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Thread #17555   Message #173187
Posted By: Ely
03-Feb-00 - 08:38 PM
Thread Name: Help: Good modern folkies
Subject: RE: Help: Good modern folkies
Ed Miller (Scottish, displaced to Austin, Texas)

Norman Kennedy (very traditional Scottish)

Townes Van Zandt (country, the "Bob Dylan of Texas")

Robert Earl Keen (see TVZ above)

Kelly Joe Phelps (acoustic guitar blues)

Kate Wolf (1960's-1980's, reminds me of Jean Ritchie)

Billy Bragg (British political stuff)

Freakwater (alternative honky-tonk)

And of course, the usual Arlo Guthrie, Tom Paxton, Dave Van Ronk, Paul Geramia, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Doc Watson, Clarence Ashley, Elizabeth Cotten, Etta Baker, Jean Ritchie, Howie Mitchell . . . )