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Thread #17555   Message #170507
Posted By: Clinton Hammond2
30-Jan-00 - 01:47 PM
Thread Name: Help: Good modern folkies
Subject: RE: Help: Good modern folkies
Another Canadian List...

Good list Willie-O, but ya missed a couple... ;-)

Stephen Fearing... really fantastic songwriting, and man can he play !!! Also, sorta on the Fearing tack, check out Blackie And The Rodeo Kings, the Willie P. Bennet tribute band (LOL)

If ya like Don Ross, find any CD by Alex Houghton... WOW can this tiny girl play!!

Ian Tyson?!? Bollocs!! I'll pick Ian Tamblyn instead... But i never really like that "Cowboyography" thing... Ian Tamblyn ison of Canadas most prolific songwriters ever... One of my favorite singer-songwriters has always been Vancouvers Ferron... I thinks she's living somewhere near Seattle now on an island somewhere...

I can't believe I almost forgot the band Tamarack!!

Celticy stuff... The Irish Descendants, or as they are known out East, Those 4 Fat Guys!! LOL!! Great blokes...

Fear Of Drinking, again from out west... They put out a new CD a few months ago I think....

The List won't be complete unless I mention Mad Pudding...

Deffinatly, get The Paperboys!!

And for sorta a mix of celtic and contemp. folk, there's this guy in Windsor, who plays the pubs and bars... almost a tall guy with long red hair... I think his name is Quinton or something... He hasn't got a CD or anything, but from being with him at the bar over a few pints of Guinness I get the idea he'd love to do one... But he's kinda skint... putting his woman through school so she can get a real job and support his folk music habit... If ya see him under his grey fedora, request some James Keelaghan, or some Garnet Rogers... He's really good at that kind of stuff... then ask him to play one of his own tunes...