Favourite Prog-Folk Artist

dr wu23 wrote: 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. Great list,  love all of those... .btw...don't get how Trees , Amazing Blondel, Spyrogyra ,etc are prog folk and Fairport Convention isn't...and how in hell is Steeleye Span prog related and not prog folk..? What...? And I have never..never...though Tull was prog 'folk'...I'm sorry there is certainly folk going on there but they are far more prog related than Steeleye who gets dumped into that area....who are more 'folky' than Tull at times. At any rate obviously Tull is going to be a favorite on that list...but I am a big fan of Espers regarding prog folk.

I wish I'd included Pentangle in the poll but it's too late now.

dr wu23 wrote: Snicolette wrote: dr wu23 wrote: 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. Great list,  love all of those... .btw...don't get how Trees , Amazing Blondel, Spyrogyra ,etc are prog folk and Fairport Convention isn't...and how in hell is Steeleye Span prog related and not prog folk..? What...? And I have never..never...though Tull was prog 'folk'...I'm sorry there is certainly folk going on there but they are far more prog related than Steeleye who gets dumped into that area....who are more 'folky' than Tull at times. At any rate obviously Tull is going to be a favorite on that list...but I am a big fan of Espers regarding prog folk.   I was surprised to not see Fairport and Steeleye Span in this group.  Even The Pentangle wound some great electric bits into their music and blended other music into their primarily pastoral offerings. Yes....and it amazes me that others don't comment more on this...I mean Fairport and Steeleye are in prog related , but not Tull?  Seriously..?

Logan wrote: dr wu23 wrote: Snicolette wrote: dr wu23 wrote: 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. Great list,  love all of those... .btw...don't get how Trees , Amazing Blondel, Spyrogyra ,etc are prog folk and Fairport Convention isn't...and how in hell is Steeleye Span prog related and not prog folk..? What...? And I have never..never...though Tull was prog 'folk'...I'm sorry there is certainly folk going on there but they are far more prog related than Steeleye who gets dumped into that area....who are more 'folky' than Tull at times. At any rate obviously Tull is going to be a favorite on that list...but I am a big fan of Espers regarding prog folk.   I was surprised to not see Fairport and Steeleye Span in this group.  Even The Pentangle wound some great electric bits into their music and blended other music into their primarily pastoral offerings. Yes....and it amazes me that others don't comment more on this...I mean Fairport and Steeleye are in prog related , but not Tull?  Seriously..? I'm surprised I omitted Pentangle from my list, not that I was trying to be comprehensive, but it is one of my favourites , at least I remembered to add in Jan Dukes de Grey. I think of Jethro Tull as more of an Eclectic Prog artist overall, but other than certian albums, I would not consider including him n my Prog Folk polls (I've had complaints when doing Prog Folk topics that I didn't include him). As for Steeleye Span and Fairport convention, we had some related discussion on that as you probably remember. http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=120127

^ I would agree that Steeleye Span and Fairport Convention are more folk than Tull, but I'd say that Tull is more Prog. I think SS and FC fit well in Related, and Tull I have suggested be moved to an Art Rock sub (Eclectic, or alternately, Crossover could be considered) many years ago, but it was felt that Tull was of sufficient importance to the Prog Folk scene for certain music that it is better left in Prog Folk (at least that's my recollection from over a decade ago). That said, even on many of his less folk albums, there is a folk music element. I'm not opposed to Tull in Prog Folk, even though were this my site, it would have been in an Art Rock category.

Classification matters less and less to me. It is more important to me that an act is in PA than where it gets placed. Ideally we would have album tagging by genres rather than just lumping an artist into one category along with the whole discography as it now works, but c'est la vie.

Edited by Logan - October 08 2019 at 15:15

Psychedelic Paul wrote: I'm guessing Jethro Tull will win this poll, although my vote goes to Blackmore's Night.

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Perhaps Jethro Tull should have been omitted from this list to make things more interesting. I mean, it's obvious it would take just about all the votes, and it would have been nice to see the preference among the others.

Dellinger wrote: I do have a Faun album which I liked very much, though I still have to get a bit more from them. But I like Corvus Corax even better.

From this list Roy Harper as solo artist (Tim Buckley second if on list) and Strawbs as group. Tull is odd bird out here.