Your Fave 60's-70's Folk Revival Artists...

The folk revival of the 60's and early 70's produced some great music. Some of my favourites from that era....please do add your own faves. There's surely a lot of this stuff out there.

Fairport Convention
Pentangle
Martin Carthy
Anne Briggs
Shirley and Dolly Collins
Incredible String Band
Steeleye Span
Horslips
Roy Harper


and slightly earlier, but absolutely essential - A.L. LLoyd.

So - I've left you US folks with a clear run :sunglasse

 

I just got a Bert Jansch cd today.... good stuff. Do Donovan and Neil Young count as folk revivalists?

 

Bert Jansch is very good -

Donovan definitely, Neil Young - yes, I suppose so, although purists might disqualify him because he's done a lot of rock n'roll type stuff too.

 

donovan and fairport convention.
does nick drake count too? i never know what to call his music...

 

No one has chosen Bob Dylan.

 

the incredible string band are one of my favourite bands closely followed by Donovan

 

Bob Dylan all the way.

 

Bob's no. 1 with me - but I deliberately tried to name only a small selection of British artists.

 

I just call it brilliant! But I guess he does fit into the 'folk' bracket in the wider sense.

 

You just named my favourites; Fairport Convention, Pentangle, Incredible string band and Steeleye Span. Also along my fav's are Magna Carta (especially Lord of the Ages), Trees and Spiro Gyra.

I also love music from artists like Christy Moore, Ewan MacCol (not sure if he's counted in the revival though), Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Davey Graham, Donovan, Lloyd, Martin Carthy etc. and bands like Flibbertigibbet, Horslips and the Norwegian band Folque.

I was just listening to Ashley Hutchings' Morris on.

 

i've been getting more and more into the folk of the 60's-70's. The ones i mainly listen to are Donovan, Vashti Bunyan, The Incredible String Band, and Nick Drake. Now i see a whole wide variety of other artists i now need to check out

 

three top choices!!

for me add to those

Comus
These Trails
Paul Giovanni and Magnet (for the Wickerman soundtrack)
Stone Angel
Bread Love and Dreams
Mellow Candle
Vashti Bunyan
Linda Perhacs
Amazing Blondel
Ed Askew
C.O.B.
Forest
Gary Higgins
Simon Finn
Hoelderlin
Third Ear Band
Pearls Before Swine
Tir Na Nog
Witthuser And Westrupp

 

would you call the third ear band folk? they seem much more in the psychedelic camp to me

 

check out their soundtrack to Roman Polanski's Macbeth it is a progressive/avant folk classic, and definitely psychedelic

 

Bob Dylan of course. the essential Bob Dylan,

 

I "roadied" for John Renbourn once...

...actually that's not entirely true; I got his guitar out of his mate's car for him.

 

im just begining to discover this music and thanx a lot for posting names y 'all - the more i wonder around this forum, the more I find out

 

besides the ones mentioned I have these to add:

how about good ol' leo kottke
or arlo guthrie
Davy Graham was not strictly folk but did some interesting things with the genre
Sandy Bull as well
Duncan Browne
John Fahey
Malicorne, some french flavor to the list
....Leonard Cohen..? folk revival? what do you think?
Richie Havens
Phil Ochs
Wizz Jones
Tim Buckley - though he had some bluesy moments
Loudon Wainwright IIIs first two albums

 

Some other Brits I can recommend: Jade - Early 70's Fairport-ish folk-rock. Baez-type vocals give it a sweeter edge.


The aforementioned Mellow Candle - Irish psyche/wyrd-folk with unique two-girl harmonies.

And last but not least: Shelagh Macdonald - another hitherto-thought lost folk luminary vis-a-vis Nick Drake. Found alive and well last year having turned her back on music after making two stellar albums (now available as a double CD set) and experiencing a bad trip. The comparisons with Drake go further than her obscurity and disappearance. As a songwriter and singer, a truly original voice.

 

Bob Dylan of course.