18 Feb 02 - 03:03 PM (#652808) Subject: Top5 desert island acoustic folk albums From: Spartacus On a desert Island with an old record player and an endless supply of batteries and needles, what (5) strictly acoustic folk records to you save from the burning ship before you swim for shore? 1. Bob Dylan bootleg "stealin" record 2. Townes Van Zandt "Live at the Old Quarter" 3. The essential Doc Watson 4. Eric Taylor "Eric Taylor" 5. The world of Jonny Cash Two record sets only count as 1 choice.... |
18 Feb 02 - 03:21 PM (#652820) Subject: RE: Top5 desert island acoustic folk albums From: Spartacus It's not that hard...c'mon man.... |
18 Feb 02 - 03:42 PM (#652833) Subject: RE: Top5 desert island acoustic folk albums From: Jerry Rasmussen Old Time Music At Clarence Ashley's, The Anthology of American Folk Music(can I count it as one?, if not, I stop here,) The Watson Family, The Country Music Hall of Fame record of the Carter Family and a Mississippi John Hurt album... one of the early ones.
I would hope that there'd be room for a few non-acoustic folk albums. If I was limited to only five, I'd have to deep-six one of the above, and take Braziliance by Bud Shank and Laurindo Almeida.
First response, and there's already thread creep. Sorry about that... Jerry
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18 Feb 02 - 04:09 PM (#652849) Subject: RE: Top5 desert island acoustic folk albums From: Clinton Hammond Gee... I wonder how long it'll be before this turns into a "That's NOT folk!" thread... |
18 Feb 02 - 04:09 PM (#652850) Subject: RE: Top5 desert island acoustic folk albums From: RolyH Sweet Wivensfield - Martin Carthy Noah's Ark Trap - Nic Jones Whatever Tickles Your Fancy - Christy Moore (not totally acoustic, I know) Old Hag You Have Killed Me - Bothy Band Fieldvole Music - Tony Hall (when will they put it out on CD?) |
18 Feb 02 - 04:21 PM (#652855) Subject: RE: Top5 desert island acoustic folk albums From: Irish sergeant 1- Old Hag You have Killed Me, Bothy Band 2- Made In New England, Lui Collins 3- Sail og Rua, Delores Keane & John Faulkner 4- The Dubliners Boxed set 5- Four STrong Winds, Ian and Sylvia Alternate; Hits. Joanie Mitchell |
18 Feb 02 - 04:38 PM (#652865) Subject: RE: Top5 desert island acoustic folk albums From: Steve Latimer Freewheelin' - Bob Dylan Will The Circle Be Unbroken - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band & Guests (I know, it's cheating, it's a double album) The Red Headed Stranger - Willie Nelson Avalon Blues - Mississippi John Hurt. The Complete Stanley Brothers
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18 Feb 02 - 04:45 PM (#652870) Subject: RE: Top5 desert island acoustic folk albums From: kendall As many Folk Legacy records as I could carry. |
18 Feb 02 - 05:24 PM (#652898) Subject: RE: Top5 desert island acoustic folk albums From: Lanfranc 1. Win or Lose - Allan Taylor 2. The Compleat Tom Paxton - Live 3. Song to a Seagull - Joni Mitchell 4. 5000 Spirits - Incredible String Band 5. Jake Thackray - La-di-dah Funnily enough, they are all within reach as I post! Of course, the selection might be different tomorrow.
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18 Feb 02 - 05:29 PM (#652903) Subject: RE: Top5 desert island acoustic folk albums From: Steve Latimer Lanfranc, That's the beauty of a top five list, you can change anytime you like. Steve |
18 Feb 02 - 07:18 PM (#652987) Subject: RE: Top5 desert island acoustic folk albums From: michaelr 1. Altan, The Best Of 2. Niamh Parsons, Blackbirds and Thrushes 3. Mairead Ni Dhomnaill, No Dowry 4. Donal Lunny, Coolfin 5. Steve Tilston & Maggie Boyle, Of Moor and Mesa |
18 Feb 02 - 07:53 PM (#653017) Subject: RE: Top5 desert island acoustic folk albums From: Midchuck Tom Russell - "Song of the West" Tom Russell - "The Long Way Around" Ian Tyson - "Cowboyography" Vanguard's "Folk Duets" compilation. If my wife were shipwrecked with me, I could make her listen to the Baez and Dylan duet on "It Aint Me, Babe" at one of the Newport festivals in the '60s until she promised to do anything I asked if I shut it off. Then I'd make her go find some food. I'll think about #5 and get back to you. Peter. |
18 Feb 02 - 08:53 PM (#653070) Subject: RE: Top5 desert island acoustic folk albums From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Sheryl Crow Vannessa Mae |
18 Feb 02 - 09:16 PM (#653081) Subject: RE: Top5 desert island acoustic folk albums From: Rolfyboy6 "The Music of Bill Monroe, 1936-1994 (4 CD set)" MCAD4 "Muddy Waters, Folksinger" Chess "The Essential Doc Watson" Vanguard "Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings" Sony/Columbia "Lightnin' Hopkins" Smithsonian Folkways And on and on. I can't go to this desert island-- they won't let me take enough recordings. I would want to take everything everybody's already listed--even the ones I haven't heard (Celtic area), plus much more. Especially the Anthology of American Folk Music. |
18 Feb 02 - 09:52 PM (#653099) Subject: RE: Top5 desert island acoustic folk albums From: Irish sergeant That is the problem with lists like this. So I guess I'll just have to avoid being shipwrecked so I can enjoy more than five albums;~) Neil |
18 Feb 02 - 09:58 PM (#653103) Subject: RE: Top5 desert island acoustic folk albums From: khandu 1. Any Doc Watson 2. Rediscovered-Mississippi John Hurt 3.Will the Circle... Nitty Gritty Dirt Band 4. Self-Portrait-Bob Dylan 5. Any Dick Gaughan khandu
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19 Feb 02 - 05:01 AM (#653235) Subject: RE: Top5 desert island acoustic folk albums From: GUEST,micca at work "Penguin eggs" Nic Jones "A cut above" June Tabor/Martin Simpson "Up to Now" The Dransfields "Navy Cuts" Cyril Tawney " Gregorian Chant" |
19 Feb 02 - 05:25 AM (#653240) Subject: RE: Top5 desert island acoustic folk albums From: Hrothgar "A Rake and a Rambling Man" - Declan Affley "Five Days Singing" - The New Golden Ring "A Song For Every Season" - Bob & Ron Copper "Lis Johnston - A Tribute" - Lis Johnston et al (if nobody outside Australia has heard of that one, that's your bad luck!) Can I count the Radio Ballads as one? If not, it might have to be a toss-up between "Singing the Fishing" and "The Big Hewer"
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19 Feb 02 - 05:49 AM (#653243) Subject: RE: Top5 desert island acoustic folk albums From: Jon Freeman 1975 - Bothy band The Irish Concertina - Noel Hill Ye Jacobites By Name - The Johnstons Planxty - Planxty Out Of Court - Chris Newman and Máire Ní Chathasaigh Jon |
19 Feb 02 - 09:10 AM (#653307) Subject: RE: Top5 desert island acoustic folk albums From: Spartacus Ok, ok, Hats off to Jerry R., Steve L, rolfyboy, and Khandu. I'm not too familiar with the Irish music on a few of the lists, but I'm going to check it out. Khandu chose "self portrait" what is there to love about self portrait? I have always hated this album. (except for "Alberta") You have to let me know what you like about it. I'm a huge Dylan fan, and you might be the only person I know who likes this album. Maybe I'm missing something....
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19 Feb 02 - 09:56 AM (#653341) Subject: RE: Top5 desert island acoustic folk albums From: Wolfgang Planxty - Planxty Chieftains - 3 Watersons - For pence and spicy ale Bothy Band - old hag 5 Griechen in der Hölle (a Re(m)betika sampler) Wolfgang |
21 Feb 02 - 05:46 PM (#654894) Subject: RE: Top5 desert island acoustic folk albums From: Susanne (skw) That's easy (in no particualr order): - Battlefield Band, Home Ground - Iain MacKintosh, Risks and Roses - Cilla Fisher & Artie Trezise, dto. - Tony Cuffe, When First I Came To Caledonia - Various, Voices Or perhaps - Andy Irvine, Rain on the Roof - Tommy Sands. Singing of the Times - Dolores Keane & John Faulkner, Broken-Hearted I'll Wander - Planxty, Planxty - Christy Moore, Ride On Or rather - Roy Bailey & Band of Hope, Rhythm & Reds - Martin Carthy, dto. - Louis Killen & Johnny Hnadle, Along the Coaly Tyne - Martyn Wyndham-Read, Ballad Singer - Harvey Andrews, 25 Years on the Road On the other hand ... - Tom Paxton, Politics - James Keelaghan, My Skies - Bok Muir & Trickett, The First 15 Years (both vols, please!) - Guy & Candie Carawan, The Land Knows You're There - Dragseth Duo, Es ist ein Fluestern If nobody knows that last one, never mind, but it's one of my all-time favourites. Poems by 19th century North German poet Theodor Storm, set to incredibly sensitive music by a local - now sadly disbanded - duo. |
21 Feb 02 - 05:57 PM (#654903) Subject: RE: Top5 desert island acoustic folk albums From: Bennet Zurofsky What no Mike Seeger? How about his "Music From True Vine"? And how about something to dance to? Dave Tarras perhaps? Or something that gets deeper with repeated listening, like Frankie Armstrong's renditions of the classic ballads? -Bennet |
21 Feb 02 - 07:25 PM (#654950) Subject: RE: Top5 desert island acoustic folk albums From: John Hardly Overview -- Harvey Reid Parallel Lives -- David Mallett Red on Blond -- Tim O'Brien When I Go -- Dave Carter/Tracy Grammer Native Home -- Nashville Bluegrass Band
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22 Feb 02 - 02:02 AM (#655114) Subject: RE: Top5 desert island acoustic folk albums From: Chris Amos Any 5 of the Voice of the People CDs, the wonderful Topic albums of field recordings from the British Isles. C |
22 Feb 02 - 04:39 AM (#655147) Subject: RE: Top5 desert island acoustic folk albums From: GUEST,JJ Martin Carthy - Shearwater Nic Jones - Penguin Eggs Dick Gaughan - Handful of Earth Brass Monkey - The Complete Brass Monkey Kate Rusby - Hourglass JJ |
22 Feb 02 - 08:38 AM (#655242) Subject: RE: Top5 desert island acoustic folk albums From: rich-joy And I thought it'd be easy!!! Can't promise strictly acoustic, but here goes : Kate Wolf - Give Yourself To Love(Live double) Archie Fisher - archie fisher Davy Graham - Folk, Blues, and Beyond Alan Stivell - Reflections Marian Henderson - Cameo (from Oz) But what about : The Watersons - Frost and Fire La Bamboche - la bamboche Gary Shearston - The Springtime It Brings On The Shearing (from Oz) The Pennywhistlers - Folksongs of Eastern Europe Judy Collins - The Judy Collins Concert And not forgetting : Muckram Wakes - A Map of Derbyshire The Fate o' Charlie - Archie Fisher, Barbara Dickson, John MacKinnon Dick Gaughan - No More Forever Kris Kristofferson & Rita Coolidge - Full Moon Rory Block - Rhinestones and Steel Strings But hang on, how could I possibly live without the voices of Roy Bailey / Stan Rogers / Bob Fox / John Gorka / Rod Paterson / Gordon Bok / Rene Geyer / Maria Muldaur / Frankie Armstrong / Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer / June Tabor / Emmy Lou Harris ??? - or that wonderful 1920s-30s Gospel stuff??? Oh this is WAY too hard; I'm not goin' sailing!!! Cheers from Down Under, Rich-Joy
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23 Feb 02 - 03:28 AM (#655929) Subject: RE: Top5 desert island acoustic folk albums From: Les Jones I never tire of Frost & Fire - The Watersons
Oak, Ash and thorn - Peter Bellamy (sorry not really trad)
Shetland Fiddling by lots of diffrent people
Shanties of the Seven Seas by lots of people including Bert Lloyd and Ian Cambell The High Level Ranters their first LP
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23 Feb 02 - 10:49 AM (#656063) Subject: RE: Top5 desert island acoustic folk albums From: allanwill A much better idea would be to tape as many of your favourite records that will fit on to 5 one-hour tapes and take a cassette player rather than a record player. Then you could include a few non-accoustic classics like Leige and Lief (Fairport), Below the Salt (Steeleye), Morris On, Dream (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) and Special Agent (Martin Simpson). Allan
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23 Feb 02 - 12:40 PM (#656137) Subject: RE: Top5 desert island acoustic folk albums From: wysiwyg No need. They're all in my head. Now if only I can get them to replay just one song at a time instead of all at once.... ~Susan |
24 Feb 02 - 12:41 AM (#656582) Subject: RE: Top5 desert island acoustic folk albums From: johnross Songs From a Village Garrett -- Raphael Bugoslav Bowling Green -- The Kossoy Sisters Frummox -- Dan MacCrimmon and Steve Frumholtz Goofing Off Suite -- Pete Seeger Folksongs of Courting and Complaint -- Peggy Seeger |
24 Feb 02 - 05:57 AM (#656654) Subject: RE: Top5 desert island acoustic folk albums From: Hrothgar johnross I thought I might be the only person in the world who still plays "Songs From a Village Garret." Mind you, the LP is getting old, so I've got it on tape. |