Your favorite contemporary folk artists

Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite contemporary folk artists
From: GUEST,Dale
Date: 18 Jan 02 - 05:43 PM

And nobody's mentioned Gillian Welch, Katy Moffatt or Kimmie Rhodes?

Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite contemporary folk artists
From: GUEST,SlickerBill
Date: 18 Jan 02 - 05:58 PM

What? Canucks on the Cat and noone mentions Bruce Cockburn? What is up? Massive body of work. brilliant songs. Someone I've really been enjoying is Katherine Wheatley from Ontario. She's an incredible songwriter. What about Ani difranco? Does Neil Young make this list? i gotta say, "O Lonesome me" feels just timeless. Stephen Fearing , especially his last, live album "So Many Miles". Amazing guitarist to boot. Steve Earle. I just discovered this guy recently. I mean, I was familiar with CHR, which is a great tune, but I picked up a cheap CHR cassete for the car ride home one night, and the songs on that album just knocked me out. It's great when you "discover" someone who's been around forever. You've got all those old albums to check out. SB

Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite contemporary folk artists
From: GUEST,Ina
Date: 18 Jan 02 - 06:54 PM

Hi Margo (in case you're still around)

Nice to hear from you! Of course I know you're from Canada - I'm sorry - my mistake ;-)...anyway, I love your music and I agree with what ClintonHammond said about "The Trinity Sessions"!

And about Kate Rusby not being a contemporary artist - depends on how you define "contemporary" - an artist doing his/her own (self-penned non-traditional) material, an artist only interpreting contemporary songs, an artist still living....

Cheers

Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite contemporary folk artists
From: GUEST,Annie
Date: 18 Jan 02 - 09:19 PM

Kate Rusby is the best of the younger British crop - I think she'll be around for a while.

Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite contemporary folk artists
From: Bobert
Date: 18 Jan 02 - 10:55 PM

WHEW!?!....

John the Hull: I've heard Michelle Shocked but non of the others. Thanks.

Wolfgang: Will add Brian McNeal to my watch out for list.

GUEST, Ina: We are all ready listening to the same US artists, fir sure.

Don Meixner: Bill Staines is a name I'm not familiar with but I'm going to get that changed... Amd yeak, screw Kid Rock.. Townes Van Zandt, yeah, Nanci Griffin, Yaeh. With your tastes try Patti Griffith...

Anerigins: Kate Rusby is another of those folks whose name just keep getting thrown into the mix. I'll gett an eye out on her. Thanks.

Liza Minelli: Sorry, wish my mon sounded like Lucindra Williams. Life is tought everywhere.

Dale: I love Gillian Welsh. Period.

Slicker Bill: You and I been listening to and playing, if you are a player, the same stuff. Niel Young, Ani and Steve Earle. Oh, you bad, bad Bill...

THANK EVERYONE FOR THEIR INPUT. tHIS IS GOOD DTUFF!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite contemporary folk artists
From: DancingMom
Date: 18 Jan 02 - 11:55 PM

Yes! Kimmie Rhodes.

Steve Earle. Iris DeMent. John McCutcheon. The Eliza.

Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite contemporary folk artists
From: GUEST,alinact
Date: 19 Jan 02 - 12:46 PM

just to throw in a couple of aussies - Paul Kelly and Kasey Chambers.

Neither are strictly folk, but their ability to tell a story is equal to any one listed above (IMHO), e.g. PK's Everythigs Turning To White and KC's Sothern Kind Of Life.

Allan

Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite contemporary folk artists
From: Amergin
Date: 19 Jan 02 - 01:27 PM

there is some one else out there...some one to keep an eye on...Her name is Kate MacLeod...she is from the Salt Lake area, I believe...I saw her a few months ago in Tri-Cities, Washington....and was instantly smitten....get a chance look her up...

Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite contemporary folk artists
From: Bobert
Date: 19 Jan 02 - 07:57 PM

Thanks, Amergin. Her name has been brought up by others in the thread so you're not the only smitten one. I'll find out about this gal, fir sure...

From reading all these posts there seems to be a lot of Steve Earle fans in Catsburg. I saw him about 6 years ago when he was still doing "whatever" he was doing. Then I read somewhere that he quit doing "whatever", gained 50 pounds and has been trying to get back into the music scene. I'm not that familiar with his recent stuff so if there's anyone out there that is more up to date on the guy, I'd be curious to hear what's up with him.

Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite contemporary folk artists
From: mousethief
Date: 19 Jan 02 - 10:07 PM

Bruce Cockburn, Tom Paxton, Al Stewart, Keb Mo, Bob Bennett, Gordon Bok.

Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite contemporary folk artists
From: GUEST,ChrisC
Date: 19 Jan 02 - 10:45 PM

Hi all, This is my first post here; I just couldn't resist commenting on this: I'm really surprised there wasn't more mention of Gillian Welch. I don't mean to slight any of the other artists mentioned here, many of whom I deeply respect. But to my ear, Miss Welch is a cut above, as both a singer and songwriter. I think she has internalized the key elements of traditional folk music, yet put her own contemporary mark on it. Her influences are clearly audible, yet she has found her own way. Her voice and intonation perfectly fit the styles she sings, and her guitar & banjo work (along with that of her accompaniest David Rawlings) are also of note. I believe her music will be looked back on as some of the best from this era.

Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite contemporary folk artists
From: GUEST,geordie
Date: 20 Jan 02 - 12:54 PM

Stan Rogers...........still contemorary. Emmy Lou Harris. Laura Smith, June Tabor, Kate and Anna Mcgarrigle, Maddy Prior, Arlo Guthrie,Billy Bragg,too many more to name

Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite contemporary folk artists
From: GUEST,Seamus Kennedy
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 05:17 AM

Bill Staines, Eric Bogle, Ed Miller, Danny Doyle, John McCutcheon, Alison Krauss, Doc Watson, and IMHO the best modern songwriter in Ireland, Mickey McConnell, aka our very own Mudcatter- Chordstrangler. If you haven't already done it, please check out his recordings. The man is a lyrical genius.Trust me on this...have I ever lied to you before?

Seamus

Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite contemporary folk artists
From: kendall
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 08:53 AM

Who is chordstrangler?

Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite contemporary folk artists
From: GUEST,breezy
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 09:39 AM

JUNE Tabor got a rare mention yet it was she who gained the wider audience for Bogle -matilda and No mans land-who in turn introduced us to STAN rogers then to Garnett who opens up the world.So return to Tabor to learn of Caddick and Holland and Marsden and Bedford. Then there's Jez and Harvey - our match for Paxton.Did I mention Webber?Tams? or be they contemp/trad? Gaughan and Maclean, doogie i.e.