The Country, Folk & World Recommendation Thread

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Robert Ogilvie Noakes (13 May 1947 – 11 November 2022) was a Scottish singer-songwriter. Noakes was at the forefront of Scottish folk music for over 50 years and recorded over 19 studio albums. He toured folk clubs and often performed at the Glasgow music festival Celtic Connections.

Rab Noakes - I've Hardly Started Yet (Scotland)

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The Joy is a South African band, whose members met in a small town near Durban during a singing competition in high school. Encouraged by their teachers and classmates, the group mixes traditional Zulu music and acapella singing.

The Joy - Hlala Nami (South Africa)

On their 5th studio album, Connection, Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog have pushed their long-brewing tension between traditional pop songcraft and avantgarde improvisational music to the breaking point, bridging their customary genre-agnostic approach with elements of glam boogie, minimalist disco, psychedelic boogaloo, garage-punk-against-the-machine agitprop, and so much more.

Marc Ribot - Crumbia (USA)

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Singer/songwriter Kelly Hunt’s new album, OZARK SYMPHONY, is the fruit of her many journeys. The songs tell universal stories of life’s peaks and valleys with stories set against a backdrop of the prairie, mountains, and river delta spanning the Midwest and deep South, all of which intimately shaped the contours of her life. Taken as a whole, the album establishes Hunt as a vital voice Americana music, ...

Kelly Hunt - Top of the World (USA)

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Bristol-based multi-instrumentalist Elliott and Cairo-based oud virtuoso Elazhary and friends run the gamut from morris dance to classical Arabic traditions.

Tamsin Elliott & Tarek Elazhary - El Hara (GB/Egypt)

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Composition of Campino.
"Written in October 2019 when we launched the regular trad session meetings at Café Comptoir Chez Colette in Tours. Inspired by compositions by Gilles Chabenat with whom I grew up, in particular his "Mazurka of the schoolchildren of Saint Genest".

Bonnin Campino Laplanche - Mazurka de Chez Colette (France)

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