OT: Your favorite country folk songs

[Kaizen]

When You and I Were Young, Maggie - 1866 - Tom Roush​

 

[Kaizen]

 

[64Zcode]

 

[64Zcode]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Grateful Dead yet. A lot of their songs are truly folk.

"driving that train, high on cocaine, Casey Jones, you better watch your speed."

The original story by Johnny Cash

 

[Taco]

"If I Needed You" is a song written by Townes Van Zandt and performed on his 1972 album The Late Great Townes Van Zandt. It was covered 9 years later by American country music artists Emmylou Harris and Don Williams as a duet, and was released in September 1981 as the first single from Harris' album Cimarron.

Also wrote Pancho & Lefty - huge influence on the whole country scene.

 

[Scud49]

Tom Waits- Old '55

"And now the sun's coming up, I'm riding with lady luck":

 

[Scud49]

Poco - "Heart of the Night"

"In the heart of the night
In the cool southern rain
There's a full moon in sight
Shining down on the Pontchartrain"

 

[Scud49]

Hary Nilsson:

 

[Jackcatscal]

The Grateful Dead did a mighty fine job covering Merle's great song.

Mama Tried (Live at Barton Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 5/8/77)

Provided to YouTube by Grateful Dead/RhinoMama Tried (Live at Barton Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 5/8/77) · Grateful DeadCornell 5/8/77℗ 2017 Gratefu...

youtu.be

 

[SalinasV]

 

[Bigboote]

Here's some Portuguese folk music from Amalia Rodrigues, the queen of fado:

 

[Bigboote]

And how about some reggae versions of songs that have been posted to this thread? First up, Toots and the Maytals singing Take Me Home Country Roads:

 

[Bigboote]

And Jimmy Cliff singing Wild World:

 

[Kaizen]

 

[Kaizen]

 

[Scud49]

Kaizen- here's the original - just a great song:

 

[Kaizen]

 

[Bama fan]

Heard this on a soundtrack to "The English". Beautiful song, great band.

 

[Bama fan]

Beautiful song, beautiful voice, beautiful person.

 

[Scud49]

"Oh, the wind blows cold in the Land of the Navajo"

David Grisman, Jerry Garcia, Vassar Clements - the group was called "Old and in the Way"

 

[meyers7]

Kaizen- here's the original - just a great song:

Not quite. Silver Thread and Golden Needles, written by Dick Reynolds and Jack Rhodes, Wanda Jackson recorded it 6 years prior.

 

[meyers7]

Here's Linda with the Eagles (Bernie Leadon version) doing Silver Thread and Golden Needles. (my favorite version)

 

[YoDore]

Here's Linda with the Eagles (Bernie Leadon version) doing Silver Thread and Golden Needles. (my favorite version)

She is a goddess.

 

[YoDore]

One of my favorite live performances ever. Fantasia singing Lady Marmalade at a tribute for the great Patti Labelle. At the end, Miss Patti looks like she is about to levitate.

 

[YoDore]

One of my favorite live performances ever. Fantasia singing Lady Marmalade at a tribute for the great Patti Labelle. At the end, Miss Patti looks like she is about to levitate.

Once again, I landed in the wrong thread. I seem to malfunction in this thread fairly often. I tried to delete it and put it in the Songs that make you happy thread, but it popped back up here just to mock me. My only defense is that the performance is so good that it deserves to be in multiple threads. Slinking off now...