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Psychedelic Paul
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I'm guessing Jethro Tull will win this poll, although my vote goes to Blackmore's Night.
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I think you guess correctly
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Yeah, Tull is probably my favorite in that they have the best overall output, but I'm a fan of Amazing Blondel also. Unfortunately, they decided too soon to become a Bread-clone.
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Psychedelic Paul
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I can recommend Amazing Blondel's "Englishe Musicke" album, mainly because it's the only album of theirs I own. Talking of Bread, I wondered about including Bread, Love & Dreams in my poll, but I wasn't sure if many PA members would have heard of them - although they have now.
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From the list: IONA > Amazing Blondel
Off the list: German pagan folk band FAUN
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Psychedelic Paul
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It's good to see Iona receiving a vote, considering they're not nearly as well-known as Jethro Tull and the Strawbs. Iona's "Live in London" DVD is well-worth watching. I had a listen to Faun's "Walpurgisnacht" on YouTube a few moments ago and I like them. They remind me a lot of Blackmore's Night.
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Roy Harper for me. He's the only one with a top 10 all time album for me with Stormcock.
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Strawbs, but Amazing Blondel, Jethro Tull and Gordon Giltrap are all great.
Tull should win easily. |
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true. Perhaps not surprisingly since I loved Bread, I really enjoy Amazing Blondel's mid 1970s albums "Bloncel", "Mulgrave Street" and "Inspiration". Lovely melodies, romantic lyrics, and some pretty fine backing musicians and orchestrations. This is perhaps my favorite, just delightful Edited by kenethlevine - October 08 2019 at 10:25 |
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Faun is pretty good, and hugely successful commercially in Germany
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I'm putting in my vote for the Strawbs, although huge fan of JT (since they were so immensely popular and I like an underdog) and several other artists here....and I love Faun!
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Psychedelic Paul
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That's a great song by Amazing Blondel and it's the first time I've ever heard that song. Thanks for sharing it.
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My favourite Strawbs album is "Hero and Heroine". In my opinion, that's their most prog-sounding album.
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I am avoiding the obvious vote for Tull, who I predict will dominate, and instead give it out to one of my other perennial favorites on the list - Anthony Phillips. The original Genesis guitarist has had a prolific and widely diverse career.
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Roy Harper, I guess out of these, followed by Quintessence. My list would be more acid folk (psychedelic folk) oriented.
Some of my favourites are: Spirogyra Comus Perry Leopold Catherine Ribeiro + 2 Bis The Incredible String Band Linda Perhacs Vashti Bunyan Tim Buckley Jan Dukes de Grey Mark Fry Sergius Golowin Trees Forest Pearls Before Swine Third Ear Band These Trails etc. And while not in PA, I can't mention folk without thinking of Nick Drake, or Donovan for that matter. When I joined this site, I think Gryphon was my favourite. Edited by Logan - October 08 2019 at 12:37 |
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Right with you on the acid folk, Logan! (or what I think of as psych-folk).
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Logan
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While I'm big on psych-folk, I also love folk music generally. There is so much wonderful to me folk music. I'm more of a folky than a rocker (though quite a few do great managing both). One will be more much likely to find me playing gentle, pastoral folk music than osmium, which is a very heavy metal indeed -- though actually I love Parliament's soulful Osmium album, but I digress yet again. |
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Psychedelic Paul
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Sorry Logan, I forgot to include Gryphon in my poll and it's too late for me to add them now. I wish there was a way to edit polls after they've been submitted. I'm really into Acid/Psych Folk too, and I like all of those artists you mentioned in your list. Osmium would make a great name for a Heavy Metal band.
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Great list, love all of those... .btw...don't get how Trees , Amazing Blondel, Spyrogyra ,etc are prog folk and Fairport Convention isn't...and how in hell is Steeleye Span prog related and not prog folk..? What...? And I have never..never...though Tull was prog 'folk'...I'm sorry there is certainly folk going on there but they are far more prog related than Steeleye who gets dumped into that area....who are more 'folky' than Tull at times. At any rate obviously Tull is going to be a favorite on that list...but I am a big fan of Espers regarding prog folk.
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I always find your digressions agreeable, Logan.
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