Sexiest Folksingers Alive

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: GUEST,Dunbar Flamingo
Date: 06 Mar 00 - 05:35 PM

It's Ron Sexsmith, of course (depending on how you define folksinger). Oh yeah, and Ry Cooder. And Chris Smither. And Jeff Davis (but definitely not Jeff Warner - sorry.)

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: Mbo
Date: 06 Mar 00 - 05:49 PM

Yea, I heard Jeff Davis looked really cute dressed up as a ladies maid when trying to outrun Union forces after the Civil War!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: Amos
Date: 06 Mar 00 - 05:51 PM

Mbo, do you come here to communicate, or do you come to screw around? What did you mean by yer last post here, mate?

A

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: GUEST,Dunbar Flamingo
Date: 06 Mar 00 - 06:00 PM

Mbo (prompted by jealousy at his exclusion from the list or perhaps in some unknown solidarity with Jeff Warner) felt it necessary to impress with his historical knowledge of the civil war and Jefferson Davis, not the excellent and sexy Jeff davis to which I referred in my posting. So there.

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 06 Mar 00 - 06:12 PM

I think the sexiest folk singer to me is local and is unkown - I used to really fancy her. So I vote for Anwen Donovan. She also has a superb voice and is an excellent anglo concertina player. I often wonder why she never became a "name" as IMO, she has more than enough musical tallent for that.

Jon

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: GUEST,dinopop
Date: 06 Mar 00 - 06:32 PM

To wit: 1. Áine is definitely a babe. 2. She is the sexiest singer around (Folk or otherwise) 3. Amos, Bert, Liam, et. al. -- cold showers all 'round.

- dinopop (a.k.a. 'Dear Hubby')

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: Osmium
Date: 06 Mar 00 - 06:37 PM

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: Osmium
Date: 06 Mar 00 - 06:42 PM

Whoops; pressed something to early; my vote would be for Isla St.Clair; all innocense and presence in the same verse and sings like an angel!

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 06 Mar 00 - 06:42 PM

Hey Osmium, was that a vote for yourself?

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 06 Mar 00 - 06:46 PM

Oops, spent to long checking HTML in case Osmium had said something in the first post and I too hit the wrong button. I was of course referring to the blank post and was trying to make a joke.

Jon

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: Osmium
Date: 06 Mar 00 - 06:47 PM

Thank christ I got there first.

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: GUEST,Victoria
Date: 06 Mar 00 - 08:31 PM

Battlefield Band's Davy Steele gets my vote - his voice just makes me melt. If you have any backbone left after hearing him sing something like "Loch Tay Boat Song", your a better woman than I !

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: Ely
Date: 06 Mar 00 - 09:04 PM

Kelly Joe Phelps. Looks OK, but it's the voice that's really awesome, and playing mean guitar blues never hurts.

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: Pelrad
Date: 06 Mar 00 - 09:11 PM

Dunbar Flamingo: He may not be your type, but I have seen women drooling and draping themselves over J.Warner as recently as this summer (he's not my type either). As for J.Davis, **SIGH** ;-) Women seem to be attracted to either one or the other; it was so nice when they were performing together. Besides the fabulous musical and historical content of course...

Mbo: It's nothing personal, darling. I happen to have very handsome brothers, so it was not my intent to insult you in saying that you look too much like one of them. It's just that I was brought up not to covet my siblings. ;-)

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: Amos
Date: 06 Mar 00 - 09:35 PM

Thanks, dinopop, I feel much better now....:>|| !!

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: Mbo
Date: 06 Mar 00 - 09:41 PM

Thanks Pelrad. Oh, Dunbar SOOOO-OOO--RRY! Can't I be funny, huh? I guess no one else is familiar with the humorous post-Civil War cartoon from The New York Times, with the hilarious picture of CSA Prez Jeff Davis in a big hoop skirt and bonnet, hitching up his petticoats to outrun unclosing Federal troops? No senses of humour around here, honestly! BTW no one has figured out who Mudcat's own 5, no, make it 6 acusles are? La la la...I ain't naming names...la la la la lare...

--Mbo (oh Victoria, I love Alan Reid's voice too. And let's not take that any farther than it should!)

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: Callie
Date: 06 Mar 00 - 10:21 PM

What about Rory McLeod EVEN THOUGH he plays the spoons. --Callie

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: Caitrin
Date: 06 Mar 00 - 10:32 PM

Oh, the debate! Blondie or Greaseball? Hmmm...I'd better just keep my mouth shut. ;)

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: Amos
Date: 07 Mar 00 - 12:15 AM

Hi, C! Good to see ya!:>)

A

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: alison
Date: 07 Mar 00 - 07:31 AM

Thanks for the votes Joe and Alan.... hahahaha

I have to say that alan is right Andy M.Stewart had a fanastic wiggle at the weekend. Ralph McTell does it for me too........ give me him singing "the Hiring Fair".... HHOOOOOWWWWWLLLL!!!!!!

room in that cold shower for another boys?

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: Mooh
Date: 07 Mar 00 - 08:53 AM

Max Tone, I might have chosen Nat MacM but didn't know she sang. Hot one though, eh!

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: Lady McMoo
Date: 07 Mar 00 - 09:20 AM

I just CANNOT believe that no-one has mentioned the small but perfectly-formed Christine Collister yet!!!

mcmoo

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: Mbo
Date: 07 Mar 00 - 10:17 AM

I've never heard Natalie sing either, but she should. I heard her speaking, and she has a vey cute voice--kind of a Scottish/Canadian accent combo going on. She SHOULD sing!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: black walnut
Date: 07 Mar 00 - 02:20 PM

so, Ely gives another vote for kelly joe phelps. kelly joe looks great,wadya mean? more than 'okay'. but yup, it's that guitar, and the voice, and the songs, and.....

i asked my hubbie who HE would think that I would say is the sexiest folksinger, and he rhymed off martin simpson, don ross, bruce cockburn, david k, rick fines, and a few others....all good choices! but he forgot kelly joe. well, he knows now.

~black walnut

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: Jeri
Date: 07 Mar 00 - 02:42 PM

Mbo - Natalie sings on her latest CD "In My Hands." She does have a pretty voice.

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: Jeri
Date: 07 Mar 00 - 02:46 PM

Mbo - Natalie sings on her latest CD "In My Hands." She does have a pretty voice.

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: JenEllen
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 12:38 AM

Oh yeah....local guy here named Gregg Scott. I have to have a chair at his shows, my knees won't see fit to hold me upright. That husky voice and those perfectly formed hands that make Michaelangelo's David jealous.....I think I better go sit down.

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: Mooh
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 01:23 PM

...and Natalie sings in my dreams too...

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: GUEST,Emmie
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 06:30 PM

Ralph Mctell, Ry Cooder, Martin Carthy and Davy Spillane

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: GUEST,Moldy Fig
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 07:35 PM

Check out footage of Joan Baez at Newport, 1963. Or, if you have a really long memory (and were really lucky), Joan on stage at the old Club 47, barefoot. "They don't make 'em like that anymore..."

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: GUEST,Meadow Muskrat
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 11:17 PM

80 responses and no mention of Connie Dover? She looks as good in person as she does on her CD covers.

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: Amos
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 11:36 PM

I saw Joan Baez at Newport in '63 -- the summer she was hanging out with Bob D... Beautiful comely lass.

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: ddw
Date: 09 Mar 00 - 12:20 AM

Tho' I haven't seen her in recent years, I used to spend a lot of time looking at the covers of early Judy Collins albums. Had to quit when they all got stuck together.

Emmy Lou Harris is also aging VERY well.

Of course I can't disagree very strongly with the above votes for Natalie McMaster — dynamite lady, both for the eyes and the ears.

david

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: Mbo
Date: 09 Mar 00 - 12:47 AM

What about Katie McMahon? I love her voice. And her harp playing is beautiful too.

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: simon-pierre
Date: 09 Mar 00 - 01:08 AM

Joni Mitchell, when she was 24... but I would marry her anytime.

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: rangeroger
Date: 09 Mar 00 - 01:11 AM

I second Emmylou Harris.And Natalie MacMaster.What legs!
When she was at Strawberry she was dressed in white leather.
Yoooohooo.
rr

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: GUEST,High and Lonesome
Date: 09 Mar 00 - 05:23 PM

It's a little sad that my favorites are all from other eras, like Judy Collins from mid-1960s, Sandy Denny from a few years later. Though she's not a pure folky, I think that Shawn Colvin has the look.

But how come none of you women have mentioned Dougie MacLean?

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: Caitrin
Date: 09 Mar 00 - 05:37 PM

A serious oversight, High and Lonesome! I am hereby putting in my vote for Dougie. And also one for Kirk McLeod, lead singer of Seven Nations (though he's not actually a folkie, per se.) There's just something about a goodlooking guy in a kilt...

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Mar 00 - 05:44 PM

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: ddw
Date: 09 Mar 00 - 07:02 PM

Caitrin....

Access?

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: squirrel
Date: 09 Mar 00 - 08:42 PM

Like 'em lean. John Tams, hands down. Unbeatable voice, to boot.

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: Mbo
Date: 09 Mar 00 - 09:36 PM

Good Heavens! Andy M. Stewar, Dougie, Alan Reid...all MY idols! Hmmm...I wonder if I can get some recognition by imitating them? One of these days I'm going to visit Dave in Halifax, and I'm gonna get me a philabeg of my very own. My Mom said I'd look good in one...she said I have the legs for it....(!) **BOG**

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: Terry Allan Hall
Date: 10 Mar 00 - 08:58 AM

Tish Hinojosa (beautiful eyes, smile), Emmy Lou Harris (great legs!), Dr. Lucy Kaplan (ever see her in a tight dress?)....gotta go take a COLD shower!

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: Alice
Date: 10 Mar 00 - 10:13 AM

Don't the long, black net gloves do something for you guys?

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: M
Date: 10 Mar 00 - 10:38 AM

How could no one mention John Hammond?? (Though he's not technically a folksinger.) Every time I've seen him, I have to remember to breathe. That phrasing...that voice...he is a HONEY, oh eee. And he doesn't play bad, either.

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: Lady McMoo
Date: 10 Mar 00 - 11:20 AM

OK! I change my vote to Alice!!!

mcmoo

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: Mbo
Date: 10 Mar 00 - 11:24 AM

No one mentioned Eddi Reader? I really like her voice.

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: Caitrin
Date: 10 Mar 00 - 05:58 PM

ddw...
I ain't sayin' nothin'.

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: GUEST,lamarca
Date: 10 Mar 00 - 06:14 PM

Martin Simpson is high on my list - love his tattoos (see the album cover for "When I Was On Horseback) and love his guitar playing even more.

A whole table of young ladies at a Silly Wizard concert (including me, before I met my beloved) were shattered when Andy Stewart dedicated "Slowly, Slowly" to his WIFE - we didn't know he was already spoken for...

Subject: RE: Sexiest Folksingers Alive
From: Pixie
Date: 10 Mar 00 - 07:02 PM

Maybe not technically a "folkie", but I think Kevin Welch deserves some recognition in this thread, particularly for his recording of "Somethin' 'Bout You". Go Kevin go!