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Folk recommendations

TheMackTheMack 3,414 Posts
edited September 2005 in Music Talk
this record is blowing my mind right, what are some records with a similar sound?
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  • ShingalingShingaling 877 Posts
    this record is blowing my mind right, what are some records with a similar sound?



    I think these are really the same records but with different covers. Especially the first track. Check out the Spokesmen "Dawn Of Correction" LP and the first Pearls Before Swine LP.
  • TheMackTheMack 3,414 Posts
    to me the Hamilton Camp has a much sadder tone than anything S$G ever did. ive got that Pearls Before Swine, how is that Spokesmen?
  • ShingalingShingaling 877 Posts
    how is that Spokesmen?

    It's mainly covers, but it's a little more up beat than S&G. It's not for everyone but there are some cool tracks.
  • dCastillodCastillo 1,963 Posts
    to me the Hamilton Camp has a much sadder tone than anything S$G ever did. ive got that Pearls Before Swine, how is that Spokesmen?

    just making sure this thread isn't broken.

    Folkwise, I'm digging all the Pentangle and related output. Start there and branch out.
  • TheMackTheMack 3,414 Posts
    i dont know why i put a dollar sign, i meant to put an "and" sign. ive got the pentangles first album, thats a dope one.
  • parsecparsec 5,087 Posts


    You have any of Randy Burns lp's on esp disk mack? Nice stuff.
  • faux_rillzfaux_rillz 14,343 Posts
    This book:

  • SwayzeSwayze 14,705 Posts
    $.99 heatrock... no joke.
  • parsecparsec 5,087 Posts
    More Hurley:

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  • BeardedDBeardedD 770 Posts
    Hamilton Camp is in Eating Raoul. He's sort of a cornball but I keep his other album "Here's To You."
  • TheMackTheMack 3,414 Posts


    You have any of Randy Burns lp's on esp disk mack? Nice stuff.
    nope. they nice?
  • BaptBapt 2,503 Posts


    I like this one...Is it folk? dunno...
  • parsecparsec 5,087 Posts


  • hcrinkhcrink 8,729 Posts

    that's a good one!
  • Big_ChanBig_Chan 5,088 Posts



    Sai Yoshiko. "Mangekyou" LP. Crazy Japanese Psych Folk LP with Yuji Ohno production.

  • SwayzeSwayze 14,705 Posts
    this one's not that good...
  • parsecparsec 5,087 Posts


    Jim O'rourke "bad timing"
  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    how is that Spokesmen?

    It's mainly covers, but it's a little more up beat than S&G. It's not for everyone but there are some cool tracks.

    I have a single of their only hit, "Dawn Of Correction" (answer record to "Eve Of Destruction"). I like it, but I doubt if they should be mentioned in a folk thread. I think (but I'm not sure) that the group was a trio of Brill Building songwriters who wrote and recorded "D.O.C." just to cash in on the folk-rock thing (big shit in '65, or whenever that came out).
  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts


    This one's not bad - some claim Hendrix copped his arrangement of "Hey Joe" from the version on here. I'm not sold on that, but it is a damn good version. Has some of those highly regarded "funky tinges" too, courtesy of Pretty Purdie on drums and up in the mix, as well as Chuck Rainey on a couple of tracks, etc.



    Tim Hardin's albums can be found everywhere for pennies, and they all have some good tracks on them. The "Best of" above is a nice collection of tracks from the first 2 Verve albums, and is definitely worth spending the dollar it will cost you on. The one below, though, Suite for Susan Moore, I think is the most likely to bear stamp-of-approval...a little harder to pull than the Verve stuff, but still easily available. Get a clean copy, though, cause it's a quiet album:



  • TheMackTheMack 3,414 Posts
    thanks for the recommendations guys.

    heres some i recommend

    Jake Holmes-above Ground
    Tony Mason-Brick by Brick(private folk album with one incredible downer folk track)
    Wheatones-in the nick of time(this one is pretty happy, but it's good throughout)
    Donovan-HMS(this album rules. someone get me a cleaner copy)
  • parsecparsec 5,087 Posts
  • TheMackTheMack 3,414 Posts
    yeah, ive got that John Fahey too. thats a good 'un
  • Young_PhonicsYoung_Phonics 8,039 Posts



    Cockroach Symphony.
  • TheMackTheMack 3,414 Posts
    damn, ive seen that before. it's a facemelter?

    BTW, im looking for folk recommendations for shit that sound like Simong and Garfunkel. i dont care about funk in my folk and stuff like that. just give me that mellow sad shit.

    thanks again to everyone
  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts
    yeah, the funk was kind of a plus.
    the tim hardin will have you weepin' in your cheerio's, d.
  • parsecparsec 5,087 Posts
  • BaptBapt 2,503 Posts
  • williedynamitewilliedynamite 263 Posts
    Bonnie Dobson -- s/t
    Bonnie Dobson -- Good Morning Rain
    Linda Perhacs -- Parallelograms

    And one released recently

    Iron & Wine -- s/t
  • DubiousDubious 1,865 Posts
    i just passed on the ST bonnie dobson record.. didnt seem all that. mistake???

  • williedynamitewilliedynamite 263 Posts
    "Winter's Going" hits like a spiked bat to the groin.
    Also has the OG version of "Morning Dew".
    A couple other decent tracks as well.
    Definitely not as listenable on the whole as Good Morning Rain, but still solid as far as folk records go.
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