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Who was the bloke who did 1000 folksongs

11 Mar 13 - 05:13 AM (#3489021)
Subject: Who was the bloke who did 1000 folksongs
From: GUEST,tip of my tongue

Was his name Malcolm Crooks? He did a folk song a day for a year, or 1000 folk songs - gaaaah!

11 Mar 13 - 05:29 AM (#3489024)
Subject: RE: Who was the bloke who did 1000 folksongs
From: GUEST

Raymond Crooke

11 Mar 13 - 05:41 AM (#3489027)
Subject: RE: Who was the bloke who did 1000 folksongs
From: open mike

did 1,000 songs? meaning he sang them? wrote them?
http://raymondfolk.wetpaint.com/
http://www.raymondcrooke.com/

11 Mar 13 - 06:03 AM (#3489034)
Subject: RE: Who was the bloke who did 1000 folksongs
From: Leadfingers

Web Site

11 Mar 13 - 01:57 PM (#3489201)
Subject: RE: Who was the bloke who did 1000 folksongs
From: GUEST, Paul Slade

You're not thinking of Jon Boden's A Folk Song A Day, are you? Though there were "only" 365 of them.

http://www.afolksongaday.com/about/

11 Mar 13 - 03:04 PM (#3489231)
Subject: RE: Who was the bloke who did 1000 folksongs
From: Reinhard

366

11 Mar 13 - 05:24 PM (#3489285)
Subject: RE: Who was the bloke who did 1000 folksongs
From: Artful Codger

And let's not forget John Thompson's impressive follow-up Australian Folk Song a Day blog.

Maybe Reinhard can give us a rough estimate of how many songs Martin Carthy has recorded, between his solo recordings, collaborations with Dave Swarbrick and as a member of Steeleye Span, The Albion Country Band, The Watersons, Blue Murder, and such. He must easily have passed 1000.

12 Mar 13 - 12:43 AM (#3489412)
Subject: RE: Who was the bloke who did 1000 folksongs
From: GUEST,Gerry

I think Pete Seeger has recorded pretty nearly every song ever written.

12 Mar 13 - 01:17 AM (#3489414)
Subject: RE: Who was the bloke who did 1000 folksongs
From: Gibb Sahib

Ray's work is good IMO because he doesn't circumscribe "folk song" too tightly. He could go on indefinitely, and has.

As long as we're on tangents...I am working on doing every chantey known to have existed (and for which there is sufficient information to make a rendition). Over 500 so far.