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Subject: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: Nick E Date: 09 Feb 08 - 11:31 PM Pretty much right there. For me Great Big Sea... Ryans Fancy |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: GUEST,DonMeixner Date: 10 Feb 08 - 12:43 AM The Corries - The Dubliners The Sons of The Pioneers - Riders in the Sky Tom Paxton - Every one else. Don |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: katlaughing Date: 10 Feb 08 - 12:53 AM Mudcat - Art Thieme, Rick Fielding, Jean Ritchie, Jed Marum, Don Meixner, Kendall Morse, and on and on:-) |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: Gene Burton Date: 10 Feb 08 - 05:00 AM Mudcat-Peter Bellamy. Thank you, Mudcat. (Now I need to smoke out some John Jacob Niles) |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: kendall Date: 10 Feb 08 - 06:58 AM Buryl Ives,Pete Seeger and Gordon Bok. The list is endless. |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: kendall Date: 10 Feb 08 - 07:01 AM I just recalled a statement that Gordon made many years ago. Quote, "When Kendall and I met, we each thought we were the only folk singer in Maine.It was like a man crawling across a desert and suddenly having someone pass him a glass of water." |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: Rapunzel Date: 10 Feb 08 - 07:56 AM Jane Siberry ... Laura Nyro Judie Tzuke ... Judee Sill Kate Bush ... Sandy Denny |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: Anne Lister Date: 10 Feb 08 - 09:26 AM The Watersons, back in 1969 - trad English music |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: Mooh Date: 10 Feb 08 - 09:32 AM The Rolling Stones...Gram Parsons C.S.N...The Byrds, Neil Young Bob Dylan...Pete Seeger Steven Fearing...Colin Linden Linda Ronstadt...Emmylou Harris Oscar Peterson...Stephane Grappelli...Django Reinhardt...Joscho Stephan Stephane Grappelli...Jean-Luc Ponty Led Zeppelin...old blues Roy Buchanan...Roy Buchanan...Rory Gallagher, Danny Gatton Folk festivals...Simon Mayor, Phil Cooper Does it ever end? Hope not. Peace, Mooh. |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: Mooh Date: 10 Feb 08 - 09:33 AM Liturgical music & hymns...Bach, and other baroque and classical music. |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: Bonnie Shaljean Date: 10 Feb 08 - 11:08 AM Tin Pan Alley plastic shamrock-&-leprecaun songs (which is all there was in my neck of the woods in those days) - TO - The Clancy Brothers & similar bands Then: The Clancys & co (whom I still like & listen to) - TO - Unaccompanied traditional singers & later seán nos It was always a matter of following and focusing. But the sentimental ballads and paddywhackery were what first attracted my notice of "Irish" as a musical identity (well, I was just a little kid...) FWIW it also inspired me to pick out tunes on the piano and even make up my own little jigs. It was a black day for my long-suffering mother when I worked out The Irish Washerwoman - she was then treated to a non-stop diet of it, relieved only by enthusiastic bursts of the Dragnet theme (which I thought was really cool) and DaVEEEEE, Daveee Crockett... |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: GUEST,Texas Guest Date: 10 Feb 08 - 11:24 AM Riverdance > > > Irish music & songs Emmylou > > > country music Radio > > > everything My Dad > > > Sinatra and Dixieland Cheers. |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: topical tom Date: 10 Feb 08 - 11:44 AM Pete Seeger The Weavers Tom Paxton Eric Bogle Alan Mills ...and many more. |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: CET Date: 10 Feb 08 - 12:53 PM Clancy Brothers - everything. It all started with them. In more detail: Clancy Brothers>Ryan's Fancy>Planxty>Clannad>Dolores Keane>Sean Keane Tannahill Weavers>Battlefield Band>Alistair Brown>Old Blind Dogs>Brian MacNeill>Janet Russell Johnny Cash>Ralph Stanley>Nitty Gritty Dirt Band>Doc Watson>Gillian Welch>Joe Newberry Steeleye Span>Fairport Convention>Martin Carthy>Waterson,Carthy>Eliza Carthy>Crucible Pete Seeger>Geoff Warner Garolou>La Bottine Souriante>Entourloupe>Serre L'Ecoute |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: RangerSteve Date: 10 Feb 08 - 01:31 PM Listening to the Wheeling Jamboree on WWVA led me to Old-time country music. |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: Jack Blandiver Date: 10 Feb 08 - 02:45 PM Shirley Collins ... George Formby |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: kendall Date: 10 Feb 08 - 03:11 PM Hey ranger Steve, do you remember Lee Moore the coffee drinking nighthawk?.He and I used to do Smokey Greene's bluegrass festival in Porter Corners NY. He always carried that stupid music stand with his songs on it. He sang the same songs year after year and never memorized any of them. I remember one time, he was getting ready to go on stage and I helped him by carrying his music stand with its heavy base, and he remarked, "Now you can tell everyone that you played bass for me." Another time he met me as I came off the stage, he said, "Mister, for a performance like that, you deserve a 5th" He handed me a broken guitar string. Comedy was not his long suit. |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: Pete_Standing Date: 10 Feb 08 - 03:48 PM Had it not been for Johnny Tillotson singing "Princess Princess" and Doris Day singing "Que Sera Sera" I doubt I would have started listening to June Tabor. |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: topical tom Date: 10 Feb 08 - 04:25 PM I well remember Lee Moore, the coffee-drinking nighthawk. I used to listen to him on WWVA till the wee hours of the morning.I used to enjoy listening to him singing "The Cat Came Back". Does anyone recall Lazy Jim Day and his "Singing News": Come listen,everybody and I'll bring you the singing news, A little bit of sunshine to chase away the blues. Humourous snippets of news would follow. |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: RangerSteve Date: 10 Feb 08 - 06:52 PM Kendall - yes, Lee Moore was one of my early musical heroes. When I started listening to the Jamboree, Moore, Doc Williams, Betty Amos, Mac Wiseman and the Blue Ridge Quartet were among the regulars. That combination of traditional music with commercial county overtones is what I favor in my performances. |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: GUEST,AR Date: 10 Feb 08 - 06:53 PM John Cage - silence |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: Phil Cooper Date: 10 Feb 08 - 11:46 PM Fairport Convention--Steeleye Span, Richard Thompson, Martin Carthy. Phil Ochs--Tom Paxton, Eric Andersen Mary McCaslin--Randy Newman Bert Jansch--John Renbourn, Pentangle John Fahey--Stefan Grossman, Bert Jansch, Martin Carthy it just goes on... |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: katlaughing Date: 11 Feb 08 - 12:05 AM Bonnie, that's about what we had for Irish stuff, too, in fact I used to beg my dad to play the Irish Washerwoman. It was my fav. to dance to. Burl Ives was quite popular in our part of the world, too and led to many other artists, as did Harry Belafonte. |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: Skivee Date: 11 Feb 08 - 12:08 AM The soundtrack from "Barry Lyndon"....The Chieftains, which pointed me at Celtic music in general. |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: GUEST,Marion Date: 11 Feb 08 - 12:15 AM Listening to Jed Marum led to Michael Troy. |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: fat B****rd Date: 11 Feb 08 - 04:29 AM Lonnie Donegan - Leadbelly Dave Berry and the Cruisers - Chuck, Bo, Muddy, Wolf et al "Hard Times"(film) - Cajun music |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: Big Al Whittle Date: 11 Feb 08 - 04:40 AM Bob Dylan and pete Seeger - Woody guthrie, ewan Macoll Alex Campbell- Big Bill Broonzy Derek Brimstone - everybody else from the Copper family to Jeremy Taylor and Elton John (I'd given up on pop music til Del started doing Your Song) |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: David C. Carter Date: 11 Feb 08 - 05:18 AM "Jazz Club"(radio)-Django-Miles-Coltrane-Cannonball Adderly-Parker etc Lonnie Donegan-Leadbelly Guthrie-Dylan Grieg-Shubert |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: Raggytash Date: 11 Feb 08 - 06:52 AM My Grandma Dickinson .... all sorts |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: cetmst Date: 11 Feb 08 - 07:32 AM Someone whose identity I did not note singing "The Martins and the 'Coys" in the early thirties, then, Carl Sandburg, Josef Marais, Burl Ives, Pete Seeger, the Jefferson Singers |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: Folk Form # 1 Date: 11 Feb 08 - 08:36 AM Eric Clapton > The Blues Steeleye Span on the telly > Folk Music Melody Maker > Jazz My freind, Mike Schaeffer > 70s Kraut Rock Hearing Gladys Knight on the radio > Soul music Charlie Gillett's Honky Tonk radio show in the 70s > 50s Rock n Roll and Country Music |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: Noah Zacharin Date: 11 Feb 08 - 09:51 AM because of Bruce Murdoch I started to listen to Patrick Sky, wonderful songwriters both... |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: Dan Keding Date: 11 Feb 08 - 10:45 AM A friend in college had me listen to a recording by a group called Pentangle which led me to Steeleye Span, Fairport Convention and then to Martin Carthy, The Watersons, The Cooper Family and then on to more traditional singers. The Kingston Trio led me to Frank Profitt and other traditional American singers. You only have to open the lid a bit before you smell the coffee and want more - same with folk music. Dan |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: Folk Form # 1 Date: 11 Feb 08 - 10:55 AM Crazy Horses by the Osmonds TO Neil Young and Crazy Horse. That was a joke. |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: PeadarOfPortsmouth Date: 11 Feb 08 - 12:21 PM From hearing The Clancy Bros. while growing up... To becoming a huge fan of Christy Moore in my 20s... Which led to his roots of Woody Guthrie and Ewan MacColl. Peter |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: PeadarOfPortsmouth Date: 11 Feb 08 - 12:24 PM Oh, and giving credit where credit is due... By taking me under his wing at the Press Room, Curmudgeon has gotten me into Lou Killen, John Roberts, June Tabor and a host of Child ballad singers. Thanks Tom! Peter |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: GUEST,Neil D Date: 11 Feb 08 - 01:48 PM My brother/ Woody, Pete, Arlo, Utah, TM & The Clancy Bros, Ochs, Bob Marley, etc. Don Kirshner/ Steeleye Span Steeleye Span/ Fairport Woody Allen/ Django "McCabe and Mrs. Miller"(movie)/Leonard Cohen "I'm Your Man"(docutribute to LC)/Rufus Wainwright, Teddy Thompson, Handsome Family, Anthony, Nick Cave Much Music/ Great Big Sea, Ashley McIsaacs, Natalie McMasters Great Big Sea/ Carbon Leaf, Ryan's Fancy, Irish Descendants Mudcat/ Planxty, Dubliners, Doc Watson, Ti Jean |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: GUEST,Suffolk Miracle Date: 12 Feb 08 - 08:24 AM Bob Dylan - Woody Guthrie Woody Guthrie - Sarah Ogan Gunning Sarah Ogan Gunning - Willie Scott (not an obvious segue I grant you, but I was looking for someone singing unaccompanied) Willie Scott - Harry Cox |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: Tweed Date: 12 Feb 08 - 09:15 AM Bob Dylan - Leadbelly Canned Heat - Charlie Patton, Tommy Johnson Rolling Stones - Muddy Waters, Fred MacDowell Chris Strachwitz - Lightnin' Hopkins Chris Strachwitz - Clifton Chenier John Lee Hooker - More John Lee Hooker |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: katlaughing Date: 12 Feb 08 - 10:26 AM Pernell Roberts as Adam Cartwright on Bonanza to English folk after he sang a song on the show. I cannot remember the name of it...it's on the tip of my tongue, but he did a beautiful job and I've never forgotten it. |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: GUEST,irishenglish Date: 12 Feb 08 - 10:56 AM Because being dragged to a Jethro Tull concert, I started listening to Fairport Convention. Which in turn has started me listening to....well...almost everything in a convoluted way. All English and Celtic folk, country, blues, world, jazz. In some way, all of those avenues opened up for me in November, 1987 in Worcester, Massachusetts when I saw them. Thanks guys! |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: GUEST,Jim Date: 12 Feb 08 - 01:24 PM Clanad to Clancy Brothers (is this backwards from everyone else?) |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: lefthanded guitar Date: 12 Feb 08 - 03:00 PM Bob Dylan.....everybody else. |
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Subject: RE: Because of.. I started to listen to... From: paula t Date: 12 Feb 08 - 03:24 PM My Dad -Tom Paxton,Jazz, Wagner,Roger Miller,Bryan Ferry, Kate Bush. My time at Crewe and Alsager college - BobDylan,RalphMc'tell,Penguin cafe orchestra............... It's an interesting idea to try to remember when you first discovered music which made you sit up and listen. |
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