bhowells

My all time favourite uk folk singer-sogwriter has to be Harvey Andrews.

In his forty five year old career has produced some marvelous work, he has many distinguised songs in his canon,"Hey Sandy" covered by Christie Moore, the acclaimed."Soldier." about a british soldier killed by a bom in Northern ireland and his great tributes to Tony Hancock, Phil Ochs and Buddy Holly.

Forum film fans may be aware that Harvey sings on the soundtrack to the film,"Psychomania." a film that turned to be a swansong for both Dennis Price and George Sandeers.

Other favourite uk folk artists are June Tabor, Sandy Denny, The Ian Campbell Folk group, Fairport Convention, Alan Taylor and the now disbanded Welsh duo ,"Huw and TonY Williams who are for many the uk. answer to Simon and Garfunkel, much missed.

wadsy

The great Karl Denver!!

batman

Paul Brady
Dick Gaughan
Luka Bloom
Dave Cousins
Sandy Denny
Richard and Linda Thompson

etc etc

I wish I had claws.

Freddy

The Spinners, (of there time)
Ralph McTell
Martin Carthy
Michael Chapman

Freddy

"What I owe you Colonel Lawrence, is beyond evaluation."

billy bentley

Nick Drake and Bert Jansch.

penfold

The '68/9 Line-up of Fairport was incredible..... Sandy Denny, Richard Thompson, Ian Matthews; all great singers and writers; Simon Nicol, Martin Lamble and Ashley Hutchings great enough to be able to support them and give them space.......

To them you must add John Tams, Shirley Collins, The Waterson/Carthy clan, the incredible Copper Family, Show of Hands.....Steeleye Span were fantastic for their first two albums, before they sold their soul to TOTP in about'73....when the Albion Band, and then The Home Service took up the mantle of the best of English Electric Folk.

Bit of a Bay Window, what??

billy bentley

'Who Knows Where The Time Goes" a truly beautiful record.

giropay

Has to be Martin Carthy - provided the'inspiration' for Paul Simon's Scarborough Fair - never fully acknowledged by Paul.

penfold

No, he has made a belated acknowledgement....a few years back now.

Bit of a Bay Window, what??

Rob Compton

No-one's yet mentioned the very talented Kate Rusby....



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Rob

penfold

Whose latest single is a cover of Sandy Denny's Who Knows Where The Time Goes...stunning version, too.

Bit of a Bay Window, what??

samkydd

I bought an album of his in the 70s "Writer of Songs" which had the Soldier track on it, and saw him at Cambridge. Very good songwriter and performer and massively under appreciated.

I also remember another social conscience singer songwriter Alex Glasgow, who had some hard hitting and often very funny songs on his albums. I remember some of the lyrics from some thirty odd years ago since I last heard one of his songs.

I love my work and I love my wages
Love my boss and he loves me too.
How I love this line of sausages,
I'd surely die for the love of you!

Another was about the fighting talk of men meeting in pubs, and the words becoming more and more slurred as the alcohol consumed increases. With a chorus of "As soon as this pub closes, the revolution starts!"

Soul less urban concrete tower block developments of the 60s was another topic for venting his spleen, "...whilst the architects and planners have all saved themselves a cottage in the hills!"

He wrote the songs for Alan Plater’s play Close The Coalhouse Door, but is best known for his recording of Dance Te Yer Daddy, used in the TV series When The Boat Comes In. He also wrote the scripts for four episodes.

Commemorative Plaques in Gateshead Borough

"...the chairman of Littlewoods stores made a Keynote speech!"

bhowells

Harvey is indeed underappreciated, his CV is mightlily impressive.

I know the work of Alex Glasgow I remember him on BBC schools programmes in the seventies and recall him peforming that song, with the lyrics ,"As soon as this pub closes on a programme on BBC2 which also featured Henry Livings and Bernard Cribbins. It was recorded at the Crucible theatre, Sheffield.

No doubt you are probably familiar with Roy Bailey who tours now and then with Tony Benn.

bhowells

The great Johnnhy Silvo, a superb voice and thankfully still working. Along with Derek Griffiths he must have been one of Play Schools's most talented presenters.

MB

I rarely like pure UK folk - but a bit of a mix or 'world' folk music, I don't mind..although, my favourite of all time has to be Richard Thompson, I do really, really love him, actually.

Love Irish ceilidh music and from that, the Pogues.

Other than that I have been persuaded to listen to Devendra Banhart which sounds a bit twee to start off with but gets better and after a bit you can't stop playing it at all.

MySpace.com - Devendra Banhart - - Folk / Indie - www.myspace.com/devendrabanhart