#folksinging
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rowanwolf · 2 years ago
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I really ought to look into starting some sort of folksinging group. It's one of the things I miss about spending a lot of time around other folklorists. Or, you know, in the area where I picked up like 60% of my ballads. Communal music is a great thing. It's fun! But it's also a great way to learn about other folks and their cultural backgrounds. Every culture has folk music. Yes, even the broader, overarching US culture, for as much as there even is an overarching US culture. We're kind of a tossed salad around here. But that honestly just makes it even better.
I love song circles and jam sessions. They're a very chill environment focused on creativity, community, and learning from one another. There are no skill requirements and you need not even know anything going in. Just show up with your instrument and/or voice and a willingness to learn and you're good. I really should see about starting a singing circle around here. It'd be nice to have that again.
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Alternate Educations
My favorite subjects? In High school, it was cutting classes. It eventually led to my expulsion, but it also introduced me to new paths in life that my uptown peers never encountered. I would cut classes and promptly head to Hanrahan’s pool “Parlour.” I was, and still am, awful at playing pool. But you can’t justify some things; only wonder at the sheer stupidity of enjoying them. And pool, by…
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aranciu · 1 year ago
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edited my favorite deleted/alternate scenes from renfield together, to silence the demons in my head (it's not working)
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murderballadeer · 1 year ago
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oh he gets it
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newyorkthegoldenage · 1 year ago
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Woody Guthrie sings for the neighborhood, 1943.
Photo: Eric Schaal for Time & Life Pictures via Shutterstock/Life magazine
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anintelligentoctopus · 1 year ago
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A slightly arbitrary list w a mix of people who were popular or prominent in the scene at the time and some of my own faves bc it's my poll
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forthegothicheroine · 23 days ago
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This attempt to match my outfit to my book ended up less "anthropomorphic creature cozy mystery" and more "Disney's Robin Hood", but an attempt was made.
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mackmp3 · 24 days ago
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beautiful women should come to my house & teach me how to play better folk guitar and lean really close and put their arms around me to reach the fretboard & their hair shoudl hang in my face uhmmmmm
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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 2 years ago
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And the evil is done in hopes that evil surrenders / But the deeds of the devil are burned too deep in the embers / And a world of hunger in vengeance will always remember. -Phil Ochs, folksinger
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capricorn-0mnikorn · 7 months ago
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This particular Tom Lewis (it's a pretty common name) is pretty big in the contemporary British Sea Shanty/folk music scene (He's the one who wrote "The Last Shanty").
In this particular video he gives background info for, and sings, a song about old time music hall life.
For some reason, it's classified by YouTube as "for kids" (even though the live audience is all adults, and there's a humorous verse about an extra marital affair). So I can't leave a comment saying how much I liked this one.
So I'm showing my appreciation this way.
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desertsquiet · 2 years ago
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Well, listen to the rumble, the rattle, and the roar
She glides along the woodlands, down the hills and by the shore
Hear the mighty rush of engine, hear the lonesome hobo call
Ride the rosin, break a bead on the Wabash Cannonball
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Flashback Friday- songs your mother never taught you
originally posted – February 9, 2021 I had moved to Portland to get away from Boston. In those days, the late 1960’s, Portland was a hike from Boston and was in an entirely different cultural world.Portland came well equipped with a small church-run coffeehouse that I could habituate when not working. The Gate Coffeehouse became the center of my social life. After work in the afternoon, I’d go…
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redcrow31 · 2 years ago
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Photo taken of Garry Blackchild using real film by @lindlesoup Location : Horse Thief Mesa , Arroyo Hondo , New Mexico
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murderballadeer · 27 days ago
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my epic awesome collection of american folk music books cited in my annotated bibliography…
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musicmoviefan · 10 months ago
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RIP MELANIE Thank you for your beautiful songs and music 🙏♥️❤️☮️🕯️🕯️🎼💝🛼🗝️🌧️😢💔💫
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mattapsi · 1 year ago
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(mattapsi) Just finished ! Happy bank how’s in The UK. Happy weekend everyone else !
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