Folk

The Ian Campbell Folk Group - The Complete Transatlantic Recordings (2016) 4CD Deluxe Box Set

The Ian Campbell Folk Group - The Complete Transatlantic Recordings (2016) 4CDs
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 1.36 Gb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 591 Mb | Scans ~ 287 Mb
British Folk, Folk Revival, Celtic | Label: Cherry Tree | # CRTREEBOX16 | Time: 04:18:48

This 4 CD collection gathers together for the first time the entire Ian Campbell Folk Group catalogue recorded for Transatlantic Records, covering the period 1963-1968. This collection includes 6 studio albums plus related bonus material from the period. The Ian Campbell Folk Group were one of the most respected, influential and best known British folk groups of the 1960’s. Taking their origins from Aberdeen, the band formed in Birmingham in 1958. They signed to Transatlantic Records in 1963 and proceeded to record the content of this collection over the next 6 years. They topped the bill at the Royal Albert Hall, made numerous TV appearances, attended the Newport Folk Festival in 1964 and were prolific live performers throughout Europe. Dave Swarbrick and Dave Pegg who both achieved fame with Fairport Convention, are featured in this collection.

VA - Four Decades Of Folk Rock (2007)  Music

Posted by Rtax at Nov. 26, 2022
VA - Four Decades Of Folk Rock (2007)

VA - Four Decades Of Folk Rock (2007)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 1.8 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 656 MB
4:44:16 | Folk Rock, Classic Rock | Label: Time Life

Four Decades of Folk Rock is an expansive box set, allowing one disc and over an hour of music for each decade. For those who would argue that folk-rock was primarily a 1960s phenomenon in the United States and a '60s and '70s phenomenon in Britain, the box counters that the musical strains of folk-rock have informed everyone from R.E.M. to the Bangles to David Gray. It's unlikely, though, that anyone but record shop nerds and music historians will be very interested in the debate. For everyone else, the set will be measured by the quality of the music itself, and on that account, Four Decades delivers a remarkable set list.
VA - Before The Day Is Done: The Story Of Folk Heritage Records 1968-1975 (2022)

VA - Before The Day Is Done: The Story Of Folk Heritage Records 1968-1975 (2022)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 1.1 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 544 MB
3:57:22 | Full Scans - 33 MB | Folk, Rock | Label: Grapefruit

First-ever CD anthology of the fiercely-collected Folk Heritage label and related satellites/ spin-offs. Four-hour compilation featuring tracks from some of the most valuable British folk albums of the early 70s. Third instalment of Grapefruit’s underground British folk triptych that started with much- acclaimed releases ‘Dust On The Nettles’ and ‘Sumer Is Icumen In’.Founded in the Greater Manchester area in 1968 by the late Alan Green, the Folk Heritage label and its subsequent associated imprints – Midas, Sweet Folk & Country, Westwood, Real – was an obscure but dedicated home for the grass-roots element of the British folk boom.

Michael Chapman - Live At Folk Cottage, Cornwall 1967 (2014)  Music

Posted by popsakov at Nov. 30, 2022
Michael Chapman - Live At Folk Cottage, Cornwall 1967 (2014)

Michael Chapman - Live At Folk Cottage, Cornwall 1967 (2014)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) + Cue + m3u8 + Log ~ 329 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 192 Mb
Full Scans ~ 152 Mb | 01:19:27 | RAR 5% Recovery
Folk, Acoustic, Singer-Songwriter | Treehouse44 #TH44CD0201

Limited Edition 2CD Set of unreleased recordings. Treehouse 44 release the first known recordings by British folk guitar hero Michael Chapman. Previously unreleased, these are the earliest known recordings of this great British guitar hero, or as Michael Chapman calls it "The album I had no idea I had made!" This follows on the heels of Light in The Attic'c catalogue re-issue programme. TreeHouse44 has worked closely with Michael Chapman, being allowed full access to his private archive, to produce a unique album that captures the earliest stages in the career of this phenomenal artist. The story of how Michael Chapman turned pro as a musician, walking into a Cornish pub and offering to play a gig in return for shelter from the rain outside is both well known and well told.
VA - Deep In The Woods: Pastoral Psychedelia & Funky Folk 1968-1975 (2022)

VA - Deep In The Woods: Pastoral Psychedelia & Funky Folk 1968-1975 (2022)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 1.3 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 532 MB
3:51:54 | Full scans Included | Folk, Funk, Psychedelia | Label: Strawberry

Triple CD set collecting rare cuts and cult favourites from the worlds of psychedelic, pastoral and funky folk, 1968-1975. Focusing on the outpouring of psychedelic folk flavours that emerged swiftly after the first psychedelic era. Featuring some wonderful selections from long collectable acts such as Sunforest, Mellow Candle, Trees, Heron, Trader Horne, Christine Harwood and many more. Compiled by Richard Norris (Beyond The Wizards Sleeve/The Grid), the compilation is themed around UK and Irish music from that hallowed period, and comes with a 7000 word essay and sleeve notes from the musician/producer. Celebrating the collision of traditional folk with new psychedelic studio techniques, new and exotic textures, and a developing groove. It's a wide and broad range of styles, drawing from folk, it's oral storytelling tradition, and also from jazz, beat, rhythm and blues, and the more mind opening sounds of psychedelia. Housed in a 3 CD digipack, designed in a striking wraparound collage by Lyndon Pike.
VA - Newport Folk Festival: Best Of The Blues 1959-68 (2001) 3CD Set

VA - Newport Folk Festival: Best Of The Blues 1959-68 (2001) 3CD Set
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 874 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 395 Mb | Scans ~ 35 Mb | 02:52:09
Acoustic Blues, Delta Blues, Country Blues, Folk-Blues | Label: Vanguard | # 193/95-2

This three-CD set documents some historic country-blues performances by the likes of Mississippi John Hurt, Skip James, Bukka White, Mississippi Fred McDowell and Mance Lipscomb. The urban side of things is well represented by Lightnin’ Hopkins, John Lee Hooker, Memphis Slim, Muddy Waters with Otis Spann, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band and The Chambers Brothers turning in a riveting rendition of “See See Rider.” Included here are 11 previously unreleased tracks. A must for acoustic-blues fans.

Lodestar Trio - Bach to Folk (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]  Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Sept. 23, 2022
Lodestar Trio - Bach to Folk (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Lodestar Trio - Bach to Folk (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 52:53 minutes | 1,08 GB
Classical | Label: Naxos Records, Official Digital Download

Lodestar Trio blaze a trail with their unprecedented ‘baroque meets folk’ repertoire. With renewed interpretations of baroque classics (Bach, Lully, Couperin…), folk tunes and new compositions, they push the boundaries of their mystical and magical Scandinavian string instruments. With Max Baillie on violin, Olav Luksengård Mjelva on Norwegian Hardanger fiddle and Erik Rydvall on Swedish nyckelharpa, they skilfully showcase the dexterity of each instrument, bringing out new qualities, whilst paying tribute to the roots of a much-honoured musical period.

Lodestar Trio - Bach to Folk (2022)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Sept. 23, 2022
Lodestar Trio - Bach to Folk (2022)

Lodestar Trio - Bach to Folk (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 309 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 125 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:52:53
Classical | Label: Naxos Records

Lodestar Trio blaze a trail with their unprecedented ‘baroque meets folk’ repertoire. With renewed interpretations of baroque classics (Bach, Lully, Couperin…), folk tunes and new compositions, they push the boundaries of their mystical and magical Scandinavian string instruments. With Max Baillie on violin, Olav Luksengård Mjelva on Norwegian Hardanger fiddle and Erik Rydvall on Swedish nyckelharpa, they skilfully showcase the dexterity of each instrument, bringing out new qualities, whilst paying tribute to the roots of a much-honoured musical period.
Howlin' Wolf - The Real Folk Blues (1966) + More Real Folk Blues (1967) 2 LP on 1 CD, Remastered 2002

Howlin' Wolf - The Real Folk Blues (1966) + More Real Folk Blues (1967) [2 LP on 1 CD, 2002]
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 299 | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 171 Mb | Scans included
Label: MCA/Chess | # 088 112 820-2 | Time: 01:06:43
Genre: Chicago Blues, Electric Blues

The Real Folk Blues series on Chess wasn't really folk, but titled that way, perhaps to gain the attention of young white listeners who had started to get turned on to the blues during the 1960s folk revival. And the Howlin' Wolf volumes in the series were not particularly more folk-oriented than his other Chess recordings, but more or less arbitrary selections of tracks that he'd done from the mid-'50s to the mid-'60s. It's thus also arbitrary to do a two-fer reissue of his The Real Folk Blues and More Real Folk Blues, combined here onto a single disc. That doesn't mean, though, that this isn't very good and sometimes great electric blues music. The Real Folk Blues, with tracks from 1956 to 1965, is by far the more modern of the pair in arrangements, and has a good share of classics: "Killing Floor," "Sittin' on Top of the World," "Built for Comfort," "Tail Dragger," and "Three Hundred Pounds of Joy".
Sinikka Langeland, Lars Anders Tomter, Kare Nordstoga - Maria's Song: Folk Songs and music of J.S. Bach (2009)

Sinikka Langeland - Maria's Song: Folk Songs and music of Johann Sebastian Bach (2009)
with Lars Anders Tomter & Kåre Nordstoga

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 414 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 218 Mb | Scans included
Classical, Baroque, Nordic Folk | Label: ECM | # ECM 2127, 271 7097 | Time: 01:12:11

Norwegian folk musician Sinikka Langeland, singer and player of the kantele (the Finnish table harp) is a distinctly non-traditional traditionalist, redefining "folk" in successive projects. 'Maria's Song' finds her in the company of two distinguished classical musicians - organist Kare Nordstoga and "giant of the Nordic viola" Lars Anders Tomter - and on a mission to restore Marian texts to sacred music, weaving folk melodies in between the timeless strains of J S Bach. Langeland made a lot of friends with her sparkling ECM debut Starflowers: "There are jewels everywhere on this arresting example of ego-free music-making. One of the albums of this or any other year" raved the Irish Times. Where Starflowers brought Langeland into the orbit of jazz improvisers, Maria's Song is a meeting and cross referencing of folk and 'classical' energies, and also a righting of historical 'injustice': Religious folk songs are amongst the most distinctive elements of the Norwegian folk tradition, yet the Virgin Mary rarely appears in them.