Folk's Great Lovers

Subject: Folk's Great Lovers
From: Pinetop Slim
Date: 28 Aug 00 - 10:19 PM

Nutha thread has thoughts lingering about Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger (not Ewan and Peggy, mind you, nor MacColl and Seeger. That they forged such strong separate identities makes their love so much more interesting).
And a lost disc (long story) led me to thinking bout Lotte Lenya and Kurt Weill. (Did I say Folk's Great Lovers? I meant Music-of-the-people's Great Lovers).
Who do the best romance stories surround? Whose loves have given us the best songs? Ian and Sylvia? Richard and Mimi Farina? Mick Jagger and Maryann Faithful (but it was a great one-night stand)?

Subject: RE: BS: Folk's Great Lovers
From: GUEST,CLETUS
Date: 28 Aug 00 - 10:26 PM

Them there Paton folks wud hav ta be purty high up on my list an I reckon on a lotta folks lists arown heer. Sandy an Miz Caroline ar sum reel fine peepul an grate folkies too. An I doan reckon ennybuddy luvs each other more so Ile throw in the 2 uv them, even tho Sandy done sold me a soundhole frum a Larrivee gittar whut I cud never string up.

An uv course they ain't famous ur nuthin, but Catspaw an Miz Karen shur are in luv.

CLETUS

Subject: RE: BS: Folk's Great Lovers
From: Mbo
Date: 28 Aug 00 - 10:27 PM

Dougie & Jennifer MacLean.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk's Great Lovers
From: Callie
Date: 28 Aug 00 - 10:39 PM

Richard and Linda Thompson; Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson

Subject: RE: BS: Folk's Great Lovers
From: Mbo
Date: 28 Aug 00 - 10:48 PM

Nollaig Casey & Arty McGlynn; Chris Newman & Maire Ni Chathasaigh

Subject: RE: BS: Folk's Great Lovers
From: pastorpest
Date: 28 Aug 00 - 11:03 PM

England's Simon Mayor and Hilary James are a great musical duo.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk's Great Lovers
From: Mbo
Date: 28 Aug 00 - 11:07 PM

Me and...never mind.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk's Great Lovers
From: bflat
Date: 28 Aug 00 - 11:16 PM

Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen Mark Moss & Ann Hills

Subject: RE: BS: Folk's Great Lovers
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Aug 00 - 11:18 PM

It strikes me that we have already got a lot of duos listed here, but are we really sure they are great love stories? Now I know that Sandy and Caroline certainly meet that as anyone who has been around this joint well knows. However, because someone is still together doesn't make it love. I know plenty of couples that fit there. Can we get a little info on these as you list them? Mimi and Richard Farina is a pretty well known story as are some others, but some of the lesser known stories might be interesting. Just kinda' curious.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Folk's Great Lovers
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 28 Aug 00 - 11:29 PM

George and Gerry Armstrong were a devoted couple who made major contributions to the folk world. Sally Rogers and Howie Bursen were visiting with us here yesterday. They are surely a great and loving couple. As for me and Caroline, we're beginning to get the hang of it after 43 years. But, then again, our was a whirlwind courtship; the kind that are never expected to last.

Sandy

Subject: RE: BS: Folk's Great Lovers
From: Lena
Date: 29 Aug 00 - 04:41 AM

Lou & Mara Kiek on Oz shores for what I've seen....

But how about when they proliferate?!

Folk can be so "incestuos" sometimes !!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Folk's Great Lovers
From: winniemih
Date: 29 Aug 00 - 10:47 AM

robin and linda Williams laurie lewis and tom rozum

Subject: RE: BS: Folk's Great Lovers
From: GUEST,Mbo_at_ECU
Date: 29 Aug 00 - 10:49 AM

Tom Paxton & Midge.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk's Great Lovers
From: Kim C
Date: 29 Aug 00 - 11:58 AM

Robin and Linda Williams for sure.

What about Tiny Tim and MIss Vickie? (she said, ducking and running.....)

Subject: RE: BS: Folk's Great Lovers
From: Midchuck
Date: 29 Aug 00 - 01:20 PM

Katie and Willie....

Peter.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk's Great Lovers
From: Jim the Bart
Date: 29 Aug 00 - 02:39 PM

Alan Frazier and Daisy DeBolt, at least at one time. I saw them while in college in 1969 (yes, I am old) and I have rarely seen two people communicate so intimately through their music. And the communication included an additional instrumentalist, Ian Gunther on the fiddle. Man, they were intense. I honestly forgot about myself as I watched them sing and play their incredible songs for five nights in a row. Their sets had a pulse like breathing, or waves on the shore. . .

I know I've mentioned them before, but it was something I will never get over. And although I understand that they are no longer together as a couple or an act, what they had then was something I have hoped for ever since - a partnership based in music that makes everything else seem small and insignificant.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk's Great Lovers
From: Fortunato
Date: 29 Aug 00 - 03:13 PM

I assumed from the title of this thread you were referring to those men or women who had achieved some notoriety or reputation through their facility at lovemaking, perhaps the frequency thereof.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk's Great Lovers
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 29 Aug 00 - 04:18 PM

Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh and the late Frankie Kennedy!

Altan still carries their love...

Subject: RE: BS: Folk's Great Lovers
From: Peter T.
Date: 29 Aug 00 - 04:19 PM

Bob Dylan and himself.

yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk's Great Lovers
From: GUEST,Zimmy from Minnesota
Date: 29 Aug 00 - 05:06 PM

Peter T. and his inflatable doll.

yours, Zimmy from Minnesota