The Country, Folk & World Recommendation Thread

[Buckeye Randy]

[Drjohnrock]

Originally Posted by Buckeye Randy

IIRC, he was supposed to open for Johnny Dowd at a show I saw at the Beachland Ballroom in 2022 but cancelled.

[Buckeye Randy]

Originally Posted by Drjohnrock

IIRC, he was supposed to open for Johnny Dowd at a show I saw at the Beachland Ballroom in 2022 but cancelled.

I've seen him several times and every time has been unique. He has an active instagram and he's on spotify. I hope you get to see him someday.

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Warren Haynes (born April 6, 1960 in Asheville, North Carolina) is an American rock and blues guitarist, singer and songwriter and was a longtime member of the Allman Brothers Band.
Warren Haynes presents us with a world beyond rock music on his third solo album “Ashes & Dust”. Americana and folklore with an Irish twist dominate “Ashes & Dust”. The band Railroad Earth from New Jersey accompanies Haynes' slide and acoustic guitars with harmonica, mandolin, banjo and fiddle.
Warren Haynes sings rough but softly to the melancholy folk.

Warren Haynes · Railroad Earth - Coal Tattoo (USA)

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As a soloist, but also with his bands, [Tony Rice] has taken the sometimes dusty genre of bluegrass to ever new levels since the seventies and transported it into the future. Always with him: his Martin D-28 dreadnought acoustic, which he inherited from his idol, teacher and role model Clarence White... Truly a guitar with an important history.

Tony Rice - Wayfaring Stranger (USA)

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Master accordion-player Steve Riley started the Mamou Playboys with fiddler Dave Greely (who has since left the group) in 1988. Both were students of Dewey Balfa, one of the greats of the music form, credited with helping the music expand beyond the bayou. They’re a Cajun band, deeply rooted in the traditions of the music, but not afraid to innovate and take risks. They’ve pushed the music in new directions, incorporating Zydeco and Swamp Pop alongside traditional Cajun tunes and their own originals into a stunning repertoire of great music.

Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys - La Danse de Mardi Gras (USA)

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VARO are Dublin-based singers and fiddle players Lucie Azconaga (from France) and Consuelo Nerea Breschi (from Italy) who perform Irish traditional songs and tunes with arrangement influences from the Folk, Baroque and Classical traditions, weaving around the melodies with harmonies, drones and countermelody.

VARO - Ye Jacobites by name (Ireland/France, Italy)

Spoiler for VARO & John Francis Flynn - 'Green Grows The Laurel':

The Ramparts mark St. Patrick’s Day 2020 with one of our favourite activities - singing in a pub! "Rocky Road to Dublin" is a 19th-century Irish song written by Irish poet D. K. Gavan about a man's experiences as he travels to Liverpool, England, from his home in Tuam, Ireland. Originally popularized by Harry Clifton, it has since been performed extensively and become a standard of Irish folk music.

The Ramparts - The Rocky Road To Dublin (Ireland)

They deal with the early days in Deptford with Dire Straits, a soccer fan in a foreign city, a musician coming home through the snow and much more. Knopfler once again proves himself to be an accomplished storyteller. Apart from that, the new album convinces as always with exciting guitar playing and a characteristically warm voice.

Mark Knopfler - Drovers' Road (GB)

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Ethio-jazz pioneer Mulatu Astatke joins the Hoodna Orchestra, Tel Aviv's leading Afro-funk collective, combining his enchanting vibraphone playing with the brass-heavy power of the orchestra in seven original compositions that pay tribute to the classic Mulatu sound while breaking new ground.

Mulatu Astatke · Hoodna Orchestra - Tension (Ethiopia/Israel)

A set of 12 instrumentals – ten originals, two covers – radiantly played by Cape Town-based pianist-composer Kyle Shepherd, double bassist Shane Cooper and drummer Jonno Sweetman, ... This one, then, is a cause for rejoicing, not the least thanks to a sublime cover of Massive Attack’s ‘Teardrop’ that finds the trio improvising over those gorgeous rolling chords. The rhythms of West Africa are here, too, oh-so-subtly woven into ‘For Oumou Sangaré’, a glistening paean to the Malian diva that reinforces her status as a pan-African icon.

The Kyle Shepherd Trio - For Oumou Sangaré (South Africa)

Spoiler for Kyle Shepherd Trio - Teardrop/Live in Cape Town 2024:

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The unrivalled masters of 21st century Turkish psychedelic music play their own compositions with such a heavy dose of improvisation that every gig becomes very different than the one before attracting and pushing fans to experience more and more shows just like Deadheads.
Born in Istanbul in 1996, BaBa ZuLa features founding members Levent Akman (spoons, percussions, machines, toys), Murat Ertel (electric saz and other stringed instruments, vocals, theremin), as well as darbuka and percussion player Ümit Adakale and Esma Ertel on vocals and dancing.
Abdülcanbaz is an "Istanbul Gentleman", he is also known as the "Formidable Turk." He is a hero of all times, a legend which the people hope and dream of…He always uses his remarkable powers to help the virtuous, the just and the downtrodden.

BABA ZULA - Abdülcanbaz (Türkiye)

"Four young Turks from different Anatolian villages met and became friends during the 1960s, discovering in common their taste both for the traditional music of their land and for the new kind of music that Europe called "pop". Their names were Murat Ses, Cahit Berkay, Taner Ongur, and Engin Yorukoglu, all of them skilled musicians playing traditional Turkish instruments, to which they had added guitar, piano and organ by the time they launched themselves as a group in 1967.
Their kind of music, based on the exotic folklore heritage of Anatolia, enriched by modern rhythms merged with the impassioned strains of the Turkish national idioms, stimulated the formation of numerous other new groups.

Moğollar ‎– Kâtip Arzuhalim Yaz Yare Böyle (Türkiye)

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The seven-strong band from Tbilisi are adept purveyors of the famous polyphonic singing tradition of Georgia, but they are also flying the flag for the lesser known instrumental folk styles of the region, bringing in dances and songs from around the Caucasus, expertly played on the emblematic Georgian instrument, the three-string panduri, accordion, frame-drum and given an extra shot of modern energy with the addition of keyboards, bass guitar and drums.
The band came together in 2011 and were playing on the streets of Tbilisi when they were heard by music producer Chabuki Amiranashvili who took them into the studio.

Bani - Gandagana (Georgia)

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