Quote from: quiller on November 17, 2015, 10:14:58 AM
Here's another, far more direct, done by the guy who influenced Bob Dylan and almost every other first-generation folk singer.

I was privileged to spend an hour chatting with Ramblin' Jack Elliot in Ann Arbor a few years back, and after I quit smoking it's one of the funnier songs out there for me. He and Dave van Ronk over WBZ Boston in the mid-60s were two of my early faves.

Yep.  I've heard 'im and Van Ronk, but my memory presents nothing concrete.  I was too all over the map.  -Including the European music-scene. 

I had trouble differentiating folk from country, bluegrass, and satirical stuff like One-Eyed One-Horned Flying Purple People-Eater till about 63-ish. 

Plus, I was puffing-on an L&M Blue 100 when I arrived at the page... 

When ya think about it...  What exactly was folk-music... ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdMISGruB0Q

What is folk music? Here's Will Holt from the early 1960s, back just as Dylan was entering the scene and commercialism swept that genre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdH7YOx4sf0

That definitely blows stuff like Puff, The Magic drag-on away.

Quote from: kit saginaw on November 18, 2015, 08:33:57 PM
That definitely blows stuff like Puff, The Magic drag-on away.

I bought the LP which is shown above and recommend it for several early (pre-commercial) folk songs. Theodore Bikel "The Rising of the Moon" for example is terrific, and many more.

Here's Doc Watson...and then Mississippi John Hurt. And more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeiXnyvo0d4&list=PLw9LHJQG82Hnv_kzvBoPTV1-hA7c8X6UF

Same song by Bikel, just a different album.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnq0VV-qP7s

Great renditions, though the second is a Celtic land-based rallying-shanty (chanty).

I saw Watson in Greeley, Colorado... in the early 70's.  Stoic, palpable, and not without humor. 

I never got-into Bikel that much.  He seemed kinda Burl Ives-ish.   

Quote from: kit saginaw on November 19, 2015, 09:57:05 PM
He seemed kinda Burl Ives-ish.   

I just had a vision of Ives in Fiddler On the Roof and must now atone for my mental sins.

Oy. Must I..... 

Quote from: quiller on November 20, 2015, 08:58:54 AM
I just had a vision of Ives in Fiddler On the Roof and must now atone for my mental sins.

Oy. Must I..... 

I can't supply yudda dubba yidda budda dibba yubba di...  But I can supply yuppa yay yai yam bai yo uh-oh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iizlFtrylI4

   I expected Big Hair to leap outta my monitor and strangle me with the 80s.

She had come not to just sing, but to prove a point. This one's for the older singer wanting to leave a mark in an industry of children.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq0h_0PwnGE

Here's a high-energy song AND dance band from France called Caravan Palace.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7JOa3dISg0

This is based on "The Confederate Anthem" melody I discovered today, but instead of raggin' on the Yanks, this one takes aim at the clown prince himself....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRtlUi3OJ_c

Quote from: quiller on November 21, 2015, 08:49:29 AM
This is based on "The Confederate Anthem" melody I discovered today, but instead of raggin' on the Yanks, this one takes aim at the clown prince himself....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRtlUi3OJ_c

Thanks, Q.  It reminded me of this :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfJZrUTEcJM

Quote from: kit saginaw on November 23, 2015, 11:23:03 PM
Thanks, Q.  It reminded me of this :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfJZrUTEcJM

Outstanding, isn't it? Why can't American leftists find ANYTHING good to say about the U.S.? Why are they so riddled with hate?

I got that recording on a limited-edition CD that Jo-Jo Schutte McGregor authorized a few years ago. Written by a Canadian newsman and read by McGregor (then news director at CKLW-AM, the most powerful AM station in North America), it remains one of the very best statements from our longtime northern friends and neighbors.

Breaking Flash  from the bunker of MUSAC (Military Underground Sugared-Airwaves Command)

be on the lookout for this song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Axj-xvyz8M