Bloomin Folk music?

[Zaxxon]

Oh god, I've just caught my self downloading the Steeleye Span best of album. Before that I downloaded songs from the wood by Jethro Tull ( not quite folk but close)

Am I no longer cool? Will my daughter no longer want a lift in the car?

[davepoth]

That's not really folk, there are no beards.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX2ZYLTGu4E

Dave Van Ronk had an awesome beard.

[Asterix]

Folk is cool - just those who think they're cool aren't really as they don't like folk.

[Viggo]

You're a parent. You gave up any right to even imagine you were cool as soon as your daughter was born. Buying classic folk-rock, however, does elevate your status to "interesting".

[turbopug]

So if it has beards it's folk music?

Here's the coolest beard in the business,

http://youtu.be/p6OuyJKnIyU

[Chris71]

I'm heading that way a bit too.

One of my favourite gigs from this year's Glasto was a folk band called Three Daft Monkeys. The same festival also completely changed my opinion of Mumford and Sons. There are friends who would instantly disown me for saying this, but I thought they were really good live...

[Agent L]

Try giving 'The Tallest Man on Earth' a listen. I'd recommend starting with the album 'The Wild Hunt'. He's folk, he's great and ... he's cool!! No beard either!

[gareth_r]

Traditional music - songs about wars, sex, murder, executions, women in men's clothes, supernatural beings, shape-shifting, revolution, class conflict, revenge, tyranny...

Makes heavy metal look like Enid Blyton.

Hey nonny not!

[NiceCupOfTea]

try a bit of gryphon or fairport convention.

it's not really folk music though...

[davepoth]

turbopug said:

So if it has beards it's folk music?

Here's the coolest beard in the business,

http://youtu.be/p6OuyJKnIyU

No, silly.

You can have a beard and not do folk, but it is more or less compulsory to have some kind of face fuzz if you are a folk musician.

It's actually the reason that guy bellowed "JUDAS" at Dylan. Judas didn't have a beard, you see.

[ChiChoAndy]

I've got 3 John Tams albums, and I have no beard. It probably does make me sad, though.

[CommanderJameson]

If you listen to Skyclad, you can have Folk Thrash Metal, cunning lyrics and titles and all (Think back and lie of England, for example).

Or Polkageist.

Mine's a pint.

Of mead.

[Gaspode]

Asterix said:

Folk is cool - just those who think they're cool aren't really as they don't like folk.

I have loved folk music since 1973, Nailsworth Folk Club at the George Hotel. Proper beer, beards, singing, and Saturday night Ceilidhs at the Sub Rooms. Quaker dancing - twice round the floor and then outside for your oats.

</nostalgia>

Interesting how folk is much derided by those who don't get it, but nevertheless it has had an enormous influence on all sorts of great bands from Led Zep/Jethro Tull right the way through to modern stuff.

[Asterix]

Absolutely.

Visiting the various folk festivals around the country also let's you get very close to some amazing musicians and we have an extremely strong home for hand crafted instruments that are world class.

[Bryn Pinzgauer]

+1 for folk here... although not the Mumford and Sons end.

[davepoth]

Bryn Pinzgauer said:

+1 for folk here... although not the Mumford and Sons end.

If they made their own songs, it's not folk.

[dudleybloke]

skiffle is where its at.