Monday, May 28, 2012

Dawn Are You Ready For the Next Step?

Dawn , I think your now ready to be introduced to the other folk rock, English folk rock.  If you like acoustic music  with wonderful harmony and a folk, jazz, and bluegrass feel then this music is for you.

 I'll tell you abut some of the better bands.
 First is Pentangle with the voice of JacQue Mc Shee and the two acoustic guitar wizards Burt Jansch, and John Renbourn.
 Next is Fairport Convention, with The unforgettable Sandy Denny on vocals, and Richard Thompson and later Jerry Donahue on guitars, and Her splinter band  Fotheringay, again with Jerry on guitar.

When I was in a folk band in the 80's  the band we "nicked" most of our set list from was  Steeeye Span. with the great Maddy Prior on vocals.  I remember seeing them live at a Rock Concert taping in Long Beach, CA in the 70's, the crowd did not know what to make of them. Rick Kemp told the crowd " You want to Boogie?Well you  should have been here last night for Jeff Beck, we don't play that crap".  And the band took off on a set of jigs that blew the place away, with  Peter Knight playing fiddle while  doing backflips at the same time.

Other Bands would include Amazing Blondel,  The Incredible String Band, and Silly Sisters (Maddy Prior and June Tabor splinter band).

Dawn, I envy you, so much wonderful amazing music to discover for the first time.

7 comments:

Dawn said...

Paul, Awesome!! I'm ready for the journey. I will start posting up their videos.

Paul 2 said...

OK Dawn, but just remember now your musical taste will be forever changed. You are going to love many it not all these groups and wonder how did I ever miss this the first time around.

Dawn said...

LOL..I'm already thinking that..

Paul 2 said...

If you only had AM radio then it was almost impossible to hear this music, and most FM radio was not much better.In So Cal if you really wanted different stuff it was KPPC in Pasadena, KPFC and KNAC in Long Beach. Remember at one time I was a music major, worked my way through school working in record departments or stores, and was the music director at my college radio station, so I was exposed to many different types of music, it was a major part of my youth.

So If you missed it back then it wasn't all your fault , and thats way you have me to point it out to you now. Better late than never don't you think?

Dawn said...

Paul... You are correct.. When I lived in Riverside, Ca. I only had a little AM radio. Then, when we moved to Ridgecrest, Ca. we only had one maybe two radio stations.

Paul 2 said...

And I bet that a least one of the stations in Ridgecrest was country.

Dawn said...

LOL.. I dunno about that... Ridgecrest is a military town.