SUB 58

Shooting Albatross - which is said to be unlucky, but not for Abel Ganz.

Voted for Hawkwind. Beep Beep!

Psychedelic Paul wrote: Shooting Albatross - which is said to be unlucky, but not for Abel Ganz.

That's a band I need to check out. Some pretty good ratings for their last three albums anyways, including this one.

Logan wrote: Franco Battiato's Sulle Corde di Aries is an exceptional album, and is my sure vote. I do like Unit Wail too and have liked Jethro Tull's Benefit very much -- good album, but not an album that I would rank high on my "folk" list. I get it at number two for Prog Folk for 1970, just below Tim Buckley's Starsailor and just above Linda Perhacs' Parallelograms incidentally (rather than 1970 was a great year for folk with Tim Buckley, Linda Perhacs, Nico (not in PA), Exuma (not in PA), Pentangle, Trees, Pearls Before Swine, Jan Dukes de Grey, Tudor Lodge etc. by the way (and also 58 overall for our Prog Folk category using my filters of choice). Of course Jethro Tull is a hugely popular and big name, and I like the early material more than many.

I hope that in a couple of years I'll know Folk a lot better than I do now. It's just been from a lack of interest early on, but I did make up for it by picking up a lot of folk records in the early to mid 10's. I have a lot to get to. I recognize the names you mentioned, I just haven't heard most of them yet. I naively thought Benefit would be a fairly highly ranked folk album in part because it's Jethro Tull, and it is folk.

Mellotron Storm wrote: Logan wrote: Franco Battiato's Sulle Corde di Aries is an exceptional album, and is my sure vote. I do like Unit Wail too and have liked Jethro Tull's Benefit very much -- good album, but not an album that I would rank high on my "folk" list. I get it at number two for Prog Folk for 1970, just below Tim Buckley's Starsailor and just above Linda Perhacs' Parallelograms incidentally (rather than 1970 was a great year for folk with Tim Buckley, Linda Perhacs, Nico (not in PA), Exuma (not in PA), Pentangle, Trees, Pearls Before Swine, Jan Dukes de Grey, Tudor Lodge etc. by the way (and also 58 overall for our Prog Folk category using my filters of choice). Of course Jethro Tull is a hugely popular and big name, and I like the early material more than many. I hope that in a couple of years I'll know Folk a lot better than I do now. It's just been from a lack of interest early on, but I did make up for it by picking up a lot of folk records in the early to mid 10's. I have a lot to get to. I recognize the names you mentioned, I just haven't heard most of them yet. I naively thought Benefit would be a fairly highly ranked folk album in part because it's Jethro Tull, and it is folk.

I think it is fairly highly ranked, especially with it at number two for 1970 (which to me is a very strong year), and 58 overall is nothing to sneeze at, but that's just a matter of perspective. Being Jethro Tull, it gets lots of attention but many don't appreciate pre-Aqualung JT as much as I do. I love lots of folk music -- I'm more of a folky than a rocker. Of course Jethro Tull is very much both (folk and rock, folk rock). My favourite folk in PA often is acid folk like Spirogyra and Comus. I love the Catherine Roibeiro stuff. Perry Leopold's Christian Lucifer is one of my very favourite albums (woderful album). My favourite modern folk artist is Sufjan Stevens (who might be added to PA ere very long), and Woven Hand is great. I love Joanna Newsom (not in PA) and have been enjoying The Decemberists again of late....

Have to go David Torn ahead of Unit Wail and Hawkwind