#british folk

[thetidemice]

sketchbook pages <3

#illustration #wilder mann #folk art #straw bear #whittlesea strawbear #charles freger #pencil #sketchbook #research #folklore #british folk #folk #folk ritual #costume #folk costume #my art

[nobrashfestivity]

British Folk Rock is absolutely an acquired taste but if you're inclined towards tea and biscuits melodies, you don't want to sleep on the reissue of the excellent The Woods Band record next week, featuring husband and wife team Gay & Terry Woods, shortly after their departure from Steeleye Span. 

The OG can be kind of pricey so good to get this now because they never will do it again, I imagine. I got the similarly profiled Bright Phoebus reissue and it was out of print a month later.

#music #british folk #the woods band

[tomozuru]

#Fairport Convention #Sandy Denny #Matty Groves #Liege and Lief #United Kingdom #1969 #Folk Rock #British Folk #Island Records #ILPS-9115 #upload

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Tracklist:

The Nativity: God / Creation / Serpent's Dance / Cain and Abel: Don't Be an Outlaw • The Nativity II: Appearance of the Archangel / Shay Fan Yan Ley / Journey to Bethlehem / The Nativit • The Nativity III: The Kings / Shepherd's Arise • The Passion: Entry to Jerusalem / Betrayal and Denial: All in Themorning, Part I / The Arrest / Scou • The Passion II: The Road to Calgary / Crucifixion: The Moon Shines Bright / We Sing Allelujah • Doomsday: God / Wondrous Love / The Death of Mary • Doomsday II: Coronation of the Virgin / Lyke Wake Dirge / Judgement: The Wheel

Spotify

#hyltta-polls #polls #artist: home service #language: english #decade: 1980s #British Folk Rock #Progressive Folk #Neo-Medieval Folk #British Folk #Traditional British Folk

[that-cunning-witch]

Looking for Witchy Mutuals

Hi!! I really wanna make some witchy friends here on tumblr! Here’s some info about me:

My name’s Emma but you can also call me Zodiac

I’m 20 and I don’t feel comfortable befriending anyone that isn’t an adult, so please, no one under 18

I’m non-binary, so they/them pronouns only please, and I’m bisexual and on the aromantic scale/spectrum

I’m also disabled and mentally ill, having ADHD, social anxiety, and PTSD (I may have autism as well but it’s not an official diagnosis)

I’m a Sag/Libra/Sag and a Water Horse

I’m a folk witch, particularly in English/British folk magic (also called cunning folk magic)

I’m mostly white but I’m part Japanese, so I also am researching Japanese folk magic (I’m more Japanese than Gwen Stefani lmao)

My patron/patroness is Queen Persephone and I’ve been drawn to the Greek pantheon for a long time now, so that’s my main polytheism

However, I’ve also dabbled into the Celtic pantheon (Rhiannon)

I also have a unique connection to angels/archangels so communicating and working with them is also in my practice

I’m interested in working with Kamis but we’ll see where that takes me

I use tarot, herbs, crystals, and candles

Green magic, kitchen magic, folk magic, and astrology are my main magics

I’m currently in animation major in college

If you’re interested in any of these, please feel free to message me and maybe we can be friends!

Decolonizing/de-appropriating your practice and witchcraft in general

Folk magic

Greek pantheon/magic

Angels/archangels

Queer witchcraft

Research into magic/witchcraft

Mixing of herbal/holistic/alternative and modern medicine

However, if any of these apply to you, don’t bother!!

TERF/Radfem

Use the term “pagan” or “wiccan” to describe gods (i.e. “Hecate is a pagan goddess” no she’s not)

Anti-modern medicine (vaccines and modern medicine are a good thing don’t come at me with your abelist shit)

Believer in starseeds or that one thing where you write “magical” numbers on your wrist

A user/believer/practitioner of voodoo/hoodoo, kabbalah, etc. and you’re not of that ethnicity/race (appropriation is not cool my dude)

New Age believer

#witch #witchcraft #witchblr #mutuals #finding mutuals #finding friends #pagan #folk magic #cunning folk #english folk magic #english folk #british folk #british folk magic #greek pantheon #greek gods #greek deities #japanese folk #japanese folk magic #celtic pantheon #celtic gods #celtic deities #angels #archangels #queer #green magic #astrology

[wamnak]

Or if you prefer a bigger production…

#bert jansch #pentangle #Jack Orion #1960s #british folk #Spotify

[august-sysex]

fairport convention backstage in 1969

#fairport convention #richard thompson #sandy denny #british folk #music

[iamlisteningto]

Genghis Cohn’s Iron Day

#genghis cohn #iron day #laura lies in #music #folk #acoustic #pop #british folk #alternative #alternative folk #alternative pop #bandcamp

[mywifeleftme]

258: Nic Jones // The Noah's Ark Trap

The Noah's Ark Trap Nic Jones 1977, Trailer

His performing career cut short in a traffic accident at age 35, his back catalogue entombed in legal wrangles, Nic Jones enjoys the legend of a musician more often spoken of than heard. Jones’s final album, 1980’s Penguin Eggs, is one of the small handful of true masterpieces of the English folk revival, a maritime journey through traditional song driven by Jones’s percussive, slapping fingerstyle guitar and curlicued vocal melodies. It’s also the only one of his records that’s stayed more or less in print since its release, meaning that it has completely overshadowed the rest of his catalogue (outside those collectors with the cash or pluck to track down the increasingly pricy original editions anyway).

As a listener who has obsessed over Penguin Eggs for years, I was shocked to find an unpriced copy of 1977’s The Noah’s Ark Trap in a local shop and, after some haggling with the good-natured proprietor, walked out with it for a song. I’d heard it a few times back in my music blog .rar downloading days and I recall liking it, but since I’ve had an actual copy for my table it’s steadily grown in my estimation to the point I’d rank it the near-equal of its more celebrated younger sibling. The LP contains a similar mixture of lengthy story songs (“The Golden Glove”), bawdy cautionary tales (ode to cum “The Wanton Seed”), blazing fiddle reels (“Miles Weatherhill”), and aching ballads (“Ten Thousand Miles,” perhaps the most moving thing he ever recorded). As on Penguin Eggs, Jones plays with minimal accompaniment (six of ten tracks are solo endeavours), giving the music a lonely grandeur, like a bard narrating the sunset of an age. These are songs of ancient heritage, and while Jones’s style bears the marks of the contemporary revival (and particularly the influence of Martin Carthy) he makes no concessions to pop. There is only this man with his pure and earnest voice, the guitar he’s poured the work of a lifetime into mastering, and visions of forests and green pastures that will endure till the rocks melt and the seas burn.

258/365

#nic jones #english folk music #british folk #folk revival #martin carthy #penguin eggs #folk music #music review #vinyl record #'70s music #'70s folk #guitar virtuoso #acoustic guitar #guitar god

[greencheekconure27]

Mediaeval Baebes: Sing Ivy

#music #medieval baebes #folk music #british folk #england #folk songs #Youtube

[laurelfishbear]

One For Jo (2009 Digital Remaster)

#bert jansch #americana #folk music #british folk

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

O if I had my own heart for ever, O if I had my own again: Then it's safe in my bosom I would lock it up forever And it would wander never so far from me again

~ "'Twas on One April Morning", trad. English folk song

(As sung by Folly Bridge)

#english folk #british folk #folk songs #lyrics #heartbreak #heartache #folk lyrics #british folk song #english folk song #heartache quotes #quotes #song quotes

[girlwho-lovedthemonsters]

🐺

#kill the wolf #matt berry #lazlo #laszlo cravensworth #what we do in the shadows #wwdits #British folk #because people need to know about this album and song more #Spotify

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Tracklist:

Don't Let the Years Get You Down • I'm Not Blue • Real Slow • Mountain Theme • We Got Everything • Jack's Theme • Coyote • Down from the Mountain • Beneath the Moon • Sharing Your Heart • On the Hawk's Back • Hale Strew River

Spotify ♪ Youtube

#hyltta-polls #polls #artist: dan gillespie sells #language: english #decade: 2020s #British Folk #New Wave Pop #Scottish Singer-Songwriter #Solo Wave

[dustedmagazine]

Stella Kola — S-T (Fountain Flight)

Stella Kola by Stella Kola

“November” wheels out of the mesh with a brash assurance, swaggering with layered stringed parts, sashaying on twangy blues-folk licks and surging with a gorgeous, all-hands chorus. The most mobile and agitated of these cuts, it hugs the curves and fills the rafters. If it sounds a little P.G. Six-ish, that’s because Mr. Gubler is sitting in. And if it resembles an amalgam of Western Mass acid folk’s finest, well, it should. Beverly Ketch, who sings, hails from the twee folk Bunwinkies. Rob Thomas from Sunburned Hand of the Man plays one of several guitars, as does Jeremy Pisani (also Sunburned) and Willie Lane. Willie Lane’s sometime recording partner Wednesday Knudsen is on hand for flute and saxophone flourishes, while Jen Gelineau fills in the cracks with thick swathes of violin. Stella Kola is not a person, but rather an idea of a music that runs from Vashti Bunyan’s breathy purity to the Incredible String Band’s raucous multi-cultured reels.

These are fragile, delicate melodies, built out to density with luminous textures of sustained sound. Even bare, as in the opener, “Rosa,” the mix of Ketch’s charming, unfussy soprano and clear, resonant acoustic guitar, casts a hypnotic spell. When flute, synths and maybe strings swoon in midway, it doesn’t obscure the precision, merely buoys it up on a tidal swell of sensation. “Epiphany” slants blues-ward, its driving guitar melody recalling axe-men like Richard Farina or Richard Thompson, its skittering rhythm pushing things onward. And “Free Afternoon” with its blowsy sax and breezy air, hardly sounds folk at all; more like the Brit pop revivals of the Essex Green.

Ketch writes her lyrics in vivid, surrealist terms, flashing tarot card imagery of towers and ladies, queens and quests that are, somehow, not archaic at all, but fresh as flowers. There’s even a cut called “Tarot Song,” with clockwork picking and wavery organ drones, but it is full of light and breath and life. Folk music—and even folk revival—can be a musty genre, but Stella Kola blows a flower scented breeze through traditional forms. Whether you like the oldsters like Pentangle and Fairport, or the younger crew like Meg Baird and Red River Dialect, Stella Kola will fit the bill.

Jennifer Kelly

#stella kola #fountain flight #jennifer kelly #albumreview #dusted magazine #folk #acid folk #british folk #beverly ketch #bunwinkies #rob thomas #sunburned hand of the man #western mass

[plus-low-overthrow]

White on Black - Together Forever (Saydisc)

Flutes.

#White on Black #Together Forever #folk trio #flutes #british folk #easy listening #sunday #saydisc records