Your favorite contemporary folk artists

Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite contemporary folk artists
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 16 Jan 02 - 03:54 PM

I can hope Murray... I can really hope...

Oh ya... add to my list Leonard Cohen as well...

John Prine.. well, he's still alive, and still writing new material... I'd think that makes him contermporary....

Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite contemporary folk artists
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 16 Jan 02 - 03:45 PM

Clinton, you really believe anybody will be listening to Ferron in thirty years time?

John Prine's work for sure will live on, like Dylan, Paxton and Simon. But I wouldn't have thought he was "contemporary" in the context of the thread.............

Murray

Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite contemporary folk artists
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 16 Jan 02 - 03:19 PM

James Keelaghan, Garnet Rogers, Stephen Fearing, Ian Tamblyn, Willie P Bennette, Ferron, The Arrogent Worms, 4th Street, Tom Lewis, Andrew Cash, Steve Earle, (high fives, derrymacash!) Louden W the 3rd, (some to you Robert!)...

John Prine goes without saying... And I call him contemporary...

Todd Snyder... (At least I hoe he's got that staying power...)

.-)

Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite contemporary folk artists
From: Francy
Date: 16 Jan 02 - 02:14 PM

Larry Kaplan....Gordon Bok........Tom Russell......Sean Tyrrell...........Paul Geremia..........Rick Lee

Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite contemporary folk artists
From: swirlygirl
Date: 16 Jan 02 - 02:04 PM

I just think that in twenty or thirty years time, people will be hearing a different phase of the tradition...still listening to who are the oldies now but today's contemporary artists will be a part of that...

We need to understand that cultural reference points will chnage and people won't necessarily hear the same things we hear today in the same way, so there's no way to tell...

:)

xxx

(I'll still be listening to Tori Amos and passing it through the family in 20-30 years time!!)

Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite contemporary folk artists
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 16 Jan 02 - 12:25 PM

My guess is that none of the current crop of contemporary singer-songwriters will be remembered in twenty, thirty years time to anything like the same degree as the artists you name.

I have seen many, many performances by many "name" singer-songwriters, and while I enjoy their performances well enough and will continue to support travelling musicians, there is nobody around today writing memorable songs with memorable melodies in the same way that Paxton, Simon et al did. IMHO

Murray

Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite contemporary folk artists
From: Bobert
Date: 16 Jan 02 - 11:57 AM

I really was going after the contemporary folk singer songwriters who in twenty or so years we will look back on much the way we now look back on the likes of John Prine, Loudoun Wainwright, Gordon Lightfoot, Hoyt Axton, Tom Waits, Judy Collins, Simon and Garfunkle, Bob Dylan, etc.

Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite contemporary folk artists
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 16 Jan 02 - 10:09 AM

I rather think that what Bobert is after is names of artists who write their own material in a "contemporary" style (whatever that may be ), as opposed to those who play traditional music, but just happen to be alive at present. Am I right ?

If that is in fact the case, then I would nominate Jack Williams and Richard Shindell as two of my favorites. I could furnish a much longer list of "contemporary" folk artists whose music I cannot stand.

Murray

Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite contemporary folk artists
From: Aidan Crossey
Date: 16 Jan 02 - 09:36 AM

Ron Kavana, Céide, Kate Rusby, Eliza Carthy, her ma, her da, Steve Earle, Shane MacGowan, Dervish, Niamh Parsons, Paddy Keenan, Gabriel McArdle, Len Graham, Denny Bartley, Brian O'Connor, Matt Molloy ...

At least, they're the people I've been listening to this week!

Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite contemporary folk artists
From: GUEST,swirlygirl
Date: 16 Jan 02 - 09:19 AM

Martyn Bennett, Eliza Carthy, and me bloke Jon Loomes (aaww!)

xxx

Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite contemporary folk artists
From: kendall
Date: 16 Jan 02 - 08:53 AM

Eric Bogle, Utah Phillips, Tom Paxton and Gordon Bok.

Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite contemporary folk artists
From: Rolfyboy6
Date: 16 Jan 02 - 01:13 AM

Tim O'Brien, Tony Rice, Corey Harris

Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite contemporary folk artists
From: John Hardly
Date: 15 Jan 02 - 10:42 PM

Dave Carter/Tracy Grammer
Pierce Pettis
Tim O'Brien
Darrell Scott
Kristina Olsen
Rani Arbo
Vance Gilbert

Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite contemporary folk artists
From:
Date: 15 Jan 02 - 10:37 PM

I'm getting old...haven't heard of any of them. mg

Subject: Your favorite contemporary folk artists
From: Bobert
Date: 15 Jan 02 - 10:33 PM

Shawn Mullins, Robin Fulks, Richard Bickner, Mark Germino, Kelly Joe Phelps, Patti Griffin, etc.? Who's your favorite comtemporary folk artist? (This thread may exist but even if it does, I'm curious...)