The Country, Folk & World Recommendation Thread

[RavenRose]

@Buckeye Randy: Very True!!! My next birthday I will be 50!!! Old school music has some excellent tunes, I prefer old school a lot over some of the crap that is out today..

[Drjohnrock]

Don't know if Roy Harper can be confined to the folk genre--his music touches on other styles--but I think this track qualifies. Roy has a low opinion of the cuisine at a (in)famous truck stop restaurant off an English motorway: "The Watford Gap/The Watford Gap/a plate of grease and a load of crap"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY34XCQB26Q

[Safar]

Townes Van Zandt never had a real hit, he was completely indifferent to commercial success. To this day, he is considered one of the most influential song poets in the USA.

Townes Van Zandt - Highway Kind (USA)

On Kathryn Tickell’s Return to Kielderside (Resilient Records), the Northumbrian smallpipes player reworks her teenage debut album (1984’s On Kielder Side) with old friends and recent collaborators. It’s hearty, often moving stuff, especially when you hear curlews surround her on Sycamore Gap.

Kathryn Tickell - Sycamore Gap (England)

Typical of traditional Cretan music is the dominant role of the lyra, a pear-shaped, bowed-necked lute, which Petrakis himself masters with virtuosity.

Stelios Petrakis - Voreia Monoipatia (Greece)

[Buckeye Randy]

Originally Posted by Safar

Townes Van Zandt never had a real hit, he was completely indifferent to commercial success. To this day, he is considered one of the most influential song poets in the USA.
Townes Van Zandt - Highway Kind (USA)

Steve Earle has a tribute album to him and another to Jerry Jeff Walker.

[Drjohnrock]

Originally Posted by Safar

Townes Van Zandt - Highway Kind (USA)

Here's one of Townes' tunes I particulary enjoy:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttp-9pCsBQ4

[Safar]

Knowing only "Galoway girl" from Steve Earle, i should change that.

The radio is on and you can already hear him with his sonorous, scratchy voice: Vasilis Karras. Suffering, melancholy, and he always seems to be heartbroken. In his songs, the Laika singer mainly addresses failed relationships and disappointments. This has made the musician one of the most popular and beloved Greek singers ever.

Lyrics: Give me a Danish cigarette, Pour us a drink to forget, Close the door so no one can see us, And come back to the old days......

Vasilis Karras - Just like old times (Greece)

Can you imagine the vibe of the santouri - the ravishing dulcimer of Greece-, the singing soul of the violin, and the impulsive rhythm section all together? This is Meybahar! A deep shot through the islands of the Aegean Sea and Asia Minor, with the spirit of India.

Meybahar - City Nomads Session (Hungary)

The ensemble Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, founded in 2006 by French flautist and music researcher François Lazarevitch, is characterized by a fine sense of timbre, virtuosity and passion as well as poetic sensitivity. The ensemble specializes primarily in the music of the early Baroque period, both the classically notated “serious” music and the improvised dance and folk music of the time........

Gaelic Songs and Dances of the 17th & 18th Centuries

Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien - The High Road to Kilkenny (France)

......Both flow together in the interpretations of Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, for example when the musicians use historical instruments to search for traces of the 17th and 18th centuries to bring Gaelic songs and dances full of energy to life or when they search for the roots of Henry Purcell's music in Irish, Scottish and English folklore.

Spoiler for Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien - Cuckold Come Out the Amery:

Scottish Music in the 18th Century

Spoiler for Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien - Johnnie Cope - Laughlan's Lilt:

Georg Philipp Telemann (Born in Magdeburg on 24 March 1681. He died on 25 June 1767 in Hamburg, Germany) travelled to Upper Silesia in 1705. On this trip, he discovered ‘Polish and Hanakian music with its barbaric beauty. Hanak refers to the Hanna region [between the towns of Olomouc, Kroměříž, Prostějov and Vyškov.] in Moravia, Hána in Czech. This CD contains much of what may have reached the composer's ears from the pubs and dance floors of Eastern Europe. He called this music barbaric, not in a pejorative sense, but in the sense of wild.

Spoiler for Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien - Światówka (Composer: Anonymous):

[Safar]

East Meets East is a collaborative studio album released through EMI Classics in 2003 by violinist Nigel Kennedy and the Kroke band (Jerzy Bawoł on accordion, Tomasz Kukurba on viola and Tomasz Lato on double bass), surrounded by several guest artists of international reputation such as Natacha Atlas, Mo Foster, and the Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra.

Nigel Kennedy · The Kroke Band - Lullaby for Kamila (England/Poland)

In her home country of England, Alison Balsom is one of the most popular classical artists and has also established herself as a successful trumpet virtuoso in this country. She has won numerous awards such as the Classic FM Listeners' Choice and Gramophone Awards, the Classical Brit Awards and the ECHO Klassik.
Georg Philipp Telemann was the most famous composer in Germany in his day! He transformed everything possible and impossible into music, for example the ebb and flow of the tide: the water rushes through your ears! Or he lets a thunderstorm roar through the orchestra. It is very emotional when Telemann dedicates funeral music to a deceased canary. After all, it was his own bird.

Spoiler for Baroque trumpet: Alison Balsom - Telemann: Adagio (England):

[Safar]

A great voice, Kenya's irresistible grooves, sparkling guitars and a powerful brass section. Nina Ogot and her eight-piece band succeed in creating an exciting musical journey. She strikes just the right balance between spiritual depth and infectious rhythms. This is dance music per excellence!

Nina Ogot - Ningojee (Kenya)

Spoiler for Nina Ogot - Safari:

Spoiler for Nina Ogot - Tabasamu:

[Drjohnrock]

Originally Posted by Safar

Nina Ogot - Ningojee (Kenya)

Spoiler for Nina Ogot - Safari:

Spoiler for Nina Ogot - Tabasamu:

I really like this one, Safar. Thanks for the post.

[Safar]

Everywhere, from time immemorial, the Word has been embodied by the bard, the troubadour, the griot. These wordsmiths, at once messengers and peacemakers, are the links with the forces of nature, the inexpressible divine, the memory of the ancients. It falls to them to maintain the realm of the collective soul.
Nowadays, these freethinkers and travellers are making the world their garden… like Kiya Tabassian, the virtuoso of Persian setar and Ablaye Cissoko, griot from Saint-Louis, Senegal.

Kiya Tabassian, Ablaye Cissoko, Patrick Graham (Constantinople) TRAVERSÉES (Iran, Senegal, Canada)

It's one thing to play for people who want to have an experience through music. And it's another to go somewhere and play for people who generally have an inhuman attitude.
Daniel Barenboim (Conductor)
Thank you for reaching out! This is a live music session featuring a band that uses music as a way to bring people together, not divide them.
We hope for an end to all wars and conflicts as soon as possible, so we can all come together to dance and celebrate life with live music. Peace.
Hoodna Orchestra

Hoodna Orchestra - Full LIVE Session at Shivta (Israel)

Manuelcha Prado is one of the most well-known troubadours of Andean music and doubtlessly one of the maestros of the Andean guitar, a particular style of traditional music in South America. He was born in Perú, in the Andean town of Puquio, Department of Ayacucho.

El Alisal - Manuelcha Prado y Luciano Quispe (Perú)

"Heyr himna smiður" is considered the oldest preserved Nordic hymn. The poem was composed by the chieftain Kolbeinn Tumason in 1208,

bandcamp: Árstíðir - Heyr himna smi​ð​ur (Iceland)

Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons, is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Melanesia, part of Oceania, to the northeast of Australia.

not that the beautiful songs don't also make you think

The Choir of All Saints - Jisas Yu Holem Hand Blong Mi (Solomon Island, Melanesia)

Jesous Ahatonhia is a Christmas carol in Wendish (the language of the Hurons), which was probably written by the Jesuit Jean de Brébeuf. The title means “Christ is born”. In the English-speaking world it is known as “Twas in the Moon of Wintertime” or Huron Carol. It was written in 1641 or 1642 and is considered the oldest Christmas carol in Canada, and the English version is particularly popular in Canada.

Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien - Iesous Ahatonnia (France)