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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Snicolette Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 19 2019 at 07:58
I was just going to suggest that, glad you know it (The Use of Ashes).  I really love Bert Jansch's "Avocet," if you're unfamiliar and pretty much everything that John Renbourn did solo and with configurations of The Pentangle, but you probably already know those as well.  I will probably come up with more, as the coffee kicks in.  Smile  I like singer/songwriter/folk/renaissancy stuff too.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Logan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 19 2019 at 07:46
Thanks, I don't know the majority of those. I have heard The Use of Ashes, but it's been far too long. Other than that I only readily recall Ptarmigan and Trader Horne (a couple of others, like Tir Na Nog, look rather familiar, but my memory is not what it once was.)

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Saperlipopette! Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 19 2019 at 07:23
I'd say the wonderful The Use of Ashes by Pearls Before Swine qualifies but I'm guessing you're already familiar with it? More you probably got (and possibly a few you don't). Some here has a couple of unfitting tunes that ruins the mood somehow - but mostly not:

Sibylle Baier - Color Green
Arleta - Exi Meres
Tia Blake - Folksongs & Ballads
Reet Hendrikson - Reet
Ptarmigan - Ptarmigan
Trader Horne - Morning Way
Turid - Bilder (mostly quiet)
Tir Na Nog - Tir Na Nog
Paula Moore - Paula Moore (the one from 1978)
Molly Drake - Molly Drake (Nick's mother)
Larry And Myra - Eat The Day
Kathy & Carol - Kathy & Carol
Josephine Foster - Faithful Fairy Harmony (and more)
Gary Higgins - Red Hash
Dulcimer - And I Turned As I Had As a Boy
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Logan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 19 2019 at 06:59
Hi, I'm looking for recommendations of music that might be considered melancholy, shows a certain fragility or a certain gentleness. I'm being too vague, but here are some examples.

Vashti Bunyan - "Winter is Blue"



Nick Drake - "River Man"



Lind Perhacs - Parallelograms



Hush - "Dear One"



Anything in the vein of any of that would be much appreciated (I know that would cover a huge amount of music, but mention some that touch you in some appropriate fashion).

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