I love Gordon Bok and was so happy to have a front row seat when he performed in Southampton, Pa. I love how his love of the sea comes through in his music. I have read that Tommy Makem (Irish folk singer, RIP) sung in that fashion also, but I just remembered that the song that is a cante fable, Peter Kagan, was actually written by Gordon. Have you ever heard Gordon's Slavic/Russian song? When I saw him in Southampton, he started to sing that beautiful song and one or two women in the audience joined in, in harmony. I had goose bumps.       It is on the Dear to Our Island CD and is called Hatu Khara Ols'n. Just beautiful. Another favorite is on that CD - Connemara Cradle Song.

I have read that a lot of the old Kentucky folk music was in the form of cante fable. I will look up the others some of you have suggested. I am a great fan of the Child ballads, early Baez and early Buffy St. Marie, as well as Gordon whom I discovered around 1970.