Favourite Prog-Folk Artist - Progressive Rock Music Forum

so many great prog folk groups...to list them all would make the poll unmanageable

And Doc, I agree that Tull might fit better in eclectic. The only two albums that seems truly prog folk are SFTW and HH, though folk has a hand in a lot of the other 1970s albums to one extent or another, which is part of what makes them eclectic in more than one sense. Steeleye and Fairport are more folky for sure, but less proggy.

JT

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Trembling bells and Quintessence but no Fairport Convention, Circulus, Comus, Trees, Mellow Candle, Spirogyra, Al Stewart, Espers, ISB, Horslips etc. Lot's of omissions here. Anyway, my guess would be that Tull would win.

Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - October 08 2019 at 22:38

Logan wrote:

Roy Harper, I guess out of these, followed by Quintessence. My list would be more acid folk (psychedelic folk) oriented.

Some of my favourites are:

Spirogyra
Comus
Perry Leopold
Catherine Ribeiro + 2 Bis
The Incredible String Band
Linda Perhacs
Vashti Bunyan
Tim Buckley
Jan Dukes de Grey
Mark Fry
Sergius Golowin
Trees
Forest
Pearls Before Swine
Third Ear Band
These Trails
etc.

And while not in PA, I can't mention folk without thinking of Nick Drake, or Donovan for that matter. When I joined this site, I think Gryphon was my favourite.

this mostly

a much-better list than the one proposed above (I voted Harper, because he was mostly the only choice envisageable for me.

kenethlevine wrote:

micky wrote:

classic.. Pentangle.. by light years...

modern.. again by light years... Espers.. Meg.. I want you... badly babe...

nah. Clannad, man

Nownow, Ken dear,

For once Micky is right (Pentangle and Espers

) , now don't go and contradict him

Edited by Sean Trane - October 09 2019 at 01:48

My beloved Horslips...yes, as mentioned, they are missing from this list. Although they went from prog-folk to new wave in 1977; their evolution to me was as captivating as The Beatles transformation...probably a stretch there, but to me they were the "ant's pants".

Edited by BarryGlibb - October 09 2019 at 03:27

BarryGlibb wrote:

My beloved Horslips...yes, as mentioned, they are missing from this list. Although they went from prog-folk to new wave in 1977; their evolution to me was as captivating as The Beatles transformation...probably a stretch there, but to me they were the "ant's pants".

Don't worry, I'll be sure to include Horslips in my next Folk-related poll, as well as including many of the other great bands mentioned in this thread.

Jethro Tull are the clear winners in this poll, as expected, so I'll deliberately exclude them from the next poll to give the other Folk-related bands a chance of winning.

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - October 09 2019 at 10:59

JT. I grew up on them so it's obvious choice. Strawbs and Anthony Phillips are great and if there wouldn't be JT in the poll I 'd choose from them.

From the list, Tull.

In general, Germany's Midnight Circus, who released one lp and a single on bellaphon records in 1972.

Putting Jethro Tull here is like Soccer World Cup with Malta: Libanon; Bhutan and Germany

Can't vote but if I could also the mighty Tull.

Have you heard them with the recently added Offa Rex, featuring Olivia Chaney? Just dynamite, imho.

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Poll Question: Who's your favourite Prog-Folk artist?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Amazing Blondel	1	[2.17%]
Anthony Phillips	3	[6.52%]
Blackmore's Night	1	[2.17%]
Gordon Giltrap	0	[0.00%]
Ian Anderson	0	[0.00%]
Iona	3	[6.52%]
Jethro Tull	25	[54.35%]
Magna Carta	1	[2.17%]
Quintessence	1	[2.17%]
Roy Harper	6	[13.04%]
Strawbs	5	[10.87%]
Trembling Bells	0	[0.00%]
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