#folksinging

[rowanwolf]

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.

[athoughtfullyautomaticcollection]

One Night On The Side Of The Road

Written for OLWG – #303 In those days, not too far off Route 1, there was an old milk truck that someone had converted into a lean-to shelter. The faded logo of a cow sittin’ on a rainbow could still be made out on the side. Inside were a few improvised plank beds, and right outside of the opening was a large fire pit with the hood of an old car propped up as a heat reflector. Past the road was…

[aranciu]

edited my favorite deleted/alternate scenes from renfield together, to silence the demons in my head (it's not working)

[murderballadeer]

oh he gets it

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Woody Guthrie sings for the neighborhood, 1943.

Photo: Eric Schaal for Time & Life Pictures via Shutterstock/Life magazine

[anintelligentoctopus]

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

[forthegothicheroine]

Vampire folksinger looks

[mackmp3]

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

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

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

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

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.

[desertsquiet]

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

[athoughtfullyautomaticcollection]

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…

[redcrow31]

Photo taken of Garry Blackchild using real film by @lindlesoup Location : Horse Thief Mesa , Arroyo Hondo , New Mexico

[murderballadeer]

my epic awesome collection of american folk music books cited in my annotated bibliography…

[musicmoviefan]

RIP MELANIE Thank you for your beautiful songs and music 🙏♥️❤️☮️🕯️🕯️🎼💝🛼🗝️🌧️😢💔💫

[mattapsi]

(mattapsi) Just finished ! Happy bank how’s in The UK. Happy weekend everyone else !