Favorite Folks
Posted February 19, 2010 by
Morning Show Crew 
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Comments(44) 
Folk is NOT a four letter word. In honor of the great ‘FUV shows this weekend (including Richie Havens, Richard Shindell, and Lucy Kaplansky), we’re playing some of your favorite folkies – old and new – in the QOTD!
How about some Phil Ochs or Tom Paxton?
Here are two of my very favorite fab folkies:
Steve Forbert and Anthony da Costa!
Please play any tune from each!
With the recent death of Mary Travers, I’d love to hear any of her work. Thanks!
All time faves:
Streets of London—Ralph McTell
Pleasures Of The Harbor—Ph Ochs
G’day, morning folks:
Ahhhh. Folk.
Dylan?
Dylan?
Dylan?
You CANNOT do a QOTD without DYLAN!!!
EVEN RICHIE HAVENS gave a direct nod to Dylan on his VERY first album—Just Like A Woman, SO
Let’s go with Dylan and…
Just Like A Woman!!!
Thank you.
I had the pleasure of seeing John Prine for the first time this past Weds. in Ithaca NY at the beautiful State Theater (yes a school night). I was totally blown away. It was like going to a shrine or being in church. What a treasure. Particularly the songs he did alone. Just him and his guitar. And with nod to yesterday’s Q of the day, here is a senior folk singer making his old songs new again and his new songs sound like old standards. Hoping we have many more years of John Prine.
On Friday I enjoyed “Hello In There”, “In Spite of Ourselves”, “Glory of True Love”, and “Angel From Montgomery,” but you take your pick.
As far as new folkie’s go, looking forward to “alt folkies” The Avett Brothers next Friday at the same venue.
Life is Good.
Tim Barry – “Walk 500 Miles” from “28th & Stonewall”
http://www.timbarryrva.com/
Oh, so many….
(The Old ‘Folkies) –
“This Land Is Your Land” – Woody Guthrie
“The Times They Are A-Changin’” – Bob Dylan
“Stones In The Road” – Joan Baez ***(Try Them Together)
“You Were On My Mind” – We Five
“M.T.A.” – The Kingston Trio
“500 Miles” – The Journeymen
“I Ain’t Marchining Anymore” – Phil Ochs
“Searchin’” – The Mugwumps
(The New ‘Folkies’) –
“Bye Bye” – Richard Schindell
“Every Little Thing (He) Does is Magic” – Shawn Colvin
“Layla” – John Fahey
“Stones In The Road” – Mary Chapin-Carpenter ***(Try Them Together)
Please play Gina Cimmelli and Blaire Rienhard band. New music I’ve seen in clubs, they deserve some air time.
Hi,
Anything by Martha Wainwright, esp:
-Car Song
-Who was I kidding
Keep up the good work!
Dylan, of course.
Howsabout Dave Rawlings and Gillian Welch?
How about some covers/tributes from contemporary artists to the original folkies Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger?
The “little folk singer” ani difranco always honors that tradition. I love the cover of “Do Re Mi” on “‘Til We Outnumber ‘Em” or on the same tribute you can find her singing “Ramblin’ Round” with the Indigo Girls
Bruce Springsteen has some great stuff on the Seeger Sessions or Live in Dublin. Is there a recording of Bruce and Pete at the Inauguration singing “This Land is Your Land?”
John Wesley Harding does a great version of “Words, Words, Words” on “If I Had a Song: the Songs of Pete Seeger.”
Then there are the folks who have tapped into the Woody Guthrie Archives and put music to his lyrics….
* Billy Bragg & Wilco – Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key
* Slaid Cleaves – This Morning I Am Born Again
* Ellis Paul – God’s Promise
* Jonatha Brook too – though I haven’t heard her album
Michael Martin Murphy!
I know…cowboy stuff…but a great songwriter.
Please add Cosmic Cowboy to the QOD mix today…and not the cheesy version that NRBQ did…Murphy’s original PLEASE!!!
If you don’t know, this song is a nod to Jerry Jeff Walker and the whole Austin scene of the early 70s…great times!
Dave VanRonk — ” Both Sides Now “
Old:
“Wild World” by Cat Stevens
“Everyday” by Don McClean (American Pie long for on air)
New:
“You’re Still Standing There” by Lucy Kaplansky
Top of the Mornin’ to ye!
Folk? I think you bit off a little more than you can chew comfortably.
Jeez, too many selections of artists and eras. You can comfortable include
early [acoustic] blues, bluegrass, gospel.
You have British Folk, Appalacian Folk, Cajun Folk, Klezmer – OK maybe
that’s pushing it – you CAN dance to it.
There is the folk of the 30’s [Woodie Guthrie], 40’s [Pete Seeger and his
various groups], 50’s [Pete again, Kingston Trio???], 60’s [Janis Ian - a
much forgotten artist since Leonard Bernstein introduced her], The Smothers
Brothers, PP&M, Tom Rush, Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, AARGH! and so on.
Maybe you should have a VOLKSTAG one morning.
Sorry, the coffee is really kicking in this morning.
So, my humble choices for today is:
Cry,Cry,Cry – anything off their album – shame they only have 2/3rd of the
group in concert now
and
The Smothers Brothers – the lighter and serious side of folk all in one
package.
Dave van ronk-sunday street. Roy bookbinder- travelin man. Did u guys ever play these guys? You should check em out!
Surprised that I have never heard Jay Nash on FUV….he’s certainly my favorite Folkie.
Check out my a few of my favorite songs: Sweet Talking Liar; Wayfarer; Over You; Barcelona; Two Hearts; Sleepwalking…..actually, the list goes on and on. But any song from his recent CD The Thing You Think You Need.
Hope to hear a Jay Favorite on my favorite station, FUV
Now you’re talking!!! Bring on my guys/gals!!!! Folk might as well be a gazillion letter word for how important it’s place in my musical life has been.
Could use a whole day of them! Let’s give the old ones center stage!!
They got me thru the 70’s and still carry me through the days.
Tom Rush, James Taylor, Eric Andersen, Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell, the now obscure Hedge and Donna
Judy Collins, Cathy Kreger
You choose, I can’t be that selective!!
Maybe go for the ones that never get played – Eric Andersen, Hedge and Donna, Jim Dawson
Cathy Kreger (now part of a trio but I saw her way back when as strictly a starving solo performer) – Carolyn, Makin Me Crazy
Tom Rush – Child’s Song, Wrong End of the Rainbow, Merrimack County
Gordon LIghtfoot – Did She Mention My Name, Early Morning Rain, For Lovin’ Me, Old Dan’s Records, Pussywillows – Cat-tails, Second Cup of Coffee
Eric Andersen – Thirsty Boots, Blue River
Jim Dawson – Songman, Once Was a Time I Thought, Good Mornin’ Mornin, Simple Song
Jerry Jeff Walker – Mr. Bojangles, L.A. Freeway, London Homesick Blues
Hedge and Donna – Special Circumstances, Follow, Wings
(I have to add that I have all this on vinyl (STILL) – can’t get some of it in digital fashion .
I don’t have to give my favorite JT selections, Claudia – you do fine in that department on your own! Joni Mitchell and Judy Collins – well, they get a fair amount of play luckily.
You can tell where I’m comin’ from at this point. I’ll stop!
You “folks” are the best “folk!”
when I was in Catholic grammar school in the early 70’s, our progressive music teacher made sure that we , as third graders were socially conscious . She exposed us to many folk singers, but the song that will always stay with me and will also always take me back to the 3rd grade will be “Charlie and the MTA”. For some reason, this song tickled our young minds, as the class always cracked up at the line about the sandwich through the window. Go figure. I still like the song.
Kind of hard to distinguish between Folk Music and Roots Music, one of the reasons that WFUV shines above the others.
One of my all-time favorite artists, and rolling through your town soon, is John Hiatt.
Crossing Muddy Waters was a Grammy nominated album and the song is great, too.
One of the CD’s that I had to have this past year was Middle Cyclone by Niko Case.
How about playing Don’t Forget Me ? She is in great voice and the emotion comes right through the speakers.
Hi—soooo many possibilities 8>(
Stewball; Three Ravens/PP&M; My American Skirt/Joni; Freight Train/Malvinia Reynolds; Rock Island Line/Lonnie Donnigen; Tom Dooley/K trio
The voices say “Go on”, but I must stop
January Wedding by The Avett Bros. :-)
erica wheeler
I wanted Eric to play Motherless Children last night and he didn’t. Maybe he will tonight – I’m going back.
While I’m not always the most devoted fan of this genre, “Eye of the Hurricane” from David Wilcox’s first cd, “How Did You Find Me Here,” is damn good. He’s a folkie who can really play guitar with great use of open tunings.
Like all good 4-letter words, folk should always be close by. You never know know when you really need it.
How bout some early Bob Dylan?
When My Ship Comes In
Chimes of Freedom
Girl From North Country
How bout Bruce w/ Seeger Sessions?
We Shall Overcome
Mrs McGrath
How Can a Poor Man Stand…..
Arlo once said “if you want to end war and stuff, you have to sing LOUD.”
Several years ago a record was released called Bleeker Street, I know you guys have it.
A beautiful [and much better than the recent] tribute to the folk scene in NYC in the 60’s.
Anything from that CD is gorgeous, but the Patty Larkin track “Everybody’s Talkin’” or the Ron Sexsmith version
of “Reason to Believe”.
Folkies covering folkies, I love the story teller, it is ingrained in all cultures
Folks singers are our historians.
In honor of having such venerable folkies in NYC, could you play: Lord, I’ve Made You A Place In My Heart, from Schindell, Kaplansky and Williams’s Cry, Cry, Cry album; San Francisco Bay Blues, Richie Havens’s version; and No Place To Fall, any of Townes Van Zandt’s versions.
Favorite? Has to be Blowin In The Wind by PP&M!
Some great, “newer” folk songs:
“Come A Long Way” – Michelle Shocked
“In My Own Mind” – Lyle Lovett
“Beg To Differ” – Patty Larkin
“Wave” – Alejandro Escovedo
“Wolves” – Josh Ritter
Oh well, here I go again, showing my age: “Great Mandala (The Wheel of Life)”- Peter,Paul and Mary (Album1700-1967)….nobody does it better…
More than just a mellow, yellow, hurdy gurdy man.
London Town – Donovan
Saw him at the Paramount in Peekskill during his 2009 tour. No retirement material there!
No one has lived the folk music life or has the connection to folk’s legendary past that Pete Seeger has. One of my personal favorites for not only his music and the influence he has had on generations of musicians, folk and otherwise (Springsteen’s “The Seeger Sessions”) but for living a life of principle and integrity.
From appearing at Union Halls with Woody Guthrie and the Weavers, to being jailed at Civil Rights marches in the 1960’s after being blacklisted in the 1950’s (when appearing at Children’s Summer Camps and some colleges was all the work he could get), founding the Clearwater Foundation, to appearing at the inauguration celebration for President Obama—Pete Seeger is the ultimate example of folk music and what it stands for. At his 90th birthday concert at MSG, Springsteen got it exactly right when he said of Seeger that he “…outlasted the bastards”.
Any song sung by Seeger—he appeared on the Letterman show last year singing a NEW song about Martin Luther King, or the Weavers (Wasn’t That a Time?), any of the couple of hundred covers of “If I had a Hammer”, or anything from “The Seeger Sessions by Springsteen”
How about some Dave Van Ronk for something old, and current FUV darling James Maddock for something new?
I have no idea what actually constitutes FOLK! It’s either music that I like or I don’t like to hear. For this one, I’ll go back to one of the first “fold” groups that actually got me listening to music – Peter, Paul & Mary. I would suggest anything from their early albums. If you want a specific, try their version of “Reason to Believe” on Late Again.
For folk song, two immediately come to mind
“This Land Is Your Land” – by Woody himself, Pete Seeger, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem among many, many others.
The other song, which I thought would catch on as my generations This Land, but for some reason didn’t is
“Power and The Glory” by Phil Ochs.
I have to agree with a listener response that Claudia read earlier on air. When music is referred to as “folk” it conjures up an image of quaint acoustic based songs we remember from childhood or angst ridden laments on the state of the world. But doesn’t folk music actually mean “music of the people”? I think I remember Pete Seeger saying that, and if not, I’m sure he thinks it. And there lies the problem when I suggest to someone to give WFUV a listen, as it has to be the best station in the region, the Northeast, even the nation (I have friends who are now streaming it all over the country.. When asked what kind of music is it, I typically say it’s an eclectic mix over a wide spectrum of musical genre. The recent description of “Rock and Roots Radio” has been helpful. “Best thing to do is just dial it up”, I tell them, and leave it on for your entire car ride to or from work. Some people go to the website to stream it, and when I tell them to go to City Folk, they sometimes respond, “Oh, it’s folk music?” As I sit here listening this morning to a play list that includes Eric Clapton, Johnny Cash, and John Hiatt within the same half hour I say “Here’s to folk, music of the people!”
I do love story songs, so if you want to play one for me, how about Richard Shindell’s take on Cold Missouri Waters.
Now that you broaden the category… to me, the Chris Smither has always seemed a somewhat-folk folk (fellow?). If that fits, his “No Love Today” is a standout.
For me folk music is not some amorphous, expandable, catch-all concept, but the specific movement of the late 50s early 60s that connected to American musical traditions and gave us, among other things, the singer-songwriter.
Eric Anderson’s “Thirsty Boots” (covered by John Gorka on that Bleeker Street folk tribute album)
“The Cuckoo” off of Dylan’s “Live at the Gaslight 1962”
The Weavers — “Good Night Irene”
Phil Ochs — “There But for Fortune”
“You Were on My Mind” Ian and Sylvia
“Pack Up Your Sorrows” Mimi and Richard Farina
Anything by Koerner Ray and Glover
I hate the “folk” pigeonhole. Anyone w Eurpoean heritage n a Martin guitar seems to get lumped in together, ignoring LOTS of other “folk”
Growing up, the only “folk” songs I knew were “If I had a hammer” and “This land is your land”. LONG before Lucy and Dar and Richard and Steve F. Thanks, FUV, for introducing me to the real folk folks
kudos to kaplansky for her efforts for autism (my grandson has the “spectrum disorder”…also for the displaced kids in Haiti: “This Is Home”- from Lucy’s “The Red Thread” album
“The Pretend Song”- Steve Forbert (Just Like There’s Nothing To It-2004)…he’s in town, too!!)