Looking for some folk suggestions!

Skip Spence - Oar

 

Thoroughly recommend this one - the lineup is like a who's who of folk rock at the time including Ashley Hutchings and John Tams (whose own recent albums are excellent too.)

 

Vanguard recorded a lot of the important performers in the sixties and seventies. This collection looks good--I've never heard it, but it looks good and I may have to buy it for myself--but it does give a good intro to the folk scene fifty or so years ago.

http://www.amazon.com/Vanguard-Roots-Of-Folk-CD/dp/tracks/B00006EXBY/ref=dp_tracks_all_1#disc_1

 

Another really good compilation : Feel the Spirit
http://www.allmusic.com/album/feel-the-spirit-other-wordly-folk-gems-psychedelics-mw0000444500

 

I've been listening to this one for a while:

http://www.amazon.com/Live-At-Mother-Blues-1964/dp/B00004L8BX/ref=sr_1_18?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1435792362&sr=1-18&keywords=terry+callier,

 

Richie Havens-Something Else Again
Incredible String Band-The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

 

Duncan Browne - Give Me Take You
Duncan Browne - s/t

 

From Give Me Take You:

 

One of my favorites:

Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day

 

Jake Holmes - A Letter to Katherine December



Jazzy enough for you?

 

First Pentangle LP, or the box set which sounds superb.

 

I like Mojo Presents: The Quiet Revolution for a sampler.

 

Hi Stephen
Donovan did a few tracks of the kind you specified, but they tend to be scattered around his albums - e.g.
I can't think of many current artists doing that kind of thing specifically; here's one that's got a lot of that Tim Buckley/Ryley Walker folk-jazz airiness and space , but whether it's quite up your street you'll have to decide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PT0_hCL1o8

 

You probably know of Michael Chapman already. If not, check out his first album, Rainmaker





For something contemporary but in the spirit of the late 60s-early 70s, you may also like Meg Baird


https://youtu.be/cuxjOkanX5w

 

Thanks again for all the suggestions, I have been liking some of what I heard, especially a few tracks on the compilations.

 

Yeah Donovan is another one that I love a lot of his songs.

 

You should try an album by Blizten Trapper, such as Wild Mountain Nation or Furr. A bit "out there" but immensely fun! CSN s/t and CSN would seem to be obvious choices too.

 

I'm not too sure if this will float your boat Stephen. Some may describe it as Rock but it's mainly acoustic with a ghostly vibe. In fact it's a ghost story so I think its folk credentials are intact:

 

Some great suggestions here. Swaddling Songs in particular is worth seeking out -- it's often referred to as a "lost folk masterpiece" or something like that, and it's not hyperbole. An astonishing record that's unlike anything else.

 

I like Alan Stivell. He sings mostly in Breton, but some English and Irish as well.

 

Bryter Later especially has some great jazzy tunes (Poor Boy, At The Chime of a City Clock, Northern Sky). I really love the sole LP by Boston-area band Appaloosa, from 1969 - perhaps a little more baroque-pop chamber folk, but I think fans of Nick Drake would like this.

 

On a side note, those are fantastic band names!

 

Dino Valenti

For some reason I come back to this album again and again. It's pretty much a pysch folk masterpiece.

 

If you like some of the progressive folk that came out of that era in the late 60s and early 70s, bands like Jethro Tull, find a copy of the debut First Utterance by Comus. Pretty amazing, dark lyrics like Sabbath, but still mostly acoustic, and very well played. Wild band.