Folk music, R&P? (twenty characters...)?

Do you know Lightnin' Hopkins?

Goin' Down Slow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQQ4YTL1P1A

Shotgun Blues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObzKavim1gk&feature...

Cotton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFN9lebEvF0&feature...

Do you know Dave Van Ronk?

Hesitation Blues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eymBZF9gIkw

Keep It Clean

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKNQfSAFPLg&feature...

Are you Familiar with Reverend Gary Davis?

Candy Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlQZwHcBqyQ

Samson and Delilah

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46GlLOhQscs&feature...

Let me know what you think!

BA: Jazz

Some 60s Greenwich-Cambridge names-

Tom Rush

Patrick Sky

Bruce Murdoch

Eric Andersen

David Blue (Cohen)

Dave Van Ronk

Tim Hardin

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Peter LaFarge

Richard & Mimi Farina

Carolyn Hester

Some earlier names-

Aunt Molly Jackson

Jim Garland

John Jacob Niles

Jean Ritchie

The Almanac Singers

Elizabeth Cotton

I'm not a guy who knows a ton of straight up folk. I tend to like the happy medium between folk and rock, but here are a couple people that I'm into...

Tom Brosseau - Here Comes the Water Now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTRFCgpg31w

kind of a folk/folk rock guy depending on the tune. I really like both of his records

Tall Tales and the Silver Lining - Born Down By the Side (plus a second song, can't remember which one it is now)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWjgqi6NfHk

Fionn Regan - the Underwood Typewriter (Rukrym recommended him to me a while back. Really nice song)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9k6NyuTGhM&feature...

You should love this Jack.

My favorite Folk Rock Band I ever heard, The Ghost

Too Late To Cry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFNwep-ch8M

Night Of The Warlock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-olq-ooVE84

They are just out and out AWESOME!

My favorite Fairport Convention song, featuring the phenomenal Vocals of Sandy Denny

Percy's Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU2kU0c49Xw

And one more awesome Folkish Band I discovered

Spring - Golden Fleece

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPrZk0gvHrk

I have been on a GIANT Bob Dylan kick lately. Really good stuff.

BQ: Yep, Folk or French Pop, haha I'm a loser

one of my favs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtkVGClqrT4&feature...

Nick Drake would be worth checking out. A bit later...a bit less traditional...

"Know"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRS0pYh8VME

"Harvest Breed"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMsGvNGX6rA

And, for the trying, some more recent folk, indie folk, I guess:

Scout Niblett "Wet Road"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWVTCd54_IM

Cat Power "Taking People"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJY8Jyc0QY8

---the "new weird america" folk musicians, like Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom are definitely some to hear

Devendra Banhart "Michigan State"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrCedw__d1s

Joanna Newsome "Peach, Plum, Pear"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcHjAUhtSrk

BQ: no subgenres? ...hm, hip hop

Here is an experiment folk band (lol, believe it or not...)

They are called The Books the song is Read, Eat, Sleep

http://www.imeem.com/people/PQ6EQkc/blogs/2009/01/...

THe Kingston Trio - "Hang Down Your Head Tom Dooley" and "Greenback Dollar"

Old Crow Medicine Show

I'd check out Dave Van Ronk.

BQ: Soul, probably. But rap and jazz are both up there.