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    Posted: March 16 2012 at 19:09
Hi All
 
I really hope this is not considered an inappropriate thread for this group since this is a prog group.
 
But please know I'm a die hard prog fan but I alternate my time listening to a lot of 1970's singer-songwritter and folk and acid folk too.  Sometimes theirs a fine line between acid-folk and prog (ie, Spiyogyra, Forest, Comus, Steeleye Span, Fairport Convention), etc...  Even Strawbs/David Cousins carries the folk label at times...
 
For some reason, the melancholy stuff by the more obscure (yet undeservedly obscufre) stuff attracts me.
 
Can anyone here recommend any artists that have songs that sound similar to the song in this video:
 
 
Her albums are amazing with no weak songs  and it's sad she died so young (just a few years after the video above) of a heroine/cocaine addiction and that she died poor.  Why she never got noticed is beyond me...
 
 
So when I'm not immersed in prog or emotional christian music, I'm listening to the likes of Mark Fry, Nick Drake, Roger Rodier, Benjamin Hugg, Joan Baez, Donovan, Joni Mitchell, Karen Beth, Trader Horne, Bread Love and dreams, Montreal (Summer's Night from 1970), Hank Dogs,  etc...
 
Another artist that is simply hits me in the face is the obscure Karen Beth and her flawless 1968 "Joys of Life" album which is sad/melancholic but I never get tired of it...   This song is a "slow song" it keeps me intrigued.
 
 
So if you have any other artists in this vein that you can recommend when I'm not proggin, please let me know...
 
thanks!!!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


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Can't go wrong with the band `Fern Knight', who are listed on these Archives!

Their album `Music For Witches And Alchemists' is superb, with a chilly uneasy atmosphere, beautiful singing and reflective lyrics. Lots of varied instrumentation too.

Their most recent album `Castings' is also very decent, but a lot heavier and oppressive, lots of distortion. Also has a King Crimson cover on it too.
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Off the top of my head I would highly suggest Bert Jansch, particularly his '65 and '71 albums, but you can check out something in between if you wish to.  PF's late 60's folk on "More" is also very decent, better than S&G, IMO. Also, if you are interested in a cappella vocal virtuosity, check out Anne Briggs' stuff like 'Willie O'Winsbury.' I think you'll love it ... maybe ... or not, I'll never know. 


 
I don't know anyone who would qualify as an acid-folk artist. Sorry on this one.




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thank you!!!  I'll check them out...
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Oh yes...  I love Anne Briggs  :-)   Bert Janech and Pentangle...  Fantastic!!!
Here's one..  Ever heard of Linda Perhacs?   Another amazing "unknown" album from 1970.
 
 
 
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Linda Perhacs is absolutely amazing.

Don't forget Vashti Bunyan too.
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Val wasn't prog, but if you're into rather maudlin folksy music you can't beat his 'Grey Life' album (1968).  Val was lead singer of the Blue Things, a sort of light pop-psych band that had some minor success in the latter 60s.  He had some problems with depression and stage fright and bounced around a bit after leaving the band.  He also had a relationship that ended very badly, which was apparently most of the inspiration for his only solo album.  Sadly Val committed suicide in the mid-90s in Hutchinson, Kansas.  This is by far my favorite of his songs:


Chi Coltrane, from 1973:


A little Beth Orton maybe?


Nick Drake of course:


Pearls Before Swine:


Midwinter (the British one from the early 70s):


And these guys are just morbid. The guy in this band was raised in a strict Catholic family, ended up marrying the lady in the band (briefly) before coming out, and ended up I believe in some sort of gay disco group in New York before dying sometime in the 80s:
"Peace is the only battle worth waging."

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Holy Cow!
 
Val Stoeklein and the Chi Coltrane one's are winners...    thanks for that.
 
I like the Pearls Before Swine you sent.   The vocals "slightly" remind me of Ray Thomas of the Moody Blues  :-)
 
 
I already have the Beth Orton and Nick Drake and Midwinter (thanks, another great one in the vein of Jade).  
 
The Voyage of the Icarus one reminds me of the acid-folk group "Espers"...
 
Please keep these recommendations coming.
 
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I think I like this thread.Smile


Here's my two cents:
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Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

Linda Perhacs is absolutely amazing.

Don't forget Vashti Bunyan too.
Linda Perhacs was suggested and unfortunately rejected a couple of years ago
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Originally posted by clarke2001 clarke2001 wrote:

I think I like this thread.Smile


Here's my two cents:


 
COOL song.  Jeremy Storch?   Never heard of him.  Good sound..
 
His voice has a "Donovan" tinge to it. 
 
another REALLY REALLY REALLY good one is Jimmee Spheres 1971 "Isle of View"
 
 
 
it's a "lost classic" in the genre.   He died young too...   It's a great album though without a weak track.
 
 
 
 
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Originally posted by octopus-4 octopus-4 wrote:

Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

Linda Perhacs is absolutely amazing.

Don't forget Vashti Bunyan too.
Linda Perhacs was suggested and unfortunately rejected a couple of years ago
I don't know if it's because of this thread, but Linda Perhacs has been added to PA few minutes ago....
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Linda Perhacs is great. Another fantastic one from HawaI is These Trails (1974). Gorgeous stuff !
 
 
I like very much the Nancy Priddy's You've come this way before Album.
 
 
 
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Originally posted by octopus-4 octopus-4 wrote:

Originally posted by octopus-4 octopus-4 wrote:

Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

Linda Perhacs is absolutely amazing.

Don't forget Vashti Bunyan too.
Linda Perhacs was suggested and unfortunately rejected a couple of years ago
I don't know if it's because of this thread, but Linda Perhacs has been added to PA few minutes ago....



It was probably because I bumped her suggestion thread a week or so ago.  That's great news, by the way


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I'll probably get shot down in flames for this, but to my mind Tori Amos beats all of the artists I know mentioned in this thread (and there are quite a few).

Then there's Happy Rhodes and Joanna Newsom (closest thing to a singing cat I've ever heard, but good!)

Oh, and Roy Harper.


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Originally posted by npjnpj npjnpj wrote:

I'll probably get shot down in flames for this, but to my mind Tori Amos beats all of the artists I know mentioned in this thread (and there are quite a few).

Then there's Happy Rhodes and Joanna Newsom (closest thing to a singing cat I've ever heard, but good!)

Oh, and Roy Harper.

Those four you mentioned are indeed quite good, but I wouldn't exactly call any of them "acid folk". Smile
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BILL FAY, first album (1970)
 
 
COLIN BLUNSTONE, One Year album (1971)
 
 
DUNCAN  BROWNE, Give me take you album (1968)
 
 
 
TIM HARDIN, Misty roses (1966)
 
 
THE BOWERBIRDS, My Oldest Memory. Hyms for a dark horse album (2007)
 
 
 
 
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What about Susan McKeown?
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Originally posted by npjnpj npjnpj wrote:

I'll probably get shot down in flames for this, but to my mind Tori Amos beats all of the artists I know mentioned in this thread (and there are quite a few).

Then there's Happy Rhodes and Joanna Newsom (closest thing to a singing cat I've ever heard, but good!)

Oh, and Roy Harper.
 
Hello...  
 
> probably get shot down in flames for this
 
You should not get shot down in flames for your opinion  :-)   If you did, it would be by someone who is closed minded and offends easily (and takes it personally) by anyone else who does not agree with their favorite   Big smile
 
Tori Amos is another great one.  
 
I forgot about Roy Harper.   I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) he did the vocals on Floyd's "have a cigar"  Smile
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Yes, that's him. He's also the Roy Harper from Led Zeppelin III's 'Hats Off To (Roy) Harper'.

Thanks for the encouragement. :-)
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