#Traditional folk

[greengrowsthelaurel]

it’s peak tamlin season and i haven’t posted shit so here

[folk-enjoyer]

Song of the day

(do you want the history of your favorite folk song? dm me or submit an ask, and I'll do a full rundown like here)

"Bread and Roses"

Judy Collins, 1976

since its labor day i thought we could talk about some good ol' IWW labor history

in 1911, Helen Todd gave a speech about women's suffrage and ended it

"Not at once; but woman is the mothering element in the world and her vote will go toward helping forward the time when life's Bread, which is home, shelter and security, and the Roses of life, music, education, nature and books, shall be the heritage of every child that is born in the country, in the government of which she has a voice."

James Oppenheim, inspired by this speech, created the poem "Bread and Roses" in 1911, whose words would later become the lyrics for the judy collins song.

in 1912, 30,000 immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, went on strike due to poor working conditions and poor pay. this strike was led by the International Workers of the World and was comprised mostly of women. the phrase "bread and roses" was all over signs and became the slogan of the strike, with it even being called the "Bread and Roses Strike". like many strikes in the USA it was absolutely brutal for the strikers, and several people died, but they were able to win some of their demands.

in 1970, the James Oppenheim poem was put to music by mimi fariña, and then covered by judy collins. my favorite cover is by Utah Phillips in 1983 , where he explains the history of the textile strike and the meaning of the slogan

Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses 🌹

[bobdylan-n-jonimitchell]

Joan Baez “The Cherry Tree Carol” A Pattern of Words & Music, November 20, 1960.

[birdfriend-theband]

Geoff’s solo record is out today.

[luzpalida]

Traditional hairstyle and headdress from the region of Krzczonow, Poland.

[femmeterypolka]

listen to my tunes boy

[switchscene]

Finally back from tour (okay I got back like two days ago but I've been decompressing offline so no posting or browsing till right now) and holy shit what a great time.

We ended up playing for maybe ten people total across both shows but every single one of them was cool as fuck and the experience of getting up in front of folks was amazing and invaluable. It's way different than busking, that's for sure~

[randomvarious]

Today's compilation:

The Cream of Irish Folk 1999 Folk / Celtic Folk / Traditional Folk

Really thought that this thing was gonna be packed with a bunch of classic, fun, and rowdy Irish drinking songs because of the pint that's depicted on its cover, but most of this 70s-centric Celtic folk album is actually a whole lot tamer and wistful, and probably better suited for listening to while staring at YouTube videos of Ireland's bucolic countryside instead.

Outside of a live rendition of an Irish rebel classic called "Come Out Ye Black and Tans" that was released in 1970 by what appears to be a pretty obscure group called Mark's Men, nothing else on here really appealed to me at all. And apparently there's a much more famous version of "Come Out Ye Black and Tans" by a group called The Wolfe Tones that was released a couple years later and went to #1 in Scotland in 2020 too, but I think I actually prefer this much-lesser known version of it instead, because whenever you feel a need to call out your fellow neighbors for being pro-British rather than for Irish independence, you're probably gonna wanna do it with a bit of confrontational snarl and zeal; and that's what this frontman from Mark's Men does, while the Wolfe Tones' version simply does not.

So this is definitely not a type of music that I check in with very often, but if the folk's got some fiery passion to it, then I'll probably be a whole lot more inclined to like it. And this Mark's Men song is the only one on this album that seems to have any of it.

Highlights:

Mark's Men - "Come Out Ye Black & Tans"

[wildwren]

stills from the video for Go Dig My Grave by Lankum

[nonenglishsongs]

Ñande Reko Arandu - Gwyrá Mi (Guarani)

[mysticalblizzardcolor]

Listen/purchase: Thonar (Demo) by Annie Hurdy Gurdy

[greengrowsthelaurel]

I want to make dnd one shots loosely based on folk ballads. current list includes but is not limited to:

-tam lin

-outlandish knight/lady isabel and the elf knight

- thomas the rhymer

-maid on the shore

-famous flower of serving men (idk there’s enough mystical shit happening here and also a good amount of murder that i feel there is potential)

[folk-enjoyer]

Ronald D. Cohen Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The kossoy sisters, greenbriar boys, and woody guthrie at a party 1959

[cowboy-tendencies]

Honey in the Hair - Blackbird Raum