Fragile, melancholic, or gentle folk music - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Neil Young has got bittersweet, melancholic, introspective qualities and feelings of loneliness, and a certain sentimentality (say with "Sugar Mountain") that permeate a lot of his work.

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^ Love those choices.

Nick Drake is what inspired me the most to make this topic. Five Leaves Left is one of my favourite albums, and I love "Cello Song". Songs like that, "Fruit Tree" and "River Man" suit this topic to a tee.

Very nice Cat Stevens one.

"Trouble" is my favourite of his.

As for Neil Young, "The Needle and the Damage Done" is one of my favourite songs.

Another classic: Tim Hardin's "Red Balloon" from 1967:

Edited by Logan - March 08 2019 at 06:17

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Raff wrote:

In the same vein as the sublime North Sea Radio Orchestra, this beauty from one of the best albums of the past few years - William D. Drake's The Rising of the Lights:

This has also greatly gained my favour, as well as Espers. Love this topic.

"Into every rain, a little life must fall." ~Tom Rapp

Experimentive folk /synth song from Mr Budda Chocolate Cat Stevens

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4KxH_Dl76W8

Love William D. Drake, and love that vid Raff. Sometimes when I'm taking a break from work, I like to prepare ridiculous polls and topics (sometimes I post them, usually I do not). I prepared a William D. Drake vs. Nick Drake vs. Drake the rapper poll.

While very different from the Vashti Bunyan "Winter is Blue", Nick Drake ("River Man" and "Fruit Tree" mood, which is not a complaint as I don't wish to limit to such stuff, I like that Luciano Cilio a lot.

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I'll second Bert Jansch's "Avocet" and add " A Hymn for Ancient Land" by Jim Ghedi. I can't post YouTube videos at work but this is the album, it ticks all the boxes for you. Well, I reckon it does.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hymn-Ancient-Land-Jim-Ghedi/dp/B075766WRL

Edited by chopper - February 21 2019 at 05:31

Polymorphia wrote:

I thought about mentioning Sylvian, but he's a far cry from Vashti Bunyan, emotionally speaking. His most personal album, Blemish, is quite bitter. His quietest album, Manafon is quite bleak and austere. I love his music to bits, though.

There's A Light That Enters Houses With No Other House In Sight may fit the bill, although calling it folky may be a stretch, it's surely more avantgarde - but certainly fragile and gentle.