom Russell, Bob Franke, John Doyle, Cheryl Wheeler, Anne Lister, Norah Jones, all still writing, all still working. If you're talking about all time best singer/songwriters, I would have to mention Tom Paxton, James Taylor, Dick Gaughan,Pete Seeger, Joni Mitchell, Eric Bogle, Randy Newman, Jean Ritchie. If you're talking about dead singer/songwriters, Then There's Woody, Ochs, Lee hays, Jack Hardy, Ewan Maccoll, Bill Morrissey, Kate Wolf, Steve Goodman,Stan Rogers, Bob Beers, I don't understand why younger performers need to be in the hall of fame. I thought that was reserved for old geezers. |
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13 Dec 11 - 11:53 AM (#3273154) Subject: RE: BS: Folk Personality of the Year From: Little Hawk What? No mention of Howlin' Eddie Cranshaw??? For shame! |
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13 Dec 11 - 02:16 PM (#3273247) Subject: RE: BS: Folk Personality of the Year From: Young Buchan Jock Duncan. Let's worship whilst we still have him. |
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13 Dec 11 - 07:29 PM (#3273358) Subject: RE: BS: Folk Personality of the Year From: kendall I know too many of them personally to vote. |