What's happened to this thread? I suppose it's base curiosity but I do like learning about what other people like. Having had a little time to think, I've put together my own list (in no particular order of preference):
Battlefield Band - Home Ground
Brian McNeill - The Back o' the North Wind
Cilla Fisher & Artie Trezise - Same (1979)
Tom Paxton - Politics
Anything by Iain MacKintosh; if I had to choose I'd go for Singing From the Inside, Gentle Persuasion, or Risks and Roses
Various - Voices (a sampler of English traditional song)
Roy Bailey & Band of Hope - Rhythm and Reds
Mick West - Fine Flowers and Foolish Glances
Martin Carthy - Same (1965)
Something by The Spinners for sentimental reasons, most probably Songs of the Tall Ships or English Collection
Or perhaps I should make that the first Planxty album ...
A bit of a Scottish bias here ... Mind you, I'd have no difficulty making up several alternative lists, but I'd find it hard not to include at least some of the above. All of them contain a high percentage (at least) of songs that I wouldn't like to be without because they can give pleasure AND food for thought.
As a luxury I'd like to take the five volumes of Child ballads. They'd see me through more than a couple of years. I haven't even started on them, due to not living on a desert island at present. And retirement is twenty years away ... - Susanne