Folk Routes (new CD)

Subject: Folk Routes
From: Kosmo
Date: 13 Sep 09 - 05:13 PM

Has anyone else noticed this new CD that's out?

I have it on my spotify and showed it to my friend who was unaware that most of the artists on the album are considered "folk".

I must admit that I don't really consider quite a few of them folk, probably folk fusion (in my head), I also like to think of a lot of the tracks as "acoustic

I cannot get my head around the track "tale from black" by Tuung, it's not what I expected, yet, I do enjoy a good surprise.

I just wanted to know what some other folkies thought of it as I don't have many folkies easily accessible due to a large ammount friends not really being very into folk.

Is this just a way of making folk more popular by putting radio 2 standards on a cd with a few traddy songs and calling it a folk album?

Anyway, much love.

Kosmo
xxx


(Track list)
    *   1. White Winter Hymnal - Fleet Foxes
    * 2. Heartbeats - Jose Gonzalez
    * 3. 5 Years Time - Noah And The Whale
    * 4. From The Morning - Nick Drake
    * 5. Leftovers - Johnny Flynn
    * 6. Chicago - Sufjan Stevens
    * 7. Don't Let The Record Label Take You Out To Lunch - Jeffrey Lewis
    * 8. Tale From Black - Tunng
    * 9. Solid Air - John Martyn
    * 10. Pretty Ploughboy - Eliza Carthy
    * 11. I Keep Faith - Billy Bragg
    * 12. Once I Had A Sweetheart - Pentangle
    * 13. Anji - Davey Graham
    * 14. Dancing, The - June Tabor
    * 15. Pagan Angel And Borrowed Car - Iron & Wine
    * 16. Underneath The Stars - Kate Rusby
    * 17. Matty Groves - Fairport Convention
    * 18. Wallflower - Uncle Earl
    * 19. Colours - Donovan

disc 2

    * 1. 1234 - Feist
    * 2. When The Stars Go Blue - Ryan Adams
    * 3. Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, The - Joan Baez
    * 4. Wild Wood - Paul Weller
    * 5. John Barleycorn (Must Die) - Traffic
    * 6. At The Chime Of A City Clock - Nick Drake
    * 7. She Moves Thru The Fair - Fairport Convention
    * 8. After The Dance - Bert Jansch & John Renbourn
    * 9. Hill Of Thieves, The - Cara Dillon
    * 10. When I Was On Horseback - Steeleye Span
    * 11. Streets Of London - Ralph McTell
    * 12. I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight - Richard & Linda Thompson
    * 13. Loving Kind, The - Nanci Griffith
    * 14. Who Knows Where The Time Goes - Sandy Denny
    * 15. May Morning - Waterson:Carthy
    * 16. Fields Of Gold - Eva Cassidy
    * 17. Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground - Beth Rowley
    * 18. Versatile Heart - Linda Thompson
    * 19. Hard Ain't It Hard - Woody Guthrie

Subject: RE: Folk Routes (new CD)
From: nutty
Date: 14 Sep 09 - 07:21 AM

Certainly some suprising names there but generally what I have always known as 'folk' although some artists would have been considered as playing 'contemporary folk music' when there was a definite split in the genre in the 70/80's