Joan Baez, Vol. 2 is the second studio album by Joan Baez. Released in 1961, the album, like her self-titled 1960 debut album, featured mostly traditional songs.

In his AllMusic review, music critic Matt Fink wrote of the album:

The material chosen is truly exceptional... Without a doubt, Baez's version of 'Pal of Mine' is every bit as vibrant as when the Carters recorded it, though here given a more bluegrass sound by the banjo and backup vocal accompaniment of the Greenbriar Boys. Baez is a true master of her craft, and though she hasn't always made the best choices for material, the 14 interpretations here are as timeless as the songs themselves... this is an album that all fans of traditional folk music should seek out. - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t0whsmCKvY

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Joan Baez, also known as Joan Baez, Vol. 1, is the debut solo album by folk singer Joan Baez. The album was recorded in the summer of 1960 and released the same year. The original release featured 13 traditional folk songs.

In his AllMusic review, music critic Bruce Eder commented that the purity of the sound was notable at the time. He wrote of the album "Baez gives a fine account of the most reserved and least confrontational aspects of the folk revival, presenting a brace of traditional songs (most notably "East Virginia" and "Mary Hamilton") with an urgency and sincerity that makes the listener feel as though they were being sung for the first time". - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsMEfYmOq-g

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The Watersons by The Watersons, released on Topic in 1966.

Sleeve Notes

The Watersons sing songs from all over the country but pay special attention to those collected in their native East Yorkshire. They live in Hull, the great seaport beside the Humber that also produced one of our greatest poets, Andrew Marvell; and in Hull they have for some years run their famous club, Folk Union One.

https://mainlynorfolk.info/watersons/records/thewatersons.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66qUOmGbvIQ

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Folk Roots, New Routes is a collaborative folk album by Shirley Collins and Davy Graham, released by Decca in 1964.

The album was produced by Ray Horricks and recorded by Gus Dudgeon; the sleeve featured a photograph by Crispian Woodgate and sleeve notes by Austin John Marshall.

According to Bob Stanley, the album took inspiration from the North African scale, modal music and Miles Davis; it was the first time many of these English folk songs had been recorded with guitar backing. - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1_DSNlMTIU&list=PLgM5Eo1Qm6InRFL8fEfzCbO_di78-jOzm&index=1

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The Bird In The Bush (Traditional Erotic Songs) by A. L. Lloyd, Anne Briggs, Frankie Armstrong with Alf Edwards and Dave Swarbrick, released on Topic in 1966.

Tom Knapp wrote on Rambles.net:

These simple, sparsely arranged recordings are utterly without artifice or pretense; they are boldly brazen, but never coarse. Rather, blunt puns and metaphors lay bare the true meaning of these songs. They show the plain-spoken delight that has made the saucier side of British folk music a treat for countless generations.

...as the subtitle indicates, these are "Traditional Songs of Love & Lust." For the most part, the songs were ancient long before these were recorded; the notes on one track mention copies circulating in Shakespeare's time, when the piece in question was already old.

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nwsTsJS6mZrmuQI8EcWBueWSxVmTLvtIk

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The Holy Modal Rounders 2 is the second studio album by the folk duo the Holy Modal Rounders, released in 1965 through Prestige Records.

The Holy Modal Rounders 2 Review by Stewart Mason

...Like the musicians collected on Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, the Holy Modal Rounders mixed traditional folk music and the artifacts of their particular circumstances (in their case, life among the junkies and freaks in post-Beat, pre-hippie Greenwich Village) into a unique and idiosyncratic blend that could have only come from these two people at this particular time. ...strangeness and mystery, along with raucous good humor, is at the heart of American folk music."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijzx1Z8zTJ8&list=PL19kp5Xy8sYAj7LhwshuimI5wwJmeHL7E&index=1

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The Crozet Tunnel by Weirs and Magic Tuber Stringband, released on Notice Recordings in 2024.

The collaboration between these two North Carolina projects feels, upon listening, almost inevitable. Magic Tuber Stringband (Evan Morgan and Courtney Werner) is an instrumental duo often employing traditional Appalachian-style playing within contemporary drone and song-oriented contexts to create undulating, cathartic, organic compositions. Weirs (Justin Morris and Oliver Child-Lanning) is a bit more stylistically diverse, but very much rooted in the fascinating crossover of traditional and contemporary music...

Recorded live with field recorders inside Virginia’s pitch-black Crozet Tunnel, the album presents four individuals experiencing the beautiful and intense sonics of both interior and exterior space, and their own forms of communication with one another... - Cafe Oto

https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/shop/weirs-and-magic-tuber-stringband-the-crozet-tunnel/

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Two-Way Trip by Peggy Seeger And Ewan Mac Coll, released on Folkways in 1961.

PREFACE by Ewan MacColl

I mostly sing Scots and English songs. The Scots material was part of the background of ray childhood, the English I began to acquire during my adolescence and have gone on adding to my store ever since. The Scots songs are closest to me, with the Liverpool shanties and forebitters running them a close second.
As for American folkmusic, my first contact with it was during the late thirties when I heard some of the Library of Congress recordings broadcast in the first B.B.C. folksong series. I can still remember the tremendous impact they made on me, and still recapture something of the initial excitement that was roused in me by hearing Woodie Guthrie, Blind Willie Johnson. Texas Gladden..

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https://ewanmaccoll.bandcamp.com/album/two-way-trip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdyUqIfGa1Y&list=RDLdyUqIfGa1Y&start_radio=1

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