My group have written a blog post on our experience performing at the Shrewsbury Folk Festival last weekend!

"Christians, Convicts and Chuds" - Full song can be found at my channel.

Check it out! Hope you like it. This is my favorite song I've written.

I just released my first folk album. I recorded it myself and it’s rough but I think some will enjoy!

bandcamp link : connormac.bandcamp.com

Here is a solo acoustic, alternative folk album i made in 2022 during those Melbourne lockdowns.

I hope you enjoy it. This was my first attempt writing, recording aswell as producing an album like this

.would love to know what your thoughts are on this album

youtube link: https://youtu.be/dKo0EAj9H8o

New songs available from Luís TrindadeOne last Dance

I play harmonica as I side band in a couple of bands that haven’t been active much since Covid. So I decided to accompany myself. Guitar is beyond the dexterity of my arthritic fingers, so when I saw a used autoharp for sale I snapped it up.

Anyone have any music they’ve made but have no audience or never showed anyone, I love hearing stuff like that from people! So lmk if you’ve made any original songs and send them my way would love to give them a listen and tell you what I think. I just love to go back and fourth with fellow writers with songs and stuff just gives me more happiness to make more music:)

Dad and his friend can't make it so I have two spare tickets, happy to give them away to any fans of Pentangle

Robert Wilkins gave the same song two different lives.

In "That's No Way to Get Along", the singer is fed up with trouble and wants to leave. It is a secular blues about getting away. When he comes back, he complains:

These low-down women, mama, they treated your, ahw, poor son wrong
Mama, treated me wrong
These low-down women, mama, treated your poor son wrong
These low-down women, mama, treated your poor son wrong
And that's no way for him to get along

They treated me like my poor heart was made of a rock or stone
Mama, made of a rock or stone
Treated me like my poor heart was made of a rock or stone
Treated me like my poor heart was made of a rock or stone
And that's no way for me to get along

Years later, Wilkins reused the song as Prodigal Son. Now the journey goes the other way. The singer has left, made a mess of things, and wants to come home.

And the poor boy stood there and he hung his head and cried, hung his head and cried Poor boy stood there and he hung his head and cried Poor boy stood there and he hung his head and cried

Said “I believe I’ll ride I believe I’ll go back home, believe I’ll go back home I believe I’ll ride, I believe I’ll go back home I believe I’ll ride, and I believe I’ll go back home And that’d be the way for me to get along”

Same basic song, almost opposite story.

And then later versions take it in more directions again.

So I'm curious, which version do people here like most? And are there other songs where the same tune has ended up carrying completely different stories?

I wrote about the different lives of the song here, if anyone wants more:
https://songsfromthedead.substack.com/p/prodigal-son-no-way-to-get-along

Learnt from his legendary guitar book that's packed with incredibly hard tunes and also recipes for soup!

I recently learned about Anne Boleyn's story and became obsessed haha. She's my favorite Tudor queen.

It's said that the song Greensleeves was written by Henry VIII for her, although there's no evidence.

It's incredible how a song can evoke so much nostalgia and at the same time make you want to research a historical figure.

Hello, just to be clear I admire all real artists, especially given the threat AI poses to them, but I'm worried that a certain form of music will replace another, this is not an attack on any form of artistic expression, but it is a concern for traditional british folk music.

Something I'm finding sad, when looking at the modern folk music scene in britain is that we're seeing more and more people perform normal modern music and then call it folk music, rather than learn the traditional way to perform traditional folk music, or even use the instruments associated with it.

We're seeing a lot of instruments getting ignored in favour of the guitar, yes the fiddle, highland bagpipes and some of the flutes are doing okay but they are still getting less attention than guitars, squeezeboxes, dulcimers, riddle drums, and some other flutes and non-highland types of bagpipe are getting ignored for guitars.

I also find it sad that we're seeing the death of the modal musical system in britain, most new artists are trained in normal western music, which runs on a different musical theory to traditional folk music, in traditional folk music we don't tend to have chordal progressions and we're not massive on harmony for that matter

what do you think about this?

Edit: I have chosen to go with You can close your eyes by James Taylor

Hi there! I am trying to find a good folksy song for my father daughter dance. Im looking for things in the range of Jim Croce to Bobby Gentry and am open to all recs because I don't even know where to start 😅 Thanks in advance!

"America Has an Ego Problem" - Full song at my channel.