Your favorite English/Irish folk artists/albums

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  1. ganma

    ganma Senior Member Thread Starter

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    I love all the English/Irish folk that came out in the late '60s and '70s. Love the big names like:
    Incredible String Band, Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span as well as some lesser known names like Dando Shaft and Jade. I loved what the Pogues did in the '80s too.
    Tell us about the artists and albums you like. Folk-rock, acid folk discussion welcome too. Welsh/Scottish artists also welcome.
    Some lesser known albums that I like:
    Fresh Maggots — s/t
    Jade — Fly on Strangewings.
     
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  2. Harvest Your Thoughts

    Harvest Your Thoughts Forum Resident

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    Bert Jansch. He didn't release a dud.
     
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  3. Roger Thornhill

    Roger Thornhill Senior Member

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    Apart from the usual Fairport Convention and Richard Thompson stuff...

    Albion Band - Rise Up Like The Sun
    Home Service - Alright Jack (80s but still great)
    Lal and Mike Waterson - Bright Pheobus
     
  4. arthurprecarious

    arthurprecarious Forum Resident

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    If you haven't already check out The Full English.
     
  5. Alan2

    Alan2 Forum Resident

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    ISB: Hangman's or Liquid Acrobat.
    Spirogyra: Any of the 3.
    Mellow Candle: Swaddling Songs.
    Pentangle: Basket of Light or Sweet Child.
    Firport: Full House, Unhalfbricking or Holidays.
    Strawbs: From the Witchwood.
    Trees: On the Shore.

    I could go on, but you have to stop somewhere. :cool:
     
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  6. SquaRoots

    SquaRoots The North Star Grassman

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    Here's a random list of my favourite albums

    One of the better known names (along the ones the OP mentions):
    Pentangle - s/t
    Pentangle - Basket Of Light
    Shelagh McDonald - Stargazer

    In the category "more obscure" :
    The Woods Band - s/t
    (Gay and Terry Woods' duo albums are also worthwile checking out.)
    Trees - On the Shore
    Dransfield - The Fiddler's Dream
    Sido Martens - Land & Water
    Albion Band - The Prospect Before Us
    Maddy Prior & June Tabor - Silly Sisters

    I just finished reading a great book on the history of folk in the British & Irish Isles:
    Electric Eden by Rob Young.
    It also lists and reviews a lot of interesting folk(rock) album releases from the early 60ties into the 80's.
    This is a great source of inspiration for the present day folk explorer.
     
  7. Rodney Toady

    Rodney Toady Waste of cyberspace

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    Some of my favourite English/Scottish folk artists and their albums, only one album per artist allowed and the most usual suspects banned altogether:

    Bert Jansch
    , A Rare Conundrum
    Jacqui McShee, Gerry Conway & Spencer Cozens, About Thyme
    Oysterband, Holy Bandits
    Bob Pegg, Ancient Maps
    John Renbourn, The Enchanted Garden
    Show of Hands, Country Life
    June Tabor, Angel Tiger
    John Tams, The Reckoning
    Steve Tilston, So It Goes
    Waz, Fully Chromatic
    Wolfstone, The Half Tail
     
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  8. yasujiro

    yasujiro Senior Member

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    Sir John a lot of Merrie Englandes Musyk Thyng & ye Grene Knyghte
     
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  9. stem

    stem Forum Resident

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    For me the best of all is "Penguin Eggs" by Nic Jones.
     
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  10. Steven Belkin

    Steven Belkin Forum Resident

    Mellow Candle, Pentangle, Fairport Convention, Nick Drake, Incredible String Band, Steeleye Span, Trees.
     
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  11. MikeP5877

    MikeP5877 V/VIII/MCMLXXVII

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    This is one of my favorite albums of all time. Glad someone else likes it too.
     
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  12. ganma

    ganma Senior Member Thread Starter

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    I picked it up as a blind buy from the used bins 25 years ago and loved it. Wish those guys had done more than just the one album.
     
  13. Alan2

    Alan2 Forum Resident

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  14. MikeP5877

    MikeP5877 V/VIII/MCMLXXVII

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    Same here. I ran across the US LP at a record convention 10 years ago and just bought it on a whim. I was hooked by the end of the first song.
     
  15. Olompali

    Olompali Forum Resident

    Criminally underrated
    Donovan
    [​IMG]
     
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  16. seaisletim

    seaisletim Forum Resident

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    The Chieftains! 50+ years and still on tour.
     
  17. greenwichsteve

    greenwichsteve Well-Known Member

    Amazing Blondel - Evensong and especially Fantasia Lindum are superb.
     
  18. jimod99

    jimod99 Daddy or chips?

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    Christy Moore
    The Wolfe Tones (in the 60's and 70's)
    The Dubliners (with Luke Kelly, the Major Minor albums are superb)

    and every decent collection should have a copy of The Clancy Brothers "In Person At The Carnegie Hall"
     
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  19. SammyJoe

    SammyJoe Up The Irons!

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    Good topic and thanks for the recommendations.
     
  20. Cassiel

    Cassiel Sonic Reducer

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    No mention yet of The Bothy Band, superb Irish group from the 1970's - their album Old Hag You Have Killed Me is particularly stellar.

    As a sidebar, if you like Fairport/Steeleye Span et al, you'd probably enjoy Malicorne and Alan Stivell, who were French groups of the same era with complementary sounds. They included a lot of Breton music in their material, which is from the Celtic part of France, so it would likely appeal to Irish music fans. Malicorne are as good if not better a vocal group than Steeleye Span or The Watersons.
     
  21. wolfram

    wolfram Slave to the rhythm

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    If the Pogues do count, they get my vote.
     
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  22. jkauff

    jkauff Senior Member

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    I've been a huge Fairport/Sandy Denny/Richard Thompson fan since the late 60s, but life wouldn't be the same without the Pogues. :righton:
     
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  23. John54

    John54 Senior Member

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    Strawbs - Bursting at the Seams, although it's not particularly "folky"
    Incredible String Band - Wee Tam, mainly for The Half Remarkable Question, Job's Tears, You Get Brighter and Ducks on a Pond

    If Amazing Blondel are considered "folk" then the title half of Fantasia Lindum and the Seascape - Landscape - Afterglow half of England.
     
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  24. Dr Faustus

    Dr Faustus A younger man now getting old

    Martin Simpson - check out his latest, Vagrant Stanzas which is brilliant.
    John Smith - youngish guitarist from Devon who has a great smoky voice and writes amazing songs.
    Tuung - experimental folk (yes there is such a thing).
    Karine Polwart - Scots singer/songwriter who is scary good.
    Another vote for Richard Thompson as well. Heard him live in March and was blown away by his guitar skills.
    And, as has been mentioned, Nic Jones is awesome. Grew up with Penguin Eggs but have been really enjoying Unearthed of late.
     
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  25. Scott in DC

    Scott in DC Forum Resident

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    Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day
    John Renbourn - The Nine Maidens
    John Renbourn - The Lady and the Unicorn
    Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
    Pentangle's earliest albums

    Scott
     
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