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

#TheWatersons #NormaWaterson #MikeWaterson #LalWaterson #FolkMusic #Hull #Music #TraditionalSongs #TopicRecords

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

#ShirleyCollins #DavyGraham #FolkMusic #TraditionalSongs #Music #Folk #FolkJazz

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

#FolkMusic #EroticSongs #TraditionalSongs #Music #AnneBriggs #DaveSwarbrick #FrankieArmstrong #TopicRecords #ALLoyd #BritishFolk

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

#holymodalrounders #PeterStampfel #SteveWeber #OldTime #Fiddle #Folk #TraditionalSongs #Music #PrestigeRecords

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/

#CrozetTunnel #Weirs #MagicTuberStringband #Music #Drone #TraditionalSongs

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..

[read in full below]

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

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

#PeggySeeger #EwanMacColl #Folkways #folkmusic #traditionalsongs #ScotishBallads #childeballads #MattyGroves

Songs Our Daddy Taught Us (1958) is the second studio album by American singing duo the Everly Brothers. The album is based on a selection of songs that the brothers learned as boys from their father, Ike Everly.

Music journalist Richie Unterberger notes that the album of traditional music, released at the peak of the duo's commercial success as a rock and roll act, was unexpected and "ahead of its time". The New Rolling Stone Album Guide, which awarded the album 4 out of 5 stars, noted that not even Elvis Presley "had the nerve to do an album as rootsy" as this one. - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF95KYgqeIw&list=RDcF95KYgqeIw&start_radio=1

#everlybrothers #americanrootsmusic #americana #traditionalsongs

Undertaker Please Drive Slow by Shane Parish, released on Tzadik in 2016.

"A long time resident of the Appalachian town of Asheville, North Carolina, Shane Parish is the mastermind behind the cutting edge rock band
Ahleuchatistas. Here he steps out with a remarkable and soulful acoustic solo project that digs deep into Appalachian roots. Taking classic old timey folk songs, Shane has abstracted them in utterly fascinating ways evoking the haunting and brooding world of the American South. At times reminiscent of John Fahey and Robbie Basho, at times of John Cage and Morton Feldman, Shane uses these beautiful songs as launching pads for his creative flights of fancy, at times boiling them down to their very essence. A spiritual project that will keep you riveted from first note to last." — John Zorn

https://shaneparish.bandcamp.com/album/undertaker-please-drive-slow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcwKgeP4hsw&list=RDtcwKgeP4hsw&start_radio=1

#ShaneParish #Tzadik #johnzorn #americanprimitiveguitar #traditionalsongs #folksongs