Outlaw tunes, Folk Ya

[billycw]

I love me some good folk music. I'm always surprised to not see more listened to on the boards. We all love a good story, we are always are trying to find the original source yet fall short when Folk get involved

My love for folk started, like many, with Bob Dylan...

Newport Folk Festival 1963
Bob Dylan "North Country Blues"
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1...-his-performance-of-north-country-blues_music


I started this thread to post up some good folk old and new. Folk started so many genres of music that there might be a little Bluegrass, blue's, old time... and anything else folky.

Feel free to post up whatever the Folk you want

 

[billycw]

Although a different world, little has changed in what we want since the folk of the late 1800's. Some of these songs were first recorded in the 20's & 30's like one of my favorites by Clarence Ashley. Still wanting on that log cabin so high, so I can see willie passing by.

"Gonna build me log cabin
On a mountain so high
So I can see Willie
As he goes passing by.

Oh, the coo-coo, she’s a pretty bird
She warbles as she flies
She never says coo-coo
Till the fourth day July"

Clarence Ashley-Coo Coo Bird
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvJ6M0Oz0lU


Live with story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwlOO8RG-og

Folk is everywhere, one of my favorite Janis covers
Big Brother and the Holding Company - Cuckoo - 8/16/1968 - San Francisco
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htBMVERLGpc

 

[billycw]

I know your thinking, outlaw music? Yup, some of the first folk passed on was about the outlaws and the crimes of the day in story with a beat, and still is.

Clarence Ashley - Little Sadie - think this one is from around 1929
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXGAj1e3SdE


later on Doc Watson covered with a little more country soul killing that banjo.
Doc Watson - Little Sadie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K149sKeuTA

 

[billycw]

Jerry Approved

Jerry Garcia , David Grisman, Tony Rice - Little Sadie
from the pizza tapes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B6E792h5hQ

 

[billycw]

Showing folk how its done in the early day, The original outlaw, Charlie Poole
If The River Was Whiskey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL4J-XIAKvw

 

[Al Botross]

Little different flavor His family knew Phil Ochs personally

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Phil Ochs & John Lennon Chords of fame



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[Al Botross]

The Preacher and the Slave - Famous Utah Rebel Joe Hill

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good story then song Utah Phillips miners lullaby

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[Meraxes]

Oh shit, Outlaw tunes...I thought you were talking bagpipes lol

 

[billycw]

Al Botross, always love me some protest folk

Tom Paxton "Buy A Gun For Your Son" 1965
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WphNO24h9nA

 

[Al Botross]

The outlaws were the protester or on the left.

 

[billycw]

That picture was from a civil rights rally, couldn't find the exact date.

 

[billycw]

One more from good ol Tom

Tom Paxton - Johnny Got A Gun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rltmCsfsF_8

 

[billycw]

Some newer folk

I think every outlaw has said this in their head a time or two

Jonah Tolchin - State Trooper - 7/29/2012 - Paste Ruins at Newport Folk Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23MjTkzOBpU

 

[billycw]

Traveling medicine trio 1890


Folk and Cannabis in history together? This gem of a picture is of early traveling "medicine shows" or traveling "doctor's" many times having tinctures of cocaine, heroin and of course cannabis

What better way to draw in the crowd then music by the rock star's of the time, drugs from your favorite celebrity. O' the Times haven't changed that much at all

Uncle Dave Macon- Whoop 'Em Up Cindy - 1926
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p86i9qA3Jlc

 

[billycw]

Illustration in "The Mascot" newspaper, New Orleans, 1888
"there was a degree of immodesty exhibited by nearly all the female masqueraders"


The House of the Rising Sun

Stories, we all love them. Well one of my favorite folk songs has a good one. Story goes in 1873 a regular at a New Orleans Brothel wrote an Ode or bar song about his favorite establishment.

In 1874 the Brothel was closed and the Ode was bound to be swallowed by time. But the tradition was saved by one of the lovely young Ladies who had worked in the house and heard the song. Years later as a singer/performer she sung the Ode to be loved by all.

The Callahan Brothers- singing an early version 1935
- Rounder's Luck (Rising Sun Blues)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwfLR_f3ZtQ
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The Rex pageant, Mardi Gras Day, New Orleans, La., c 1907

Our ancestors could party... If I close my eyes I can picture the joyous bar scene with girls swinging from the bar tops on Doc Watson's version.

Doc Watson- House Of The Rising Sun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeiXnyvo0d4
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[billycw]

Leadbelly 1938

Of course I can't leave out a legend like Leadbelly from "The House of the Rising Sun" history. Giving it that gritty southern sound.

leadbelly - house of the rising sun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5tOpyipNJs

 

[billycw]

Bob approved, combining worlds in 62.

Bob Dylan - House Of The Rising Sun (Home Recording 1962)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcqnCzC-8d8

 

[billycw]

Kentucky, 1890-1900

When culture's collided, struggles and stories were passed on with song. Many of these were recorded by the early traveling folk stars of the day.

uncle dave macon - poor sinners,fare you well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrghSoXIhh4

 

[billycw]

nude playing an ukelele c.1918 by albert arthur allen

Depicting a more morbid sound of a time and place was Dock Boggs. That bluesy country tone sending chills for all to hear.

Dock Boggs - Pretty Polly (1927)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxkSuBhzHqg

 

[billycw]

Hosea Thomas was of the last generation in the Blue Ridge to use the turnip-style boiler (center). Franklin County, Virginia, 1915


The legend of Moonshine and the music that surrounded the life of a mountain outlaw.

"If you want to get you eye knocked out
If you want to get your fill
If you want to get your head cut off
Just go to sugar hill"

Crockett Family Mountaineers - Sugar Hill - 1929
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frupwl5UveA

Popcorn Sutton's gate

Passing the test of time...

Banjo Ben Shirley plays "Sugar Hill"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hGQPuYoaiM&list=RD8hGQPuYoaiM#t=0