Folk rock with virtuoso playing?

blobb · December 2023

Loobs said:

Ta! Lots to dig into here. Fairport did one good album? Which? I humbly disagree.

Unhalfbricking, Liege & Lief and Full House all have stuff on them I really enjoy.

Sorry. It's a Fairporters 'in joke' - 50 odd years off the back of one good album, and they were pretty 'odd' years!

sweepy · December 2023

Feast of Fiddles are always worth a listen

Winny_Pooh · December 2023

Long shot but....

Loobs · December 2023

Impossible Germany is a beautiful tune! I saw Wilco at The Roundhouse about 2010 and that was one of the highlights of the set. Nels Cline is a hero of mine!

BahHumbug · December 2023

Lau

Loobs · December 2023

Interesting, their last album was produced by John Parish (of PJ Harvey)...

Will check out, thx.

ToneControl · December 2023

Great current folk players:
Clive Carroll -moved to USA this month sadly
Time Edey - still here, still great

Reverend · December 2023

Pentangle i presume you know?

Comus?

Budgie · December 2023

You’ll probably know a lot of these anyway - Imagined Village, Bellowhead, TRADarrr, Show of Hands, Oysterband, Peter Knight’s Gigspanner, Merry Hell, Skerryvore, Ferocious Dog and loads more!

EricTheWeary · December 2023

Budgie said:

You’ll probably know a lot of these anyway - Imagined Village, Bellowhead, TRADarrr, Show of Hands, Oysterband, Peter Knight’s Gigspanner, Merry Hell, Skerryvore, Ferocious Dog and loads more!

Not really my area although I saw Fairport several times many years ago, Steeleye Span once and a few others such as Scott Matthews and the amazing Seth Lakeman (live with his band it's sort of Led Zep unplugged territory). Imagined Village I saw a few years ago (they made a couple of albums in the late noughties) which was amazing and I've been listening to them a bit this morning. Probably no virtuoso guitar playing but if you wanted a modern (well 15 years ago modern) take on British folk marvellous. MrsTheWeary had a bit of a Bellowhead period who are maybe, in rock terms, maybe more akin to prog rock.

octatonic · December 2023

Not rock at all but this chap lives in my village- he's definitely a virtuoso but not flashy.
His name is Nick Hooper, he sometimes plays with Gordon Giltrap.

He scored a couple of Harry Potter films too.

Budgie · December 2023

EricTheWeary said:

Budgie said:

You’ll probably know a lot of these anyway - Imagined Village, Bellowhead, TRADarrr, Show of Hands, Oysterband, Peter Knight’s Gigspanner, Merry Hell, Skerryvore, Ferocious Dog and loads more!

Not really my area although I saw Fairport several times many years ago, Steeleye Span once and a few others such as Scott Matthews and the amazing Seth Lakeman (live with his band it's sort of Led Zep unplugged territory). Imagined Village I saw a few years ago (they made a couple of albums in the late nineties) which was amazing and I've been listening to them a bit this morning. Probably no virtuoso guitar playing but if you wanted a modern (well 15 years ago modern) take on British folk marvellous. MrsTheWeary had a bit of a Bellowhead period who are maybe, in rock terms, maybe more akin to prog rock.

Imagined Village are superb. I saw them too a couple of years ago at Beautiful Days. The collective members are pretty much folk royalty.

I assume the OP is very much aware of Pentangle. In fact anything with John Renbourn and/or Bert Jansch.

EricTheWeary · December 2023

Budgie said:

EricTheWeary said:

Budgie said:

You’ll probably know a lot of these anyway - Imagined Village, Bellowhead, TRADarrr, Show of Hands, Oysterband, Peter Knight’s Gigspanner, Merry Hell, Skerryvore, Ferocious Dog and loads more!

Not really my area although I saw Fairport several times many years ago, Steeleye Span once and a few others such as Scott Matthews and the amazing Seth Lakeman (live with his band it's sort of Led Zep unplugged territory). Imagined Village I saw a few years ago (they made a couple of albums in the late nineties) which was amazing and I've been listening to them a bit this morning. Probably no virtuoso guitar playing but if you wanted a modern (well 15 years ago modern) take on British folk marvellous. MrsTheWeary had a bit of a Bellowhead period who are maybe, in rock terms, maybe more akin to prog rock.

Imagined Village are superb. I saw them too a couple of years ago at Beautiful Days. The collective members are pretty much folk royalty.

I assume the OP is very much aware of Pentangle. In fact anything with John Renbourn and/or Bert Jansch.

Noughties rather than nineties or nighties as spellcheck wanted. Aye yay yay. Yes, Eliza Carthy I’ve seen in IV and with her dad. Although both are British folk about as stylistically different as you could get under that umbrella. I’ve been to a few folk festivals and standards always seem really high although by the end of it I’m craving the sound of someone going kerchung with an electric guitar (in much the same way by the end of a day at a guitar show I want to hear someone singing).

Budgie · December 2023

EricTheWeary said:

Budgie said:

EricTheWeary said:

Budgie said:

You’ll probably know a lot of these anyway - Imagined Village, Bellowhead, TRADarrr, Show of Hands, Oysterband, Peter Knight’s Gigspanner, Merry Hell, Skerryvore, Ferocious Dog and loads more!

Not really my area although I saw Fairport several times many years ago, Steeleye Span once and a few others such as Scott Matthews and the amazing Seth Lakeman (live with his band it's sort of Led Zep unplugged territory). Imagined Village I saw a few years ago (they made a couple of albums in the late nineties) which was amazing and I've been listening to them a bit this morning. Probably no virtuoso guitar playing but if you wanted a modern (well 15 years ago modern) take on British folk marvellous. MrsTheWeary had a bit of a Bellowhead period who are maybe, in rock terms, maybe more akin to prog rock.

Imagined Village are superb. I saw them too a couple of years ago at Beautiful Days. The collective members are pretty much folk royalty.

I assume the OP is very much aware of Pentangle. In fact anything with John Renbourn and/or Bert Jansch.

Noughties rather than nineties or nighties as spellcheck wanted. Aye yay yay. Yes, Eliza Carthy I’ve seen in IV and with her dad. Although both are British folk about as stylistically different as you could get under that umbrella. I’ve been to a few folk festivals and standards always seem really high although by the end of it I’m craving the sound of someone going kerchung with an electric guitar (in much the same way by the end of a day at a guitar show I want to hear someone singing).

I couldn’t agree more. I think folk festivals have cottoned on to this as the lineups seem far more musically-diverse than they used to be.

EricTheWeary · December 2023

Budgie said:

EricTheWeary said:

Budgie said:

EricTheWeary said:

Budgie said:

You’ll probably know a lot of these anyway - Imagined Village, Bellowhead, TRADarrr, Show of Hands, Oysterband, Peter Knight’s Gigspanner, Merry Hell, Skerryvore, Ferocious Dog and loads more!

Not really my area although I saw Fairport several times many years ago, Steeleye Span once and a few others such as Scott Matthews and the amazing Seth Lakeman (live with his band it's sort of Led Zep unplugged territory). Imagined Village I saw a few years ago (they made a couple of albums in the late nineties) which was amazing and I've been listening to them a bit this morning. Probably no virtuoso guitar playing but if you wanted a modern (well 15 years ago modern) take on British folk marvellous. MrsTheWeary had a bit of a Bellowhead period who are maybe, in rock terms, maybe more akin to prog rock.

Imagined Village are superb. I saw them too a couple of years ago at Beautiful Days. The collective members are pretty much folk royalty.

I assume the OP is very much aware of Pentangle. In fact anything with John Renbourn and/or Bert Jansch.

Noughties rather than nineties or nighties as spellcheck wanted. Aye yay yay. Yes, Eliza Carthy I’ve seen in IV and with her dad. Although both are British folk about as stylistically different as you could get under that umbrella. I’ve been to a few folk festivals and standards always seem really high although by the end of it I’m craving the sound of someone going kerchung with an electric guitar (in much the same way by the end of a day at a guitar show I want to hear someone singing).

I couldn’t agree more. I think folk festivals have cottoned on to this as the lineups seem far more musically-diverse than they used to be.

The main one I've been to is Moseley and they have some acts that I don't think anyone would call folk, for example they had Squeeze this year. But it's bums on seats and the people paying to see Squeeze also get to see some bloke singing about fair maidens and corn fields.

Ooh, whilst I'm on I'll mention Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog (and I thought I had spell check issues before...) as one of them was a member on here. Lovely folk/rock/country/shades of Neil Young but all sung in Welsh (and their wiki entry says folk band). In terms of the OP not virtuoso playing but it's guitars.

BahHumbug · December 2023

Loobs said:

Interesting, their last album was produced by John Parish (of PJ Harvey)...

Will check out, thx.

Yes, indeed, and it is their most 'indie' album. Their best of album, 'Decade', showcases their virtuosity really well.

Loobs · December 2023

Thanks. On a related note, I highly recommend PJs album w/ Parish: “Dance Hall at Louse Point” and the follow up, “A Woman A Man Walked By”.

BahHumbug · December 2023

Thanks. I know 'A Woman a Man......', but I didn't know they done one before that.

maharg101 · December 2023

Led Zeppelin III. Not entirely folk, but there's a fair bit of folk influence on there.

p.s. also Jethro Tull

Loobs · December 2023

Yeah, I've heard of Jethro Tull.

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