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Title: 10 Folk/Country/Blues Album Island
Post by: Dr. Dread on March 31, 2009, 08:42:18 AM
No, not ten of each genre. A total of ten, please.

8)
Title: Re: 10 Folk/Country/Blues Album Island
Post by: jhar26 on March 31, 2009, 08:58:06 AM
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Title: Re: 10 Folk/Country/Blues Album Island
Post by: DavidRoss on March 31, 2009, 09:10:18 AM
I'm not sure I could find 10.  :-[
Title: Re: 10 Folk/Country/Blues Album Island
Post by: Dr. Dread on March 31, 2009, 10:10:15 AM
Quote from: DavidRoss on March 31, 2009, 09:10:18 AM
I'm not sure I could find 10.  :-[

Sad, man. You need some old-time country blues.  ;D
Title: Re: 10 Folk/Country/Blues Album Island
Post by: Keemun on March 31, 2009, 10:53:30 AM
Does Polka belong here, or should I start a different thread?  ???
Title: Re: 10 Folk/Country/Blues Album Island
Post by: Dr. Dread on March 31, 2009, 10:54:01 AM
Quote from: Keemun on March 31, 2009, 10:53:30 AM
Does Polka belong here, or should I start a different thread?  ???

Polka goes here.  ;D
Title: Re: 10 Folk/Country/Blues Album Island
Post by: bhodges on March 31, 2009, 11:18:13 AM
Edit: oops, added two more...

Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue: (self-titled debut album)
Nathaniel Mayer: I Just Want To Be Held
Lucinda Williams: Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
k.d. lang: Angel with a Lariat
k.d. lang: Absolute Torch & Twang
k.d. lang: Shadowland
Alberta Hunter: The Legendary Alberta Hunter: The London Sessions, 1934
Dinah Washington: What a Diff'rence a Day Makes!
Sarah Vaughan: Live at the 1971 Monterey Jazz Festival (might be more suitable for the jazz list, but oh well)
Diane Schuur: Blues for Schuur

--Bruce
Title: Re: 10 Folk/Country/Blues Album Island
Post by: Dr. Dread on March 31, 2009, 11:20:34 AM
Thank you, gentlemen. Some nice records here. I will list mine when I get home tonight.
Title: Re: 10 Folk/Country/Blues Album Island
Post by: Keemun on March 31, 2009, 11:27:40 AM
Quote from: Mn Dave on March 31, 2009, 10:54:01 AM
Polka goes here.  ;D

Just wondering.  ;)
Title: Re: 10 Folk/Country/Blues Album Island
Post by: Dr. Dread on March 31, 2009, 11:28:26 AM
Quote from: Keemun on March 31, 2009, 11:27:40 AM
Just wondering.  ;)

You mean...  :-\

No polka...  :'(
Title: Re: 10 Folk/Country/Blues Album Island
Post by: toledobass on March 31, 2009, 11:33:46 AM
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Allan
Title: Re: 10 Folk/Country/Blues Album Island
Post by: bhodges on March 31, 2009, 11:39:32 AM
Lyle Lovett, yay!  :D

--Bruce
Title: Re: 10 Folk/Country/Blues Album Island
Post by: Dr. Dread on March 31, 2009, 11:40:33 AM
I tried getting into Lovett, like I try getting into a lot of people.  :-\
Title: Re: 10 Folk/Country/Blues Album Island
Post by: DavidRoss on March 31, 2009, 11:44:13 AM
Oh..well, if Lyle Lovett & kd lang count, throw in a couple of Ledbelly & BB, maybe Lucinda Williams, and how 'bout Elvis Costello's Almost Blue, and I'm home free.
Title: Re: 10 Folk/Country/Blues Album Island
Post by: jwinter on March 31, 2009, 11:47:25 AM
The All-Blues Revue:

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Title: Re: 10 Folk/Country/Blues Album Island
Post by: Dr. Dread on March 31, 2009, 11:47:54 AM
Dude, we could totally hang.  8)
Title: Re: 10 Folk/Country/Blues Album Island
Post by: jwinter on March 31, 2009, 11:49:04 AM
Quote from: Mn Dave on March 31, 2009, 11:47:54 AM
Dude, we could totally hang.  8)

;D
Title: Re: 10 Folk/Country/Blues Album Island
Post by: Sergeant Rock on March 31, 2009, 11:52:31 AM
This is the toughest desert island list to compile. Too many categories, Dave! I've decided not to include any straight blues albums and just concentrate on country and folk...and only recordings from the 60s to the present. Older country and folk, contained in big box sets I treasure (like the Bear Family Records complete Carter Family, Louvin Brothers, Stanley Brothers, etc, and The Smithsonian Folkways Recordings) don't fit the desert island rules anyway. My list leans heavily towards the distaff side. My first girlfriend, the first girl I ever kissed (we were both six) was a hillbilly who lived in a trailer across the street. I think her voice imprinted itself on my libido  ;D

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Freakwater is a female duo (Catherine Irwin and Janet Bean) who sing like the Louvins. John Prine's "In Spite of Ourselves" is a duet album with some of the greatest female country vocalists (Emmylou Harris, Iris DeMent, Patty Loveless. Connie Smith, Lucinda Williams, etc).

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Sarge
Title: Re: 10 Folk/Country/Blues Album Island
Post by: Sergeant Rock on March 31, 2009, 12:02:45 PM
Quote from: DavidRoss on March 31, 2009, 09:10:18 AM
I'm not sure I could find 10.  :-[

Just pick the same ten as jhar26, David. They will do just fine.

Sarge
Title: Re: 10 Folk/Country/Blues Album Island
Post by: Dr. Dread on March 31, 2009, 12:05:39 PM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on March 31, 2009, 11:52:31 AM
This is the toughest desert island list to compile.

Yes, for you, perhaps. But I'm sure I've left others scratching their heads.  ;D

Some of the guys I like made sides when there were no albums, so I'll be posting compilations of those.
Title: Re: 10 Folk/Country/Blues Album Island
Post by: Keemun on March 31, 2009, 12:29:24 PM
Quote from: Mn Dave on March 31, 2009, 11:28:26 AM
You mean...  :-\

No polka...  :'(

Not until there is a freak accident and some polka CDs are delivered to my address by mistake.  :D
Title: Re: 10 Folk/Country/Blues Album Island
Post by: DavidRoss on March 31, 2009, 12:38:44 PM
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Title: Re: 10 Folk/Country/Blues Album Island
Post by: Dr. Dread on March 31, 2009, 12:42:01 PM
No, this is not one of my selections. :)

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Title: Re: 10 Folk/Country/Blues Album Island
Post by: DavidRoss on March 31, 2009, 12:44:39 PM
Was the whoopee cushion named after him, or vice versa?
Title: Re: 10 Folk/Country/Blues Album Island
Post by: ChamberNut on March 31, 2009, 12:45:14 PM
Quote from: DavidRoss on March 31, 2009, 12:44:39 PM
Was the whoopee cushion named after him, or vice versa?

:D ROFL!
Title: Re: 10 Folk/Country/Blues Album Island
Post by: Dr. Dread on March 31, 2009, 01:35:07 PM
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Title: Re: 10 Folk/Country/Blues Album Island
Post by: toledobass on March 31, 2009, 03:15:06 PM
Damn, I actually thought long and hard about including that Cowboy Junkies album.

I also thought someone would call me out for my last selection, as I posted it as a joke to see if anyone was paying attention. :P

Allan


Title: Re: 10 Folk/Country/Blues Album Island
Post by: Sergeant Rock on March 31, 2009, 04:20:48 PM
Quote from: toledobass on March 31, 2009, 03:15:06 PM
Damn, I actually thought long and hard about including that Cowboy Junkies album.

I also thought someone would call me out for my last selection, as I posted it as a joke to see if anyone was paying attention. :P
Allan

I've never heard of the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band...I thought it might be some white blues guy. I wasn't about to question your integrity :D  You know, with a name like that, it could also be a country band...except he isn't wearing a cowboy hat  ;D

Sarge
Title: Re: 10 Folk/Country/Blues Album Island
Post by: SonicMan46 on March 31, 2009, 04:26:01 PM
Dave - I give up!  ;D  Just went through the 'Jazz Desert Island' recordings and ran out @ the beginning of the alphabet; now, I have so many of the ones already mentioned here - just too hard a choice for me?   :)   

But, I'll enjoy seeing the choices of others, likely to add to my already 'large' collection in this area!  Dave  :)
Title: Re: 10 Folk/Country/Blues Album Island
Post by: Dr. Dread on March 31, 2009, 04:35:13 PM
Quote from: SonicMan on March 31, 2009, 04:26:01 PM
Dave - I give up!  ;D  Just went through the 'Jazz Desert Island' recordings and ran out @ the beginning of the alphabet; now, I have so many of the ones already mentioned here - just too hard a choice for me?   :)   

But, I'll enjoy seeing the choices of others, likely to add to my already 'large' collection in this area!  Dave  :)

I understand. This is an extremely silly exercise.
Title: Re: 10 Folk/Country/Blues Album Island
Post by: Sergeant Rock on March 31, 2009, 05:02:08 PM
Quote from: Mn Dave on March 31, 2009, 04:35:13 PM
I understand. This is an extremely silly exercise.

It certainly is...and even sillier that I've wasted an entire day of my life making these silly lists  ;D

Sarge
Title: Re: 10 Folk/Country/Blues Album Island
Post by: Dr. Dread on March 31, 2009, 05:38:07 PM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on March 31, 2009, 05:02:08 PM
It certainly is...and even sillier that I've wasted an entire day of my life making these silly lists  ;D

Ha! Indeed. Though I'm always interested in your views, Sarge.
Title: Re: 10 Folk/Country/Blues Album Island
Post by: jwinter on March 31, 2009, 06:40:05 PM
I came this close to listing that Albert King album, and some Mississippi John Hurt (I have the 60s stuff).   Nearly awesome taste, dude.
Title: Re: 10 Folk/Country/Blues Album Island
Post by: Dr. Dread on March 31, 2009, 06:41:30 PM
Quote from: jwinter on March 31, 2009, 06:40:05 PM
I came this close to listing that Albert King album, and some Mississippi John Hurt (I have the 60s stuff).   Nearly awesome taste, dude.

Ha! Dude, you sooo need the 1928 Hurt. If you purchase anything, PURCHASE THAT!!!  0:)
Title: Re: 10 Folk/Country/Blues Album Island
Post by: Bogey on March 31, 2009, 06:56:18 PM
Quote from: DavidRoss on March 31, 2009, 12:38:44 PM
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:D
Title: Re: 10 Folk/Country/Blues Album Island
Post by: rubio on April 04, 2009, 09:01:42 AM
I love folk, and some country I hold high as well. Blues just ain't my thing.

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Title: Re: 10 Folk/Country/Blues Album Island
Post by: Szykneij on April 04, 2009, 10:29:11 AM
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Tom Rush / Gold
James Taylor / Sweet Baby James
James Taylor / (Apple Album)
Dar Williams / Mortal City
Simon and Garfunkel / Bookends
Salamander Crossing / Bottleneck Dreams
Dan Fogelberg / Home Free
Wayfaring Strangers / Shifting Sands of Time
Joan Baez / Gone from Danger
Jay Ungar / Harvest Home
Title: Re: 10 Folk/Country/Blues Album Island
Post by: Bu on April 06, 2009, 01:45:15 PM
Won't include the blues on this list, because there's too many I'd like to include:

Woody Guthrie--Dust Bowl Ballads
Woody Guthrie--The Best of the War Years
Hank Williams Sr--40 Greatest Hits
Hank Snow-RCA Country Legends
Buck Owens--The Best of, Vol 1
Johnny Cash--Live at Folsom Prison
Bob Dylan--Nashville Skyline
Bob Dylan--Blood on the Tracks
Merle Haggard--Back to the Barrooms
Hank III--Risin' Outlaw
Title: Re: 10 Folk/Country/Blues Album Island
Post by: Dr. Dread on April 07, 2009, 05:32:54 AM
Some cool stuff here, and some I haven't heard. To remedy that somewhat, I now own the Fairport Convention album that Rubio posted.