FML:What are your 10 favorite Folk artists/bands,tracks and albums?

Artist:

Donovan

Catch The Wind

Colours

Oh Gosh

Preachin' Love

Lalena

Atlantis

Happiness Runs

Wear Your Love Like Heaven

The Tinker And The Crab

Mellow Yellow

Dylan

Bob Dylan's Dream

It's All Right Ma

Song To Woody

Corrina Corrina

Blowin' In The Wind

Lay Lady Lay

Talking World War III Blues

Visions Of Johanna

A Hard Rains A Gonna Fall

Hollis Brown

Jim Croce

Time In A Bottle

Photographs And Memories

Workin' At The Car Wash Blues

Operator

I Got A Name

Roller Derby Queen

Lover's Cross

Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown

One Less Set Of Footsteps

You Don't Mess Around With Jim

Harry Chapman

Circle

W.O.L.D.

I Wanna Learn A Love Song

Cats In The Cradle

Taxi

30,000 Pounds of Bananas

She Is Always Seventeen

Saturday Morning

Dreams Go By

Love Is Just Another Word.

Woody Guthrie

This Land Is Your Land

Ludlow Massacre song

Hobo's Lullaby

Wild Wood Fie

Worried Man Blues

Little Sadie

Mermaid's Avenue

Mule Skinner Blues

Take A Whiff Of Me

Deportee

Simon And Garfunkel

Song For The Asking

For Emily Whenever I May Find Her

I Am A Rock

Cecilia

Bridge Over Troubled Water

The Soud Of Silence

The Dangling Conversation

The 59th Street Bridge Song

Fakin' It

El Condor Pasa

Leonard Cohen

Who By Fire

Bird On A Wire

Suzanne

Chelsea Hotel No. 2

Sisters Of Mercy

Last Year's Man

Famous Blue Raincoat

The Partisan

Missing You

How Blue Can You Get?

Gordon Lightfoot

Black Day In July

May I

Boss Man

Summertime Dream

Did She Mention My Name

Go-Go Round

Ribbon Of Darkness

Rich Man's Spirtual

The Lost Children

Don Quixote

Arlo Guthrie

Alice's Restaurant Massacree

The Motorcycle Song

Ring-Around-a-Rosy Rag.

Miss The Mississippi And You

Presidential Rag

Me And My Goose

Go Down Moses

City Of New Orleans

When The Ship Comes In

Shackles And Chains

Cat Steven

Tea For The Tillerman

Oh Very Young

Another Saturday Night

The First Cut Is The Deepest

Longer Boats

Hard Headed Woman

Wild World

Miles From Nowhere

Father And Son

Into White

I let some one else do albums

I have not heard that much of it, but what I have heard is not so bad

BQ2:Steeleye Span: Thomas the Rhymer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo3VxbJ0RJ4

BQ3: don't know

BQ4: Master Of Puppets

take care

dave

1 - Bob Dylan,

albums - Highway 61 Revisited, The Times They are A Changing, The Free Wheelin Bob Dylan, Blonde on Blonde, Before The Flood (with the Band). Slow Train Coming

songs

The Times They Are A Changing

Stuck Inside of Mobile with The Memophis Blues Again

Song To Woody

Girl From The North Country

Donn't Think Twice It's Alright

Hell just put the entire album "The Free Wheelin Bob Dylan" down. LOL

The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carrol

My Back Pages

Maggies farm

Hell I have to stop on Dylan there or I'll be here all day. LOL

Fairport Convention

albums - my favorites are the ones with Sandy Denny

What We Did On Our Holidays

Unhalfbricking

Liege & Leaf

songs

Farthoringay

She Moves Through The fair

Who Knows Where The Time Goes

A Sailor' Life

Matty Groves

Tam Lin

Other artists

Joan Baez

Simon & Garfunkel

Mumford & Sons

Leon Russell - Folk / Blues

Eva Cassidy - - Folk/ Rock

Emmy Lou Harris

BQ - yes

BQ2 - nothing

BQ3 - Baked Potato

BQ4 - Master of Puppets

I don't listen to a lot of folk but most of what I do listen to is from the '90s on up to now. My favorite is Red House Painters, as well as Mark Kozelek's solo career and his other band Sun Kil Moon. I also really like Mumford & Sons, Sarah McLachlan, Mazzy Star, and The Fray. Some of the early stuff from Coldplay, Snow Patrol, and The Cranberries could be considered folk and I like their stuff too. There's too many good songs to name but my favorite folk album might be "Songs For A Blue Guitar" by Red House Painters.

MQ2: ?

BQ: What is folk metal?

BQ2: Mark Kozelek - Lost Verses: Live

BQ3: ?

BQ4: Master of Puppets

Well, from my experience:

Artists -

Leonard Cohen

Comus

Nick Drake

John Lennon

Richard and Linda Thompson

Joni Mitchell

Bob Dylan

Jethro Tull

Neutral Milk Hotel

Neil Young

Albums -

First Utterance - Comus

Five Leaves Left - Nick Drake

Blood on the Tracks - Dylan

I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight - Richard and Linda Thompson

Plastic Ono Band - John Lennon

Blue - Joni Mitchell

Astral Weeks - Van Morrison

Songs of Love and Hate - Leonard Cohen

After the Gold Rush - Neil Young

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel

MA2: Wouldn't know.

BA: A bit.

BA2: "No-One Driving" - John Foxx

BA3: Pfft, starch isn't even my favorite polysaccharide. How should I know?

BA4: Master of Puppets.

Such a general term. Brain overload. =o

Jethro Tull

Six Organs of Admittance

Strawbs

Gram Parsons

Gryphon

Azahar

James Taylor

Richard Thompson

The Tallest Man on Earth

Van Morrison

MQ2: Finland =)

BQ: Love it.

BQ2: She's Too Good For Me - Sting

BQ3: Potato

BQ4: Master of Puppets

I am intimidated by the other answers, particularly Dave lol XD

Sooo I'll just skip to the BQ4: Master of Puppets eats The Number of the Beast's babies anyday, and that's coming from a Maiden nut at that!!

The Beast boasts my favourite Maiden track "Hallowed Be Thy Name" but beyond that and a couple of classics most of the song are utterly lackluster. Master of Puppets is not void of "classics" and ALL the songs on that album are great.

So while the Beast doesn't crack my top 5 Maiden albums, MOP is my fave metal record ever. Maiden is my fave band and Metallica is second so that ought ta tell ya something right? ^^

Albums:

Doc Watson - Doc Watson

Roscoe Holcomb - The High Lonesome Sound

Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Fred Neil - Bleeker & MacDougal

Tim Hardin - Tim Hardin I or Tim Harden 2

Dave Van Ronk - Dave Van Ronk & the Hudson Dusters (this is a cheat; it is the only "rock" album by this folksinger)

Richard & Mimi Farina - Celebrations for a Grey Day

Buffy St. Marie - It's My Way!

Al Stewart - Love Chronicles (more folk-rock, than folk)

Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking (ditto)

Honorable mention: Donovan, who I am not comfortable tagging as "folk"

Favorite Folk Artist: Georgie Brennan

Favorite Folk Band: The Fleet Foxes

Favorite Folk Tracks: Georgie Brennan -"Simple Man", "Fabric of America", "My Wish For You"

Jon Troast - "The Most"

Jason Mraz - "I'm Yours"

John Denver - "Country Roads", "Calypso", Annie's Song"

Colbie Caillat - "Bubbly"

Jim Croce - "Bad Leroy Brown"

Harry Nilsson - "Everybody's Talkin"

Simon & Garfunkel - "The Boxer", "Sounds of Silence", "Mrs. Robinson"

Favorite Folk Album: Georgie Brennan - "Believe" (2011)

MQ2: America is really the standout country for Folk

BQ: No

BQ2: Georgie Brennan - "Simple Man"

BQ3: Baked Potatoe

BQ4: The Number of the Beast (Love Maiden!)

Main Answer 1: I give you the list of my favorite artists and bands with a song example and the album that appears in the video is my favorite album from them, respectively.

Bands/Artists and their albums:

01. Garmarna (Sweden)

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

02. Triakel (Sweden)

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

03. Värttinä (Finland)

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

04. Hedningarna (Finland/Sweden)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrqGc2Q9eNU&feature...

05. Gjallarhorn (Sweden)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPR56PXiLqY

06. Yothu Yindi (Australia)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqkHCMdBSb4&feature...

07. TYR (Faroe Island/Folk Metal)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdO3qheFrxs

08. Blackmore's Night (UK)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L72e7OgW5j8&feature...

09. Runrig (Scotland/album: The Big Wheel)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQFid6nXZpg

10. Kari Rueslatten (Norway)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=247YDyJEBRM&feature...

Songs:

01. Oleg Fesov - Marav (Tajikistan)

02. Koppången (Sweden)

03. The Corries - Flower of Scotland

04. Hvanndalsbræður - Maistjarnan (Iceland)

05. Vilhjálmur Vilhjálmsson - Söknuður (Iceland)

06. Sorgsvart - Kråkaviso (Norway)

07. Arve Moen Bergset - Eg Er Framand (Norway)

08. Liv Kristine - Ei tulle med øyne blå (Norway)

09. Egschiglen - Chingis Haani Magtaal (Mongolia)

10. Mari Boine - Elle (Samiland/Lapland)

Main Answer 2:

Skandinavia and Finland, but also the Baltic countries such as Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania is rich with Folk bands and even Folk Metal bands. I just discovered the music from these countries and they are special. Especially, Skandinavian folk is very adaptable. It can be included into Extreme Metal music without turning the songs too cheesy. The melodies are beautiful.

I also like Celtic Folk and Folk Metal from the British Islands, Bretonia, or Nova Scotia (Canada).

Other countries are Spain, Portugal, all the South American countries. Mongolia has beautiful folk music. If you get used to their sound, you would like it very much.

South East Asian music is very nice, especially Malay, Javanese, and Sundanese Music. My wife is from Indonesia.

From Central Europe, I like Medieval Minnesang. I think minnesang "Courtly Love music" from the high middle ages are better than the contemporary folk music of for example Germany or France.

Bonus Answer 1:

Yes, I like folk metal. My favorite bands are Arkona, Cruachan, Leaves' Eyes, Midnattsol, TYR, Vintersorg, and Highland Glory.

Bonus Answer 2:

Kari Rueslatten - Hor Min Sang

Bonus Answer 3:

Potato

Bonus Answer 4:

What would be the Master of Puppets without the Beast?