On Sunday 13 October 2013, NowPlaying @6Music presented a two hour show in celebration of The Full English digital archive of 68,000+ songs, documents and artifacts hosted online by the English Folk Dance And Song Society. We also highlighted the new 12-track The Full English album put together by Fay Hield from the EFDSS archive with an all-star ensemble featuring Seth Lakeman, Martin Simpson. Nancy Kerr, Sam Sweeney, Rob Harbron and Ben Nicholls.
As usual with NPA6M, our playlist was put together on the fly from suggestions made by listeners via social media before and during the show. You can see the tracklist and listen again to the whole show here until 8pm on Sunday October 20th 2013. But as soon as the suggestions started coming in, it was clear that “folk” means very different things to different people.
Some 6 Music listeners understood “folk” to mean sixties singer-songwriters such as Arlo Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Donovan, Judy Collins, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Neil Young, Nick Drake, The Byrds and Tim Buckley – or latterday counterparts like Gillian Welch, First Aid Kit, The Barr Brothers etc.
Younger listeners seemed to be nominating pretty much anything where an acoustic guitar was involved – through Angus and Julia Stone, Arab Strap, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billie, Damien Rice, Darren Hayman, Eddie Reader, Jeffrey Lewis, Johnny Flynn, King Creosote, Laura Marling, RM Hubbert and Stornoway among many, many other suggestions.
Other named artists widely perceived by the general public as as “folk” performers – such as Bert Jansch, Christy Moore, Davey Graham, Fairport Convention, Fotheringay, Joan Baez, John Martyn, Pentangle, Richard Thompson, Sandy Denny, Steeleye Span and The Dubliners – along with punk-influenced successors such as the Pogues, Billy Bragg and the Levellers. But many of these acts are better known for own original songs than for raiding the vaults of Cecil Sharp House for material.
Which leaves us with the large and vociferous group who broadly understand “folk” music to mean “traditional” – as opposed to merely “acoustic” – music – and their suggestions fell into two distinct camps. Some nominated longstanding interpreters of the canon such as Chris Wood, Dick Gaughan, Jez Lowe, June Tabor, Kris Drever, Martin Carthy, Nic Jones, Peggy Seeger, Shelagh McDonald, Shirley Collins, The Albion Band, The Copper Family and various members of The Watersons.
Others suggested tunes by artists from a folk background who (arguably) lean more towards innovation and new forms of hybrid – performers such as Bellowhead, Crooked Still, Eliza Carthy, Faustus, Imagined Village, Karine Polwart, Kate Rusby, Kathryn Tickell, Lau, Martin Simpson, Melrose Quartet, Nancy Elizabeth, Sam Carter, Sam Lee, Seth Lakeman, Show Of Hands and The Unthanks.
This is by no means an exhaustive list – even of the suggestions that came in – let alone of the vast wealth of recording artists from the past 90 years whose work has been associated in one way or another with the F-word. Since we only had 120 minutes for the show from start to finish (including two news bulletins and tips from half a dozen folk experts) we could only play about one in thirty of those suggestions. Our producer also had to try and find a balance bwteen those listeners demanding we play “proper” unaccompanied traditional folk ballads and those who were seriously suggesting that a “folk” music playlist should include the likes of David Bowie, Nirvana and The Mekons.
@tuftythecat unhelpfully described Seven Long Years by Jim Moray as “folk music for people who don’t like folk music.”
Folk purist @KieronMoyles tweeted “Maybe it’s best to abandon #Folk6Music to those who think its anyone with acoustic instruments. Differentiate between Folk and Traditional music” @williamoulton had a waspish suggestion “If we’re having a debate about what IS folk music, shouldn’t we play Like A Rolling Stone by Dylan” #electic #Judas #Folk6Music @KieronMoyles thought trying to define the genre was near-meaningless: “Arguably Angels by Robbie Williams is now a folk song. It’s part of people’s lives, it’s sung at weddings, funerals, birthdays.” #Folk6Music @Lowlandslady felt we wandered too far from our starting point at The Full English digital archive: “Lots of American suggestions here – isn’t it supposed to be English Folk?”
On Facebook a very angry Neil Murray thought that on the contrary we played far TOO MUCH English music: “As far as I can tell, not a single song by a Celtic musician. Almost entirely English with a smattering of North America. BBC6Music clearly forgot they are a UK wide station”.
The one thing that was clear from the overwhelming response to the show was that, however you choose to define “folk” music, there is a huge and unfulfilled demand for more of it on the radio in general and on 6 Music on particular. I’ve been saying for years that we need a specialist Folk/Roots show on the station, and the response to yesterday evening’s show was the proof. For what it’s worth, below is a transcript of all the Tweets and Facebook posts made during the show – in raw, unprocessed format. The list is huge, quite hard going, and took me several hours to extract and format on the page.
If anyone has the time and dedication to sift through and come up with a formatted list of specific artists, tracks – and who suggested them – I’ll gladly post it here with links to the music. I’m sure I’m not the only one who would be extremely interested to learn more about this diverse and facinating genre in all its many manifestations…
One last morsel of food for thought: @juliaatthehub pointed us at this report on the Impact Of Folk Festivals On Cultural Tourism. “Even in 2003 a total of 350 festivals generated a £77m spend. Niche music eh?!” The the fact that we have 350 Folk/Roots/Acoustic festivals annually in the UK is mind-boggling. It’s definitely a field of music that deserves wider exposure and respect in the media generally. And now here are those tweets…
Dean Miller @DeanMiller1
@Jezzle_phizzle British… #Folk6Music
Fairport Fee @Fairport_Fee
@TeenyTitch Nice Autumnal drawing. Great evening listening to #Folk6Music
Bill Wood @Miasmalistic
@BBC6Music how about some newer folk @MerryHell_band have had 2 cracking albums so far. NWOBFM? #Folk6Music
Duncan Wainscott @folkyvale
#Folk6Music One of the best things the BBC did for folk music was dumping @HardingMike from R2. The result is his wonderful weekly podcast.
Mr & Mrs Wolf @WolfClose
#Folk6Music got to get a bit of @sheelanagig Balkan mayhem going, catweasel’s craic perhaps?
Anna @Annatheforager
@BBC6Music No Mumfords please, but @Bellowhead and @FaustusFolk would be most welcome! #Folk6Music
Joanna Stephens @Joanna_Stephens
Also anything by @juliefowlis #Folk6Music
Joanna Stephens @Joanna_Stephens
Has anyone mentioned @jackieoates yet? May the Kindness is a favourite track. #Folk6Music
BBC Radio 6 Music
Tonight on Now Playing we’re looking for tracks for the Ultimate Folk Playlist. What should we include? #Folk6Music pic.twitter.com/kie3kfLdC3
BBC Radio 6 Music
The @forfolkssake readers suggested @sophie_j_music as the most exciting new folk artist. What do you think? #Folk6Music
For Folk’s Sake @forfolkssake
Gosh I talk quickly. ANYWAY: The wonderful @sophie_j_music is our not-very-traditional pick for the #folk6music playlist on @freshnet’s show
dandelion101 @dandelion101
@BBC6Music How about The Gentle Good, Meinir Gwilim, Meic Stevens for starters? #welsh #folk6music
Siobhan Donnelly @TeenyTitch
Lovely evening spent drawing and listening to #Folk6Music pic.twitter.com/LnowkRcyod
betachronica @alphachronica
“@chunkymark: Should spread this like virus>> youtube.com/watch?v=HiEqPz… @NxtGenUK” #Folk6Music
Nathalie Clare @folkiebird
#Folk6Music Perhaps some David Gibb and Elly Lucas, Nic Jones, Sandy Denny, Lisa Hannigan, Kate Rusby?
emm @emmasbouzouki
Any song by David Gibb and Elly Lucas would be much appreciated #Folk6Music #brilliantmusic
Dobbo @dobbo59
@elizacarthy Tom Robinson on compiling #Folk6Music play list
Chris Fowler @ChrisAFowler
“@MarkyGoodrich: If you have any interest in folk/roots music at all, you need to be listening to #folk6music did you @FolklawUK ??
14h
The Burns Unit @burnsunitband
folk off, for sure 😉 “@dribblingfram: What do we think of The Burns Unit’s ‘Send Them Kids To War’? Folk or folk off? #Folk6Music”
Chris Fowler @ChrisAFowler
“@MarkyGoodrich: If you have any interest in folk/roots music at all, you need to be listening to #folk6music did you @FolklawUK ??
Mark Goodrich @MarkyGoodrich
If you have any interest in folk/roots music at all, you need to be listening to #folk6music right now!
Sal @MirandaKitten
#nowplaying The Bairns by Rachel Unthank and The Winterset….love it already 🙂 #Folk6Music
Natalie McVey @NarrowNatalie
Rachel Unthank & The Winterset – Felton Lonnin In the spirit of Gid Coe’s fantastic folk night #folk6music youtu.be/PMKPfy93cGw
Scott Edgar @thesneakybandit
@anfeildway @fayhield @FRUK Always brings a tear to my eye #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
Have you been to the archive portal yet? vwml.org.uk #FullEnglish #folk6music go make your own music
Claire Simmons @Clarice007
@emilygportman I voted for hatchling! Definitely need a regular folk show on #folk6music
Lee Mason @ShimiRecording
@BBC6Music How about Welsh artist @LowriEvansMusic? #Folk6Music
TheGoldenTroubadours @TheGoldenTroubs
@BBC6Music How about one of ours? Sunshine Eyes maybe? soundcloud.com/the-golden-tro… #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
Can’t beat harmony singing. Best done pissed in a bar. Loudly. #folk6music
Breaking More Waves @BMWavesBlog
Yeay! The Unthanks #nowplaying on #Folk6Music
To The Point: Music @totheptmusic
#Folk6Music Silver Screen, Gilmore & Roberts; Star of Munster, Emma Sweeney; Goodbye to the Plough Horse, Gibb & Lucas; Pett Level, KCC..
dandelion101 @dandelion101
RT @forfolkssake: Folk fans! Who’s the most exciting new artists around? #folk6music > @LadyMaisery of course!
Dobbo @dobbo59
@pudlover Boo! Hope make #Folk6Music more often, great show.
Alex Cumming @alexcumming
@freshnet Its hard to choose just one of each category but hope that is useful! #Folk6Music. Check out my show 4 more mixcloud.com/nsr/playlists/…
The Craftwork Studio @potterylizzie
We need a folkie show on 6.
So many fantastic artists coming up that fit the remit. @freshnet is the man to do it! #folk6music
Nathalie Clare @folkiebird
#folk6music suggestions for your wonderful show: @RachelSermanni, @sophie_j_music, @katerusby, @RoarButler, @JoniMitchellcom, @gibbandlucas
Hoops Hooley @hoopshooley
Just got in. Missed almost whole of Folk show on 6Music except for Pogues/Woody Guthrie. Damn. How was it? Hoping no Mumfords… #Folk6Music
Tanya Butchers @Greentarnie
@fayhield ooh now that’s a voice – off to listen to more Maggie Boyle – thanks #Folk6Music
Alex Cumming @alexcumming
@freshnet Tune Set – @Gadarene_ Father the Welcomer. – A great band who take old english dance tunes and funk them up! #Folk6Music
Alex Cumming @alexcumming
@freshnet Unaccmpanied song: @MelroseQuartet – Bampton Fair. Great band, wonderful harmonies and great energy! @kerrfagan #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
The Pogues. Total class. My aesthetic in a pint glass. All music needs a bit of grit #folk6music
Tom Robinson @freshnet
@johnsprackland @fayhield Correctamundo. That is a commitment. You only had to ask 🙂 #folk6music
Tom Robinson @freshnet
@johnsprackland #folk6music cool, thanks – sounds good to me – will do some serious homework for next Saturday 🙂 Hashtag is #tom6music
Jack Höwson. @jackrabb1t
I interviewed fantastic folk singer @TheJudyCollins for the radio. She is a total hero – bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01…Sal @MirandaKitten
@judypayne Did you request something for #Folk6Music on FB ? Tom said Judy Payne ! 🙂
John Sprackland @johnsprackland
@fayhield Not this time but I think @freshnet has committed to playing the Coppers next Saturday.Result #Folk6Music
Alex Cumming @alexcumming
#Folk6Music no scottish music, unaccompanied songs, tune sets… You say it was varied playlist but to me sounded pretty samey!
Jane Caddick @LadyLillyJane
#Folk6music Still recovering from the surprise that my tweet was read out on radio 6 tonight. I get far too excited about music 🙂
Tom Robinson @freshnet
@pudlover #Folk6Music NPA6M inevitably involves collaboration w/cross-section of listeners but I warmly welcome suggestions for my own show!
Nathalie Clare @folkiebird
#Folk6Music I absolutely agree with everyone here – there really should be a regular slot. I’d listen to’t religiously!
Angie H @Lowlandslady
@freshnet @alexcumming @spiersandboden Sloe Gin Set #folk6music
Barbara Elizabeth @ScrivensB
@fayhield most definitely make it a regular show! I’ve had a great time this evening!!Thanks #Folk6Music & your twittering Fay!!
Fay Hield @fayhield
Phew that was frantic. Glass of wine now – over and out (I’ll catch up later, keep talking!) #folk6music
BBC Radio 6 Music
Lots of you saying there’s an English/American bias on the #Folk6Music playlist. So which Scottish/Welsh/Irish acts should get a mention?
Jan Cole @pudlover
#Folk6Music Please be grateful and let’s make constructive suggestions for future shows. Let’s show them the best of folkies please.
Glyn Everett @glynjamyn
@KristyHighfield #folk6music Like The Young ‘Uns, a cappella class! S’why we need this as a regular 6 slot. ‘kay, I’ll shudder now!…
Fay Hield @fayhield
What else could help ease regular listeners into folk? Should do this more often methinks… #folk6music
Glyn Everett @glynjamyn
@Greentarnie #folk6music Yesyesyesyesyes pleasepleaseplease – more folk on 6 🙂
Joseph Downie @josephdownie
@BBC6Music Shoulda played something off Everythings Getting Older by @AidanJohnMoffat & Bill Wells. Incredible record & lyrics. #Folk6Music
Alex Cumming @alexcumming
#Folk6Music no scottish music, unaccompanied songs, tune sets… You say it was varied playlist but to me sounded pretty samey!
Fay Hield @fayhield
Was with Maggie Boyle today – amazing voice and woman, she’s missed here, but check her out maggieboyle.com #folk6music
Glyn Everett @glynjamyn
@pickard_alex #folk6music YES PLEASE re a regular folk slot on 6! After 2 shifted Mike off into the ether, BBC is bereft of Proper Folk!
MJB @Yorkrose
#folk6music Folk maybe, but there’s nothing Ultimate about this …
Sal @MirandaKitten
Thanks for all The Unthanks suggestions… you are ace Twitter 🙂 #Folk6Music
Dobbo @dobbo59
@pudlover Boo! Hope make #Folk6Music more often, great show.
Claire Latham @guitar73girl
#Folk6Music Much prefer Eric Bogle singing ‘And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda’ – the Pogues get the words wrong.
Fay Hield @fayhield
The Pogues. Total class. My aesthetic in a pint glass. All music needs a bit of grit #folk6music
Joseph Downie @josephdownie
Ah the Pogues, great choice #Folk6Music Something from Scotland woulda been good too! (James Yorkston, Withered Hand, Kennie Creosote etc)!
Tanya Butchers @Greentarnie
Aah any chance this could be a regular slot, so many more more possibilities not aired? #Folk6Music
betachronica @alphachronica
I…I…like Nick Drakes…#Folk6Music
Kristy Highfield @KristyHighfield
Nice to hear folk on #Folk6Music but where were all the younguns who are ridiculously talented & do it for pennies? A pretty safe playlist..
margaret hinchcliffe @mub60
Pogues!! Great stuff and a nod in the Celtic direction – long awaited #folk6music
The Craftwork Studio @potterylizzie
Cracking finish. So many happy/hazy memories of Pogues gigs at The Apollo. There will be a big space where Phil should be. #folk6music
Liz Ixer @LizIxer
Oh gawd. Not *this* version of ‘And the band played Waltzing Matilda. Surely the June Tabor version which rips up your heart #folk6music
Grace Hewitt @gracehewitt
#folk6music no watersons/carthys? they are one of the great folk dynasties! Bright Phoebus gets my vote
Julian Hancock @julianhancock
#Folk6Music I didn’t want the Pogues, I wanted June Tabor
Barbara Elizabeth @ScrivensB
Wow Pogues!! Good choice #Folk6Music
Natalie Farrow @NatalieKFarrow
missing the #folk6music madness because I’m in the pub. Ooooooooopsy.
Tim Collins @timpcollins
YES YES YES! Waltzing Matilda! #Folk6Music
Juliet @byefornoww
THE POGUES! YES! perfect ???? #Folk6Music
Robin Tyndale @RobinTyndale
@johntonta @fayhield Be really nice to hear some Maggie Boyle in there too me thinks…#Folk6Music
John Sprackland @johnsprackland
Thanks Tom! Why not please @Lowlandslady too – The Copper’s Spencer the Rover (followed by John Martyn’s take on it?) @freshnet #Folk6Music
Mat @here_comes_B
@freshnet #Folk6Music *love*
Zara Gardner Draws @zaragardner1
@fayhield can we have some Martha Tilston please?! #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
“@johnsprackland: Come on be brave -just ONE unaccompanied traditional song! #Folk6Music” oooh do you think they could
betachronica @alphachronica
No hard feelings gentle folk…peace… #Folk6Music
Clare Tasker @ClareTasker
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music some Karine Polwart would be good, not that familiar with her, b good to b educated! Janet Russell Women o Dundee!
Alex Pickard @pickard_alex
Great show! Any chance of it becoming a regular thing? Just enough time for something by James Vincent McMorrow? #folk6music
Sal @MirandaKitten
I’d like to listen to more of The Unthanks.. …Can anyone recommend an album I could start with please ?… #Folk6Music
geraint evans @geraintwales
“@NTS_Neil: One last attempt to get a Scot on. Not a single Celt. Outrageous. #Folk6Music” Bragg WILL be watching! Careful!
The Khan Assembly @theKhanAssembly
Rm hubbert #Folk6Music
BBC Radio 6 Music
The @forfolkssake readers suggested @sophie_j_music as the most exciting new folk artist. What do you think? #Folk6Music
The Khan Assembly @theKhanAssembly
Fionn Reagan. Rm Herbert. #Folk6Music
Lucy @schokomilch_
@byefornoww i just wish they’d play something! #Folk6Music
Tim Collins @timpcollins
Sking tinglingly good track by @sophie_j_music on #Folk6Music #wow
Chris @underwurldchris
There are at least 20 Kate Rusby songs I would have chosen. The one on the #Folk6Music playlist isn’t one of them.
John Hartwell @harty491
#folk6music Phoebe Smith singing Barbara Allen
Sal @MirandaKitten
I’d like to listen to more of The Unthanks.. …Can anyone recommend an album I could start with please ?… #Folk6Music
Breaking More Waves @BMWavesBlog
Yeay (x2) and a mention for Breaking More Waves from @freshnet on #Folk6Music + now they’re playing the beautiful @sophie_j_music – so good!
Neil Murray @NTS_Neil
@BBC6Music One last attempt to get a Scot on. Rick Redbeard ‘Now we are Dancing’. Sort it out. Not a single Celt. Outrageous. #Folk6Music
For Folk’s Sake @forfolkssake
Gosh I talk quickly. ANYWAY: The wonderful @sophie_j_music is our not-very-traditional pick for the #folk6music playlist on @freshnet’s show
Lucy @schokomilch_
Loving the #Folk6Music but it would be even better if it were only for a little Greg & Ciaran and Gibb & Lucas
Rollerball Rococo @RollerballR
@BBC6Music RM Hubbert and Cate le Bon? #Folk6Music
geraint evans @geraintwales
“: The English/American bias on #Folk6Music playlist. So which Scottish/Welsh/Irish should mention?” Meic Stevens? Dafydd Iwan?
Jamie Wilson @eljimosabe
@BBC6Music What about Malcolm Middleton? #folk6music
Nathalie Clare @folkiebird
OH MY ABSOLUTE GOODNESS THEY ARE PLAYING SOPHIE JAMIESON I AM ACTUALLY WEEPING WITH JOY #Folk6Music
Jane Caddick @LadyLillyJane
Running out of time – but so much more folk music out there! What a great night. #Folk6Music
Pamela-Jay @ikklepikkle
@KxTwo definitely Roddy Woomble!!!!! well said 🙂 #Folk6Music
Robin Tyndale @RobinTyndale
#Folk6Music Martha Tilston!!!! “Nu”,New and good n old styles here. Joni of our times
The Craftwork Studio @potterylizzie
Unthanks.
Shipbuilding.
On 6.
Will shut up and die happily now.
#folk6music
(Still want Thousands Are Sailing though….)
Jacka Garth @SocialBeastie
Unaccompanied song: June Tabor, ‘The Month of January’ @fayhield #folk6music
Chris @underwurldchris
@BBC6Music definitely @IAMKP #Folk6Music
Karen Kay @KxTwo
@BBC6Music Roddy Woomble comes to mind. #Folk6Music
Guy @Marwood1987
@BBC6Music @heiditalbot #Folk6Music
Glyn Everett @glynjamyn
@Lowlandslady #folk6music Ha! Agreed 🙂 A bit more reaching back to early Carthy-Waterson days would be nice – earlier v welcome!
Justin Desyllas @ChuckFrisbee
@6music, you simply have to include Fionn Regan as a modern purveyor of folk. How about Snowy Atlas Mountains? #Folk6Music
Rob Campbell @robcampbe11
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music @LAUmusic Greatest live folk band!
lydia_noble @lydia_noble
#Folk6Music bet they don’t put and trad unaccompanied singing on. thats what we did before music was invented. it’s what folk is. come on!
BBC Radio 6 Music
Lots of you saying there’s an English/American bias on the #Folk6Music playlist. So which Scottish/Welsh/Irish acts should get a mention?
Lucy @schokomilch_
Come on, we still need some Greg Russell and Ciaran Algar. They are just smashing. Mighty fine. #Folk6Music
Paul Smith @elandesign
@BBC6Music Unaccompanied? How about Beeswing by the Futureheads? #nowplaying #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
Unthanks old friends – used to sit at Whitby Festval together. #folk6music
Jacka Garth @SocialBeastie
Great to hear #folk6music – comes as a pleasant surprise on this long grey Birmingham Sunday.
Neil Murray @NTS_Neil
Hmm. Not sure that beats Robert Wyatt’s version. #Shipbuilding #Folk6Music
geraint evans @geraintwales
Fair Flower of Northumberland (Rachel Unthank) a fairly tidy unaccompanied song… #folk6music
Glyn Everett @glynjamyn
@annatwigg #folk6music But they were much better in their early days as Rachel Unthank & the Winterset! 🙂
Dobbo @dobbo59
@BBC6Music sadly I’ve missed most of the #Folk6Music has @elizacarthy had an outing? Willow Tree would be good, pretty please!
Ginger Nugget @Ryker5
@BBC6Music a lot of this ‘folk’ is not what I expected to hear. Is that perhaps the debate about new and trad? #Folk6music
Jane Greenstock @greenstocking25
Ah well I like it all-traditional, fiddley-diddley, June Tabor, Unthanks. But think I’ll go hide in the corner now #folk6music
Spoonhead McGee @spoonheadmcgee
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music what about some proper guitar and double bass like what Serious Sam Barrett does? @serioussam1980
Anne Groucott @AnneGroucott
#Folk6Music Yesss! The Unthanks…..Perfect. So beautiful. 🙂
Isabelle @isaaabellllle
#Folk6Music is a small bit of heaven right now.
Tim Collins @timpcollins
Wow, haven’t heard this cover by The Unthanks before, great choice #Folk6Music
Lucy @schokomilch_
Loving the #Folk6Music but it would be even better if it were only for a little Greg & Ciaran and Gibb & Lucas
Jan Cole @pudlover
#Folk6Music At last #Unthanks…cop for these harmonies. mmmmmmm
jo jones @jonsi58
#Folk6Music Hooray, lovely sound, but where are the tunes?
Angie H @Lowlandslady
@freshnet You asked for it! Anne Briggs Willie O’Winsbury, Copper Family Spencer the Rover #Folk6Music
Andy L @Vino_73
#Folk6Music at last The Unthanks
Breaking More Waves @BMWavesBlog
Yeay! The Unthanks #nowplaying on #Folk6Music
Paul Hogarth @pmhogarth
Please please please play ‘Murder of Maria Marten’ by Shirley Collins #Folk6Music
John Hartley @johntonta
.@fayhield yes, a great voice and mix of timeless and bang up to date #folk6music marthtilston. Although spellcheck nearly said tuneless!
Jane Greenstock @greenstocking25
I’m getting the sense that proper folk musicians would probably shun me and my too-conventional taste 🙁 #folk6music
Phil Smith @Phil__Smith
ewan maccoll – dirty old town. #Folk6Music
Barbara Scrivens @ScrivensB
Oysterband ‘bury me standing’? #Folk6Music
Emilia Owen @Emilia_Owen
Dear Kimber by the Cecil Sharp Project! From a project about a folk song collector! Definitely should be played! #Folk6Music
Spoonhead McGee @spoonheadmcgee
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music if you play the Spinners on the radio you’ll make my entire family’s year! #keepyafeetstillgeordiehinny
John Sprackland @johnsprackland
Come on be brave -just ONE unaccompanied traditional song! #Folk6Music
keithjbean @keithjbean
@BBC6Music Richard Thompson’s Vincent Black Lightning might no be old but it is a classic folk story #Folk6Music
MarkFromhold @MarkFromhold
No Gibb & Lucas, Hardy, Henwood, Moray, O’Hooley & Tidow, Tabor, or Ward ? Only 20 mins left to right 7 wrongs 😉 #Folk6Music
Nick Cooper @NickCNickCNickC
Have discovered app for BBC radio. #Folk6Music at bathtime…
Ginger Nugget @Ryker5
@BBC6Music Four bird roast done and gone. Now folk on 6 music for the clean up, thus has defo opened my ears #Folk6music
Dotty McDot @_Fruit_Loop
Daughter is a Johnny Flynn fan, it seems! 🙂 #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
“@johnsprackland: Come on be brave -just ONE unaccompanied traditional song! #Folk6Music” oooh do you think they could
Jack Höwson. @jackrabb1t
I interviewed fantastic folk singer @TheJudyCollins for the radio. She is a total hero – bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01…Jan Cole @pudlover
#Folk6Music what about #Oysterband. Anything will do as they never record a bad track.
Jane Hawkins @Jane_sheepgirl
#folk6music this land is our land
Nathan Shipley @oneeyenonose
How about Jenny Again by @thisistunng? #Folk6Music
Joanna Stephens @Joanna_Stephens
Also anything by @juliefowlis #Folk6Music
Jane Greenstock @greenstocking25
Johnny Flynn! Yes! #folk6music
Lucy @schokomilch_
Come on, we still need some Greg Russell and Ciaran Algar. They are just smashing. Mighty fine. #Folk6Music
James Findlay @jamesfindlaymus
@BBC6Music #folk6music you’re missing the stunning Maggie Holland ‘A Place Called England’
Neil Murray @NTS_Neil
@BBC6Music It would be great to hear Michael Marra’s ‘Mother Glasgow’. I’m sure Welsh/Irish listeners have similar frustration. #Folk6Music
Eloise Roberts @lefthandof
@fayhield @kathryn_sean really hope they play something by Kathryn and Sean if they haven’t already! #Folk6Music
Sarah Wells @sarahjwells
#Folk6Music is great – don’t know much about folk but loving the choices so far (lots of stuff I already love like Billy Bragg/Bellowhead)
John Sprackland @johnsprackland
Come on be brave -just ONE unaccompanied traditional song! #Folk6Music
Daniel Schillereff @dschillereff
#Folk6music Must include some Newfoundland folk music on your show! Something by Great Big Sea, Hey Rosetta! or Ron Hynes perhaps.Thanks!
Fay Hield @fayhield
Have you been to the archive portal yet? vwml.org.uk #FullEnglish #folk6music go make your own music
Alex Cumming @alexcumming
#Folk6Music Still no good tune sets! Morris, Rapper, Ceilidhs etc are a massive part of Folk music and we aint had none yet!
Neal Potter @internet_chap
#Folk6Music now I’ve not heard the whole show but how about a bit of Fleet Foxes? White Winter Hymnal would be my suggestion
James Cook @jimi1805
Truly Superb!!! Billy Bragg – I Ain’t Got No Home In This World Anymore (Live on KEXP): youtu.be/v7K_as6T20s #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
English/American well served – more from Ireland/Scotland? Couldn’t have happened 5 years ago – #timesareachanging #folk6music
emm @emmasbouzouki
OMG JUST READ MY TWEET ON THE RADIO!!!! #win #folk6music
Angie H @Lowlandslady
An old hippie writes – loving #Folk6Music obvs. But a lot of it’s a bit…recent
Derek Mitchell @Derekmitchell
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music this land is your land. It has to be.
John Hartley @johntonta
#Folk6Music ‘would love some Martha Tilston. Stags Bellow – nice and autumnal’
Clare Tasker @ClareTasker
@annatwigg #Folk6Music got to agree, love how their voices are quite different but fit together. Sea Song perfect showcase of Becky’s voice
emm @emmasbouzouki
Wow what a great song of Kate Rusby’s to choose!! #happy #Folk6Music #villiagegreenpreservationsociety
jo jones @jonsi58
#Folk6Music Silly Sisters, Magpie Lane ,,,,
For Folk’s Sake @forfolkssake
Enjoying Tom Robinson playing Kate Rusby’s version of Village Green Preservation Society on a show with lots of trad folk. #Folk6Music
Alex Cumming @alexcumming
#Folk6Music Still no good tune sets! Morris, Rapper, Ceilidhs etc are a massive part of Folk music and we aint had none yet!
Lucy @schokomilch_
@byefornoww one million percent agreed #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
Ah lovely Kate – her first album, and with @kathryn_sean Roberts huge inspiration to me and many others. Start point for many #folk6music
John Roberts @SneedHearn
#Folk6Music Woody Guthrie – Philadelphia Lawyer. It’s a great drama in two and a half minutes with love, treachery and murder.
TheGoldenTroubadours @TheGoldenTroubs
@BBC6Music How about one of ours? Sunshine Eyes maybe? soundcloud.com/the-golden-tro… #Folk6Music
John Sprackland @johnsprackland
… Copper Family’s Spencer the Rover segued into John Martyn’s version #Folk6Music …or Fred Jordan’s John Barleycorn > Traffic …
The Craftwork Studio @potterylizzie
This isnt ACTUALLY @katerusby song though.
Would have been great to have one of her iwn beautiful compositions?
heather downes @hettied49
#Folk6Music great song Sweet Thames Flow Softly by Jon Boden and Sam Sweeney. How about it?
Jan Cole @pudlover
#Folk6Music Uh hello, here’s Kate. Did anyone vote for her? Not seen her name suggested. Just saying….
Jim MacKay @beef_durante
How about some Scottish folk? ‘Both sides the Tweed’ by Dick Gaughan?Either his solo version or version he did with 5 Hand Reel #Folk6Music
anna twigganna @annatwigg
#Folk6Music Or The Unthanks. Those girls harmonise beautifully. Their version of Robert Wyatt’s Sea Song gives me goosebumps every time.
emm @emmasbouzouki
Wow what a great song of Kate Rusby’s to choose!! #happy #Folk6Music #villiagegreenpreservationsociety
Angie H @Lowlandslady
Some Anne Briggs now please. Willie O’Winsbury will do. #Folk6Music
The Ginger Gourmand @GingerGourmand
A bit of @katerusby at last! #Folk6Music
Dotty McDot @_Fruit_Loop
We are the village green preservation society. #Folk6Music
Ian Middleton @IanMiddletonX
@freshnet These gals are good. They’re Swedish and play bluegrass. I originally saw them in Gateshead! youtube.com/watch?v=6kyzOG… #Folk6Music
Nathalie Clare @folkiebird
#Folk6Music YEEEE KATE YES GOOD
Lynne Davies @CapnSkulduggery
#Folk6Music Swimmy Swim – Woody Guthrie or any of his childrens songs would do me. These are how I was introduced to his music.
The Craftwork Studio @potterylizzie
Oooo…..do we have time for The Unthanks. King of Rome? I KNOW I am getting greedy now
But PLEASE. Gorgeous harmonies.
Eloise Roberts @lefthandof
The same goes for @MelroseQuartet, obviously. John Ball or Santa Georgia would be nice #Folk6Music
emm @emmasbouzouki
@byefornoww trying to multitask! Listening to #Folk6Music and watching strictly. Agh!!! Harder than it sounds!
emm @emmasbouzouki
Oh a bit o’ Kate #lovely #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
“@ScrivensB: @fayhield Irish folk music = twiddly diddly. English folk music = Rumpty tumpty!!” Disscus #folk6music
Jane Caddick @LadyLillyJane
Going to spend the rest of the week tracking down all suggestions I’m not already familiar with -thanks to everyone! #Folk6Music
Neil Murray @NTS_Neil
@fayhield @ScrivensB And Scottish? #HeftyLefty #Folk6Music
geraint evans @geraintwales
“@NTS_Neil: You’ve forgotten you are a UK station and not English. #CelticConnections #Folk6Music ” shh, you’ll upset Billy Bragg.
Emilia Owen @Emilia_Owen
Hurrah!!!! Jon Boden!!!! #folk6music
emm @emmasbouzouki
Oh a bit o’ Kate #lovely #Folk6Music
Ian Syme @ianmsyme
#folk6music anything by June Tabor…amazed she hasn’t even been mentioned
Lucy @schokomilch_
@byefornoww one million percent agreed #Folk6Music
Adam @music_radar
#Folk6Music Half Moon Run-“Call Me in the Afternoon” would also fit nicely Folk Playlist with nice video youtu.be/c_yengUrkaU
John Sprackland @johnsprackland
Ok, Harry Cox ‘Just as the tide was flowing’ segued into 10,000 Maniacs version. Determined to hear an unaccompanied trad singer #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
So… whats the difference between folk and pop, if it’s on’t radio like this – is there a ‘sound’ of folk? #folk6music
Juliet @byefornoww
@BBC6Music A bit of Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar would definitely be appreciated by all #Folk6Music
Breaking More Waves @BMWavesBlog
Been enjoying the #Folk6Music show on the radio tonight. Missed the start – have we had any Unthanks yet? If not we need some!
boballen @bob_o_a
Phil chevrons thousands are sailing played friday at his funeral. A terrible beauty. #Folk6Music
Leonora Thomson @leothomson
Now about some American Song Train? Think might need a second programme??? #folk6music
jo jones @jonsi58
#folk6music where are morris tunes or step dances?
Fay Hield @fayhield
“@ScrivensB: @fayhield Irish folk music = twiddly diddly. English folk music = Rumpty tumpty!!” Disscus #folk6music
geraint evans @geraintwales
Enjoying this, but how about The Men They Couldn’t Hang? “Ballard of Cable Street”? @TMTCHmusic #folk6music
mark edwards @drmarkedwards
Trembling Bells surely #Folk6Music they’re modern and they’re classic. ‘when i was young’
Dave Jameson @DavidJamesonUK
@BBC6Music @fayhield #folk6music the mandolin-driven splendour of Geordie in Wonderland by @TheWildhearts is the Ultimate in modern folk
Liz Ixer @LizIxer
Also #folk6music have you played Chris Wood’s Hollow Point?
Anne Groucott @AnneGroucott
#Folk6Music Hanging Johnny by The Futureheads would be great.
Neil Murray @NTS_Neil
@ClareTasker Starting to get cross now, Clare! #CelticConnections #Folk6Music
anna twigganna @annatwigg
#Folk6Music How about some Alasdair Roberts? He has the most beautiful and haunting voice. Maybe Farewell Sorrow?
Fay Hield @fayhield
Can I eat my tea yet – hand hurts. Constant tweeting is hard work! #itsahardlife #folk6music
Glyn Everett @glynjamyn
@PlonitbatPlonit #folk6music agree something from Penguin Eggs but humpback whale goes on and on – how about Canadee-i-o?
Nathalie Clare @folkiebird
#Folk6Music Perhaps some David Gibb and Elly Lucas, Nic Jones, Sandy Denny, Lisa Hannigan, Kate Rusby?
Neil Murray @NTS_Neil
You have forgotten you are are a UK station and not just English. #CelticConnections #Folk6Music
invisibleboy74 @invisibleboy74
It would be good to hear how people can do interesting things with the genre #Folk6Music for example bad shepherds-sound of the suburbs
Morwenna @morwenna_g
Blimey, every weekend should end on this note.. #folk6music
The Craftwork Studio @potterylizzie
Woody Guthrie
‘I aint got no home’
The patron saint of folk….after Cecil Sharp and Mr J Boden of course
#Folk6Music
Tim Collins @timpcollins
Great to hear Steeleye on #Folk6Music, can’t go wrong. Would be great to hear Autopsy by Fairport. Could be the most beautiful song ever IMO
Fay Hield @fayhield
Ha! Diddley.com is a thing! Not so much about the folk though… #folk6music
Ant savage @Antsavage2
@BBC6Music new folky newbie gu.com/p/3tpt6 #folk6music
Neil Murray @NTS_Neil
You have forgotten you are are a UK station and not just English. #CelticConnections #Folk6Music
Claire Latham @guitar73girl
#Folk6Music Woody Guthrie – Pretty Boy Floyd
jo jones @jonsi58
#folk6music the Unthanks
Joe Fitzmaurice @Cloughwoodfired
As great as Pretty Boy Floyd is, Dust cant’ kill me sums up Woody so well #Folk6music
Liz Ixer @LizIxer
Also #folk6music have you played Chris Wood’s Hollow Point?
Dotty McDot @_Fruit_Loop
#Folk6Music taking my mind off stuff. Did requests but no harm here too! Anaïs Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer – anything from Child Ballads.
Helen J @helga_j
It’s Sunday, we have to go back to office tomorrow, surely you should include Artificial by Martha Tilston? #folk6music #sleepdrifting
Peter Whiting @PNWhiting
Woody Guthrie favourite in our family has to be 2 good Men although the kids love The Car Song! #Folk6Music
Dotty McDot @_Fruit_Loop
#Folk6Music taking my mind off stuff. Did requests but no harm here too! Anaïs Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer – anything from Child Ballads.
Chris @underwurldchris
Not impressed with the #Folk6Music – The Ultimate Folk Playlist. Obvious choices but great to see Seth Lakeman and Fleet Foxes.
Lynda Cochrane @cochrane_l
#Folk6Music @cochrane_l: Jan & Lorraine- Gypsy people. A mysterious duo who created one amazing record
Fay Hield @fayhield
I would probably marry Maddy Prior though if she asked. Such an inspiration. Frankie Armstrong did smashing version of this too #folk6music
J Mac @Casette_Playboy
Lia ices ‘ice wine’ is definitely worth consideration. In regards to Mumford and sons, don’t do it! Love u guys #Folk6Music
Stef Lewandowski @stef
@6music #folk6music with autumn suddenly upon us and Halloween right round the corner, please play Season of the Witch by Donovan!
sara scott-rivers @sarascottrivers
@BBC6Music how about some Circulus? Medieval folk with a nonny nonny! #Folk6Music
Gareth @gaz8080
Pretty Boy Floyd please! #Folk6Music
James Aldridge @JamesAldridge12
#Folk6Music please play Midwest farm disaster by bob Martin, a classic from 1972
Liz Ixer @LizIxer
Pretty Boy Floyd by Woody Guthrie #folk6music
Ian Syme @ianmsyme
#folk6music Pentangle….Bruton Town..???
Tom Sadler @tsadler2
Please some Nic Jones @penguineggs. Either Lakes of Shilin or Canadee-I-O #folk6music
Jon Dils JJ Carroll @jjdilscarroll
@BBC6Music Go Betweens track pleeeease (Bye Bye Pride off Tallulah album ?) Brill show, Jon, Uckfield #Folk6Music
Joshy @JoshRoweTheatre
Would love to hear ‘The ballad of George Collins’ by Sam Lee #Folk6Music
gingergeezer @gingergeezer
#Folk6music Woody Guthrie; HAS to be ‘This land is your land’
Joanna Stephens @Joanna_Stephens
Has anyone mentioned @jackieoates yet? May the Kindness is a favourite track. #Folk6Music
Juicebox Live @Juicebox_Indie
@beanstoast please! #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
See, he’s into his folk rock. Gone off him #folk6music
Tom Sadler @tsadler2
Please some Nic Jones @penguineggs. Either Lakes of Shilin or Canadee-I-O #folk6music
Kristy Highfield @KristyHighfield
#Folk6Music get some James Findlay played. So dedicated to folk, he sings traditional songs in the shower!
Shelley Jane @ShelleyJaneT
@BBC6Music please play anything by David Gibb and Elly Lucas – young and fresh but classic and very very talented. #folk6music
Julia Payne @juliaatthehub
What about some Sams?! @samleesong or @samcartermusic Or the brilliant and scarily young @benandalfie #Folk6Music
Phil Smith @Phil__Smith
woody guthrie – i aint got no home in this world anymore! #Folk6Music
Mark Goodrich @MarkyGoodrich
How about Sing Unto Me by @Moulettes1? Most interesting new folkish group in a long time. #folk6music (Mumford bassist features with them)
Lesley @EnglishFolkfan
@LizziMichael You can listen to Folk ‘every’ Sunday 6-8pm on @GenevieveTudor Sunday Folk @BBCShropshire online and iplayer 🙂 #folk6music
Eloise Roberts @lefthandof
If they haven’t played @kathryn_sean yet then something is very wrong with the world. ‘S all I’m saying. #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
Ah, isn’t he lovely? #folk6music
geraint evans @geraintwales
Enjoying this, but how about The Men They Couldn’t Hang? “Ballard of Cable Street”? @TMTCHmusic #folk6music
Emilia Owen @Emilia_Owen
Hurrah!!!! Jon Boden!!!! #folk6music
Ant savage @Antsavage2
@BBC6Music 21st century folk soundcloud.com/antsavage/a #folk6music #giveitaplay
Ryan Allen @Ryanteach
I will wait – mumford #Folk6Music
Juliet @byefornoww
@BBC6Music A bit of Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar would definitely be appreciated by all #Folk6Music
margaret hinchcliffe @mub60
What a fantastic programme – spoilt for choice!! #folk6music
Tim Collins @timpcollins
Have no issue with Mumfords, but don’t think #Folk6Music is for them, got enough exposure in mainstream, nice to hear something different!
The Craftwork Studio @potterylizzie
@MerryHell_band
Wigans finest and two fantastic collections of folk punk love songs.
‘Bury Me Naked’
Matt Cartledge @mjcartledge
Bellowhead on ! Always a big favourite with @TheRockClubUK ????#Folk6Music
Clare Tasker @ClareTasker
@NTS_Neil #Folk6Music we need a good bothy ballad!
Sarah Howells @wispagirl
Why not play @Blackbeards_TP for #Folk6Music ?? xx
Jessica Pagram @JPagram
#Folk6Music lovely evening so far but love to hear either capercaillie take the floor or Sharon Shannon Galway girl
Lizzi Michael @LizziMichael
“You’ll have to get up early to be smarter than a whore!’ Loving #Folk6Music this evening. Let’s have this every Sunday please?
Fay Hield @fayhield
I quite fancy this singer #folk6music
Calli Snowdon @CalSno
Fabulous @Bellowhead choice *jigs around the kitchen* #folk6music
BBC Radio 6 Music
Lots of you are suggesting Woody Guthrie – but which track should we play? #Folk6Music
Joe Fitzmaurice @Cloughwoodfired
Just tuned in so I’ll listen back, but to hear World turned upside down sung by Dick Guagan on would be sensational #Folk6music
Leonora Thomson @leothomson
@potterylizzie will they or won’t they?? #folk6music Oh Brother ….
Clare Tasker @ClareTasker
@Yorkrose #Folk6Music deffo need something akin to a shanty on a folk playlist.
Richard Weir @CarlisleBeer
@BBC6Music #folk6music cover of Silver Dagger by @tmtch is really gorgeous & a well worthy of inclusion. Please 🙂
Judith Green @PlonitbatPlonit
Play Nic Jones Humpback Whale, fabulous song. #6music #Folk6Music #folk
Capn Dave @tattooboat
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music
Levellers : Riverman
For all the free roving boaters listening 😉
Duncan Wainscott @folkyvale
“@geraintwales: In defence of Mumford, I wonder how many people got into folk through their music? #folk6music” Well said!
Eloise Roberts @lefthandof
Finally turned on BBC 6 Music to the welcome sound of New York Girls by @Bellowhead. YES. #Folk6Music
Andy Jones @Neurosapien
I dare you to play Dick Gaughan singing Erin-go-Bragh or Craigie Hill. And I dare you thence not to weep like a child. #Folk6Music
GregR&CiaranA @GregRCiaranA
Radio 6 Music are having a whole show dedicated to great folk tracks at 6pm. Use the hashtag #Folk6Music to vote for your favourites!
Eloise Roberts @lefthandof
@fayhield @KatePahl @kerrfagan @concertinarob thirded! I’d not heard this before. Brilliant. #Folk6Music
Tanya Butchers @Greentarnie
Any chance of some Unthanks? #Folk6Music
Angie H @Lowlandslady
Diddly enough for you @fayhield ? 😉 #Greatstuff #Bellowhead #Folk6Music
Rotorbabe Recordings @rotorbabe
No #Folk6Music playlist would be complete without Traffic’s “John Barleycorn Must Die” (the Family back catalog’s gotta be worth a look too)
Helen J @helga_j
It’s Sunday, we have to go back to office tomorrow, surely you should include Artificial by Martha Tilston? #folk6music #sleepdrifting
Tanya Butchers @Greentarnie
Any chance of some Unthanks? #Folk6Music
geraint evans @geraintwales
In defence of Mumford, I wonder how many people got into folk through their music? #folk6music
MJB @Yorkrose
#folk6music Have to have someone in an Aran jumper – Clancy Bros or some Greenland whaling song?
Julia Payne @juliaatthehub
See report we worked on with the AFO:takingpartinthearts.com/content.php?co… Even in 2003 350 festivals generated a £77m spend.Niche music eh?! #Folk6Music
The EFDSS @TheEFDSS
@fayhield is live tweeting about #folk6music on … follow and join the conversation! #thefullenglish ^S
Eloise Roberts @lefthandof
@fayhield @KatePahl @kerrfagan @concertinarob thirded! I’d not heard this before. Brilliant. #Folk6Music
AnnieSphere @AnnieSphere
Loved Country Life by Show of Hands on . #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
Some great tweets of what folk means to you. Course you’re all right, perfect question. #folk6music
Alice Handscomb @alyinwonderland
Christie Moore’s “don’t forget your shovel” rlhas the perfect ability to be sung by anyone and gives me tingles everytime #Folk6Music
Angie H @Lowlandslady
@fayhield A bit samey so far. Wot no Coppers? #Folk6Music
gingergeezer @gingergeezer
#Folk6music Mumford & Sons make the case for being not seen and not heard independent.co.uk/arts-entertain…
Jon Wright @JournoJon
Discovered Seize the Day at glasto many years back. Mastercard or some such, well ahead if banking crisis #Folk6Music
margaret hinchcliffe @mub60
let’s have Dave Burland! #folk6music
Anna @Annatheforager
@fayhield I think it’s more a feeling than a sound. Hard to define, but I know whether it’s there or not. #Folk6Music
Anna O’Rourke @AnnaORourke
#Folk6music Woody Guthrie. Or Wilco & Billy Bragg’s recording of Guthrie’s material
MJB @Yorkrose
#folk6music Steeleye Span or The Spinners – their TV programmes in the 70s introduced many to folk
Bellowhead @Bellowhead
Help us help pick a track for their ‘Ultimate Folk Playlist’ – Any ideas? Let them know using #Folk6Music
Roger Margerison @Willastonrog
#folk6music The next generation. Blair dunlop forever the pawn
emm @emmasbouzouki
@BBC6Music Wow this song is great #Folk6Music love a good protest song???? #countrylife
Kate Pahl @KatePahl
#folk6music I want to hear some @elizacarthy and @folksongaday especially the fantastic Worcester City amazon.co.uk/Anglicana-Eliz…
Katy O’Malley @katyomalley
How about a Faustus tune – blow the windy morning would do nicely? #folk6music
Dan Olner @DanOlner
Anything from Jon Hopkins / king creosote, diamond mine. Another case of awesome folk/electronic. #Folk6Music
Caroline Holland @pipistrelle
Oh, rather enjoying #Folk6Music as I work. Who knew?
Duke Silver @dribblingfram
What do we think of The Burns Unit’s ‘Send Them Kids To War’? Folk or folk off? #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
Modal melodies, ornamentation, acoustic instruments, not so much here, so what is it? Or why isn’t it pop. Or is it?!? #folk6music
The Craftwork Studio @potterylizzie
Oooooo Country Life….
Nice one 6 rising to a challenge
A very happy Pottery Lizzie!
Neil Murray @NTS_Neil
Given strength of folk music in Scotland, wilful ignorance of any artists from here. Eg #BertJansch #EddiReader #MichaelMarra #Folk6Music
Lucy @schokomilch_
@BBC6Music @MumfordAndSons maybe not but @GregRCiaranA definitely SHOULD BE #Folk6Music
Kristy Highfield @KristyHighfield
#Folk6Music get some James Findlay played. So dedicated to folk, he sings traditional songs in the shower!
Tim Collins @timpcollins
Can we hear beautiful voice of @MarthaTilston on #Folk6Music playlist? Brighton Song on Bimbling always makes me miss my time living there!
Matt @bongbrummie
“: Should @MumfordAndSons be included in the #Folk6Music on Now Playing tonight? If not, why?” Just ‘because’
Leonora Thomson @leothomson
@thh76 HA!! Can’t believe they read me out…much screaming in my kitchen! Are you going to turn off or not…?! #folk6music
Fay Hield @fayhield
So… whats the difference between folk and pop, if it’s on’t radio like this – is there a ‘sound’ of folk? #folk6music
Julia Payne @juliaatthehub
Great to hear all manner of folk music and musings on Tom Robinson show right now. #Folk6Music
GregR&CiaranA @GregRCiaranA
#Folk6Music Guessing some Irish folk is out of the question? Would love some Lunasa…
Kate Rooney @blueski11
Play anything from the excellent Folk is not a 4 letter word lp, maybe By the Sea by Wendy & Bonnie #Folk6Music
Mark Goodrich @MarkyGoodrich
If you have any interest in folk/roots music at all, you need to be listening to #folk6music right now!
Lucy @schokomilch_
PLEASE JUST A LITTLE GREG AND CIARAN!!!!!! #Folk6Music
Natalie McVey @NarrowNatalie
Rachel Unthank and The Winterset ‘Blackbird’ please Gid. #Folk6Music
Angie H @Lowlandslady
Compulsory Billy-bloody-Bragg #Folk6Music
Steven Jacobs @Jakedrum
Ooh, & some proper unaccompanied English folk – The Keelers keelers.net – #folk6music
Ken Tait @ken_tait
Can we have something from Alan Lomax’s American Folk Archive? Woody and This Land would be best but anything you choose is fine #Folk6music
Fay Hield @fayhield
Some great tweets of what folk means to you. Course you’re all right, perfect question. #folk6music
Anna @Annatheforager
@BBC6Music No Mumfords please, but @Bellowhead and @FaustusFolk would be most welcome! #Folk6Music
Anne Groucott @AnneGroucott
#Folk6Music Need to hear more squeeze boxes and fiddles pleeeeeeze! 🙂
Simon Vaughan @smnvghn
@BBC6Music No please don’t do it they are just not needed #Folk6Music
Steve Robson @Robbosoken
#folk6music How about some @fayhield herself
Mr Moosehead @mr_moosehead
Oh, and check out @plumhall #Folk6Music *waves*
Cousin Jac @cousinjacmusic
We definitely need a folk show on the radio – the tradition progresses. Very welcome conversation this!!#Folk6Music
Trevor Pake @trevorpake
#folk6music surely a folk playlist this week of all weeks can’t go by without something by The Pogues as a tribute to Phil Chevron.
Andrew McMINN @andrewmcminn
A folk show on #Folk6Music #LetsMakeItHappen #Folk
Cousin Jac @cousinjacmusic
another folk show i mean 🙂 #Folk6Music
Duncan Wainscott @folkyvale
“@Vino_73: #Folk6Music how about some First Aid Kit?” Emmylou please.
Neil Murray @NTS_Neil
@fayhield Agreed. Not English, but Hayes and Cahill, ‘The Minstrel Boy’. #Folk6Music
George @mumblingwomble
@BBC6Music Mumford & Sons make commercial pop songs. I doubt history will be kind to them. Laura Marling is far better…. #folk6music
BBC Radio 6 Music
Should @MumfordAndSons be included in the #Folk6Music on Now Playing tonight? If so, what track? If not, why?
Neal Potter @internet_chap
#Folk6Music Nice to hear @Cocoslovers on six music! We’ve had many a good time accompanied by their music.
Lucy @schokomilch_
PLEASE JUST A LITTLE GREG AND CIARAN!!!!!! #Folk6Music
Mr Moosehead @mr_moosehead
Even more awesome would be to hear some old Therapy? (not welsh rockers) with Dave Shannon (RIP) #Folk6Music
Helen Garrett @Helen_Garrett
@BBC6Music Don’t know but I loved it! #Folk6Music
Andy L @Vino_73
#Folk6Music how about some First Aid Kit?
Cousin Jac @cousinjacmusic
We definitely need a folk show on the radio – the tradition progresses. Very welcome conversation this!!#Folk6Music
Angie H @Lowlandslady
Dylan TTTAA-C – who else remembers having their mind blown by this in 1964? #Folk6Music #justme?
Andy L @Vino_73
#Folk6Music how about some First Aid Kit?
Clare Tasker @ClareTasker
@fayhield I would like to hear about someone being lost at sea, or a broken love token 🙂 #Folk6Music
Andrew McMINN @andrewmcminn
A folk show on #Folk6Music #LetsMakeItHappen #Folk
Abi Gilmore @Abi_Gilmore
@artistsmakers they’ve been the cause of many a wonky singalong with small children in our kitchen 🙂 #Folk6Music
Mr Moosehead @mr_moosehead
Hmm. Big roast dinner cooked and consumed, then Matty Groves on #Folk6Music as I’m tidying up. Heaven.
Andy Jones @Neurosapien
#Folk6Music. Play Mumfords just so we can fairly compare to The Watersons or Copper Family perhaps. The truth will out.
Kjavez @Kjavez
Iwillwaitiwillwaitforyou.I vote for astral weeks by van the man. Go six music go! #Folk6Music
jo jones @jonsi58
#Folk6Music some shanties?
James Cook @jimi1805
I’d switch off if i heard Mumford & Sons being played! #Folk6Music
Shelly Asquith @ShellyAsquith
Peeps sayin they’ll turn off #Folk6music if Mumford & Scum features.. too right, but I was already tempted when Noah and the wail came on..
Joseph Downie @josephdownie
Who Know Where the Time Goes – Fairport Convention – has to be played! #Folk6Music If not, what about smthing by Trembling Bells/Mike Heron?
The Craftwork Studio @potterylizzie
‘Thosands are Sailing’ in tribute to Phil Chevron?
Exquisite songsmith.
Duncan Wainscott @folkyvale
#Folk6Music One of the best things the BBC did for folk music was dumping @HardingMike from R2. The result is his wonderful weekly podcast.
Fay Hield @fayhield
I love the sound if all this music, but wouldn’t turn my nose up at some more trad. songs or diddley #folk6music
Lesley @EnglishFolkfan
@jimcausley Blimey! Hm, with 2 hours of #folk6music tonight maybe @GaryBarlow @TheXFactor have realised what real singing is 😉
Matt Stinchcombe @ra_ra_rasputin
@BBC6Music @MumfordAndSons just no… We get forced to listen during the week… Synday is our safe day, pleas don’t ruin that! #Folk6Music
Daniel Gilbert @Dan_Gilbert
#Folk6Music can we have Angie by Bert Jansch please?
amy(chapman)mcinerny @Amzibeth78
If I Had a Hammer by Pete Seeger #Folk6Music would be a little bit lovely
Mr Moosehead @mr_moosehead
Oh, and check out @plumhall #Folk6Music *waves*
Steven Jacobs @Jakedrum
Don’t you grieve – @royharp I misunderstood – @RthompsonMusic & anything by @TymonDogg & Christy Moore #folk6music
Fay Hield @fayhield
I love the sound if all this music, but wouldn’t turn my nose up at some more trad. songs or diddley #folk6music
Alexander Thomas @Ali_tastelock
@BBC6Music please play Kate Rusby; underneath the stars, thanks! @RWaterworth #Folk6Music
The Craftwork Studio @potterylizzie
No!
No Mumfords.
Please no!
Kate Lewis @_KateLewis
Switching #folk6music off if they put Mumfords on
Sal @MirandaKitten
@BBC6Music The Ballad Of John Collins by Sam Lee please Tom… #Folk6Music NO MUMFORDS ! 🙂
gingergeezer @gingergeezer
#Folk6Music Tom – hail the massive influence of Davy Graham’s album ‘Folk Blues and Beyond – how about ‘I can’t keep from cryin’ sometimes’
emm @emmasbouzouki
@forfolkssake what did Mumford ever do to anyone! They are folk just not in the traditional sense! #givethemabreak #Folk6Music
Thomas Hardy @thh76
@BBC6Music I have to decide whether to turn off #folk6music to go to @WalthamstowFolk Andy Irvine playing – so Planxty please! @leothomson
Joseph Downie @josephdownie
Who Know Where the Time Goes – Fairport Convention – has to be played! #Folk6Music If not, what about smthing by Trembling Bells/Mike Heron?
Thomas Gething @tomgething42
ignore the naysayers, put on some Mumford and sons 😀 #Folk6Music
Lynn Burgess @lynnburgess99
#folk6music forget mumfords, Sam Lee great new folkie, amazing arrangements
Lydia Glanville @lydiaglanville
Resisting getting into debates about what constitutes folk with fellow tweeters #Folk6Music I suspect my views are controversial.
Roger Jeffery @rogerdjeffery
#Folk6Music NO THANKS mumford
Andy L @Vino_73
#Folk6Music sorry but the Mumfords are folk by numbers and shouldn’t be included, in my opinion.
Mr Moosehead @mr_moosehead
@BBC6Music Would love to hear something by Lindisfarne – Lady Eleanor or Meet me on the corner #Folk6Music
Lesley @EnglishFolkfan
@EYBev In someone’s fav phrase on larks’a’candlefording “tis my only weakness” 😉 @BBCShropshire #folk6music
Allan David Gardner @allandgardner
@BBC6Music Eluveitie; folk metal at its very best! #Folk6Music
Christopher Reid @chris_reid_esq
@BBC6Music Of course Mumford and Sons can’t be on a #Folk6Music playlist! Totes innapropes…
BBC Radio 6 Music
Should @MumfordAndSons be included in the #Folk6Music on Now Playing tonight? If so, what track? If not, why?
Louise Banks @louisecbanks
No, no Mumford & Sons please they are horrendous #Folk6Music
Rick Edmondson @BanalPoetry
Could you play something from Peter Bellamy’s Folk Opera ‘The Transports’, perhaps “Once Lived In Service” #Folk6Music
Leonora Thomson @leothomson
No – I don’t want to hear Mumfords, despite liking them. This programme is a chance to hear new (to me!) and amazing stuff.#folk6music
amy(chapman)mcinerny @Amzibeth78
NO THANKS to m&s (band not supermarket) #folk6music #pleasedontruinmyweekend
The Craftwork Studio @potterylizzie
‘Thosands are Sailing’ in tribute to Phil Chevron?
Exquisite songsmith.
Daniel Gilbert @Dan_Gilbert
#Folk6Music NO MUMFORD> NEVER
John Sprackland @johnsprackland
…into Bellowhead’s version of ‘Up to the Rigs’ #Folk6Music
Folk Radio UK @FRUK
“@fayhield: Bright Phoebus project sounds amazing play some of that! #folk6music” totally. Would be great!
GregR&CiaranA @GregRCiaranA
#Folk6Music Guessing some Irish folk is out of the question? Would love some Lunasa…
Jan Cole @pudlover
@jimcausley @GaryBarlow @TheXFactor (we’re all listening and suggesting folk songs to #Folk6Music on 6Music Jim)
Fay Hield @fayhield
Where do you folk? Radio, CDs, folk club, festival? Its all in the doing – get yourself joined in #folk6music
John Sprackland @johnsprackland
#Folk6Music Please, a taste of the pure tradition, from @TopicRecords Voice of the People, Charlie Wills singing ‘Up to the Rigs’ segued..
KingDommy @KingDommy
NONONONO not folk. Dylan is at best (1st) world music. #Folk6Music
Rick Edmondson @BanalPoetry
@BBC6Music haha people in folk clubs will be gnashing their teeth at this choice, #Folk6Music, I love Dylan
Fay Hield @fayhield
Love listening to this. Amazing songwriter and singer. I’m dancing now anyway (not the morris). #folk6music
Klaus Harvey @klausharvey
#Folk6Music After Fairport’s ‘Matty Groves’ we now need Planxty’s ‘Little Musgrave’.
Katie Ledger @Whatkatiediddo
How about Lisa’s Dylan-esk song from the dental plan Simpsons episode? #folk6music
The Craftwork Studio @potterylizzie
@leothomson
I’m so with you on ‘Oh Brother….’
‘Constant Sorrow?’
Folk Radio UK @FRUK
@BBC6Music that interview with @Cocoslovers mentioned can be found here #Folk6Music folkradio.co.uk/2013/10/cocos-…
Duncan Wainscott @folkyvale
#Folk6Music How’s about a bit of Joan Baez? The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down will do nicely!
Charlotte Corday @theartyassassin
#Folk6Music If folk music is about music for the people by the people that challenges social convention, Public Enemy Fight the Power.
Leonora Thomson @leothomson
Agree! RT @stu_e_hughes: #folk6music is the perfect way to end the weekend. Every Sunday night should be folk night.
Mat @here_comes_B
@tomwaitsripoff #Folk6Music so good on the Watchmen titles 😉
The Craftwork Studio @potterylizzie
@MerryHell_band
Wigans finest and two fantastic collections of folk punk love songs.
‘Bury Me Naked’
mary stevens @amarystevens
Loving #folk6music – could be improved with a bit of Mountain Firework Company though.. youtube.com/watch?v=tWQ_cD…
Bill Wood @Miasmalistic
Colours by @TMTCHmusic – just a classic piece of their incredible repertoire 30 years and still strong #Folk6Music
tomwaitsripoff @tomwaitsripoff
Can’t go wrong with Bob Dylan. #Folk6Music
Folk Radio UK @FRUK
@BBC6Music that interview with @Cocoslovers mentioned can be found here #Folk6Music folkradio.co.uk/2013/10/cocos-…
Stu @stu_e_hughes
#folk6music is the perfect way to end the weekend. Every Sunday night should be folk night.
Elly Lucas @ellylucas
Fab to hear @Cocoslovers on for #Folk6Music tonight! Flashbacks to a very soggy Derbyshire festival a few years ago… #ohthemud
Leonora Thomson @leothomson
“I’ll fly away” from Oh Brother Where art thou, with Alison Krauss & Gillian Welch. Or anything from that soundtrack. Pleeese. #folk6music
jo jones @jonsi58
#Folk6Music oxford folk club
Lynn Burgess @lynnburgess99
#folk6music mercury nominated classic folk Sam Lee
The Khan Assembly @theKhanAssembly
James yorkston and the Athletes – st Patrick or any king creosote #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
Where do you folk? Radio, CDs, folk club, festival? Its all in the doing – get yourself joined in #folk6music
Katy O’Malley @katyomalley
Nearly in heaven listening to Matty Groves, requesting anything by Bellowhead as that would be perfect!!! #folk6music
Folk Radio UK @FRUK
Well done @Cocoslovers #Folk6Music
Lau Esta @choriambe
@6music #Folk6Music speaking of Dylan there’s that beautiful Pretty Saro song from Another Self Portrait – covering all shades of folk
Stu @stu_e_hughes
#folk6music is the perfect way to end the weekend. Every Sunday night should be folk night.
Alice Handscomb @alyinwonderland
Frank Turner’s Rivers is a beautiful folk song featuring breath taking vocals from Chris T-T #Folk6Music
gingergeezer @gingergeezer
BBC Radio 6 Music – Now Playing @6music, #Folk6Music – The Ultimate Folk Playlist bbc.in/1ebAVsa
Clare Tasker @ClareTasker
#Folk6Music The Dundee Ghost – Matt McGinn – for a bit of comic (?) relief. Makes me smile
Folk Radio UK @FRUK
Perfect. Nick Drake – River Man…a legend #Folk6Music
Mat @here_comes_B
@fayhield #folk6music I think regional accents is 1 reason I like @nadineshah and @lanternstalk so much.
Angie H @Lowlandslady
Of course, you’ll include the Copper Family without being asked? #Folk6Music
Elly Lucas @ellylucas
Fab to hear @Cocoslovers on for #Folk6Music tonight! Flashbacks to a very soggy Derbyshire festival a few years ago… #ohthemud
BBC Radio 6 Music
The readers of @FRUK have selected @Cocoslovers as the artist which best reflects the alternative side of folk music. Agree? #Folk6Music
Nathan Shipley @oneeyenonose
One word. Three letters. Three majestic musicians. @LAUmusic! #Folk6Music
The Khan Assembly @theKhanAssembly
The low anthem – to ohio. #Folk6Music
Kate Mortimer @Mortegg
@Valerie_E_Moss You can’t help dancing to such music… Great programme. :)) #folk6music
Sarah Howells @wispagirl
Discovering some lovely folk music on tonight’s #Folk6Music Thank you!!
Jane Caddick @LadyLillyJane
So many great suggestions – one programme is not enough – deserves a series. #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
Can’t beat harmony singing. Best done pissed in a bar. Loudly. #folk6music
Kate Lewis @_KateLewis
Jigging around the living room with @rogerdjeffery to Fairport Convention on #folk6music #properfolk
Folk Radio UK @FRUK
Well done @Cocoslovers #Folk6Music
j.d.s. @JigsDigsSwigs
@fayhield #Folk6Music if fay says its on and worth dancing to, I need to get it iplayered later., thanks fay
Amy Ryall @amy_ryall
@fayhield I concur #Folk6Music Bright Phoebus is amazing.
Anna Wilson Hall @AnnaWilsonHall
#Folk6Music anything by Dan Haywood’s New Hawks or Nancy Elizabeth would go down a treat!
Fay Hield @fayhield
Thank God I’m from Yorkshire (could you tell?) #folk6music
Bill Wood @Miasmalistic
@BBC6Music how about some newer folk @MerryHell_band have had 2 cracking albums so far. NWOBFM? #Folk6Music
Clare Tasker @ClareTasker
#folk6music A version of Cruel Sister would be good (being an eldest sister myself!) Pentangle or Rachel Unthank and the Winterset?
Jessica Pagram @JPagram
@BBC6Music absolutely loving #folk6music making me wish the festival season would hurry up
Sandy Marks @SandyinBruton
#folk6music Seize the Day! Wonderful festival band, very underrated contemporary folk music.
Will Riding @naughtystep
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music Rain by Martin Stephenson & the Daintees. From Boat to Bolivia. Priceless.
Neil Murray @NTS_Neil
Never mind Canadians how about a Scot? The late great Bard of Dundee, Michael Marra’s ‘Mother Glasgow’. #Folk6Music
Anne Groucott @AnneGroucott
#Folk6Music How about Durham Gaol by @MegsonMusic Jenny of the Moor @jimmoray or anything involving the amazing Mr Jon Boden @folksongaday
Lesley @EnglishFolkfan
@fayhield Sorry am recording Full English #folk6music as loyally listening live to my local @GenevieveTudor Sunday Folk on @BBCShropshire 🙂
Fay Hield @fayhield
Love listening to this. Amazing songwriter and singer. I’m dancing now anyway (not the morris). #folk6music
Glyn Everett @glynjamyn
#folk6music 😀 Thank you! Chelsea Morning accompanied many of my 16-yr-old dawn wonders.
Andrew McMINN @andrewmcminn
Will The Waterboys and A Bang On The Ear at 7½ minutes make #Folk6Music ?
The Craftwork Studio @potterylizzie
Oooooo…..
@folkiebird nice choices sister!
amy(chapman)mcinerny @Amzibeth78
can’t get more sunday than Joni 🙂 @6music, #Folk6Music – The Ultimate Folk Playlist bbc.in/1ebAVsa
Fay Hield @fayhield
@CapnSkulduggery yep messages, communication, community – about the core values of people. #folk6music
Juliet @byefornoww
@StephanieWatts1 6 music are playing tonnes of folk stuff this evening! 🙂 #Folk6Music
Leonora Thomson @leothomson
#folk6music OMG they really are playing Chelsea Morning. Can’t believe it….
Glyn Everett @glynjamyn
“@potterylizzie: I challenge 6 to include ANY Show of Hands track!
Though Cousin Jack would make me extra happy. #Folk6Music” Agreed 🙂
Lesley @EnglishFolkfan
.@forfolkssake @freshnet Recording, as loyally listening live locally to @GenevieveTudor Sunday Folk @BBCShropshire #folk6music
Elly Lucas @ellylucas
@BBC6Music (The exhibition starts with a @gibbandlucas gig at @cecilsharphouse in January. More info at a later date!) #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
So, what is folk to you? #folk6music
Alastair Tomlinson @agtomlinson
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music the wonder stuff did a great cover of Will The Circle Be Unbroken. Or their own Golden Green @mileshuntTWS
Glyn Everett @glynjamyn
HOW did I forget? WIZZ JONES! He is legendlegendlegend #folk6music
The Craftwork Studio @potterylizzie
I challenge 6 to include ANY Show of Hands track!
Though Cousin Jack would make me extra happy. #Folk6Music
Jan Cole @pudlover
#Folk6Music This is like an interactive folk club when is it actually OK to talk when the music is playing. Loving it…thanks 6Music
Nathalie Clare @folkiebird
#Folk6Music Suzanne- Leonard Cohen, Neptune- Poozies, Scarborough Fair- S&G, I’ll Fly Away- Gillian Welch, All I Want- Joni Mitchell
Fay Hield @fayhield
@tomcbrown indeed tradition isn’t about the past but the future #folk6music
Angie H @Lowlandslady
Ooh, I know! Ewan McColl – Shoals of Herring. It’s a song about folk #Folk6Music
Lynne Davies @CapnSkulduggery
I think folk is not just based in protest it is based in story telling and taking news from one place to another #Folk6Music
john @leightonbouy
@BBC6Music @freshnet You must play somethimng off of Pentangle “Basket Of Light”, “Light Flight” would be perfect
Glyn Everett @glynjamyn
@fayhield #folk6music Eek! Yes, I can hear the thunderous roll of tweets coming your way now… hey ho! Each to their own 🙂
Andrew McMINN @andrewmcminn
For the rockier side to #Folk6Music – The Levellers and What a Beautiful Day?
Jan Cole @pudlover
#Folk6Music This is like an interactive folk club when is it actually OK to talk when the music is playing. Loving it…thanks 6Music
Grace Hewitt @gracehewitt
Marry Waterson’s version of her mothers song Fine Horseman is so haunting…or play Bright Phoebus (my fave all time song) #Folk6Music
Abi Gilmore @Abi_Gilmore
#folk6music Folk Music is our “Commons” – Eliza Carthy ‘Little Big Man’ or Jim Moray ‘All of the Pretty Girls’ please (for Ava Beatrix) x
Anne Groucott @AnneGroucott
#Folk6Music anything by @samsweeney123 and @Clogbox please
Mike Eslea @mikeeslea
RT @folkyvale: #Folk6Music
Tom’s own version of I Shall Be Released is pretty sweet. Play yourself Tom!
Fay Hield @fayhield
Shhh now #folk6music
Tom Brown @tomcbrown
Both those songs are originals (future standards?) whose collective sensibility chimes with what I love about good trad songs. #folk6music
Fay Hield @fayhield
What a singer, storytelling at its best (just take the drums and bass out, no?) @folksongaday loves this #folk6music
Kate Mortimer @Mortegg
So glad our house is secluded when I am prancing around the cutainless kitchen to Fairport Convention.#folk6music
Jan Cole @pudlover
#Folk6Music Loving Lucy Ward’s For The Dead Men at the moment. A great example of a song capturing the current mood.
Julian Hancock @julianhancock
#Folk6Music widdecombe fair show of hands; chris wood hollowpoint ; j tabor band played w /mathilda; norma waterson once lived in service
Duncan Wainscott @folkyvale
#Folk6Music
Folk has its roots in Protest, hence:
Ewan MacColl: The Manchester Rambler
Dylan: I Shall Be Released
Luke Kelly: Joe Hill
Fi Cooper @FiNutbrown
“@fayhield: Bright Phoebus project sounds amazing play some of that! #folk6music” yes please, saw it Friday, completely fantastic!!
nehebo @Nehebo
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music what about PJ Harvey’s White Chalk album? Sounds folk-inspired to me.
Angie H @Lowlandslady
It’s all a bit samey so far. Let’s have an early 60s “protest” song. eg Come all ye Gallant Drivers (Bob Davenport) #Folk6Music
emm @emmasbouzouki
Any song by David Gibb and Elly Lucas would be much appreciated #Folk6Music #brilliantmusic
The Khan Assembly @theKhanAssembly
Bill Fay – never ending happening #Folk6Music
Anne Groucott @AnneGroucott
#Folk6Music anything by @samsweeney123 and @Clogbox please
The Craftwork Studio @potterylizzie
@billybragg – Woody Guthrie
‘Way over yonder in the minor key.’
Mermaid Avenue.
Makes a grown woman blubLydia Glanville @lydiaglanville
@BBC6Music How about something by @OldDanceSchool @theUFQ or @boat_to_row #birmingham is where it’s at for folk music. #Folk6Music
Tom Brown @tomcbrown
Couple of slightly more realistic suggestions for #folk6music: The Longshot by @MegsonMusic, or The Cottager’s Reply by @ChrisWood_Music.
Folk Radio UK @FRUK
“@fayhield: Bright Phoebus project sounds amazing play some of that! #folk6music” totally. Would be great!
The kitten @KittyPlato
#Folk6Music
Joanna newsome – Emily
Fay Hield @fayhield
Argh folk rock – this hurts me deeply. Amazing musicians, song & singer. Why why why rock it up? I’ll not make friends there #folk6music
Leonora Thomson @leothomson
And yes please to some Bright Phoebus. RT @fayhield: Bright Phoebus project sounds amazing play some of that! #folk6music
Jane Greenstock @greenstocking25
Jigging in the kitchen to Matty Groves – thanks #folk6music!
Freddie McConnell @fred_dash
Folk is the present and the future. youtu.be/9TgmrfHbZkM #Folk6Music
Andrew McMINN @andrewmcminn
What is folk? A story or traditional story simply performed. #Folk6Music
The Khan Assembly @theKhanAssembly
Tunngs surprise me #Folk6Music
Dominick St by Steve Earle & Sharon Shannon (instrumental)
Both ACE!
For Folk’s Sake @forfolkssake
Everyone listening to @freshnet’s Ultimate Folk Playlist on ? #folk6music
Paul Little @Dukeleto77
Cmon Tom, A Good Lighter, so say we all! #Folk6music
The Lone Groover @lonegrooves
#folk6music The Lone Groover. Folk music for city dwellers. youtube.com/watch?v=VTKy7D…
emm @emmasbouzouki
That last song was great! I really enjoyed it! #Folk6Music #thefullenglish ????????????
Leonora Thomson @leothomson
Don’t think it’s a trad or trash scenario on #folk6music. Folk permeates so much music. No boundaries…how about some Pentangle?!
BBC Radio 6 Music
Follow @fayhield and her Tweets as she’s commenting on everything #Folk6Music right now
Fi Cooper @FiNutbrown
Even the five year old is demanding Fairport Convention #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
Bright Phoebus project sounds amazing play some of that! #folk6music
George @mumblingwomble
The Wild Rover by #Thedubliners is a great folk (and drinking) song. #folk6music. Or Thousands are Sailing by #thepogues?
Fay Hield @fayhield
@lsherrington1 @tomwaitsripoff the question on everyone’s lips… #folk6music
Sarah Roberts @Gossipmistress
@fayhield Did he just say ‘Portrait of my Y front’??!! #Folk6Music
The Craftwork Studio @potterylizzie
#Folk6Music
@jimmoray ‘All you Pretty Girls.’
Total folkie festival foostamper.
Please.
And a pint of Hobgoblin would be nice.
Cheers.
Quentin Holden @fjellman2
Dan Arborise – Days Even Years? #Folk6Music
Dan Olner @DanOlner
“Move” by Martyn Bennett, from album “Grit”. Techno folk that works. #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
Bright Phoebus project sounds amazing play some of that! #folk6music
Lina & Tom @liquidphotocouk
#Folk6Music For us, you MUST include the genius of @orkestradelsol in this playlist, for foot-stomping-cider-swilling-howlatthemoon folk!
morden haiku @hermonhermit
@BBC6Music #folk6music Chris Wood & Hugh Lupton’s One in a Million is perfect closer – story song based on trad tales of lost ring in a fish
Charlotte Corday @theartyassassin
#Folk6Music suppose there’s no chance of the 20 minute version of Calvary Cross by Richard Thompson. Failing that anything by the genius.
Duncan Wainscott @folkyvale
#Folk6Music
From t’other side of the pond:
Dylan: It Ain’t Me Babe
Springsteen: The Ghost of Tom Joad
Peggy Seeger: I Want To Be An Engineer
The kitten @KittyPlato
#Folk6Music
Terry callier – Lazarus man
Fay Hield @fayhield
Sorry regular followers for totally spamming your feed – commenting on 6music for Full English themed show, tune in and join in #folk6music
Wendy @WendJL
#Folk6Music She Moved Through The Fair by All About Eve would be great to hear
Mat @here_comes_B
@freshnet #Folk6Music here’s a pic of @theleftoutsides from their gig w/ lovely @maryepworth pic.twitter.com/HteGSocUC5
Elly Lucas @ellylucas
Want to have your say about folk music on tonight? Tweet them your song suggestions now! #Folk6Music
betachronica @alphachronica
What is folk? The soundtrack to hundreds of aspirational twee adverts for smoothies, phones, supermarkets and oil rigs HATE IT #Folk6Music
BBC Radio 6 Music
Follow @fayhield and her Tweets as she’s commenting on everything #Folk6Music right now
Ali Brown ?? @AliAquarius
Hi Tom please play New England by Billy Bragg! I saw him at the Sage gateshead once & Seth Lakeman was support 🙂 #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
And he’s just had twins! Congrats Seth #folk6music
James Cook @jimi1805
‘I Ain’t Got No Home’ by @billybragg (Woody Guthrie Cover) #Folk6Music
Andrew Mills @millsboy
@BBC6Music Led Zeppelin #Folk6Music
Lord Gid @LordGid
@BBC6Music And if you want raucous folk (and who doesn’t?) then New York Girls by Bellowhead is a massive winner. #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
Took the project totally to heart – totally Seth but totally folk too – I like the sound anyway. What do you think? #folk6music
Paul Little @Dukeleto77
Awww is that Seth Lakeman?? He sounds even younger than @ChrisGPackham! #Folk6Music
For Folk’s Sake @forfolkssake
Everyone listening to @freshnet’s Ultimate Folk Playlist on ? #folk6music
Mr & Mrs Wolf @WolfClose
#Folk6Music got to get a bit of @sheelanagig Balkan mayhem going, catweasel’s craic perhaps?
Angie H @Lowlandslady
@FiNutbrown O ye of little faith. I shall switch off if they include any bloody Mumfords #Folk6Music
peter boughton @wingsoftoast
Roy Harper – forever, John Martyn – Solid Air – both not strictly folk I guess #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
And he’s just had twins! Congrats Seth #folk6music
Liam Gavin @Liamchew
Nina Gordon -Straight outta Compton @6music #Folk6Music
Vinyl and Vintage @vinylandvintage
Island Records 68 – 74 #cantgowrong #Folk6Music
John Sprackland @johnsprackland
Folk = song/tune now collectively ‘owned’ rather than principally identified with originating singer/writer? #Folk6Music
Sal @MirandaKitten
@judypayne Oo ! Mention on #Folk6Music 🙂
Claire Latham @guitar73girl
#Folk6Music Wizz Jones – Bentley and Craig, Happiness was Free, First Girl I Loved
Kes Meek @KesMeek
Donovan, made folkies think they could make money out of the music, for first time. Poor Cow please. #Folk6Music Jansch innovated Don sold.
Andrew McMINN @andrewmcminn
For #Folk6Music how about the excellent 1952 Vincent Black Lightning by Richard Thompson #UnbelievableGuitarPlaying
Fay Hield @fayhield
This backing = not folk #folk6music
Anne Groucott @AnneGroucott
@fayhield My Boy Jack @LadyMaisery Testimony of Patience Kershaw @TheUnthanksThe Reckoning @STilston Tom Padgett @spiersandboden #Folk6Music
Nathalie Clare @folkiebird
#folk6music suggestions for your wonderful show: @RachelSermanni, @sophie_j_music, @katerusby, @RoarButler, @JoniMitchellcom, @gibbandlucas
Lynne Davies @CapnSkulduggery
#Folk6Music I would also class people like Ayub Ogada and Geoffrey Oryema as folk singers. African Folk but folk none the less.
andrew jarman-norris @ditasplaything
@BBC6Music left field but the mission deliverance , circles of stones , faries , avalon, pure folk. #folk6music drew in Weymouth
Caroline Binnie @caroline_binnie
@BBC6Music This Land…is maybe the best known but Hard Travelin’ would be a good choice. Or what about some Carter Family? #folk6music
Claire Latham @guitar73girl
#Folk6Music Roy Bailey – New Bell Wake, Roy Harris – Captain Wedderburn, Anne Briggs – Blakwaterside, Pentangle – The Cuckoo
The kitten @KittyPlato
#Folk6Music
gan to the kye. Unthanks.
jo jones @jonsi58
#Folk6Music hope they play some Homeservice, Steeleye Span, but enjoying it so far, well done all involved!
Paul Little @Dukeleto77
Or ” a good lighter” from Battlestar Galactoca season 1 OST? #Folk6Music
Chris Wilson @Chriskattom
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music anything by Vin garbutt!!? Fantastic live!
Tom Brown @tomcbrown
About time sorted the trad from the trash on this #folk6music playlist. Martin Carthy, Famous Flower of Serving Men: I dare you!
Lina & Tom @liquidphotocouk
Kitty Jay by Seth Lakeman on #Folk6music One our all time favs! Incredible live, bow shredding action!
Elanor Forster @HobbitEl
@SethLakemanNews they like you on #Folk6Music
jonathan carter @attacktrail
@BBC6Music the Clash – Lose This Skin with Tymone Dogg #Folk6Music
Glyn Everett @glynjamyn
If we’re allowed to go ‘merican, Old Man Luedecke is a seriously wonderful banjo player #folk6music
Average Blond Guy @averageblondguy
@BBC6Music for #Folk6Music I suggest the version of Crooked Jack by the great Dick Gaughan, would be great to hear him on the radio.
Sara @WessexGirl
#folk6music Please don’t miss out Fairport Convention! ‘Now be Thankful’?
David Smith @djxsmith
#Folk6Music jake Thackeray The Poor Sod or Old Molly Metcalfe. genius
Elly Lucas @ellylucas
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music One of my absolute favourite songs when I was little: “Close It Down” by Wolfstone. Even better on re-listening now!
Paul Little @Dukeleto77
Loving all this Seth Lakeman #Folk6Music how about Minstrel Boy, from the Black Hawk Down OST?
Jane Caddick @LadyLillyJane
Yes! Still Seth Lakeman’s finest. #Folk6Music
Tom Sadler @tsadler2
@fayhield Christy tells a story in his autobiography about finding the lyric sheets on the floor of a pub! #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
Ah, its our Seth. Folk boy at heart def. And such drive – he’s a cool guy, I like him lots #folk6music
andrew jarman-norris @ditasplaything
@BBC6Music please don’t forget the levellers #folk6music drew in Weymouth
Grace Cole @Gracelikesfood
#Folk6Music Jim Moray- Sweet England
Lord Gid @LordGid
@BBC6Music Challenge you to play Joanna Law “First Time Ever…” (by Ewan MacColl) but as imagined by Coldcut on Journeys by DJ #Folk6Music
Graeme Castles @graeme_castles
Johnny Flynn, The Box, outrageously talented, don’t know if it might be called nu-folk. Don’t care, I like it. #Folk6Music
Jan Norton @pollygarter
#Folk6Music Nick Cave of course.
Scott Lloyd @scottlloydmusic
If you’re into your folk/singer-songwriter stuff. You may like my EP. Have a listen here for free!- #Folk6Music soundcloud.com/scottlloydmusic
Andrew McMINN @andrewmcminn
For #Folk6Music how about the excellent 1952 Vincent Black Lightning by Richard Thompson #UnbelievableGuitarPlaying
Fay Hield @fayhield
@KatePahl @kerrfagan @concertinarob second this one – amazing music #folk6music
Leanne Cairns @Nippercheese
#Folk6Music what about some punk/folk from Chumbawumba with Bella Ciao, excellent tune
Hilary Burkitt @hilaryburkitt
@BBC6Music would love to hear some Jeffrey Lewis – Roll Bus Roll is a favourite #folk6music
David Smith @djxsmith
#Folk6Music jake Thackeray The Poor Sod or Old Molly Metcalfe. genius
BBC Radio 6 Music
How about some non-folk artists, but who’ve been influenced by the folk ethos? #Folk6Music
Average Blond Guy @averageblondguy
@BBC6Music for #Folk6Music I suggest the version of Crooked Jack by the great Dick Gaughan, would be great to hear him on the radio.
AnnieSphere @AnnieSphere
As a relatively new’ish folk fan, I’m loving discovering ‘new to me’ tracks on #Folk6Music
Rosamund Hine @RosamundHine
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music Matty Groves by Fairport Convention!!
Charlotte Corday @theartyassassin
#Folk6Music what initially got me into English folk music was the heavy metal ending of Alison Gross by Steeleye Span.
Neil Murray @NTS_Neil
John Martyn ‘Couldn’t Love You More’ and for more trad ‘The Minstrel Boy’ Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill. Sublime. #Folk6Music
Mike Eslea @mikeeslea
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music Let’s have Folk Song Oblivion by the Phantom Band
Leanne Cairns @Nippercheese
Where the wild Roses Grow-Nick Cave and TBS with Kylie,from Murder Ballads, total folk.#Folk6Music
MJB @Yorkrose
#folk6music ” Will Atkinson ” or anything else by Kathryn Tickell
The Teacups @The_Teacups
@BBC6Music are doing a 2hr special on Folk Music and want your say! What would you choose as your favourite folk track? #Folk6Music
Kate Pahl @KatePahl
I am obsessed with Three Galleys by @kerrfagan and @concertinarob methera.bandcamp.com/track/three-ga… #Folk6Music raw and earthy folk at its best
Elly Lucas @ellylucas
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music I absolutely adore @bensollee’s cello driven brand of songwriting / performance. “Only a Song” a definite fave!
Agent X @eurospace
@BBC6Music Sometimes Always by jamc+hope sandoval would be a great choice #Folk6Music – it makes me reach for my lassoo
Glyn Everett @glynjamyn
Oh & of course of course, anything from Bright Phoebus, if you happen to have a good version of it! #folk6music
KingDommy @KingDommy
folk is politics, people, community. Not too much folk so far #folk6music
James Cook @jimi1805
Wouldn’t be folk night without a classic! An influence to many & absolute folk legend! ‘Woody Guthrie – This Land Is Your Land’ #Folk6Music
Lauren Razavi @LaurenRazavi
I picked the right Sunday to stay in and work at the laptop. @freshnet on is playing folk tunes for two hours #Folk6Music
Eva Christie @panwithin
Definitely artists like the waterboys, sandy denny, nick drake, runrig, capercaillie & ross ainslie. More radio 2 than 6 music #Folk6Music
Mike Eslea @mikeeslea
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music Or how about Modern Folk Song by the Strange Death of Liberal England?
Fay Hield @fayhield
Couldn’t really morris dance to this one. #folk6music
Chorlton Art Market @popupshopsuk
@BBC6Music I’m sorry, controversial I know: Nick Drake = male Dido. #overrated #Folk6Music
MarkFromhold @MarkFromhold
An admirably inclusive view of folk from @fayhield (if you’ve been involved in REF writing, EFDSS must be a 4* Impact case !) #Folk6Music
Elle Scott @ellestolemyname
the wrote and the writ by johnny flynn is such a simple yet beautiful song #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
@Lowlandslady good point – the Full English def leans that way obv. Good to play some more English/British if poss… #folk6music
Richard Cutler @therichcutler
Billy Bragg’s World Turned Upside Down is folktastic! #Folk6Music
Folk Radio UK @FRUK
Perfect. Nick Drake – River Man…a legend #Folk6Music
Mat @here_comes_B
@BBC6Music @freshnet #Folk6Music shoutout to the @forfolkssake Christmas Charity records. Lots of fine moments to be found there…
George @mumblingwomble
The Wild Rover by #Thedubliners is a great folk (and drinking) song. #folk6music. Or Thousands are Sailing by #thepogues?
All Pinky, No Brain @AllPinkyNoBrain
How about some Kate Rusby while I slave away in the kitchen? That’d be lovely #Folk6Music
Julian Barker @julianbarker
“@Marlanuk: #Folk6Music how about Hollow Point by Chris Wood?” Seconded
Andy Deighton @AndyDeightonJLC
#Folk6Music seeing @katerusby @TheBathsHall but I live in Lincoln – how about ‘Game Of All Fours for “I’m going down to #Lincoln ..”?
Glyn Everett @glynjamyn
#folk6music Oh & I’m sure Martin Simpson has been mentioned a hundred times but what the hey, I’ll do it again. Folk genius.
Calli Snowdon @CalSno
Or how about fabulous local band @Blackbeards_TP with Fathom The Bowl. First saw them busking on the streets, highly recomend #Folk6Music
Sara @WessexGirl
#Folk6Music Some Richard Thompson obv; how about ‘She Moves Through the Fair’ or ‘Beeswing’?
Clare Tasker @ClareTasker
#folk6music – Oooh, some Janet Russell please! Secretary’s song or Women o’ Dundee, as my fella’s a Dundonian
Fay Hield @fayhield
I love a whistle #folk6music
Mike Eslea @mikeeslea
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music I would love to hear some Stornoway eg the BBC Oxford version of Fuel Up youtube.com/watch?v=5xBaFv…
Grace Cole @Gracelikesfood
#Folk6Music John Lennon McCullagh – North South Divide!!
Lee Louie Williams @leewilliamsjr68
@BBC6Music Tim buckley – once I was #Folk6Music
Sarah Scott @TalkingTable
Loving #Folk6Music would love to hear The Box by Johnny Flynn
Fay Hield @fayhield
Song of love – universal theme #folk6music
Marcus Lancastle @Marlanuk
#Folk6Music how about Hollow Point by Chris Wood?
Anne Groucott @AnneGroucott
#Folk6Music Country Life ShowofHands Scarecrow @gilmoreroberts The One @samcartermusic,Lakes of Ponchartrain @msimpsonian Torsa @LAUmusic
Leanne Cairns @Nippercheese
#Folk6Music how about some of The Imagined Village-Tam Lyn Retold with the great poet Benjamin Zephaniah, a wonderfull folk collaboration
Delilah Burke @Delilah_Folk
Has there been any Johnny Flynn yet? Surely the missing link between trad and contemporary folk #Folk6Music
Claire Latham @guitar73girl
#Folk6Music Pete Morton – Another Train, Reg Meuross – And Jesus Wept, The Young Uns – Stockton Town / Love Song, Jez Lowe – Father Mallory
Glyn Everett @glynjamyn
#folk6music I’d love to hear some Shelagh McDonald after the Experience piece in the Guardian yesterday.
Lynne Davies @CapnSkulduggery
@6music #folk6music Eddie Reader – Blacksmith. I love Eddies voice. Not sure if anyone else would consider it Folk but I do.
R2-Dee2 #16 @deemontague
@BBC6Music Perhaps @OshJones_ and @RogerPlater can recommend some Welsh Folk… #Folk6Music
Hannah Overton @hearhovertonher
Hey @WhatsOn6Music lets have some Sandy Denny please Who Knows Where The Time Goes or French version of Listen Listen pls #Folk6Music
MJB @Yorkrose
#folk6music Anything by Spiers and Boden esp Bold Sir Rylas – a singalong spectacular
Derek Austin @delinbc
Shirley Collins just as the tide was flowing _ folk+psychedelic phasing! #folk6music
reg tubby @regtubby
#Folk6Music without a doubt The Mekons fit the bill, would love to hear A Dancing Master Such as Mr Confess on
Steve @dreistreifenz
@BBC6Music How about some David Bowie “Memories of a free festival”. Nowt wrong with that! #Folk6Music
Julian Barker @julianbarker
#Folk6Music Henry (4) and Molly (7) would love to hear Lillibulero from Broadside at full volume please before they go to bed at 7.
Mat @here_comes_B
@theleftoutsides @Nebuchanezer *everyone* should listen to the Left Outsides #Folk6Music
John Sprackland @johnsprackland
Yes, @DanOlner but how about John Martyn’s version of a real folk song instead – Spencer the Rover! #Folk6Music
Alex Pickard @pickard_alex
Would like to suggest ‘Harvey Gypsies’ by Kris Drever – great tune! #folk6music
Simon Scott @SDScotty74
@BBC6Music Tom Robinson #Folk6Music Surely pioneers of folk rock #FairportConvention must get a look in? Now Be Thankful…
Andy White @AndyWhite001
#Folk6Music. Please play Poor Murdered Women by the legendary Shirley Collins & The Albion Band. An example how true event inspired a song.
Grace Hewitt @gracehewitt
#folk6music keep it mainly trad folk! As much as I love the likes of Mumford Damien Rice Angus & Julia Stone etc they regularly get air play
cyborghawk @cyborghawk
#Folk6Music please play seth lakeman races to be king
Jon Mullins @jonnymull99
#Folk6Music why I love 6 music
Jen Lea @j3nl3a
How about some non-English #Folk6Music? Pekka Streng ‘Gilgames’ or ‘Puutarhassa’?
tim shelley @whitewineglug
@BBC6Music. World Freak Show @the_levellers #Folk6Music British Folk Rock at it’s finest. Still going strong!
Beth Anderson @roseofwinter
Really love the #Folk6Music project. As a Northumbrian pipes player who now lives in London, folk music is part of my soul and my story.
Padstersdad @padstersdad
#folk6music. 2468 motorway – fairport convention plus some guest vocalist – cropredy 2013
andrew jarman-norris @ditasplaything
@BBC6Music bellowhead lillibelerow , skinny lister 40 pound wedding or zeptepi king of the balladiers. #folk6music drew in Weymouth
Katie Ledger @Whatkatiediddo
@BBC6Music Billy Bragg – Take Down the Union Jack, political please #folk6music
heather downes @hettied49
#Folk6Music great song Sweet Thames Flow Softly by Jon Boden and Sam Sweeney. How about it?
Folk Radio UK @FRUK
Tune in to between 6:00 – 8:00pm today to hear the Ultimate Folk Playlist #Folk6Music + we’ll introduce the track we chose.
thomasjirsa @thomasjirsa
The ultimate folk playlist on bbc’s 6music? Why not playing John Smith – Salty and Sweet #folk6music youtube.com/watch?v=zmc15V…
Kieron Moyles @KieronMoyles
Interested in folk music? Tune into @freshnet on for their Ultimate Folk Playlist. #Folk6Music
Glyn Everett @glynjamyn
For End-of-the-Road style Folkmericana, the Barr Brothers are well well well worth a look! #folk6music
Tom Sadler @tsadler2
Christy Moore’s version of Little Musgrave (Fairport’s Matty Groves with different name) is sublime #Folk6Music @fayhield
Fay Hield @fayhield
On #folk6music now!
Scott Lloyd @scottlloydmusic
@BBC6Music you can’t have a folk playlist without mentioning Neil Young! It’s gotta be ‘Tell Me Why’ from ‘After the Goldrush’ #Folk6Music
Jane Greenstock @greenstocking25
If we’re talking folk music- can’t not feature Liege and Leaf by Fairport Convention. My pick would be Matty Groves #folk6music
Katie Ledger @Whatkatiediddo
@BBC6Music Billy Bragg – Take Down the Union Jack, political please #folk6music
Alex Cumming @alexcumming
@BBC6Music are asking you for your views on folk music and your favourite tracks! Tweet and take part! 🙂 #Folk6Music
Christopher Reid @chris_reid_esq
@BBC6Music Or for a thoroughly modern option for #Folk6Music you could always go for a Mountain Man track – “How’m I doing” is brilliant…
Glyn Everett @glynjamyn
And Nic Jones is of course the legend & should *never* be forgotten! #folk6music
Calli Snowdon @CalSno
Ooh! We need some @Bellowhead most amazing live band, how about Whiskey is the life of man? #Folk6Music
Keith @keithbchurch
This #folk6music thing definitely needs Bugbears by Darren Hayman. 17th century folk song reinterpreted in a modern accent.
Christopher Reid @chris_reid_esq
@BBC6Music Or Calvary Cross by Richard Thompson… Another classic for #folk6music (can you tell I’m a bit of a folk nerd…)
Katie Teasdale @KatieTeasdale
@BBC6Music Meet on the Ledge by Fairport Convention please #Folk6Music
Sal @MirandaKitten
Loving the #Nowplaying show on #Folk6Music – a great theme ! 🙂
Neil Edgson Pottery @EdgsonPots
#folk6music How about For What It’s Worth by The Byrds? All the elements: political, meaningful, propagandist & informative. #wellcool
Alex Cumming @alexcumming
#Folk6Music One of my favourite english bands at the moment are @MelroseQuartet, Death of Nelson by Melrose Quartet would be brilliant!
Claire Latham @guitar73girl
#Folk6Music Mary Chapin Carpenter – Jubilee, Cockersdale – Normandy Orchards, Iris DeMent – Let the Mystery Be, Gillian Welch – Caleb Meyer
Glyn Everett @glynjamyn
For a contemporary take on the traditional, Carthy Hardy Farrell & Young can’t be beaten #Folk6music
Beth Anderson @roseofwinter
. Would love to hear some Kathryn Tickell, maybe Felton Lonnen; one of my favourites to play. #Folk6Music
David Little @djlittle
Some Richard Thompson must be in order. What about Cavalry Cross? #folk6music.
Kieron Moyles @KieronMoyles
Maybe it’s best to abandon #Folk6Music to those who think its anyone with acoustic instruments Differentiate tween folk & traditional music
Lynn Burgess @lynnburgess99
#Folk6Music June tabor young Walters
Delilah Burke @Delilah_Folk
@freshnet I’d love to hear a tune by the folky yet genre-defiant Polly and the Billets Doux! #Folk6Music
Tufty Sylvestris @tuftythecat
@BBC6Music Seven Long Years by Jim Moray. Folk music for people who don’t like folk music. Utterly magical too. #Folk6Music
Calli Snowdon @CalSno
“@Al__S: please no fucking Mumfords #folk6music” Amen
Christopher Reid @chris_reid_esq
@BBC6Music Or for a thoroughly modern option for #Folk6Music you could always go for a Mountain Man track – “How’m I doing” is brilliant…
Elly Lucas @ellylucas
Want to have your say about folk music on tonight? Tweet them your song suggestions now! #Folk6Music
Dan Olner @DanOlner
“May u never” on old grey whistle test is on YouTube, can’t post link on phone, doh. Google it, it’s amazing! #Folk6Music
Al Storer @Al__S
please no fucking Mumfords #folk6music
Lucy @schokomilch_
Ooo i do like this one! #confession #Folk6Music
Huw Davies @huwptddavies
@BBC6Music Seven Long Years – Jim Moray #folk6music
Matt Stinchcombe @ra_ra_rasputin
@BBC6Music how about rubber band UN honor of Lal & mike waterson? #Folk6Music
Steve Bradbury @_arkroyal_
@BBC6Music Billy Bragg’s Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto would be, just ace! #Folk6Music
Graham Watson @hairyartdrummer
Got to have the mighty Bert Jansch & Nick Drake on #Folk6music playlist! How about the classic Angie by Mr Jansch & Saturday Sun by Mr Drake
Nathan Shipley @oneeyenonose
One word. Three letters. Three majestic musicians. @LAUmusic! #Folk6Music
Zachary Mooney @zachmooney
Angie – Davey Graham #Folk6Music (fantastic instrumentalist)
Kieron Moyles @KieronMoyles
Leading the witness on the question of what is folk there @freshnet.#Folk6Music
Angie H @Lowlandslady
Lots of American suggestions here – isn’t it supposed to be English Folk? #Folk6music
Al Storer @Al__S
please no fucking Mumfords #folk6music
Beth Anderson @roseofwinter
Really love the #Folk6Music project. As a Northumbrian pipes player who now lives in London, folk music is part of my soul and my story.
Chorlton Art Market @popupshopsuk
@BBC6Music Please play some Harvey Andrews – the unrecognised King of Folk. How about ‘First you lose the Rhyming’? #Folk6Music
Clare Tasker @ClareTasker
#Folk6Music something Bagpussy from Sandra Kerr and John Faulkner? (Please keep it relatively trad for my vote!!)
Caroline Binnie @caroline_binnie
@BBC6Music “This machine kills fascists” was the legend etched on his guitar. For that alone Woody Guthrie has to make the cut. #folk6music
Fay Hield @fayhield
On #folk6music now!
Kieron Moyles @KieronMoyles
Arguably Angels by Robbie Williams is now a folk song. It’s part of people’s lives, it’s sung at weddings, funerals, birthdays. #Folk6Music
Jonty Wobblecraft @hollyooo
My fave… Adieu Adieu by @elizacarthy; it’s amazing @6music #thefullenglish #6music @TheEFDSS: folk playlist #Folk6Music French title lol!
emm @emmasbouzoukiWill Oulton @williamoulton
If we’re having a debate about what IS folk music, shouldn’t we play Like A Rolling Stone by Dylan #electic #Judas #Folk6Music
Lucy @schokomilch_Zoe Wilson @zed192
Levi Stubbs’ Tears by Billy Bragg – just great lyrics. #Folk6Music
Dan Olner @DanOlner
40 yrs since John Martyn played May U Never on the old grey whistle test, still astounding #Folk6Music
Angie H @Lowlandslady
Martin Carthy – Lord Franklin #Folk6Music
Clare Tasker @ClareTasker
#folk6music…or Darling Annie the legend that is Peggy Seeger, version with Billy Bragg for her 70 bday concert is pretty amazing 😀
Scott Edgar @thesneakybandit
@BBC6Music The Pogues – And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda #Folk6Music
Kay Mitchell @fruit_kayke
Angus and Julia Stone definitely needs to be included in #Folk6Music please. Maybe something from a Book Like This
Tom Dyson @TommyDys
@BBC6Music seth lakeman’s kitty jay #Folk6Music
Fatea @Fatea_Magazine
@BBC6Music Richard Thompson. The Blackleg Miner #Folk6Music #Fatea
Jonathan Seymour @jp_seymour89
@BBC6Music John Martyn’s Fairytale Lullaby. A fine acoustic number from a great talent #Folk6Music
Will Riding @naughtystep
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music Dick Gaughan – World Turned Upside Down.
Social awareness songs sadly lacking in popular music these day…
Will Oulton @williamoulton
@BBC6Music can we have Fairport Convention’s The Deserter – It sounds more like Velvet Underground than Steeleye Span. #Folk6Music
Leanne Cairns @Nippercheese
#Folk6Music From the Wickerman film soundtrack- Willows Song, for folk music playlist and ideal as its 40years since movie was made.
Clare Tasker @ClareTasker
#folk6music Here’s the Tender Coming The Unthanks seen them few times now, but special performance in a pub Whitby folk fest 2012 so special
tomwaitsripoff @tomwaitsripoff
@BBC6Music Fairport Convention – Who Knows Where The Time Goes? #Folk6Music
Cat Howarth @catcathowarth
@BBC6Music Rebecca Jones ‘Free Love’ because you can hear her heart singing through her mouth #Folk6music
Flis Pitman @flistastic
@BBC6Music I’d say Strange Form of Life’ by Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billie. Beautiful and intelligent. #Folk6Music
Karen Kay @KxTwo
@BBC6Music One of mine: Nick Drake, “Place to Be” #Folk6Music
Christopher Reid @chris_reid_esq
You can’t have a #Folk6Music playlist without Joan Baez playing The Boxer. When JB meets S&G its a trifecta of folk goodness…
tomwaitsripoff @tomwaitsripoff
@BBC6Music Shirley Collins and The Albion Band – Murder of Maria Marten #Folk6Music
George @mumblingwomble
RamblingMan by #LauraMarling is a great modern folk song. In fact, it’s just a great song. #folk6music.
BBC Radio 6 Music
Golden voiced Greenwich Village icon @TheJudyCollins on the meaning of Folk.
Now on @maryannehobbs. #Folk6Music pic.twitter.com/8upgUNukiZ
Dags Kehoe @DagsKehoe
@BBC6Music A Track by Will Varley would be good ! A superb folk singer on Smugglers Records #Folk6Music
Effandineffable @effandineffable
@BBC6Music Please please please play some @LoweJez #Folk6Music
David Owen @Nebuchanezer
@here_comes_B @theleftoutsides #Folk6Music seconded
Calli Snowdon @CalSno
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music The Unthanks Blue Bleezin’ Blind Drunk has to be on there so passionate, desolate and beautiful
Kieron Moyles @KieronMoyles
Interested in folk music? Tune into @freshnet on for their Ultimate Folk Playlist. #Folk6Music
Garry @GarryInnit
@BBC6Music Arlo Guthrie – Alice’s Restaurant Massacree #Folk6Music
BBC Radio 6 Music
@HobbitEl well what do you recommend Elanor? #Folk6Music
Mat @here_comes_B
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music I’d like a bit of @theleftoutsides. Some lovely folky, psychy moments to be discovered….
More Than Human @FCat
May I proffer ‘Matty Groves’, ‘Tam Lin’, ‘Springtime Promises’ or ‘Souling Song’ #Folk6Music
Ginger Nugget @Ryker5
@BBC6Music don’t know much about folk so this should be good #folk6music
Elanor Forster @HobbitEl
@BBC6Music you should include something with Maddy Prior – you’ve started off well in #Folk6Music !
tomwaitsripoff @tomwaitsripoff
@BBC6Music Richard and Linda Thompson – I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight #Folk6music
BBC Radio 6 Music
Tonight on Now Playing we’re looking for tracks for the Ultimate Folk Playlist. What should we include? #Folk6Music pic.twitter.com/kie3kfLdC3
James Cook @jimi1805
Get tuned to for a truly exquisite evening of #Folk6Music to enjoy
Trevor Pake @trevorpake
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music Nirvana seem unlikely folkies but their version (based on Lead Belly’s) of Where Did You Sleep Last Night is a belter
morden haiku @hermonhermit
@BBC6Music #folk6music Chris Wood “One in a Million”/Lau “Torsa”/RM Hubbert “Car Song”/ King Creosote & Jon Hopkins “Bats in the Attic”
The EFDSS @TheEFDSS
Don’t miss “Now Playing @6music” at 6pm. This episode that a #thefullenglish theme! efdss.org/news/40-octobe… #Folk6Music ^S
The Baracas @TheBaracas
@BBC6Music Has to be the stunning version of ‘Acre of Land’ by @FaustusFolk #Folk6Music
GregR&CiaranA @GregRCiaranA
#Folk6Music King of Birds-Karine Polwart and King of Bohemia-Richard Thompson
Claire Simmons @Clarice007
Should not be having 2 hours of #folk6music *every* week? Any reason why not?
Rosamund Dove @rosamunddove
Vamm – Prospect Road; Waterson:Carthy – Black Muddy River; Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar – Two Magicians #Folk6Music #miscellaneous
Rosamund Dove @rosamunddove
Anais Mitchell – Shepherd; Gillian Welch – Dark Turn Of Mind; Crooked Still – Ain’t No Grave #Folk6Music #acrossthepond
Rosamund Dove @rosamunddove
Chris Wood – England In Ribbons; Bellowhead – Death & the Lady; Sam Carter – Pheasant; Faustus – Og’s Eye Man #Folk6Music #southoftheborder
Rosamund Dove @rosamunddove
Now Westlin’ Winds – Dick Gaughan; Hinba – Lau; Dirty Old Town – Easy Club; Daisy – Karine Polwart #Folk6Music #northoftheborder
Anne Dunn @annie_dunn
@FRUK also would be lovely to hear my favourite tune from @spiersandboden Old Tom of Oxford #Folk6Music
Anne Dunn @annie_dunn
@FRUK please can you play Black Horse off the new CD by @LisaKnappMusic written by wonderful Lal Waterson thanks #Folk6Music
Argyll Acoustic @ArgyllAcoustic
Songs that stop you in your tracks. Dick Gaughan ‘As I Walked On The Road’. Nic Jones ‘Icarus’. Chris Wood ‘One In A Million’ #folk6music
The Baracas @TheBaracas
@BBC6Music Has to be the stunning version of ‘Acre of Land’ by @FaustusFolk #Folk6Music
Folk Radio UK @FRUK
Tune in to between 6:00 – 8:00pm today to hear the Ultimate Folk Playlist #Folk6Music + we’ll introduce the track we chose.
Julian Hancock @julianhancock
#Folk6Music spencer the rover copper family. Scarecrow Mike waterson.
GregR&CiaranA @GregRCiaranA
#Folk6Music King of Birds-Karine Polwart and King of Bohemia-Richard Thompson
Helen C @girlyguider
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music Patience Kershaw by @TheUnthanks
Tells the story of real life, just like a true folk song should do
GregR&CiaranA @GregRCiaranA
Radio 6 Music are having a whole show dedicated to great folk tracks at 6pm. Use the hashtag #Folk6Music to vote for your favourites!
Sarah Roberts @Gossipmistress
@FaustusFolk Og’s Eye Man by Faustus #Folk6Music #crackinglyricsgromit
Faustus @FaustusFolk
We’re not suggesting that you ask for us on ‘s ultimate playlist by using this: #Folk6Music. Oh no. But if you did, which track?
The EFDSS @TheEFDSS
What song do you think must be included in ‘s Ultimate Folk Playlist? efdss.org/news/40-octobe… #Folk6Music #thefullenglish ^S
Juliet @byefornoww
#Folk6Music Faustus – Og’s Eye Man
The EFDSS @TheEFDSS
Tune into “Now Playing @6music” at 6pm & see if your folk playlist suggestions have made the cut! efdss.org/news/40-octobe… #Folk6Music ^S
The Unthanks @TheUnthanks
6 Music looking for Ultimate Folk Playlist. Use #Folk6Music to send suggestions. Gaughan, No Gods? @elizacarthy In London So Fair?
madeeha rehman @1Madeeha
#Folk6Music or this m.soundcloud.com/saadfollows/ka…
Matthew Claridge @Aristeia80
@fayhield your Kemp Owen should def be included. It’s an epic poem! Also @spiersandboden – Cheshire Waltz. My fave folk tune. #Folk6Music
Eliza Carthy @elizacarthy
@BBC6Music #folk6music Julie murphy ‘our captain cried’,Peter B & watersons ‘when I die’,Paul Brady ‘I am a youth that’s inclined 2 ramble’
Alex Bingham @Alex_Bingham1
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music Ok, last ones! @elizacarthy – In London so Fair / The Watersons – Brave Wolfe
Peter Rowe @Sadpad21
#Folk6Music Ivor Cutler ‘Goozeberries & Bilberries’ (1974).
Alex Bingham @Alex_Bingham1
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music Ok, last ones! @elizacarthy – In London so Fair / The Watersons – Brave Wolfe
Sarah Roberts @Gossipmistress
@FaustusFolk Og’s Eye Man by Faustus #Folk6Music #crackinglyricsgromit
Alex Bingham @Alex_Bingham1
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music Chris Wood – The Cottager’s Reply / Robin Williamson – Lights of Sweet St Anne’s / Phoebe Smith – Yellow Handkerchief
Sophia Linehan @teapartytimes
@r0b_shaw ah, was @BarbicanCentre on Fri. Couldn’t go but have heard was smashing. Enjoy! Have you made a #Folk6Music recommendation?!
Alex Bingham @Alex_Bingham1
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music Sandy Denny – Bruton Town /Mike Waterson – Tam Lyn (all 11 minutes of it) /Dick Gaughan – Snows they Melt the Soonest
Kellie Redmond @KellieRedmond
So, yesterday was all about #CrikeyDM bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03…
Today it’s all about #Folk6Music bbc.co.uk/blogs/nowplayi… #RandomWorldOfRedmond
Alex Bingham @Alex_Bingham1
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music Anne Briggs – Willie o Winsbury/ June Tabor – Strange Affair / Margaret Barry – My Lagan Love or The Factory Girl
Barbara Scrivens @ScrivensB
@FaustusFolk #Folk6Music ‘Og’s Eye Man!!
Fay Hield @fayhield
I’m talking and tweeting through show dedicated to folk at 6pm. Tell them what to have in their Ultimate Playlist #folk6music
BBC Radio 6 Music
Blow away the morning dew,
How sweet the winds do blow.
Wake with @TheJudyCollins + @maryannehobbs from 7. #Folk6Music
BBC Radio 6 Music
Golden voiced Greenwich Village icon @TheJudyCollins on the meaning of Folk.
Now on @maryannehobbs. #Folk6Music pic.twitter.com/8upgUNukiZ
Chloe Wooles @ChloeWooles
@BBC6Music @maryannehobbs @TheJudyCollins #Folk6Music my 2 1/2 year old has just asked for this to be turned up 🙂
BBC Radio 6 Music
Sunday mantra #2: It’s life’s illusions I recall.
@maryannehobbs @TheJudyCollins #Folk6Music
BBC Radio 6 Music
Sunday mantra #2: It’s life’s illusions I recall.
@maryannehobbs @TheJudyCollins #Folk6Music
Folk Radio UK @FRUK
To Celebrate The Full English launch by @efdss help us select an artist for #Folk6Music goo.gl/I1P2Go
The EFDSS @TheEFDSS
Help Tom Robinson pick the Ultimate Folk Playlist for “Now Playing @6music” #Folk6Music #thefullenglish efdss.org/news/40-octobe… ^S
Kieron Moyles @KieronMoyles
#Folk6Music The Young Tradition: Wyke Wake Dirge spooky tale of the journey of the dead.The Watersons: Hal An Tow the 1st family of folk.
Kieron Moyles @KieronMoyles
#Folk6Music Now don’t think I’m obsessed but folk music has such a rich heritage that you could fill a whole day at least. Here’s some more
Kieron Moyles @KieronMoyles
#Folk6Music Instrumentals: Dubliners – Mason’s Apron exhilarating banjo & fiddle duel. Bothy Band – The Kesh Jig is like a DC10 taking off.
Kieron Moyles @KieronMoyles
#Folk6Music Now don’t think I’m obsessed but folk music has such a rich heritage that you could fill a whole day at least. Here’s some more
BBC Radio 6 Music
Blow away the morning dew,
How sweet the winds do blow.
Wake with @TheJudyCollins + @maryannehobbs from 7. #Folk6Music
Sarah Godwin @sarah_godwin
The late, great Michael Marra’s Green Grow the Rashes oh #folk6music
Jack Stow @jackstow
Some @vammband & @IngeThomson pls, then whatever @HardingMike says #Folk6Music #fullenglish
Kat Brown @KatBrown9
#Folk6Music if I had to select a track it would be ‘Give Her The Day’ written by Jaki Whitren and telling a true story-fantastic folk c.1973
Kieron Moyles @KieronMoyles
#Folk6Music Perhaps The Pogues Thousands Are Sailing would be appropriate in memory of Philip Chevron. A song that will always be relevant.
Kieron Moyles @KieronMoyles
#Folk6Music The Pogues my first love, reconciled Dad’s rock n roll 78’s & Mum’s Dubliners LPs. Electrified Irish Music with poetry & passion
Kieron Moyles @KieronMoyles
Such a powerful singer, Anne Briggs RT @spiderstacy: @KieronMoyles #Folk6music ..and this: m.youtube.com/watch?v=3dyUsX…
Kathryn Tickell @kathryntickell
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music Dick Gaughan Snow it melts the soonest. Or Westlin Wind. Or Both Sides the Tweed.
Faustus @FaustusFolk
We’re not suggesting that you ask for us on ‘s ultimate playlist by using this: #Folk6Music. Oh no. But if you did, which track?
Duncan Wainscott @folkyvale
#Folk6Music
Ewan MacColl: Dirty Old Town
Ralph McTell: Streets of London
Chris Wood: The Cottager’s Reply
Luke Kelly: Joe Hill
???? @mplantyoko
BBC?????????????????????????????????????????LAU “TORSA” please! #Folk6Music – help pick the Ultimate Folk Playlist bbc.in/1abnuEc
Kieron Moyles @KieronMoyles
#Folk6Music Anne Briggs influenced & inspired @bert_jansch, Sandy Denny, Jimmy Page, Richard Thompson, JuneTabor etc. Try Willie O Winsbury
Kieron Moyles @KieronMoyles
#Folk6Music The embodiment of living tradition The Copper Family, a store of songs passed on for over 100 years. Hard Times In Old England.
Kat Brown @KatBrown9
#Folk6Music The truly great Jaki Whitren whose album Raw But Tender(1973) made when she was 19, is shiversome- she plays the guitar too
Graham Birch @glbirch
#Folk6music. Suggestions for playlist:
1 Unthanks – Heres The Tender Coming
2 Staves – Facing West
3 Bellowhead – London Town
Mike Liddle @mikeliddle
@elizacarthy – Whispers of Summer, @katerusby – Sir Eglamore, Fairport/Sandy Denny – Who Knows Where The Time Goes #Folk6Music
Kieron Moyles @KieronMoyles
#Folk6Music How about some folk source recordings: Walter Pardon an astonishing singer from Norfolk. ‘The Lawyer’ – A World Without Horses.
Derek MacDonald @derekmacd18
#Folk6Music I would go with Torsa by Lau or Black Water by Kris Drever please!
That Folk Fest Bloke @folkfestbloke
SURELY some Chas & Dave? #Folk6Music
Urban Folk Quartet @theUFQ
A vast and elcectic list of suggestions for the ultimate folk playlist coming up over at #Folk6Music @6music – get involved tweeps! UFQ x
Urban Folk Quartet @theUFQ
A vast and elcectic list of suggestions for the ultimate folk playlist coming up over at #Folk6Music @6music – get involved tweeps! UFQ x
The Unthanks @TheUnthanks
6 Music looking for Ultimate Folk Playlist. Use #Folk6Music to send suggestions. Gaughan, No Gods? @elizacarthy In London So Fair?
Propermusic.com @propermusic1
BBC Radio 6 Music – Now Playing @6music, #Folk6Music – The Ultimate Folk Playlist bbc.in/1ebAVsa
dandelion101 @dandelion101
RT @forfolkssake: Folk fans! Who’s the most exciting new artists around? #folk6music > @LadyMaisery of course!
Lydia Glanville @lydiaglanville
#Folk6Music Ode to Work a Day by @boat_to_row contemporary folk song drawing on traditional forms.
Kathryn Shaw @perspicaciousam
#Folk6Music Lau Torsa for the Ultimate Folk Playlist please
Boo Collins @collins_boo
#Folk6Music Adam Holmes, anything from the new album Heirs and Graces.
Juliet @byefornoww
#Folk6Music Hannah James & Sam Sweeney, Jon Boden, James Findlay, Fay Hield…
Sarah Greenwood @Sarah_Greenwood
#Folk6Music plus – Jim Eldon (the Bridlington Fiddler) – excellent trad singer -Poor Old Horse and quirky covers Bat out of Hell stands out
Sarah Greenwood @Sarah_Greenwood
#Folk6Music Dr James, @gilmoreroberts; Danger Sign, @gerrymcneice; Song for David, Ray Hearne; Jailhouse, Harry Bird & the Rubber Wellies
Alice Bondi @AYomTov
#Folk6Music Nominating Torsa by Lau – they are the BEST!!
Malcolm Purvis @malcolm_purvis
Posted a new song: “Shift” reverbnation.com/c./poni/232933… … #newmusic #folk6music #newfolk
Error Variance @ErrorVariance
Three Drunken Maidens by the Askew Sisters and Lock The Door Larriston by Maddy Prior Trio #Folk6Music
dandelion101 @dandelion101
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music Canny Shepherd Laddies or Will Atkinson (Song) on Kathryn Tickell Northumberland Voices
H Blomfield @CardiacTheatre
The ultimate folk playlist would have to include the vastly underrated McDermott’s Two Hours #Folk6Music
BBC Radio 6 Music
What do you think must be included in the Ultimate Folk Playlist? Let Now Playing know by Tweeting using #Folk6Music owl.li/pFg1B
Neil Parker @_NeilParker
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music Hug air a’ Bhonaid Mhoir – Julie Fowlis, Bellowhead – New York Girls, Light Flight – Pentangle
Aidan O’Rourke @obanfiddle
#Folk6Music Or Paul Brady (@hoobadooba) and Andy Irvine’s Mary and the Soldier. #classic
Tom Sadler @tsadler2
Lakes of Shilin by Nic Jones has to be up there #Folk6Music
Chris Pentney @chrisguess
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music June Tabor and @Oysterband1: Finesterre from Freedom and Rain.
Seahorse Promotions @Seahorse_Music
Who do you think should be on the BBC 6 Musuc Ultimate Folk Playlist this Sunday? Tweet your suggestions using the hashtag #Folk6Music
Ewan McLennan @ewanmclennan
Dick Gaughan’s beautiful version of Craigie Hill must be up there. #Folk6Music
Ewan McLennan @ewanmclennan
Dick Gaughan’s beautiful version of Craigie Hill must be up there. #Folk6Music
The EFDSS @TheEFDSS
Help Tom Robinson pick the Ultimate Folk Playlist for “Now Playing @6music” #Folk6Music #thefullenglish efdss.org/news/40-octobe… ^S
Stuart Barkworth @stuartba
#Folk6Music
Beeswing – Roy Bailey
Slipjigs and Reels – Steve Tilston
Another Train – Pete Morton
Grace Hewitt @gracehewitt
#Folk6Music also tongue-tied by Emily Portman
Grace Hewitt @gracehewitt
#Folk6Music bright phoebus has to be included either the original mike and lal version or the blue murder one
John Pulman @jplumbum
#Folk6Music
Never Any Good @msimpsonian
Hollow Point @ChrisWood_Music
Ruby Dave Rawlings Machinge @aconyrecords @gillianwelch
John Pulman @jplumbum
#Folk6Music
Never Any Good @msimpsonian
Hollow Point @ChrisWood_Music
Ruby Dave Rawlings Machinge @aconyrecords @gillianwelch
Hollow Point Music @HollowPointUSA
#Folk6Music @AdamHolmesBand I Can’t Be Right from album Heirs and Graces. Features Kris Drever.
Claire Latham @guitar73girl
#Folk6Music My Eldorado – Ian Bruce Horumerye – The Wilsons Sea Coal – The Wilsons
Claire Latham @guitar73girl
#Folk6Music Steve Tilston – Salty Dog, Road when I was young, Pretty Penny
Angela Broad @angebroad
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music Bellowhead – Across the Line
Claire Latham @guitar73girl
#Folk6Music Richard Shindell – Reunion Hill, Fleur de Lis, Arrowhead.
Martyn Wylde @MartynWylde
My response to “what must be included…” is Show of Hands #Folk6Music
consequently @intriguingme
#Folk6Music Meet on the Ledge…Fairport Convention…Thomas the Rhymer..Steeleye Span
Rosamund Dove @rosamunddove
Canadee-I-O by Nic Jones #Folk6Music
Alex Monaghan @AlexMonaghanUK
#Folk6Music Alasdair Fraser: Skye Dance. Lunasa: Last Pint. Blowzabella: Spaghetti Panic. Wolfstone: Zeto. Moving Hearts: The Storm
listen, ts important
Lottie @Lotts2u
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music owl.li/pFg1B definitely got 2 include youtube.com/watch?v=XSVzBc… Real #talent #music #listen @philkingsings
Lesley Follington @Folly49
#Folk6Music Roll the Woodpile Down by @Bellowhead
Skylark Song @skylarksongfolk
Ultimate folk play list Sandy Denny, Nick Drake, John Martyn #Folk6Music
Alex Monaghan @AlexMonaghanUK
#Folk6Music Any chance instrumental music will be properly represented? If so, I have several suggestions
Lottie @Lotts2u
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music owl.li/pFg1B definitely got 2 include youtube.com/watch?v=XSVzBc… Real #talent #music #listen @philkingsings
Aidan O’Rourke @obanfiddle
#Folk6Music Or Paul Brady (@hoobadooba) and Andy Irvine’s Mary and the Soldier. #classic
Phil Aitman @philaitman
@BBC6Music #folk6music Lau – Hinba, Unthanks version of Testimony of Patience Kershaw, Chris Wood – Spitfires,
Aidan O’Rourke @obanfiddle
#Folk6Music Dick Gaughan’s ‘Now Westlin Winds’ Epic!
Philip Passmore @phildahill
#Folk6Music gotta be Sloe Gin by @Bellowhead , what a great dance tune!
To The Point: Music @totheptmusic
#Folk6Music If You Asked Me, Carrivicks; Good Man’s Wife, Bella Hardy; Song One, Holly Taymar & Christopher Bilton; (just for starters!)
To The Point: Music @totheptmusic
#Folk6Music Silver Screen, Gilmore & Roberts; Star of Munster, Emma Sweeney; Goodbye to the Plough Horse, Gibb & Lucas; Pett Level, KCC..
To The Point: Music @totheptmusic
#Folk6Music Craigie Hill, Old Dance School; Leaving of Liverpool, Maz O’Connor; Homemade Heartache, Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker…
To The Point: Music @totheptmusic
#Folk6Music Lord Douglas, Jim Moray; Billy in the Lowground, Blair Dunlop; Golden Glove, Hannah James & Sam Sweeney; Jack Hall, Sam Carter..
Duncan Wainscott @folkyvale
@willboyes Lovely On The Water and One Hand On The Radio are superb #Folk6Music
Rachael Fisher @Rjfisher71
@BBC6Music Any @SethLakemanNews track. #Folk6Music
dandelion101 @dandelion101
RT @forfolkssake: Folk fans! Who’s the most exciting new artists around? #folk6music > @LadyMaisery of course!
Will Boyes @willboyes
Should definitely include some Coope, Boyes & Simpson (not biased, obviously…) #Folk6Music
KayStanding @kaystanding
And Chris Wood, Albion, Show of Hands arrogance, ignorance greed, roots or country life #Folk6Music so much to choose
KayStanding @kaystanding
@maw @LucyWardSings great song – be good to see new young artists on there #Folk6Music
KayStanding @kaystanding
New York Girls Bellowhead, Ride On Christy Moore, Kitty Jay Seth Lakeman #Folk6Music
JHahn @shroommuse
#Folk6Music can’t have an ultimate folk list without @MaddyPriorFolk and The Hare
Matthew Walton @maw
#Folk6Music “Crazy Man Michael” by Fairport Convention, of course, must be included.
Matthew Walton @maw
#Folk6Music “Torsa” by Lau @LAUmusic
Fi Cooper @FiNutbrown
@Annatheforager we could send hundreds of tweets of what to play, eh? #Folk6Music
Matthew Walton @maw
#Folk6Music new song I’m sure will stand the test of time “I Cannot Say I Will Not Speak” by Lucy Ward @LucyWardSings
Paul Rawcliffe @PaulRawcliffe
Hey #Folk6Music I think you should have ‘Lillibulero’ by @Bellowhead #folk
Fairport Fee @Fairport_Fee
@BBC6Music #folk6music Shoals of Herring -Ewan MacColl .Jock O Hazeldean Dick Gaughan .Child Amounst the weeds Mick &Lal Waterson
Matthew Reed @ThatMatthewReed
The @SkinnyLister guys HAVE to be on the list! So difficult to choose one track, but try “If The Gaff Don’t Let Us Down”. #Folk6Music
Hannah Gordon @huggyhannah80
Hmm what to add to the playlist? @PeterGraystone have you seen #Folk6Music ? ‘New York Girls’ @Bellowhead or ‘10,000 miles away’ my faves
Sparkles @mzsparklepaws
I Just voted: Which of these 6 artists best reflects the alt side of #Folk Music? poll.fm/tp/4fzyv #Folk6Music @FRUK
SimonAdlington @simonadlington
#Folk6Music Nick Burbridge. Anything from his band McDermott’s 2 Hours to his work with @the_levellers. A ‘hidden gem’ of the folk scene.
Karen Kay @KxTwo
Definitely @GregoryAIsakov #Folk6Music
For Folk’s Sake @forfolkssake
Folk fans! We need your help to pick a tune for 6 Music’s ultimate folk playlist. Who’s the most exciting new artists around? #folk6music
RadcliffeMaconieShow @BBCRadMac
That last tune was Harvest Gypsies by @KrisDrever. Use #Folk6Music to join in with this Sunday’s Ultimate Folk Playlist
Duncan Wainscott @folkyvale
#Folk6Music
The Watersons: Chickens In The Garden
Will Varley: Down The Well
Bert Jansch: Needle Of Death
Steeleye Span: Gaudete.
Jacqui Milnes @Jacqui_Milnes
#folk6music can you include @MegsonMusic – The Longshot. The most beautiful song ever to feature football. Loathe football, love this song.
Jacqui Milnes @Jacqui_Milnes
#folk6music can you include @MegsonMusic – The Longshot. The most beautiful song ever to feature football. Loathe football, love this song.
Anja Beinroth @AnjaBeinroth
I agree + There Were Roses – Tommy Sands RT @HotspurHurly61: #folk6music Ordinary Man by Christy Moore & Thousands Are Sailing by The Pogues
RadcliffeMaconieShow @BBCRadMac
That last tune was Harvest Gypsies by @KrisDrever. Use #Folk6Music to join in with this Sunday’s Ultimate Folk Playlist
Annetta Slade @grumpkings
@6music for my money @Bellowhead and @TheUnthanks both have moved folk music on and into the hearts of a whole new audience #Folk6Music
Peter Edwards @oldfirehazard
@BBC6Music Playlist @jimmoray Lord Douglas @SethLakemanNews Kitty Jay @penguineggs CanadeeIO @poguesofficial Streams of Whiskey #Folk6Music
Gaynor Madoc Leonard @MadocLeonard
#Folk6Music “She Moved Through the Fair” – it’s a lovely song.
Fairport Fee @Fairport_Fee
@littletrev57 @folktalkinfolk @barlowsgirl BBC6 are complaining “the ultimate Folk Playlist” #folk6music What would you add guys?
Fairport Fee @Fairport_Fee
@littletrev57 @folktalkinfolk @barlowsgirl BBC6 are complaining “the ultimate Folk Playlist” #folk6music What would you add guys?
Fairport Fee @Fairport_Fee
@BBC6Music #folk6music Low Lands Away – Anne Briggs The Quiet Joy of Brotherhood – Sandy Denny Rattling Roaring Willie – Sweeney’s Men
Phil Bryer @philbryer
#Folk6Music In My Arms by Songs from the Blue House
Fairport Fee @Fairport_Fee
@BBC6Music #folk6music Handsome meadow Boy – Dransfield. Come ye Or Fra France – @steeleye_span Matty Groves – Fairport Convention
Opinionated bastard @HarryNCrane
#Folk6music The colliers- Seth lakeman New York girls- Bellowhead Our town- Kate Rusby Put out the lights- Oysterband
Bellowhead @Bellowhead
Help us help pick a track for their ‘Ultimate Folk Playlist’ – Any ideas? Let them know using #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
I’m talking and tweeting through show dedicated to folk on Sunday. Tell them what to have in their Ultimate Playlist #folk6music
Properganda @ProperBlog
What songs would you include on your Ultimate Folk Playlist? BBC 6 Music’s Folk Special is this Sunday.. propergandaonline.com/bbc-6-music-fo… #Folk6Music
The EFDSS @TheEFDSS
What song do you think must be included in ‘s Ultimate Folk Playlist? efdss.org/news/40-octobe… #Folk6Music #thefullenglish ^S
Bella Todd @bellatodd1
Which artist best reflects alternative side of folk music? Impossible question (happily) tinyurl.com/mqe92fw #Folk6Music @FRUK @freshnet
The Dirty Beggars @TheDirtyBeggars
anything by @AdamHolmesBand from new album Heirs & Graces for the Ultimate Folk Playlist on #Folk6Music
Dylan Smith @JayDillinger123
#Folk6Music #LucyWard #ForTheDeadMen
Frohockphoto @Frohockphoto
Last one of Sara Spade @behindthebussto for tonight. #Folk6Music #music #NorthantsHour pic.twitter.com/NFl0ZA4l6g
Frohockphoto @Frohockphoto
Last one of Sara Spade @behindthebussto for tonight. #Folk6Music #music #NorthantsHour pic.twitter.com/NFl0ZA4l6g
Big Gull @BigbigGull
@BBC6Music Can’t have an Ultimate Folk Playlist w/out #Fairport’s ‘Matty Groves’. Sex, violence – ultimate trad. arr. Soap Opera #Folk6Music
Rob Shaw @r0b_shaw
My word, this looks great ->southbankcentre.co.uk/whatson/a-cele… #folk6music @southbankcentre
The EFDSS @TheEFDSS
@georgiaruth good suggestions Georgia #Folk6Music ^S
Folk Radio UK @FRUK
Help us select an artist for #Folk6Music for their Ultimate Folk Playlist on Sunday. Read about it here goo.gl/I1P2Go
Peter Edwards @oldfirehazard
@FRUK Bloomin’ hard choice, but it’s just impossible to vote against @LisaKnappMusic right now. #Folk6Music
The EFDSS @TheEFDSS
What song do you think must be included in the Ultimate Folk Playlist? efdss.org/news/40-octobe… #Folk6Music #thefullenglish ^S
Folk Radio UK @FRUK
Re our contribution to #Folk6Music for the Ultimate Folk Playlist remember comments matter as much as the votes goo.gl/I1P2Go
John Sprackland @johnsprackland
I’m surprising myself:
John Barleycorn – @TinManIcon
The Maid & the Palmer – Brass Monkey
for #Folk6Music playlist choices! @TopicRecords
John Sprackland @johnsprackland
@charamaroo I’m a bit purist & think of ‘folk’ as traditional music… But don’t ask me to define trad! #Folk6Music
John Waterworth @jwaterworth
Bitter Boy by @katerusby for ultimate folk song list. Truly beautiful ballad. #Folk6Music
Peter Edwards @oldfirehazard
@FRUK Bloomin’ hard choice, but it’s just impossible to vote against @LisaKnappMusic right now. #Folk6Music
paul2point0 @paul2point0
Help pick the Ultimate Folk Playlist #Folk6Music bbc.co.uk/blogs/nowplayi…
The EFDSS @TheEFDSS
What song do you think must be included in the Ultimate Folk Playlist? efdss.org/news/40-octobe… #Folk6Music #thefullenglish ^S
Ian NTNOTW Edmondson @VonTollbooth
#Folk6Music Dick Gaughan – Freedom Come Aa Ye; Shirley Collins – Sweet Primeroses; The Albion Band – Hopping Down in Kent
John Sprackland @johnsprackland
@charamaroo I love all the tracks you’ve suggested, Charlotte (@GreenManFest?) but I wouldn’t call any of them folk! #Folk6Music
Ellie @unevendays
Lucy Ward, or better yet Cupola: Ward; something from the Wicker Man soundtrack; The Imagined Village; Dizraeli & the Small Gods #Folk6Music
Folk Radio UK @FRUK
To Celebrate The Full English launch by @efdss help us select an artist for #Folk6Music goo.gl/I1P2Go
Topic Records @TopicRecords
Help pick the Ultimate Folk Playlist for the BBC 6music Folk special by tweeting your suggestions using the hashtag #Folk6Music
Folk Radio UK @FRUK
Help us select an artist for #Folk6Music for their Ultimate Folk Playlist on Sunday. Read about it here goo.gl/I1P2Go
charlotte @charamaroo
hugely inspired to have a folky day thank you #folk6music
charlotte @charamaroo
@BBC6Music #folk6music Cat Stevens-Here Comes My Baby, Joanna Newsome-Sprout &The Bean,
Andy Perrey @AndyPerrey
@BBC6Music #folk6music For influence: @penguineggs ‘Little Pot Stove’, Bert Jansch ‘Needle Of Death’, Anne Briggs ‘Blackwater Side’
charlotte @charamaroo
@BBC6Music #folk6music Magnet- Where Happiness Lives, Simon And Garfunkel- The Boxer
charlotte @charamaroo
@BBC6Music #folk6music Tim Buckley- Dolphins, Kings Of Convienience- I Don’t Know What I Can Save You From, Midlake-Head Home
Ben Holland @BenBenHolland
@BBC6Music Bob Dylan – North country blues #folk6music
Alexander Woods @ALJWoods
#Folk6Music Rory McLeod – Farewell Welfare youtube.com/watch?v=RO_xCv…; Imagined Village – Tam Lyn (retold) youtube.com/watch?v=7bIvFg…
Andrew Martin @FilthyPlucker
#Folk6Music Pete Seeger’s ‘talking union’ simply because the BBC need to play it at this time.
Ez @MissP78
@BBC6Music Gordon Lightfoot’s Song for a Winter’s Night #folk6music #cancon
The Amateur @amateur_the
@BBC6Music Vashti Bunyan – Rose Hip November – youtube.com/watch?v=6en1BT… #folk6music
Rob Shaw @r0b_shaw
@BBC6Music Canadee-I-O by Nic Jones. Bright Phoebus by Mike & Lal Waterson. #folk6music
RREPORTAGE @rrreportage
@BBC6Music Joni Mitchell- California #folk6music
Rory Foster @RoryFosterr
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CHRIS SUTTON Matty Groves sung by Fairport Convention. A classic folk tale.
PAUL MEAGHER Woody Guthrie – Jesus Christ
Leadbelly – midnight special
Bob Dylan – Masters of War
Luke Kelly – Raglan Road
Tommy Makem & The Clancy Brother foggy dew…See More
LYNNE ALDRIDGE Who Knows Where The Time Goes by Fairport Convention. A song that has autumn running through its veins.
ROY MØLLER Who Knows Where The Time Goes by Fairport Convention .
DAMIEN SMITH Nick Drake – Northern Sky
JANET SEYMOUR Meet on the ledge. fairport convention
DUNCAN ELLIOTT I’m tempted to print this topic and explore every idea suggested! Reckon there could be worse places to start…
GRYMM GRYMMSSON Men They Couldn’t Hang, tell me you’re going to include some MTCH! Smuggler’s for a trad style, Cable Street or Shirt of Blue for ‘a li’l bit o’ politics’. #folk6music
Jethro Tull For pioneers of modern folk, you cannot ignore the oyster band. Combined with the honey dripping voice of June tabor and you can’t really get much genuinely folkier. That said bit of folky Tull always goes don’t well from ‘the woods’
GEORGE MASON Vagabonds. New Model Army
JOHNNY SOLSTICE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO_xCvYGtxY or this
RORY MCLEOD Farewell Welfare
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RORY MCLEOD Farewell Welfare From Alter Image Produced by Jane Thorburn 1987
JIMMY WELSH Would Mazzy Star ‘Fade into You’ count?
CATHRYN ILIFFE penguin eggs by nic jones best folk album ever
LYNNE WALLACE What about Kate Rusby? Anything would do , Awk’ard Annie. loving the programme
TOM TYLER I think you should play the Mumfords just to annoy the people who are being so snotty about them.
JESSICA GRIEVE Belle & Sebastian have to be in there somewhere
RUTH FORTUNE Little Musgrave by Planxty please, all 10 glorious minutes of it
WILLIAM OULTON Can you play some Fairport Convention. I get put off some folk music, especially the backward looking Hey-Nonny-No variety, but I’ve recently discovered Fairport and Richard Thompson’s solo work. Can you play The Deserter as a fantastic example of how to adapt a traditional song without sounding too old fashioned. In fact, it sounds more like the Velvet Underground than Steeleye Span. Plus Sandy Denny’s voice would make a statue cry.
Johnny Solstice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO_xCvYGtxY
RORY MCLEOD Farewell Welfare
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RORY MCLEOD Farewell Welfare From Alter Image Produced by Jane Thorburn 1987
DONNACHA DELONG The Pogues – Ned of the Hill.
BETH WALSH Lady Eleanor by Lindisfarne is another that makes me tingle. Or Pentangle’s Cruel Sister, classic tragic folk!
TOM CONNIFFE I cannot believe that you’ve not played any Irish folk music yet. Black Velvet Band by the Dubliners? Ride On by Christy Moore? C’mon…!
BETH WALSH First Aid Kit – The lion’s roar please. And some Bob Dylan, maybe It’s alright Ma.
NICK BOWYER The Pogues C’mon rum sodomy and the lash ANY TRACK
RUTH MORGAN Something by Kate Rusby and/or Lau has got to be in there somewhere. I am going to see both of these soon !!!!
ANTHONY SAVAGE This https://soundcloud.com/antsavage/a
Ant savage and Hannah birch (Ruby sun) free download.
Final version of my new song “Ruby sun” with the lovely Hannah birch on backing vocals https://soundcloud.com/hannah-birch https://sound…
ANDY GOULDING Oh and don’t play Mumford please
ALEX WILD Can I suggest something by the Unthanks?
VALERIE MOSS Put M&sons on I dare ya!
PAUL LLOYD Tipping it up to Nancy by Christy Moore.
ELAINE SOUTHALL Lucy Ward, all the Dead Men, it’s new, follows the tradition of folks association with social commentary and is bloody beautiful
JOHN NICHOLLS WOODY GUTHRIE – Tom Joad
TIM JONES Billy Bragg – The World Turned Upside Down. Tells the history of some ordinary people. Doesn’t get much more folk than that.
KLAUS HARVEY The Lakes of Ponchartrain by Paul Brady please. No other version will do. A classic.
CATHERINE LOUISE ALLEN Bees wing but the christy Moore version. Or just anything by christy Moore come to that
JOHNNY SOLSTICE why?..because he’s a national treasure
JOHNNY SOLSTICE Rory McLeod Handing the Pain Down
PAUL MEAGHER Woodrow Guthrie – hard talking blues
PAUL MEAGHER Bob Lind – O babe take me home
PAUL MEAGHER Jack O Diamonds – Terry Calier
PAUL MEAGHER Talking Union – Pete Seeger
AARON PEPPER This https://soundcloud.com/antsavage/a
Ant savage and Hannah birch (Ruby sun) free download.
Final version of my new song “Ruby sun” with the lovely Hannah birch on backing vocals https://soundcloud.com/hannah-birch https://sound…
SUSAN CAREY Got to have some Martin Simpson
BETH WALSH Those First Aid Kit women know their stuff. They got me all excited about folk again.
KENDRA MCLEOD John Barleycorn by The Knights of the Occasional Table
BETH WALSH Thank you
JACK VERVOORT Fisherman’s Blues – Waterboys
SUSAN CABELL Meet Me On The Corner by Lindisfarne.
NEIL SIMPSON Anne Briggs – Black Water Side for its depth of emotion and integrity.
DARAN CROOK In goth we trust-hmhb, corries-Dumbarton drums, barrel o’ baddies-all for me grog, pogues-London your a lady, bothy band- the butterfly, dubliners-raglan road, Billy bragg-milkman, Christy moore- missing you, nick cave & the bad seeds-stagger lee, the popes-rising of the moon, are there’s loads!
NEIL ADAMSON whole lotta rosie
JOE CUNIO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPP308kGDiY maybe not the best , but new and just vocals !!!! go listen pleeeeeeease
BOTYOV1791
seven cans of stella
SUMMER DEAN Peggy Seeger – doggon, occupation is on.
GEMMA FOWLIE Sally Free and Easy by the Corries is a perfect miserable heartbreak song – the very soul of folk!
ANDY ROWE Thanks for playing Shipbuilding, 10 times better than Wyatt and Costello’s versions, I’ve had it on loads over the last few weeks, the whole of ‘songs from the shipyards’ is fantastic…
LAURA MCKEE Nic Jones Canadee-i-o
LEAFY TREES-Greene UNTHANKS Please. Thank you
JOE HSUB Come All Ye (Fairport Convention) , please!
ETTIE SHATTOCK tallest man on earth – dreamer, Johnny Cash – I hung my head
2 songs that got me into folk, new & old!
ALICIA GOODIER The current ‘Young Folk Musicians of the Year’ Greg Russell and Ciaran Algar …. ‘The New Railroad’ is my fave…..please :O)
CLARE ATKIN Ghost narrative by emily barker,vagabonds by new model army,the boatman by the levellers.
PETER JOHNSON dylan’s , blowin in the wind
MATT LINAKER http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJznHP-G3Ss
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – The Southside of the World
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JOAD RAYMOND Woody Guthrie – has to be Ballad of Tom Joad. Also: surely The Incredible String Band need to appear somewhere. Perhaps My Name is Death or the Hedgehog Song?
JOHAN VAN SCH Fairport : Come All Ye (Rolling Minstrels) because it still gives me chicken skin
Dirty Old Town
Whiskey in the jar
ANGIE HARMS Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit…maybe Fol-de-Rol? The themes in that seem especially folky to me…
TRISH O’HARA https://www.facebook.com/photo.php…
Kim Lowings and the Greenwood Sept 2013
With Trish O’Hara and 5 others at Lost Horizons Folk and Acoustic Club.
huge support from Jim Fodder Will Arthur O’Donoghue Louis Joel Gilman James O’Hara-Knight Robert Thebob Munton Steve O’Donoghue and Glyn Shipman
By: Lost Horizons Folk and Acoustic Club
NICK BOWYER One world john martyn A genius and he beat Sid viscous up for heckling. A man who fought for his convictions true folk.
HANNAH STEPHENSON Would love to hear Raggle Taggle Gypsy – ideally sung by my mum, but I’ll accept the Waterboys version.
FI STIMPSON My dad has suggested Jethro Tull. I concur.
FRAN DUGGAN The Houghton Weavers- poverty Knocks… Or Blackpool Belle..proper northern folk
KLAUS HARVEY How about the astounding ‘Rip the Calico’ by The Bothy Band. It’s a jig and five reels.
ANDY GOULDING Iris dement wasteland of the free
WILL RIDING Don’t like Mumfords but let’s not be snobby, eh?
HELEN CASTLEY Love the show. Please play Mumford and Sons. I reckon there’s a few fans out there!
ELLA PATTINSON The water boys, a man is in love. X
MARK STIG STURGEON If you don’t include something by the Big Nosed B@stard from Barking, aka Billy Bragg, there is no justice. Milkman, or his Woody Guthrie ‘Way over yonder’. And what about Costello/Wyatt ‘Shipbuilding’?
ADAM REES Anything by Nic Jones.
FIONA STAFFORD Perhaps not the epitome of folk for some, but you should definitely play Karine Polwart – We’re All Leaving. People need to hear this song.
STEPHEN MAGUIRE I could pick a few hundred thousand good folk songs. Tim buckley song for you, is a beauty!
JOHN MCMILESOFSMILES You’ve got to play some Shirley Collins – no other figure spans the full breadth of what people are discussing above as ‘folk’ – personally and professionally she connects the second great UK revival (Ewan MacColl/Peggy Seeger’s Holborn scene), the US roots reawakening (relationship & Southern States collecting tour with Alan Lomax), the 60s psych folk new wave (married to Fairport Convention’s Ashley Hutchings), and all this before remembering they she’s THE key English traditional singer of the 20th Century. These days Shirley’s influence extends to artists on both sides odd the Atlantic, and as disparate as Kate Rusby/Bellowhead and Devandra Banhart/Joanna Newsom! Add to that her current presidency of EFDSS and most recent recorded work with Current 93, and well… What more needs to be said?
Shirley & Dolly Collins – Just As The Tide Was A’Flowing (Live)
Live in London 1979
PETER LEESON Tom, recently seen on introducing a wee band from Keswick – you might like “Musical Musical Priest” by Stooshie also on Facebook! Musical Priest, by Stooshie
ZIYAD SAID-WARDELL The times they are changin’ – bob dylan
JOHN NICHOLLS Also, anything by THE DUBLINERS
JOHN NICHOLLS BERT JANSCH – Running from Home. Or anything of LA Turnaround. Real Folk music.
ADRIAN FOSS Chris Wood – Hollow Point. Modern classic.
KENT HARRIS The Windmills of Norfolk by Matt Deighton from The Villager album – perfect, modern pastoral English folk
JULIE REYNOLDS Another vote for the truly stunning ‘Who knows where the time goes?’ by Fairport Convention. Sandy Denny’s voice on it is sublime.
ANDI SERCOMBE “Bed of Straw”. Duncan McFarlane Band please
KIRSTY GLOVER Show of Hands MUST NOT be overlooked! ‘Folk’ music should be all about social commentary at its grass-roots level, and Messrs Knightley and Beer are prime exponents. ‘Arrogance, Ignorance and Greed’ or ‘The Napoli’ are great examples. You know it makes sense, Tom!
RUSTY CODPIECE I Want To See The Brights Lights Tonight by Richard & Linda Thompson.
RUSTY CODPIECE Calvary Cross by Richard Thompson.
IAIN SKEG SEYMOUR Bees wing by i think richard thompson but i may be wrong, it was best covered by Mad Dog Mcrea such a beautiful song!!
JENNY LEE Anything by Show of Hands, surely?
DAVID QUINN Matty Groves, obviously
ANDY MILLS Martin Carthy, Al O’Donnel, or Planxty. I can’t pick one song out from all they’ve done, but any would do. So fine they all are.
JOHN DAVIES Raggle Taggle Gypsy by the Waterboys
SHARON BROWN Fotheringay – The Sea & Nick Drake – River Man
BRÓNA UÍ LOING Jim Mc Cann Matt Hyland
NICOLA IRVING Matty John Chyzek by Woodpigeon
NICOLA IRVING Johnathon Ashworth Rollercoaster by Woodpigeon
MATTHEW MORGAN Gregor Kerr A sailor’s life by Fairport. The story, the performance, the emotions…
TONY MACKLIN Bit too late to suggest “Flowers of the Forest” then?
NEIL MURRAY As far as I can tell, not a single song by a Celtic musician. Almost entirely English with a smattering of North America. BBC6Music clearly forgot they are a UK wide station. Frankly, given the strength and heritage of folk music from those countries, it is an outrage. I love 6 Music but they have seriously pissed off a lot of people tonight.
ELLY MAY “Our Town” by Kate Rusby
DAVE TONY BLACKBEARD RICHARDS Neil adamson I didn’t know ac/dc were folk ?
DAVE TONY BLACKBEARD RICHARDS Kevin Young any ideas?
AMANDA CROSS loved matty groves !!!!
ANDREW PARKIN Bit of Horslips anyone?!…
STEVE O’SHEA Laura marling!!!
RICHARD BRIDGE Well, that programme was very disappointing and some of the stuff played total dogshit.
SARAH O’BRIEN did you just censor that pogues track??? tell me you didn’t!
NICK BOWYER Thank you mr Robinson. x
MATTHIAS WESTON Anything by Martyn Bennett
LISA BURROWS FLK mix of Emily Portman, Sticks and Stones… Oh Please!
SAM ROBERT JOHNSTON Dave Evans – Beauty Queen
REP TILE The AMERICANS are a MUST for any folk broadcast!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9LSY9S_eEA
The Americans, David Letterman Show on 2/20/13
Patrick Ferris: Vocals/Guitar, Jake Faulkner: Bass, Zac Sokolow: Banjo, Tim Case: Percussion, Drums.
VICTORIA BUCHAN Spiers and Boden – Rochdale Coconut Dance, because there’s been nothing else like it so far!!
TARA NOLTY Caledonia…Dougie McLean
ANGUS ELLIS Over the Lancashire hills….Simon Nicol
ROB STEPHENSON I feel ignored!! Please can we have Mumford and Sons hopeless wanderer!! they are a must in all folk playlists
CHRISTOPHER PARKIN Play some Sam Carter. He’s one of the new breed of great singer songwriters and a fantastic guitar play to boot!
EMILY VON KIRCHNER This Is Not The End by Claire Maguire is a little unexpected gem – OK so it has the strings in the background to mellow the ears of the more commercially orientated, but I find it a most moving and tender rendition. Her voice lends herself well, I wish she would do more like this…
PHIL DORAGH I quite like Eden Burning’s version of Matty Groves.
ALISTAIR LITTLEJOHN Would be good to hear some Nic Jones. The BBC 4 documentary the other week was quite amazing.
MATT LINAKER http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbK_Ie3_kdU
Old Man Luedecke- Roustabout
RICHARD BRIDGE And how about the Copper Family “Sweep”? And the Watersons “Bellman”. And the Young Tradition “Ramble Away”. And the current high priest of traditional, Brian Peters – maybe “3 Ravens”.
NIGEL CARDEN Woody Guthrie – hard travellin’ would be great, but anything by him is fine by me!
DAVY SMITH The times they are a changing ..bob Dylan
CHRIS HEDDON Woody – ” what are we waiting on” brilliant lyrics as always
PISSED PAT mary chappin carptener : 10,000 mile cos its so dam good is why
GREG BLACKMAN I think you should take out a copy of “There’s Only One Way Of Life And That’s Your Own” by The Levellers. Then set it on fire and kick it off a cliff into the sea where it belongs.
LAURENS BIEZEMANS About the Woodie Guthrie track: City of new orleans!
Sewing Sally http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2yiem65Z74
John Langan Band – I’m Alive Mama – Live (Arena Sessions)
John Langan Band – I’m Alive Mama – Live (Arena Sessions) trad adapted by John L…See More
ANDY CAPIE Anything from Billy Bragg’s natural successor, Sean McGowan (not Shane!)or Lisa Knapp?5 minutes ago
MARK STIG STURGEON This land… Has to be.
PEARL FOK Shawn Colvin, Joni Mitchell
TRISH O’HARA Great show – and here is a pic from our folk club that shows folk in its glory – the mixture of people sharing song Trish O’Hara our history books are filled the lives of the aristocracy or religious leaders – folk is the lives of ordinary people – telling their story. The documentary and social commentary of the lives of people like me
ROBBIE WATT Johnny Flynn or at a push two gallants
KEITH JAVEZ Folk music bellowhead blasting from the radio will clear the six music airwaves. Why…because the live sound of folk music eclipses all the pre recorded material. Folk music should be experienced live in the pub, on the street, in the club’s because folk music is our heritage and our future comment on society and culture.
FI STIMPSON My choice is anything from Anaïs Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer’s Child Ballads.
ANDY GOULDING Jolie holland mad tom of bedlam
STEVE STOTT fab programme dont miss Michael Chapman Winter in Memphis contemporary and relevant
MARK STIG STURGEON I saw Ahab at Shoreham a few nights ago. Blinkin’ brilliant. ‘Fathers eyes’?
ANDY ROWE The best description of ‘what is Folk’ music for me was Stuart Maconies speech at the 2011 folk award’s. Really wish I had that recording, wonderful stuff..
CHRIS HEDDON How adout new york girls by bellowhead, the 22 legged groove machine cannot be ignored.
DUNCAN TODD How about Battlefeild Band With ‘Wee room underneath the stairs’. Was bought up on them as my mother ran the local folk club back home.
TOM FERROUR David Rovics is my favourite song writer. Are you allowed to play this though? http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=2706103
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MATT LINAKER http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFf4Dk3Hi_w
Matthew and the Atlas – Within the Rose
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HENRY BATES “Apple Carts” by Damon Albarn from his 2012 “Pastoral Folk Opera” Dr Dee. Magick!
MATT LINAKER http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FY2EO9wjiw
This Is The Kit – Two Wooden Spoons
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BARRY MEAKIN The Imagined Villages treatment of ‘My Son John’ brings a traditional folk song right into the contemporary world of folk music.
PETER MARKS The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald – Loudain Wainwright. A ripping yarn!
RICHARD BRIDGE Oh – and “What is Folk” was answered once and for all by the 1954 Maud Karpeles definition.
RICHARD BRIDGE I’ve been late turning on, but have you played the God – Martin Carthy (preferably “King Knapperty”) or the Goddess June Tabor (preferably “Hughie Graeme”) or Nic Jones (preferably “Sir Patrick Spens”) or Jon Loomes (preferably “Avram Bailey” or “Fine Flowers in the Valley”). And how about a mention for Kent band Larskpur (CD just released) or my own unrecorded band “Roger the Chorister (don’t ask).
LESTER BRENNER Christie Moore – Whacker Humphries
ANDY GOULDING Jeffery Lewis punk is dead
ANDREW PEARSON The deserter, fairport convention.
LAURENS BIEZEMANS An ultimate list wouldn’t also be complete without a song sung by Judy Dyble! I still think she has a better voice then Sandy… As a suggestion: (Syd Barrett haters gonna hate :-p) but she once recorded an electronic cover version of See emily play wich is awesome.
MARCUS LANCASTLE Yes lets have a folk show every week on BBC 6 music..maybe Andy Kershaw could present it! Please play Hollow Point by Chris Wood.
ALEX GOUDIE John Martyn – Stormbringer
EMILY JOYFUL DURRANT Natalie Merchant, Crazy Man Michael …… oh and Moonlight Shadow, Mike Oldfield ft. Maggie Reilly
JON TILTMAN Lyke Wake Dirge sung by the Young Tradition – that’s proper three part harmony acapella folk. It’s a standard but YT did it best.
NATASHA SEPHTON Please play anything by a) The Penguin Café Orchestra and b) Rory McLeod. Please please please!
MIKE MCCAFFREY Dadford and Daughters.
JOSHUA FLOWER No mumford
LUCY JAY Ewan Mc Coll, Paddy works on the railway. A tune, a story and it’s just about possible to sing along to it badly.
JOSHUA FLOWER Paul Brady, the lakes of ponchartrain
LYNDA COCHRANE Jan & Lorraine- gypsy people. A beautiful record by a duo shrouded in mystery- love it
MATT LINAKER http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lVdITMzTSU
Old Man Luedecke – Joy of Cooking
Hinterland.
LESTER BRENNER How about something by the Unthanks – I particularly like Tar Barrel in Dale
JOHN WALKER I always believe that a folk song must tell me a story
MATT LINAKER ‘The joy of cooking’ by Old Man Luedecke
JOHN WALKER Chris Wood – Hollow Point.
POLLY SHEPHERD Anything by Coope. Boyes and Simpson but I do love The Hill of Little Shoes and (for a good giggle) The Emperor’s New Clothes..please!
JOHN WALKER Folk surely is a song about life that usually includes references to love, death and alcohol.
JOHN WALKER Must must must play Hollow Point. A new Folk Classic
JOAD RAYMOND Essential on any folk playlist: Hard Love by Martin Simpson, Weeping Willow Revisited by Steve Tilston, Bottle Caps are Cool by Peter Stampfel and the Chelsea Hotel Oral Sex Song by Jefferey Lewis.
GARETH MCGAHAN Poor girl by the mountain firework company…..
JO MCMULLEN ‘Read about Love’ by Richard Thompson at the T&C club 1994, for Dave
RACHEL SOKAL …or this lady’s truly magnificent voice http://rioghnachconnolly.bandcamp.com/album/black-lung
Black Lung, by Ríoghnach Connolly
13 track album
DAVID SIDEBOTHAM Please play “winter wine” Caravan – from the album “In the land of grey and pink”. Many thanks David Sidebotham now living in Copenhagen Denmark.
JOHN SLADE Pentangle – Lord Franklin
LIZ FOY The Sparrowhawks – “living mans disease” -because it represents new up & coming folk musicians! x
SCOTT BRICABRACBOY Mcanally Excellent band and that track got put on the BBC Introducing Mixtape back in March – http://www.bbc.co.uk/…
STEPHEN MAGUIRE Eric Bogle, The band played waltzing Matilda. It is the greatest anti war song ever written, it is poignant, beautiful, brilliantly written, and heart breaking all at the same time. I couldn’t tell you the last time it was played on radio.
JEREMY PEARCE pentangle cruel sister
JASON PARKES I’d have picked: 1. The Trees Grow High by The Pentangle ; 2. Graveyard by Forest; 3. Dark Haired Lady by Dr Strangely Strange; 4. The Bite by Comus; 5 Glow Worms by Vashti Bunyan; 6. The House Carpenter by Mr Fox; 7 Black Jack Davey by Bob Dylan; 8 A Sailor’ s Life by Fairport Convention; 9 Sandman’ s Song by Anne Briggs; 10. The Old Main Drag by The Pogues….
HENRY BATES “Toy Balloon” by Bert Jansch. Please. A beautiful song for a windy day. Great show Tom and i can’t wait to browse the wonderful archive. Huge thanks to the archivists and song/story enthusiasts.
PETER ESSON The Men They Couldn’t Hang..Green Fields Of France
LEE BENNETT How about the jon hopkins and king creosote collaberation. Anything of diamond mine.. ta
LOUSIE CLARK punch brothers-rye whiskey,old crow medicien show-wagen wheel or the carter family-wildwood flowers
Robin Mortlock http://youtu.be/bcoN_n5q-qQ
Joni Mitchell – The Way It Is
CBC-TV The Way It Is January 21, 1968 This Is flatout beautiful!
EMMA MØLLER I’d like to hear Liz’s Song by Shelagh McDonald. The first line always stops me in my tracks: “Liz took a train going north, didn’t say she’d be coming back.” Or Jackie Oates’ version of Junk by McCartney, which is on her Lullabies album. It’s not a lullaby, but that didn’t put her off, so give it a whirl.
ROB STEPHENSON Please can you play Hopeless Wanderer by Mumford and Sons, I am 14 years old and live just out side sherborne Dorset and really love this track!
SHELLEY DE ROSSI A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall- Bob Dylan.
DAMIAN KELLY Planxty Little Musgrave
JILL HOLMEN Sandy Denny’s version of Blackwaterside. It was one of the first songs of hers that I was played by a friend at Uni. And it really opened my mind to folk music. Blew away all the clichéd ‘ bearded, finger-in-the-ear’ prejudice.
STEVE BRIGHT How about Bill Jones – Blood and Gold
RACHEL SOKAL I’d recommend The Ballina Whalers – a fresh take on traditional sea shanties www.theballinawhalers.com
the-ballina-whalers
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CHRIS HEDDON How about white riot by the bad shepherds?
ELLIE ROSE SCOTT Cold Bread by Johnny Flynn just because its a really good song, and hes mentioned in the past how he was inspired by folk music
ANDY ROWE The Bert Jansch version of October song from Crimson Moon, I’m loving ‘Black Trade’ from the new Unthanks album, songs about the working men and women, that’s what folk music is for me..
KENT HARRIS Emily Smith – the title track from her album Traveller’s Joy – delicious, delicate contemporary vocal Gaelic joy
GEMMA STURGES Diamond Day by Vashti Bunyan would be quite lovely. A wonderful influence on many of the contemporary folk artists of today. Don’t let the “the Godmother of Freak Folk” tag put you off
JENNY MAIRI JOHNSTON The Chair-Folky Gibbon
MARTIN RIGBY Its alright ma im only bleeding by dylan…amazing words great tune
CHRIS HEDDON Mr magnifico by eliza carthy please
JAMES MCKEOWN Also anything from Starless & Bible Black’s ‘The Shape of the Shape’ album
SEAN BECHHOFER Nothing says folk more than folk dance, so how about some dance tunes? if I might be so bold, you could play a set from our band Albireo’s debut album…. http://albireo.bandcamp.com/
Northern Cross, by albireo
14 track album
MICHAEL CRAWFORD October song – The Incredible String Band
JAMES MCKEOWN How about this contemporary feedback drenched cover of the Third Ear Band’s ‘Fleance’ by Hi-Fiction Science http://hifictionscience.bandcamp.com/track/fleance
Fleance, by Hi-Fiction Science
Fleance by Hi-Fiction Science, released 16 April 2011
MATTHEW BENNETT Natalie merchant- tell yourself bordering on folk
ARAN MACDERMOTT Please checkout
The Grapes of WrathJim Woodland
STEVE ANDREWS Place called England June Tabor. Not sure it’s the best folk song ever but it’s a favourite of mine at the moment.
DAMIEN SMITH Obi – Somewhere nicer.
HELEN JARVIS Hello Tom, Great Show!! Can you please play some June Tabor & The Oysterband especially there version of Love Will Tear Us apart as it is brilliant or alternatively Fayhield & The Hurricane Party’s The Weavers Daughter. Thank You
ROGER SHUFFLEBOTTOM OK – specifically ‘Swift as the Wind’ from ‘The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter’.
ANDY GOLDING Villager by Matt Deighton.
ANDY GOLDING Anything by Nick Drake apart from Northern Sky. Road or Things Behind The Sun or Cello Song.
DARIO FISHER Midlake – Roscoe has to be played! The groove armada version is especially brilliant
CISCO JONES This Land is Our Land – Woody Guthrie Gives you a mixed bag of emotions all in one song
STUART MACFARLANE My love is like a red red rose by Eddi Reader
JOE REESE Come Here by Kath Bloom, please.
ZIYAD SAID-WARDELL Over Jordan – papa m
ESTHER CLARK Jenny of the Moore – jim moray
CIARA MCSMALL Mexican Mavis by Boy&Bear (saw them supporting Laura Marling, they were brill!!) folky fabulousness
SARAH HUDSPITH More folk rock but Janis Joplin Mercedes Benz is a contender.
ANDY PEARSON Any Barclay James Harvest.
KAREN WALKER A Place Called England by Maggie Holland (not the June Tabor cover, marvellous as she is)
ANDREW WISHART Cherish The Lonesome by Roy Harper, not a folk artist but a wonderful song in that ilk.
SAM SANDILLA JR. Can’t stand folk,
ANDY BASSETT-SCOTT or Kate Rusby ‘Yorkshire Couple’
ANDY BASSETT-SCOTT Or Mike Harding ‘Strangeways Hotel’
ANDY BASSETT-SCOTT Mumford & Son ‘Babel’
GRANNIE ANNIE ANNIE Burt Jansch has to be in there somewhere and so does Jethro Tull. But if you’re looking for a newer band then (and he’s just put it ‘pon the turntable) Bellowhead or The Unthanks.
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#Folk6Music
On Sunday 13 October 2013, NowPlaying @6Music presented a two hour show in celebration of The Full English digital archive of 68,000+ songs, documents and artifacts hosted online by the English Folk Dance And Song Society. We also highlighted the new 12-track The Full English album put together by Fay Hield from the EFDSS archive with an all-star ensemble featuring Seth Lakeman, Martin Simpson. Nancy Kerr, Sam Sweeney, Rob Harbron and Ben Nicholls.
As usual with NPA6M, our playlist was put together on the fly from suggestions made by listeners via social media before and during the show. You can see the tracklist and listen again to the whole show here until 8pm on Sunday October 20th 2013. But as soon as the suggestions started coming in, it was clear that “folk” means very different things to different people.
Some 6 Music listeners understood “folk” to mean sixties singer-songwriters such as Arlo Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Donovan, Judy Collins, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Neil Young, Nick Drake, The Byrds and Tim Buckley – or latterday counterparts like Gillian Welch, First Aid Kit, The Barr Brothers etc.
Younger listeners seemed to be nominating pretty much anything where an acoustic guitar was involved – through Angus and Julia Stone, Arab Strap, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billie, Damien Rice, Darren Hayman, Eddie Reader, Jeffrey Lewis, Johnny Flynn, King Creosote, Laura Marling, RM Hubbert and Stornoway among many, many other suggestions.
Other named artists widely perceived by the general public as as “folk” performers – such as Bert Jansch, Christy Moore, Davey Graham, Fairport Convention, Fotheringay, Joan Baez, John Martyn, Pentangle, Richard Thompson, Sandy Denny, Steeleye Span and The Dubliners – along with punk-influenced successors such as the Pogues, Billy Bragg and the Levellers. But many of these acts are better known for own original songs than for raiding the vaults of Cecil Sharp House for material.
Which leaves us with the large and vociferous group who broadly understand “folk” music to mean “traditional” – as opposed to merely “acoustic” – music – and their suggestions fell into two distinct camps. Some nominated longstanding interpreters of the canon such as Chris Wood, Dick Gaughan, Jez Lowe, June Tabor, Kris Drever, Martin Carthy, Nic Jones, Peggy Seeger, Shelagh McDonald, Shirley Collins, The Albion Band, The Copper Family and various members of The Watersons.
Others suggested tunes by artists from a folk background who (arguably) lean more towards innovation and new forms of hybrid – performers such as Bellowhead, Crooked Still, Eliza Carthy, Faustus, Imagined Village, Karine Polwart, Kate Rusby, Kathryn Tickell, Lau, Martin Simpson, Melrose Quartet, Nancy Elizabeth, Sam Carter, Sam Lee, Seth Lakeman, Show Of Hands and The Unthanks.
This is by no means an exhaustive list – even of the suggestions that came in – let alone of the vast wealth of recording artists from the past 90 years whose work has been associated in one way or another with the F-word. Since we only had 120 minutes for the show from start to finish (including two news bulletins and tips from half a dozen folk experts) we could only play about one in thirty of those suggestions. Our producer also had to try and find a balance bwteen those listeners demanding we play “proper” unaccompanied traditional folk ballads and those who were seriously suggesting that a “folk” music playlist should include the likes of David Bowie, Nirvana and The Mekons.
@tuftythecat unhelpfully described Seven Long Years by Jim Moray as “folk music for people who don’t like folk music.”
Folk purist @KieronMoyles tweeted “Maybe it’s best to abandon #Folk6Music to those who think its anyone with acoustic instruments. Differentiate between Folk and Traditional music”
@williamoulton had a waspish suggestion “If we’re having a debate about what IS folk music, shouldn’t we play Like A Rolling Stone by Dylan” #electic #Judas #Folk6Music
@KieronMoyles thought trying to define the genre was near-meaningless: “Arguably Angels by Robbie Williams is now a folk song. It’s part of people’s lives, it’s sung at weddings, funerals, birthdays.” #Folk6Music
@Lowlandslady felt we wandered too far from our starting point at The Full English digital archive: “Lots of American suggestions here – isn’t it supposed to be English Folk?”
On Facebook a very angry Neil Murray thought that on the contrary we played far TOO MUCH English music: “As far as I can tell, not a single song by a Celtic musician. Almost entirely English with a smattering of North America. BBC6Music clearly forgot they are a UK wide station”.
The one thing that was clear from the overwhelming response to the show was that, however you choose to define “folk” music, there is a huge and unfulfilled demand for more of it on the radio in general and on 6 Music on particular. I’ve been saying for years that we need a specialist Folk/Roots show on the station, and the response to yesterday evening’s show was the proof. For what it’s worth, below is a transcript of all the Tweets and Facebook posts made during the show – in raw, unprocessed format. The list is huge, quite hard going, and took me several hours to extract and format on the page.
If anyone has the time and dedication to sift through and come up with a formatted list of specific artists, tracks – and who suggested them – I’ll gladly post it here with links to the music. I’m sure I’m not the only one who would be extremely interested to learn more about this diverse and facinating genre in all its many manifestations…
One last morsel of food for thought: @juliaatthehub pointed us at this report on the Impact Of Folk Festivals On Cultural Tourism. “Even in 2003 a total of 350 festivals generated a £77m spend. Niche music eh?!” The the fact that we have 350 Folk/Roots/Acoustic festivals annually in the UK is mind-boggling. It’s definitely a field of music that deserves wider exposure and respect in the media generally. And now here are those tweets…
Dean Miller @DeanMiller1
@Jezzle_phizzle British… #Folk6Music
Fairport Fee @Fairport_Fee
@TeenyTitch Nice Autumnal drawing. Great evening listening to #Folk6Music
Bill Wood @Miasmalistic
@BBC6Music how about some newer folk @MerryHell_band have had 2 cracking albums so far. NWOBFM? #Folk6Music
Duncan Wainscott @folkyvale
#Folk6Music One of the best things the BBC did for folk music was dumping @HardingMike from R2. The result is his wonderful weekly podcast.
Mr & Mrs Wolf @WolfClose
#Folk6Music got to get a bit of @sheelanagig Balkan mayhem going, catweasel’s craic perhaps?
Anna @Annatheforager
@BBC6Music No Mumfords please, but @Bellowhead and @FaustusFolk would be most welcome! #Folk6Music
Joanna Stephens @Joanna_Stephens
Also anything by @juliefowlis #Folk6Music
Joanna Stephens @Joanna_Stephens
Has anyone mentioned @jackieoates yet? May the Kindness is a favourite track. #Folk6Music
BBC Radio 6 Music
Tonight on Now Playing we’re looking for tracks for the Ultimate Folk Playlist. What should we include? #Folk6Music pic.twitter.com/kie3kfLdC3
BBC Radio 6 Music
The @forfolkssake readers suggested @sophie_j_music as the most exciting new folk artist. What do you think? #Folk6Music
For Folk’s Sake @forfolkssake
Gosh I talk quickly. ANYWAY: The wonderful @sophie_j_music is our not-very-traditional pick for the #folk6music playlist on @freshnet’s show
dandelion101 @dandelion101
@BBC6Music How about The Gentle Good, Meinir Gwilim, Meic Stevens for starters? #welsh #folk6music
Siobhan Donnelly @TeenyTitch
Lovely evening spent drawing and listening to #Folk6Music pic.twitter.com/LnowkRcyod
betachronica @alphachronica
“@chunkymark: Should spread this like virus>> youtube.com/watch?v=HiEqPz… @NxtGenUK” #Folk6Music
Nathalie Clare @folkiebird
#Folk6Music Perhaps some David Gibb and Elly Lucas, Nic Jones, Sandy Denny, Lisa Hannigan, Kate Rusby?
emm @emmasbouzouki
Any song by David Gibb and Elly Lucas would be much appreciated #Folk6Music #brilliantmusic
Dobbo @dobbo59
@elizacarthy Tom Robinson on compiling #Folk6Music play list
Chris Fowler @ChrisAFowler
“@MarkyGoodrich: If you have any interest in folk/roots music at all, you need to be listening to #folk6music did you @FolklawUK ??
14h
The Burns Unit @burnsunitband
folk off, for sure 😉 “@dribblingfram: What do we think of The Burns Unit’s ‘Send Them Kids To War’? Folk or folk off? #Folk6Music”
Chris Fowler @ChrisAFowler
“@MarkyGoodrich: If you have any interest in folk/roots music at all, you need to be listening to #folk6music did you @FolklawUK ??
Mark Goodrich @MarkyGoodrich
If you have any interest in folk/roots music at all, you need to be listening to #folk6music right now!
Sal @MirandaKitten
#nowplaying The Bairns by Rachel Unthank and The Winterset….love it already 🙂 #Folk6Music
Natalie McVey @NarrowNatalie
Rachel Unthank & The Winterset – Felton Lonnin In the spirit of Gid Coe’s fantastic folk night #folk6music youtu.be/PMKPfy93cGw
Scott Edgar @thesneakybandit
@anfeildway @fayhield @FRUK Always brings a tear to my eye #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
Have you been to the archive portal yet? vwml.org.uk #FullEnglish #folk6music go make your own music
Claire Simmons @Clarice007
@emilygportman I voted for hatchling! Definitely need a regular folk show on #folk6music
Lee Mason @ShimiRecording
@BBC6Music How about Welsh artist @LowriEvansMusic? #Folk6Music
TheGoldenTroubadours @TheGoldenTroubs
@BBC6Music How about one of ours? Sunshine Eyes maybe? soundcloud.com/the-golden-tro… #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
Can’t beat harmony singing. Best done pissed in a bar. Loudly. #folk6music
Breaking More Waves @BMWavesBlog
Yeay! The Unthanks #nowplaying on #Folk6Music
To The Point: Music @totheptmusic
#Folk6Music Silver Screen, Gilmore & Roberts; Star of Munster, Emma Sweeney; Goodbye to the Plough Horse, Gibb & Lucas; Pett Level, KCC..
dandelion101 @dandelion101
RT @forfolkssake: Folk fans! Who’s the most exciting new artists around? #folk6music > @LadyMaisery of course!
Dobbo @dobbo59
@pudlover Boo! Hope make #Folk6Music more often, great show.
Alex Cumming @alexcumming
@freshnet Its hard to choose just one of each category but hope that is useful! #Folk6Music. Check out my show 4 more mixcloud.com/nsr/playlists/…
The Craftwork Studio @potterylizzie
We need a folkie show on 6.
So many fantastic artists coming up that fit the remit. @freshnet is the man to do it! #folk6music
Nathalie Clare @folkiebird
#folk6music suggestions for your wonderful show: @RachelSermanni, @sophie_j_music, @katerusby, @RoarButler, @JoniMitchellcom, @gibbandlucas
Hoops Hooley @hoopshooley
Just got in. Missed almost whole of Folk show on 6Music except for Pogues/Woody Guthrie. Damn. How was it? Hoping no Mumfords… #Folk6Music
Tanya Butchers @Greentarnie
@fayhield ooh now that’s a voice – off to listen to more Maggie Boyle – thanks #Folk6Music
Alex Cumming @alexcumming
@freshnet Tune Set – @Gadarene_ Father the Welcomer. – A great band who take old english dance tunes and funk them up! #Folk6Music
Alex Cumming @alexcumming
@freshnet Unaccmpanied song: @MelroseQuartet – Bampton Fair. Great band, wonderful harmonies and great energy! @kerrfagan #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
The Pogues. Total class. My aesthetic in a pint glass. All music needs a bit of grit #folk6music
Tom Robinson @freshnet
@johnsprackland @fayhield Correctamundo. That is a commitment. You only had to ask 🙂 #folk6music
Tom Robinson @freshnet
@johnsprackland #folk6music cool, thanks – sounds good to me – will do some serious homework for next Saturday 🙂 Hashtag is #tom6music
Jack Höwson. @jackrabb1t
I interviewed fantastic folk singer @TheJudyCollins for the radio. She is a total hero – bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01…Sal @MirandaKitten
@judypayne Did you request something for #Folk6Music on FB ? Tom said Judy Payne ! 🙂
John Sprackland @johnsprackland
@fayhield Not this time but I think @freshnet has committed to playing the Coppers next Saturday.Result #Folk6Music
Alex Cumming @alexcumming
#Folk6Music no scottish music, unaccompanied songs, tune sets… You say it was varied playlist but to me sounded pretty samey!
Jane Caddick @LadyLillyJane
#Folk6music Still recovering from the surprise that my tweet was read out on radio 6 tonight. I get far too excited about music 🙂
Tom Robinson @freshnet
@pudlover #Folk6Music NPA6M inevitably involves collaboration w/cross-section of listeners but I warmly welcome suggestions for my own show!
Nathalie Clare @folkiebird
#Folk6Music I absolutely agree with everyone here – there really should be a regular slot. I’d listen to’t religiously!
Angie H @Lowlandslady
@freshnet @alexcumming @spiersandboden Sloe Gin Set #folk6music
Barbara Elizabeth @ScrivensB
@fayhield most definitely make it a regular show! I’ve had a great time this evening!!Thanks #Folk6Music & your twittering Fay!!
Fay Hield @fayhield
Phew that was frantic. Glass of wine now – over and out (I’ll catch up later, keep talking!) #folk6music
BBC Radio 6 Music
Lots of you saying there’s an English/American bias on the #Folk6Music playlist. So which Scottish/Welsh/Irish acts should get a mention?
Jan Cole @pudlover
#Folk6Music Please be grateful and let’s make constructive suggestions for future shows. Let’s show them the best of folkies please.
Glyn Everett @glynjamyn
@KristyHighfield #folk6music Like The Young ‘Uns, a cappella class! S’why we need this as a regular 6 slot. ‘kay, I’ll shudder now!…
Fay Hield @fayhield
What else could help ease regular listeners into folk? Should do this more often methinks… #folk6music
Gareth @gaz8080
#Folk6Music en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folkways:…
Glyn Everett @glynjamyn
@Greentarnie #folk6music Yesyesyesyesyes pleasepleaseplease – more folk on 6 🙂
Joseph Downie @josephdownie
@BBC6Music Shoulda played something off Everythings Getting Older by @AidanJohnMoffat & Bill Wells. Incredible record & lyrics. #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
Oooops maggieboyle.co.uk #folk6music
Alex Cumming @alexcumming
#Folk6Music no scottish music, unaccompanied songs, tune sets… You say it was varied playlist but to me sounded pretty samey!
Fay Hield @fayhield
Was with Maggie Boyle today – amazing voice and woman, she’s missed here, but check her out maggieboyle.com #folk6music
Glyn Everett @glynjamyn
@pickard_alex #folk6music YES PLEASE re a regular folk slot on 6! After 2 shifted Mike off into the ether, BBC is bereft of Proper Folk!
MJB @Yorkrose
#folk6music Folk maybe, but there’s nothing Ultimate about this …
Sal @MirandaKitten
Thanks for all The Unthanks suggestions… you are ace Twitter 🙂 #Folk6Music
Dobbo @dobbo59
@pudlover Boo! Hope make #Folk6Music more often, great show.
Dotty McDot @_Fruit_Loop
Woody Guthrie – perfect ending! Thanks #Folk6Music
Claire Latham @guitar73girl
#Folk6Music Much prefer Eric Bogle singing ‘And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda’ – the Pogues get the words wrong.
Fay Hield @fayhield
The Pogues. Total class. My aesthetic in a pint glass. All music needs a bit of grit #folk6music
Joseph Downie @josephdownie
Ah the Pogues, great choice #Folk6Music Something from Scotland woulda been good too! (James Yorkston, Withered Hand, Kennie Creosote etc)!
Tanya Butchers @Greentarnie
Aah any chance this could be a regular slot, so many more more possibilities not aired? #Folk6Music
betachronica @alphachronica
I…I…like Nick Drakes…#Folk6Music
Kristy Highfield @KristyHighfield
Nice to hear folk on #Folk6Music but where were all the younguns who are ridiculously talented & do it for pennies? A pretty safe playlist..
margaret hinchcliffe @mub60
Pogues!! Great stuff and a nod in the Celtic direction – long awaited #folk6music
The Craftwork Studio @potterylizzie
Cracking finish. So many happy/hazy memories of Pogues gigs at The Apollo. There will be a big space where Phil should be. #folk6music
Liz Ixer @LizIxer
Oh gawd. Not *this* version of ‘And the band played Waltzing Matilda. Surely the June Tabor version which rips up your heart #folk6music
Grace Hewitt @gracehewitt
#folk6music no watersons/carthys? they are one of the great folk dynasties! Bright Phoebus gets my vote
Julian Hancock @julianhancock
#Folk6Music I didn’t want the Pogues, I wanted June Tabor
Barbara Elizabeth @ScrivensB
Wow Pogues!! Good choice #Folk6Music
Natalie Farrow @NatalieKFarrow
missing the #folk6music madness because I’m in the pub. Ooooooooopsy.
Tim Collins @timpcollins
YES YES YES! Waltzing Matilda! #Folk6Music
Juliet @byefornoww
THE POGUES! YES! perfect ???? #Folk6Music
Robin Tyndale @RobinTyndale
@johntonta @fayhield Be really nice to hear some Maggie Boyle in there too me thinks…#Folk6Music
John Sprackland @johnsprackland
Thanks Tom! Why not please @Lowlandslady too – The Copper’s Spencer the Rover (followed by John Martyn’s take on it?) @freshnet #Folk6Music
Mat @here_comes_B
@freshnet #Folk6Music *love*
Zara Gardner Draws @zaragardner1
@fayhield can we have some Martha Tilston please?! #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
“@johnsprackland: Come on be brave -just ONE unaccompanied traditional song! #Folk6Music” oooh do you think they could
betachronica @alphachronica
No hard feelings gentle folk…peace… #Folk6Music
Clare Tasker @ClareTasker
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music some Karine Polwart would be good, not that familiar with her, b good to b educated! Janet Russell Women o Dundee!
Alex Pickard @pickard_alex
Great show! Any chance of it becoming a regular thing? Just enough time for something by James Vincent McMorrow? #folk6music
Sal @MirandaKitten
I’d like to listen to more of The Unthanks.. …Can anyone recommend an album I could start with please ?… #Folk6Music
geraint evans @geraintwales
“@NTS_Neil: One last attempt to get a Scot on. Not a single Celt. Outrageous. #Folk6Music” Bragg WILL be watching! Careful!
Lucy @schokomilch_
@Emilia_Owen indeed!!! Fingers crossed:/ #Folk6Music
The Khan Assembly @theKhanAssembly
Rm hubbert #Folk6Music
BBC Radio 6 Music
The @forfolkssake readers suggested @sophie_j_music as the most exciting new folk artist. What do you think? #Folk6Music
The Khan Assembly @theKhanAssembly
Fionn Reagan. Rm Herbert. #Folk6Music
Lucy @schokomilch_
@byefornoww i just wish they’d play something! #Folk6Music
Tim Collins @timpcollins
Sking tinglingly good track by @sophie_j_music on #Folk6Music #wow
Chris @underwurldchris
There are at least 20 Kate Rusby songs I would have chosen. The one on the #Folk6Music playlist isn’t one of them.
John Hartwell @harty491
#folk6music Phoebe Smith singing Barbara Allen
Sal @MirandaKitten
I’d like to listen to more of The Unthanks.. …Can anyone recommend an album I could start with please ?… #Folk6Music
Breaking More Waves @BMWavesBlog
Yeay (x2) and a mention for Breaking More Waves from @freshnet on #Folk6Music + now they’re playing the beautiful @sophie_j_music – so good!
Neil Murray @NTS_Neil
@BBC6Music One last attempt to get a Scot on. Rick Redbeard ‘Now we are Dancing’. Sort it out. Not a single Celt. Outrageous. #Folk6Music
For Folk’s Sake @forfolkssake
Gosh I talk quickly. ANYWAY: The wonderful @sophie_j_music is our not-very-traditional pick for the #folk6music playlist on @freshnet’s show
Lucy @schokomilch_
Loving the #Folk6Music but it would be even better if it were only for a little Greg & Ciaran and Gibb & Lucas
Rollerball Rococo @RollerballR
@BBC6Music RM Hubbert and Cate le Bon? #Folk6Music
geraint evans @geraintwales
“: The English/American bias on #Folk6Music playlist. So which Scottish/Welsh/Irish should mention?” Meic Stevens? Dafydd Iwan?
Jamie Wilson @eljimosabe
@BBC6Music What about Malcolm Middleton? #folk6music
Nathalie Clare @folkiebird
OH MY ABSOLUTE GOODNESS THEY ARE PLAYING SOPHIE JAMIESON I AM ACTUALLY WEEPING WITH JOY #Folk6Music
Jane Caddick @LadyLillyJane
Running out of time – but so much more folk music out there! What a great night. #Folk6Music
Pamela-Jay @ikklepikkle
@KxTwo definitely Roddy Woomble!!!!! well said 🙂 #Folk6Music
Robin Tyndale @RobinTyndale
#Folk6Music Martha Tilston!!!! “Nu”,New and good n old styles here. Joni of our times
The Craftwork Studio @potterylizzie
Unthanks.
Shipbuilding.
On 6.
Will shut up and die happily now.
#folk6music
(Still want Thousands Are Sailing though….)
Jacka Garth @SocialBeastie
Unaccompanied song: June Tabor, ‘The Month of January’ @fayhield #folk6music
Chris @underwurldchris
@BBC6Music definitely @IAMKP #Folk6Music
Karen Kay @KxTwo
@BBC6Music Roddy Woomble comes to mind. #Folk6Music
Guy @Marwood1987
@BBC6Music @heiditalbot #Folk6Music
Glyn Everett @glynjamyn
@Lowlandslady #folk6music Ha! Agreed 🙂 A bit more reaching back to early Carthy-Waterson days would be nice – earlier v welcome!
Justin Desyllas @ChuckFrisbee
@6music, you simply have to include Fionn Regan as a modern purveyor of folk. How about Snowy Atlas Mountains? #Folk6Music
Rob Campbell @robcampbe11
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music @LAUmusic Greatest live folk band!
lydia_noble @lydia_noble
#Folk6Music bet they don’t put and trad unaccompanied singing on. thats what we did before music was invented. it’s what folk is. come on!
BBC Radio 6 Music
Lots of you saying there’s an English/American bias on the #Folk6Music playlist. So which Scottish/Welsh/Irish acts should get a mention?
Lucy @schokomilch_
Come on, we still need some Greg Russell and Ciaran Algar. They are just smashing. Mighty fine. #Folk6Music
Paul Smith @elandesign
@BBC6Music Unaccompanied? How about Beeswing by the Futureheads? #nowplaying #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
Unthanks old friends – used to sit at Whitby Festval together. #folk6music
Jacka Garth @SocialBeastie
Great to hear #folk6music – comes as a pleasant surprise on this long grey Birmingham Sunday.
Neil Murray @NTS_Neil
Hmm. Not sure that beats Robert Wyatt’s version. #Shipbuilding #Folk6Music
geraint evans @geraintwales
Fair Flower of Northumberland (Rachel Unthank) a fairly tidy unaccompanied song… #folk6music
Glyn Everett @glynjamyn
@annatwigg #folk6music But they were much better in their early days as Rachel Unthank & the Winterset! 🙂
Dobbo @dobbo59
@BBC6Music sadly I’ve missed most of the #Folk6Music has @elizacarthy had an outing? Willow Tree would be good, pretty please!
Ginger Nugget @Ryker5
@BBC6Music a lot of this ‘folk’ is not what I expected to hear. Is that perhaps the debate about new and trad? #Folk6music
Jane Greenstock @greenstocking25
Ah well I like it all-traditional, fiddley-diddley, June Tabor, Unthanks. But think I’ll go hide in the corner now #folk6music
Spoonhead McGee @spoonheadmcgee
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music what about some proper guitar and double bass like what Serious Sam Barrett does? @serioussam1980
Anne Groucott @AnneGroucott
#Folk6Music Yesss! The Unthanks…..Perfect. So beautiful. 🙂
Isabelle @isaaabellllle
#Folk6Music is a small bit of heaven right now.
Tim Collins @timpcollins
Wow, haven’t heard this cover by The Unthanks before, great choice #Folk6Music
Lucy @schokomilch_
Loving the #Folk6Music but it would be even better if it were only for a little Greg & Ciaran and Gibb & Lucas
Jan Cole @pudlover
#Folk6Music At last #Unthanks…cop for these harmonies. mmmmmmm
jo jones @jonsi58
#Folk6Music Hooray, lovely sound, but where are the tunes?
Angie H @Lowlandslady
@freshnet You asked for it! Anne Briggs Willie O’Winsbury, Copper Family Spencer the Rover #Folk6Music
Andy L @Vino_73
#Folk6Music at last The Unthanks
Breaking More Waves @BMWavesBlog
Yeay! The Unthanks #nowplaying on #Folk6Music
Paul Hogarth @pmhogarth
Please please please play ‘Murder of Maria Marten’ by Shirley Collins #Folk6Music
John Hartley @johntonta
.@fayhield yes, a great voice and mix of timeless and bang up to date #folk6music marthtilston. Although spellcheck nearly said tuneless!
Jane Greenstock @greenstocking25
I’m getting the sense that proper folk musicians would probably shun me and my too-conventional taste 🙁 #folk6music
Phil Smith @Phil__Smith
ewan maccoll – dirty old town. #Folk6Music
Barbara Scrivens @ScrivensB
Oysterband ‘bury me standing’? #Folk6Music
Emilia Owen @Emilia_Owen
Dear Kimber by the Cecil Sharp Project! From a project about a folk song collector! Definitely should be played! #Folk6Music
Spoonhead McGee @spoonheadmcgee
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music if you play the Spinners on the radio you’ll make my entire family’s year! #keepyafeetstillgeordiehinny
John Sprackland @johnsprackland
Come on be brave -just ONE unaccompanied traditional song! #Folk6Music
keithjbean @keithjbean
@BBC6Music Richard Thompson’s Vincent Black Lightning might no be old but it is a classic folk story #Folk6Music
MarkFromhold @MarkFromhold
No Gibb & Lucas, Hardy, Henwood, Moray, O’Hooley & Tidow, Tabor, or Ward ? Only 20 mins left to right 7 wrongs 😉 #Folk6Music
Nick Cooper @NickCNickCNickC
Have discovered app for BBC radio. #Folk6Music at bathtime…
Ginger Nugget @Ryker5
@BBC6Music Four bird roast done and gone. Now folk on 6 music for the clean up, thus has defo opened my ears #Folk6music
Dotty McDot @_Fruit_Loop
Daughter is a Johnny Flynn fan, it seems! 🙂 #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
“@johnsprackland: Come on be brave -just ONE unaccompanied traditional song! #Folk6Music” oooh do you think they could
Jack Höwson. @jackrabb1t
I interviewed fantastic folk singer @TheJudyCollins for the radio. She is a total hero – bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01…Jan Cole @pudlover
#Folk6Music what about #Oysterband. Anything will do as they never record a bad track.
Jane Hawkins @Jane_sheepgirl
#folk6music this land is our land
Nathan Shipley @oneeyenonose
How about Jenny Again by @thisistunng? #Folk6Music
Joanna Stephens @Joanna_Stephens
Also anything by @juliefowlis #Folk6Music
Jane Greenstock @greenstocking25
Johnny Flynn! Yes! #folk6music
Lucy @schokomilch_
Come on, we still need some Greg Russell and Ciaran Algar. They are just smashing. Mighty fine. #Folk6Music
James Findlay @jamesfindlaymus
@BBC6Music #folk6music you’re missing the stunning Maggie Holland ‘A Place Called England’
Neil Murray @NTS_Neil
@BBC6Music It would be great to hear Michael Marra’s ‘Mother Glasgow’. I’m sure Welsh/Irish listeners have similar frustration. #Folk6Music
Eloise Roberts @lefthandof
@fayhield @kathryn_sean really hope they play something by Kathryn and Sean if they haven’t already! #Folk6Music
Sarah Wells @sarahjwells
#Folk6Music is great – don’t know much about folk but loving the choices so far (lots of stuff I already love like Billy Bragg/Bellowhead)
John Sprackland @johnsprackland
Come on be brave -just ONE unaccompanied traditional song! #Folk6Music
Daniel Schillereff @dschillereff
#Folk6music Must include some Newfoundland folk music on your show! Something by Great Big Sea, Hey Rosetta! or Ron Hynes perhaps.Thanks!
Fay Hield @fayhield
Have you been to the archive portal yet? vwml.org.uk #FullEnglish #folk6music go make your own music
Alex Cumming @alexcumming
#Folk6Music Still no good tune sets! Morris, Rapper, Ceilidhs etc are a massive part of Folk music and we aint had none yet!
Neal Potter @internet_chap
#Folk6Music now I’ve not heard the whole show but how about a bit of Fleet Foxes? White Winter Hymnal would be my suggestion
James Cook @jimi1805
Truly Superb!!! Billy Bragg – I Ain’t Got No Home In This World Anymore (Live on KEXP): youtu.be/v7K_as6T20s #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
English/American well served – more from Ireland/Scotland? Couldn’t have happened 5 years ago – #timesareachanging #folk6music
emm @emmasbouzouki
OMG JUST READ MY TWEET ON THE RADIO!!!! #win #folk6music
Angie H @Lowlandslady
An old hippie writes – loving #Folk6Music obvs. But a lot of it’s a bit…recent
Derek Mitchell @Derekmitchell
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music this land is your land. It has to be.
John Hartley @johntonta
#Folk6Music ‘would love some Martha Tilston. Stags Bellow – nice and autumnal’
Clare Tasker @ClareTasker
@annatwigg #Folk6Music got to agree, love how their voices are quite different but fit together. Sea Song perfect showcase of Becky’s voice
emm @emmasbouzouki
Wow what a great song of Kate Rusby’s to choose!! #happy #Folk6Music #villiagegreenpreservationsociety
jo jones @jonsi58
#Folk6Music Silly Sisters, Magpie Lane ,,,,
For Folk’s Sake @forfolkssake
Enjoying Tom Robinson playing Kate Rusby’s version of Village Green Preservation Society on a show with lots of trad folk. #Folk6Music
Alex Cumming @alexcumming
#Folk6Music Still no good tune sets! Morris, Rapper, Ceilidhs etc are a massive part of Folk music and we aint had none yet!
Lucy @schokomilch_
@byefornoww one million percent agreed #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
Ah lovely Kate – her first album, and with @kathryn_sean Roberts huge inspiration to me and many others. Start point for many #folk6music
John Roberts @SneedHearn
#Folk6Music Woody Guthrie – Philadelphia Lawyer. It’s a great drama in two and a half minutes with love, treachery and murder.
TheGoldenTroubadours @TheGoldenTroubs
@BBC6Music How about one of ours? Sunshine Eyes maybe? soundcloud.com/the-golden-tro… #Folk6Music
John Sprackland @johnsprackland
… Copper Family’s Spencer the Rover segued into John Martyn’s version #Folk6Music …or Fred Jordan’s John Barleycorn > Traffic …
The Craftwork Studio @potterylizzie
This isnt ACTUALLY @katerusby song though.
Would have been great to have one of her iwn beautiful compositions?
heather downes @hettied49
#Folk6Music great song Sweet Thames Flow Softly by Jon Boden and Sam Sweeney. How about it?
Jan Cole @pudlover
#Folk6Music Uh hello, here’s Kate. Did anyone vote for her? Not seen her name suggested. Just saying….
Jim MacKay @beef_durante
How about some Scottish folk? ‘Both sides the Tweed’ by Dick Gaughan?Either his solo version or version he did with 5 Hand Reel #Folk6Music
anna twigganna @annatwigg
#Folk6Music Or The Unthanks. Those girls harmonise beautifully. Their version of Robert Wyatt’s Sea Song gives me goosebumps every time.
emm @emmasbouzouki
Wow what a great song of Kate Rusby’s to choose!! #happy #Folk6Music #villiagegreenpreservationsociety
Angie H @Lowlandslady
Some Anne Briggs now please. Willie O’Winsbury will do. #Folk6Music
The Ginger Gourmand @GingerGourmand
A bit of @katerusby at last! #Folk6Music
Dotty McDot @_Fruit_Loop
We are the village green preservation society. #Folk6Music
Ian Middleton @IanMiddletonX
@freshnet These gals are good. They’re Swedish and play bluegrass. I originally saw them in Gateshead! youtube.com/watch?v=6kyzOG… #Folk6Music
Nathalie Clare @folkiebird
#Folk6Music YEEEE KATE YES GOOD
Lynne Davies @CapnSkulduggery
#Folk6Music Swimmy Swim – Woody Guthrie or any of his childrens songs would do me. These are how I was introduced to his music.
The Craftwork Studio @potterylizzie
Oooo…..do we have time for The Unthanks. King of Rome? I KNOW I am getting greedy now
But PLEASE. Gorgeous harmonies.
Maureen Musson @kaffoozalum
@fayhield Quite Woody though! #Folk6Music
Eloise Roberts @lefthandof
The same goes for @MelroseQuartet, obviously. John Ball or Santa Georgia would be nice #Folk6Music
emm @emmasbouzouki
@byefornoww trying to multitask! Listening to #Folk6Music and watching strictly. Agh!!! Harder than it sounds!
emm @emmasbouzouki
Oh a bit o’ Kate #lovely #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
“@ScrivensB: @fayhield Irish folk music = twiddly diddly. English folk music = Rumpty tumpty!!” Disscus #folk6music
Jane Caddick @LadyLillyJane
Going to spend the rest of the week tracking down all suggestions I’m not already familiar with -thanks to everyone! #Folk6Music
Neil Murray @NTS_Neil
@fayhield @ScrivensB And Scottish? #HeftyLefty #Folk6Music
geraint evans @geraintwales
“@NTS_Neil: You’ve forgotten you are a UK station and not English. #CelticConnections #Folk6Music ” shh, you’ll upset Billy Bragg.
Emilia Owen @Emilia_Owen
Hurrah!!!! Jon Boden!!!! #folk6music
emm @emmasbouzouki
Oh a bit o’ Kate #lovely #Folk6Music
Ian Syme @ianmsyme
#folk6music anything by June Tabor…amazed she hasn’t even been mentioned
Lucy @schokomilch_
@byefornoww one million percent agreed #Folk6Music
Adam @music_radar
#Folk6Music Half Moon Run-“Call Me in the Afternoon” would also fit nicely Folk Playlist with nice video youtu.be/c_yengUrkaU
John Sprackland @johnsprackland
Ok, Harry Cox ‘Just as the tide was flowing’ segued into 10,000 Maniacs version. Determined to hear an unaccompanied trad singer #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
So… whats the difference between folk and pop, if it’s on’t radio like this – is there a ‘sound’ of folk? #folk6music
Juliet @byefornoww
@BBC6Music A bit of Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar would definitely be appreciated by all #Folk6Music
Breaking More Waves @BMWavesBlog
Been enjoying the #Folk6Music show on the radio tonight. Missed the start – have we had any Unthanks yet? If not we need some!
boballen @bob_o_a
Phil chevrons thousands are sailing played friday at his funeral. A terrible beauty. #Folk6Music
Leonora Thomson @leothomson
Now about some American Song Train? Think might need a second programme??? #folk6music
jo jones @jonsi58
#folk6music where are morris tunes or step dances?
Fay Hield @fayhield
“@ScrivensB: @fayhield Irish folk music = twiddly diddly. English folk music = Rumpty tumpty!!” Disscus #folk6music
geraint evans @geraintwales
Enjoying this, but how about The Men They Couldn’t Hang? “Ballard of Cable Street”? @TMTCHmusic #folk6music
mark edwards @drmarkedwards
Trembling Bells surely #Folk6Music they’re modern and they’re classic. ‘when i was young’
Dave Jameson @DavidJamesonUK
@BBC6Music @fayhield #folk6music the mandolin-driven splendour of Geordie in Wonderland by @TheWildhearts is the Ultimate in modern folk
Liz Ixer @LizIxer
Also #folk6music have you played Chris Wood’s Hollow Point?
Anne Groucott @AnneGroucott
#Folk6Music Hanging Johnny by The Futureheads would be great.
Neil Murray @NTS_Neil
@ClareTasker Starting to get cross now, Clare! #CelticConnections #Folk6Music
anna twigganna @annatwigg
#Folk6Music How about some Alasdair Roberts? He has the most beautiful and haunting voice. Maybe Farewell Sorrow?
Fay Hield @fayhield
Can I eat my tea yet – hand hurts. Constant tweeting is hard work! #itsahardlife #folk6music
Glyn Everett @glynjamyn
@PlonitbatPlonit #folk6music agree something from Penguin Eggs but humpback whale goes on and on – how about Canadee-i-o?
Nathalie Clare @folkiebird
#Folk6Music Perhaps some David Gibb and Elly Lucas, Nic Jones, Sandy Denny, Lisa Hannigan, Kate Rusby?
Neil Murray @NTS_Neil
You have forgotten you are are a UK station and not just English. #CelticConnections #Folk6Music
invisibleboy74 @invisibleboy74
It would be good to hear how people can do interesting things with the genre #Folk6Music for example bad shepherds-sound of the suburbs
Morwenna @morwenna_g
Blimey, every weekend should end on this note.. #folk6music
The Craftwork Studio @potterylizzie
Woody Guthrie
‘I aint got no home’
The patron saint of folk….after Cecil Sharp and Mr J Boden of course
#Folk6Music
Tim Collins @timpcollins
Great to hear Steeleye on #Folk6Music, can’t go wrong. Would be great to hear Autopsy by Fairport. Could be the most beautiful song ever IMO
Fay Hield @fayhield
Ha! Diddley.com is a thing! Not so much about the folk though… #folk6music
Ant savage @Antsavage2
@BBC6Music new folky newbie gu.com/p/3tpt6 #folk6music
Neil Murray @NTS_Neil
You have forgotten you are are a UK station and not just English. #CelticConnections #Folk6Music
Claire Latham @guitar73girl
#Folk6Music Woody Guthrie – Pretty Boy Floyd
jo jones @jonsi58
#folk6music the Unthanks
Joe Fitzmaurice @Cloughwoodfired
As great as Pretty Boy Floyd is, Dust cant’ kill me sums up Woody so well #Folk6music
Liz Ixer @LizIxer
Also #folk6music have you played Chris Wood’s Hollow Point?
Dotty McDot @_Fruit_Loop
#Folk6Music taking my mind off stuff. Did requests but no harm here too! Anaïs Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer – anything from Child Ballads.
Helen J @helga_j
It’s Sunday, we have to go back to office tomorrow, surely you should include Artificial by Martha Tilston? #folk6music #sleepdrifting
Peter Whiting @PNWhiting
Woody Guthrie favourite in our family has to be 2 good Men although the kids love The Car Song! #Folk6Music
Dotty McDot @_Fruit_Loop
#Folk6Music taking my mind off stuff. Did requests but no harm here too! Anaïs Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer – anything from Child Ballads.
Chris @underwurldchris
Not impressed with the #Folk6Music – The Ultimate Folk Playlist. Obvious choices but great to see Seth Lakeman and Fleet Foxes.
Lynda Cochrane @cochrane_l
#Folk6Music @cochrane_l: Jan & Lorraine- Gypsy people. A mysterious duo who created one amazing record
Fay Hield @fayhield
I would probably marry Maddy Prior though if she asked. Such an inspiration. Frankie Armstrong did smashing version of this too #folk6music
J Mac @Casette_Playboy
Lia ices ‘ice wine’ is definitely worth consideration. In regards to Mumford and sons, don’t do it! Love u guys #Folk6Music
Stef Lewandowski @stef
@6music #folk6music with autumn suddenly upon us and Halloween right round the corner, please play Season of the Witch by Donovan!
sara scott-rivers @sarascottrivers
@BBC6Music how about some Circulus? Medieval folk with a nonny nonny! #Folk6Music
Gareth @gaz8080
Pretty Boy Floyd please! #Folk6Music
James Aldridge @JamesAldridge12
#Folk6Music please play Midwest farm disaster by bob Martin, a classic from 1972
Liz Ixer @LizIxer
Pretty Boy Floyd by Woody Guthrie #folk6music
Ian Syme @ianmsyme
#folk6music Pentangle….Bruton Town..???
Tom Sadler @tsadler2
Please some Nic Jones @penguineggs. Either Lakes of Shilin or Canadee-I-O #folk6music
Jon Dils JJ Carroll @jjdilscarroll
@BBC6Music Go Betweens track pleeeease (Bye Bye Pride off Tallulah album ?) Brill show, Jon, Uckfield #Folk6Music
Joshy @JoshRoweTheatre
Would love to hear ‘The ballad of George Collins’ by Sam Lee #Folk6Music
gingergeezer @gingergeezer
#Folk6music Woody Guthrie; HAS to be ‘This land is your land’
Joanna Stephens @Joanna_Stephens
Has anyone mentioned @jackieoates yet? May the Kindness is a favourite track. #Folk6Music
Juicebox Live @Juicebox_Indie
@beanstoast please! #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
See, he’s into his folk rock. Gone off him #folk6music
Tom Sadler @tsadler2
Please some Nic Jones @penguineggs. Either Lakes of Shilin or Canadee-I-O #folk6music
Kristy Highfield @KristyHighfield
#Folk6Music get some James Findlay played. So dedicated to folk, he sings traditional songs in the shower!
Shelley Jane @ShelleyJaneT
@BBC6Music please play anything by David Gibb and Elly Lucas – young and fresh but classic and very very talented. #folk6music
Julia Payne @juliaatthehub
What about some Sams?! @samleesong or @samcartermusic Or the brilliant and scarily young @benandalfie #Folk6Music
Phil Smith @Phil__Smith
woody guthrie – i aint got no home in this world anymore! #Folk6Music
Mark Goodrich @MarkyGoodrich
How about Sing Unto Me by @Moulettes1? Most interesting new folkish group in a long time. #folk6music (Mumford bassist features with them)
Lesley @EnglishFolkfan
@LizziMichael You can listen to Folk ‘every’ Sunday 6-8pm on @GenevieveTudor Sunday Folk @BBCShropshire online and iplayer 🙂 #folk6music
Eloise Roberts @lefthandof
If they haven’t played @kathryn_sean yet then something is very wrong with the world. ‘S all I’m saying. #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
Ah, isn’t he lovely? #folk6music
geraint evans @geraintwales
Enjoying this, but how about The Men They Couldn’t Hang? “Ballard of Cable Street”? @TMTCHmusic #folk6music
Emilia Owen @Emilia_Owen
Hurrah!!!! Jon Boden!!!! #folk6music
Ant savage @Antsavage2
@BBC6Music 21st century folk soundcloud.com/antsavage/a #folk6music #giveitaplay
Ryan Allen @Ryanteach
I will wait – mumford #Folk6Music
Juliet @byefornoww
@BBC6Music A bit of Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar would definitely be appreciated by all #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
Bellowhead = diddley.com #folk6music
margaret hinchcliffe @mub60
What a fantastic programme – spoilt for choice!! #folk6music
Tim Collins @timpcollins
Have no issue with Mumfords, but don’t think #Folk6Music is for them, got enough exposure in mainstream, nice to hear something different!
The Craftwork Studio @potterylizzie
@MerryHell_band
Wigans finest and two fantastic collections of folk punk love songs.
‘Bury Me Naked’
Matt Cartledge @mjcartledge
Bellowhead on ! Always a big favourite with @TheRockClubUK ????#Folk6Music
Clare Tasker @ClareTasker
@NTS_Neil #Folk6Music we need a good bothy ballad!
Sarah Howells @wispagirl
Why not play @Blackbeards_TP for #Folk6Music ?? xx
Jessica Pagram @JPagram
#Folk6Music lovely evening so far but love to hear either capercaillie take the floor or Sharon Shannon Galway girl
Lizzi Michael @LizziMichael
“You’ll have to get up early to be smarter than a whore!’ Loving #Folk6Music this evening. Let’s have this every Sunday please?
Fay Hield @fayhield
I quite fancy this singer #folk6music
Calli Snowdon @CalSno
Fabulous @Bellowhead choice *jigs around the kitchen* #folk6music
BBC Radio 6 Music
Lots of you are suggesting Woody Guthrie – but which track should we play? #Folk6Music
Joe Fitzmaurice @Cloughwoodfired
Just tuned in so I’ll listen back, but to hear World turned upside down sung by Dick Guagan on would be sensational #Folk6music
Leonora Thomson @leothomson
@potterylizzie will they or won’t they?? #folk6music Oh Brother ….
Clare Tasker @ClareTasker
@Yorkrose #Folk6Music deffo need something akin to a shanty on a folk playlist.
Richard Weir @CarlisleBeer
@BBC6Music #folk6music cover of Silver Dagger by @tmtch is really gorgeous & a well worthy of inclusion. Please 🙂
Judith Green @PlonitbatPlonit
Play Nic Jones Humpback Whale, fabulous song. #6music #Folk6Music #folk
Capn Dave @tattooboat
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music
Levellers : Riverman
For all the free roving boaters listening 😉
Duncan Wainscott @folkyvale
“@geraintwales: In defence of Mumford, I wonder how many people got into folk through their music? #folk6music” Well said!
Eloise Roberts @lefthandof
Finally turned on BBC 6 Music to the welcome sound of New York Girls by @Bellowhead. YES. #Folk6Music
Andy Jones @Neurosapien
I dare you to play Dick Gaughan singing Erin-go-Bragh or Craigie Hill. And I dare you thence not to weep like a child. #Folk6Music
GregR&CiaranA @GregRCiaranA
Radio 6 Music are having a whole show dedicated to great folk tracks at 6pm. Use the hashtag #Folk6Music to vote for your favourites!
Eloise Roberts @lefthandof
@fayhield @KatePahl @kerrfagan @concertinarob thirded! I’d not heard this before. Brilliant. #Folk6Music
Tanya Butchers @Greentarnie
Any chance of some Unthanks? #Folk6Music
Angie H @Lowlandslady
Diddly enough for you @fayhield ? 😉 #Greatstuff #Bellowhead #Folk6Music
Rotorbabe Recordings @rotorbabe
No #Folk6Music playlist would be complete without Traffic’s “John Barleycorn Must Die” (the Family back catalog’s gotta be worth a look too)
Helen J @helga_j
It’s Sunday, we have to go back to office tomorrow, surely you should include Artificial by Martha Tilston? #folk6music #sleepdrifting
Tanya Butchers @Greentarnie
Any chance of some Unthanks? #Folk6Music
geraint evans @geraintwales
In defence of Mumford, I wonder how many people got into folk through their music? #folk6music
MJB @Yorkrose
#folk6music Have to have someone in an Aran jumper – Clancy Bros or some Greenland whaling song?
Julia Payne @juliaatthehub
See report we worked on with the AFO:takingpartinthearts.com/content.php?co… Even in 2003 350 festivals generated a £77m spend.Niche music eh?! #Folk6Music
The EFDSS @TheEFDSS
@fayhield is live tweeting about #folk6music on … follow and join the conversation! #thefullenglish ^S
Eloise Roberts @lefthandof
@fayhield @KatePahl @kerrfagan @concertinarob thirded! I’d not heard this before. Brilliant. #Folk6Music
AnnieSphere @AnnieSphere
Loved Country Life by Show of Hands on . #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
Some great tweets of what folk means to you. Course you’re all right, perfect question. #folk6music
Alice Handscomb @alyinwonderland
Christie Moore’s “don’t forget your shovel” rlhas the perfect ability to be sung by anyone and gives me tingles everytime #Folk6Music
Angie H @Lowlandslady
@fayhield A bit samey so far. Wot no Coppers? #Folk6Music
gingergeezer @gingergeezer
#Folk6music Mumford & Sons make the case for being not seen and not heard independent.co.uk/arts-entertain…
Jon Wright @JournoJon
Discovered Seize the Day at glasto many years back. Mastercard or some such, well ahead if banking crisis #Folk6Music
margaret hinchcliffe @mub60
let’s have Dave Burland! #folk6music
Anna @Annatheforager
@fayhield I think it’s more a feeling than a sound. Hard to define, but I know whether it’s there or not. #Folk6Music
Anna O’Rourke @AnnaORourke
#Folk6music Woody Guthrie. Or Wilco & Billy Bragg’s recording of Guthrie’s material
MJB @Yorkrose
#folk6music Steeleye Span or The Spinners – their TV programmes in the 70s introduced many to folk
Bellowhead @Bellowhead
Help us help pick a track for their ‘Ultimate Folk Playlist’ – Any ideas? Let them know using #Folk6Music
Roger Margerison @Willastonrog
#folk6music The next generation. Blair dunlop forever the pawn
emm @emmasbouzouki
@BBC6Music Wow this song is great #Folk6Music love a good protest song???? #countrylife
Kate Pahl @KatePahl
#folk6music I want to hear some @elizacarthy and @folksongaday especially the fantastic Worcester City amazon.co.uk/Anglicana-Eliz…
Katy O’Malley @katyomalley
How about a Faustus tune – blow the windy morning would do nicely? #folk6music
Dan Olner @DanOlner
Anything from Jon Hopkins / king creosote, diamond mine. Another case of awesome folk/electronic. #Folk6Music
Caroline Holland @pipistrelle
Oh, rather enjoying #Folk6Music as I work. Who knew?
Duke Silver @dribblingfram
What do we think of The Burns Unit’s ‘Send Them Kids To War’? Folk or folk off? #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
Modal melodies, ornamentation, acoustic instruments, not so much here, so what is it? Or why isn’t it pop. Or is it?!? #folk6music
The Craftwork Studio @potterylizzie
Oooooo Country Life….
Nice one 6 rising to a challenge
A very happy Pottery Lizzie!
Neil Murray @NTS_Neil
Given strength of folk music in Scotland, wilful ignorance of any artists from here. Eg #BertJansch #EddiReader #MichaelMarra #Folk6Music
Lucy @schokomilch_
@BBC6Music @MumfordAndSons maybe not but @GregRCiaranA definitely SHOULD BE #Folk6Music
Kristy Highfield @KristyHighfield
#Folk6Music get some James Findlay played. So dedicated to folk, he sings traditional songs in the shower!
Tim Collins @timpcollins
Can we hear beautiful voice of @MarthaTilston on #Folk6Music playlist? Brighton Song on Bimbling always makes me miss my time living there!
Matt @bongbrummie
“: Should @MumfordAndSons be included in the #Folk6Music on Now Playing tonight? If not, why?” Just ‘because’
Leonora Thomson @leothomson
@thh76 HA!! Can’t believe they read me out…much screaming in my kitchen! Are you going to turn off or not…?! #folk6music
Fay Hield @fayhield
So… whats the difference between folk and pop, if it’s on’t radio like this – is there a ‘sound’ of folk? #folk6music
Julia Payne @juliaatthehub
Great to hear all manner of folk music and musings on Tom Robinson show right now. #Folk6Music
GregR&CiaranA @GregRCiaranA
#Folk6Music Guessing some Irish folk is out of the question? Would love some Lunasa…
Kate Rooney @blueski11
Play anything from the excellent Folk is not a 4 letter word lp, maybe By the Sea by Wendy & Bonnie #Folk6Music
Mark Goodrich @MarkyGoodrich
If you have any interest in folk/roots music at all, you need to be listening to #folk6music right now!
Lucy @schokomilch_
PLEASE JUST A LITTLE GREG AND CIARAN!!!!!! #Folk6Music
Natalie McVey @NarrowNatalie
Rachel Unthank and The Winterset ‘Blackbird’ please Gid. #Folk6Music
Angie H @Lowlandslady
Compulsory Billy-bloody-Bragg #Folk6Music
Steven Jacobs @Jakedrum
Ooh, & some proper unaccompanied English folk – The Keelers keelers.net – #folk6music
Ken Tait @ken_tait
Can we have something from Alan Lomax’s American Folk Archive? Woody and This Land would be best but anything you choose is fine #Folk6music
Fay Hield @fayhield
Some great tweets of what folk means to you. Course you’re all right, perfect question. #folk6music
Anna @Annatheforager
@BBC6Music No Mumfords please, but @Bellowhead and @FaustusFolk would be most welcome! #Folk6Music
Anne Groucott @AnneGroucott
#Folk6Music Need to hear more squeeze boxes and fiddles pleeeeeeze! 🙂
Simon Vaughan @smnvghn
@BBC6Music No please don’t do it they are just not needed #Folk6Music
Steve Robson @Robbosoken
#folk6music How about some @fayhield herself
Mr Moosehead @mr_moosehead
Oh, and check out @plumhall #Folk6Music *waves*
Cousin Jac @cousinjacmusic
We definitely need a folk show on the radio – the tradition progresses. Very welcome conversation this!!#Folk6Music
Trevor Pake @trevorpake
#folk6music surely a folk playlist this week of all weeks can’t go by without something by The Pogues as a tribute to Phil Chevron.
Andrew McMINN @andrewmcminn
A folk show on #Folk6Music #LetsMakeItHappen #Folk
Cousin Jac @cousinjacmusic
another folk show i mean 🙂 #Folk6Music
Duncan Wainscott @folkyvale
“@Vino_73: #Folk6Music how about some First Aid Kit?” Emmylou please.
Neil Murray @NTS_Neil
@fayhield Agreed. Not English, but Hayes and Cahill, ‘The Minstrel Boy’. #Folk6Music
George @mumblingwomble
@BBC6Music Mumford & Sons make commercial pop songs. I doubt history will be kind to them. Laura Marling is far better…. #folk6music
Jessie Petheram @JessiePetheram
@BBC6Music Bellowhead please #Folk6Music
BBC Radio 6 Music
Should @MumfordAndSons be included in the #Folk6Music on Now Playing tonight? If so, what track? If not, why?
Neal Potter @internet_chap
#Folk6Music Nice to hear @Cocoslovers on six music! We’ve had many a good time accompanied by their music.
Lucy @schokomilch_
PLEASE JUST A LITTLE GREG AND CIARAN!!!!!! #Folk6Music
Mr Moosehead @mr_moosehead
Even more awesome would be to hear some old Therapy? (not welsh rockers) with Dave Shannon (RIP) #Folk6Music
Helen Garrett @Helen_Garrett
@BBC6Music Don’t know but I loved it! #Folk6Music
Andy L @Vino_73
#Folk6Music how about some First Aid Kit?
Cousin Jac @cousinjacmusic
We definitely need a folk show on the radio – the tradition progresses. Very welcome conversation this!!#Folk6Music
Angie H @Lowlandslady
Dylan TTTAA-C – who else remembers having their mind blown by this in 1964? #Folk6Music #justme?
Andy L @Vino_73
#Folk6Music how about some First Aid Kit?
Clare Tasker @ClareTasker
@fayhield I would like to hear about someone being lost at sea, or a broken love token 🙂 #Folk6Music
Andrew McMINN @andrewmcminn
A folk show on #Folk6Music #LetsMakeItHappen #Folk
Abi Gilmore @Abi_Gilmore
@artistsmakers they’ve been the cause of many a wonky singalong with small children in our kitchen 🙂 #Folk6Music
Mr Moosehead @mr_moosehead
Hmm. Big roast dinner cooked and consumed, then Matty Groves on #Folk6Music as I’m tidying up. Heaven.
Andy Jones @Neurosapien
#Folk6Music. Play Mumfords just so we can fairly compare to The Watersons or Copper Family perhaps. The truth will out.
Kjavez @Kjavez
Iwillwaitiwillwaitforyou.I vote for astral weeks by van the man. Go six music go! #Folk6Music
jo jones @jonsi58
#Folk6Music some shanties?
James Cook @jimi1805
I’d switch off if i heard Mumford & Sons being played! #Folk6Music
Shelly Asquith @ShellyAsquith
Peeps sayin they’ll turn off #Folk6music if Mumford & Scum features.. too right, but I was already tempted when Noah and the wail came on..
Joseph Downie @josephdownie
Who Know Where the Time Goes – Fairport Convention – has to be played! #Folk6Music If not, what about smthing by Trembling Bells/Mike Heron?
The Craftwork Studio @potterylizzie
‘Thosands are Sailing’ in tribute to Phil Chevron?
Exquisite songsmith.
Duncan Wainscott @folkyvale
#Folk6Music One of the best things the BBC did for folk music was dumping @HardingMike from R2. The result is his wonderful weekly podcast.
Fay Hield @fayhield
I love the sound if all this music, but wouldn’t turn my nose up at some more trad. songs or diddley #folk6music
Lesley @EnglishFolkfan
@jimcausley Blimey! Hm, with 2 hours of #folk6music tonight maybe @GaryBarlow @TheXFactor have realised what real singing is 😉
Matt Stinchcombe @ra_ra_rasputin
@BBC6Music @MumfordAndSons just no… We get forced to listen during the week… Synday is our safe day, pleas don’t ruin that! #Folk6Music
Daniel Gilbert @Dan_Gilbert
#Folk6Music can we have Angie by Bert Jansch please?
MartTJC @MartTJC
@WhatsOn6Music Admiral Fallow – yes. Mumfords – no #Folk6Music
amy(chapman)mcinerny @Amzibeth78
If I Had a Hammer by Pete Seeger #Folk6Music would be a little bit lovely
Mr Moosehead @mr_moosehead
Oh, and check out @plumhall #Folk6Music *waves*
Steven Jacobs @Jakedrum
Don’t you grieve – @royharp I misunderstood – @RthompsonMusic & anything by @TymonDogg & Christy Moore #folk6music
Fay Hield @fayhield
I love the sound if all this music, but wouldn’t turn my nose up at some more trad. songs or diddley #folk6music
Alexander Thomas @Ali_tastelock
@BBC6Music please play Kate Rusby; underneath the stars, thanks! @RWaterworth #Folk6Music
The Craftwork Studio @potterylizzie
No!
No Mumfords.
Please no!
Kate Lewis @_KateLewis
Switching #folk6music off if they put Mumfords on
Sal @MirandaKitten
@BBC6Music The Ballad Of John Collins by Sam Lee please Tom… #Folk6Music NO MUMFORDS ! 🙂
gingergeezer @gingergeezer
#Folk6Music Tom – hail the massive influence of Davy Graham’s album ‘Folk Blues and Beyond – how about ‘I can’t keep from cryin’ sometimes’
emm @emmasbouzouki
@forfolkssake what did Mumford ever do to anyone! They are folk just not in the traditional sense! #givethemabreak #Folk6Music
Thomas Hardy @thh76
@BBC6Music I have to decide whether to turn off #folk6music to go to @WalthamstowFolk Andy Irvine playing – so Planxty please! @leothomson
Joseph Downie @josephdownie
Who Know Where the Time Goes – Fairport Convention – has to be played! #Folk6Music If not, what about smthing by Trembling Bells/Mike Heron?
Thomas Gething @tomgething42
ignore the naysayers, put on some Mumford and sons 😀 #Folk6Music
Lynn Burgess @lynnburgess99
#folk6music forget mumfords, Sam Lee great new folkie, amazing arrangements
Lydia Glanville @lydiaglanville
Resisting getting into debates about what constitutes folk with fellow tweeters #Folk6Music I suspect my views are controversial.
Roger Jeffery @rogerdjeffery
#Folk6Music NO THANKS mumford
Andy L @Vino_73
#Folk6Music sorry but the Mumfords are folk by numbers and shouldn’t be included, in my opinion.
Mr Moosehead @mr_moosehead
@BBC6Music Would love to hear something by Lindisfarne – Lady Eleanor or Meet me on the corner #Folk6Music
Lesley @EnglishFolkfan
@EYBev In someone’s fav phrase on larks’a’candlefording “tis my only weakness” 😉 @BBCShropshire #folk6music
KingDommy @KingDommy
follk flavoured=juice flavoured drink #annoyed #folk6music
Allan David Gardner @allandgardner
@BBC6Music Eluveitie; folk metal at its very best! #Folk6Music
Christopher Reid @chris_reid_esq
@BBC6Music Of course Mumford and Sons can’t be on a #Folk6Music playlist! Totes innapropes…
BBC Radio 6 Music
Should @MumfordAndSons be included in the #Folk6Music on Now Playing tonight? If so, what track? If not, why?
Louise Banks @louisecbanks
No, no Mumford & Sons please they are horrendous #Folk6Music
Rick Edmondson @BanalPoetry
Could you play something from Peter Bellamy’s Folk Opera ‘The Transports’, perhaps “Once Lived In Service” #Folk6Music
Leonora Thomson @leothomson
No – I don’t want to hear Mumfords, despite liking them. This programme is a chance to hear new (to me!) and amazing stuff.#folk6music
amy(chapman)mcinerny @Amzibeth78
NO THANKS to m&s (band not supermarket) #folk6music #pleasedontruinmyweekend
The Craftwork Studio @potterylizzie
‘Thosands are Sailing’ in tribute to Phil Chevron?
Exquisite songsmith.
Daniel Gilbert @Dan_Gilbert
#Folk6Music NO MUMFORD> NEVER
John Sprackland @johnsprackland
…into Bellowhead’s version of ‘Up to the Rigs’ #Folk6Music
Folk Radio UK @FRUK
“@fayhield: Bright Phoebus project sounds amazing play some of that! #folk6music” totally. Would be great!
GregR&CiaranA @GregRCiaranA
#Folk6Music Guessing some Irish folk is out of the question? Would love some Lunasa…
Jan Cole @pudlover
@jimcausley @GaryBarlow @TheXFactor (we’re all listening and suggesting folk songs to #Folk6Music on 6Music Jim)
Fay Hield @fayhield
Where do you folk? Radio, CDs, folk club, festival? Its all in the doing – get yourself joined in #folk6music
John Sprackland @johnsprackland
#Folk6Music Please, a taste of the pure tradition, from @TopicRecords Voice of the People, Charlie Wills singing ‘Up to the Rigs’ segued..
KingDommy @KingDommy
NONONONO not folk. Dylan is at best (1st) world music. #Folk6Music
Rick Edmondson @BanalPoetry
@BBC6Music haha people in folk clubs will be gnashing their teeth at this choice, #Folk6Music, I love Dylan
Fay Hield @fayhield
Love listening to this. Amazing songwriter and singer. I’m dancing now anyway (not the morris). #folk6music
Klaus Harvey @klausharvey
#Folk6Music After Fairport’s ‘Matty Groves’ we now need Planxty’s ‘Little Musgrave’.
Katie Ledger @Whatkatiediddo
How about Lisa’s Dylan-esk song from the dental plan Simpsons episode? #folk6music
The Craftwork Studio @potterylizzie
@leothomson
I’m so with you on ‘Oh Brother….’
‘Constant Sorrow?’
Folk Radio UK @FRUK
@BBC6Music that interview with @Cocoslovers mentioned can be found here #Folk6Music folkradio.co.uk/2013/10/cocos-…
Duncan Wainscott @folkyvale
#Folk6Music How’s about a bit of Joan Baez? The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down will do nicely!
Charlotte Corday @theartyassassin
#Folk6Music If folk music is about music for the people by the people that challenges social convention, Public Enemy Fight the Power.
Leonora Thomson @leothomson
Agree! RT @stu_e_hughes: #folk6music is the perfect way to end the weekend. Every Sunday night should be folk night.
Mat @here_comes_B
@tomwaitsripoff #Folk6Music so good on the Watchmen titles 😉
The Craftwork Studio @potterylizzie
@MerryHell_band
Wigans finest and two fantastic collections of folk punk love songs.
‘Bury Me Naked’
mary stevens @amarystevens
Loving #folk6music – could be improved with a bit of Mountain Firework Company though.. youtube.com/watch?v=tWQ_cD…
Bill Wood @Miasmalistic
Colours by @TMTCHmusic – just a classic piece of their incredible repertoire 30 years and still strong #Folk6Music
tomwaitsripoff @tomwaitsripoff
Can’t go wrong with Bob Dylan. #Folk6Music
Folk Radio UK @FRUK
@BBC6Music that interview with @Cocoslovers mentioned can be found here #Folk6Music folkradio.co.uk/2013/10/cocos-…
Stu @stu_e_hughes
#folk6music is the perfect way to end the weekend. Every Sunday night should be folk night.
Elly Lucas @ellylucas
Fab to hear @Cocoslovers on for #Folk6Music tonight! Flashbacks to a very soggy Derbyshire festival a few years ago… #ohthemud
Leonora Thomson @leothomson
“I’ll fly away” from Oh Brother Where art thou, with Alison Krauss & Gillian Welch. Or anything from that soundtrack. Pleeese. #folk6music
jo jones @jonsi58
#Folk6Music oxford folk club
Lynn Burgess @lynnburgess99
#folk6music mercury nominated classic folk Sam Lee
The Khan Assembly @theKhanAssembly
James yorkston and the Athletes – st Patrick or any king creosote #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
Where do you folk? Radio, CDs, folk club, festival? Its all in the doing – get yourself joined in #folk6music
Katy O’Malley @katyomalley
Nearly in heaven listening to Matty Groves, requesting anything by Bellowhead as that would be perfect!!! #folk6music
Folk Radio UK @FRUK
Well done @Cocoslovers #Folk6Music
Lau Esta @choriambe
@6music #Folk6Music speaking of Dylan there’s that beautiful Pretty Saro song from Another Self Portrait – covering all shades of folk
Stu @stu_e_hughes
#folk6music is the perfect way to end the weekend. Every Sunday night should be folk night.
Alice Handscomb @alyinwonderland
Frank Turner’s Rivers is a beautiful folk song featuring breath taking vocals from Chris T-T #Folk6Music
gingergeezer @gingergeezer
BBC Radio 6 Music – Now Playing @6music, #Folk6Music – The Ultimate Folk Playlist bbc.in/1ebAVsa
Clare Tasker @ClareTasker
#Folk6Music The Dundee Ghost – Matt McGinn – for a bit of comic (?) relief. Makes me smile
Folk Radio UK @FRUK
Perfect. Nick Drake – River Man…a legend #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
@LadyLillyJane YES!!!!! #FOLK6MUSIC
Mat @here_comes_B
@fayhield #folk6music I think regional accents is 1 reason I like @nadineshah and @lanternstalk so much.
Angie H @Lowlandslady
Of course, you’ll include the Copper Family without being asked? #Folk6Music
Elly Lucas @ellylucas
Fab to hear @Cocoslovers on for #Folk6Music tonight! Flashbacks to a very soggy Derbyshire festival a few years ago… #ohthemud
BBC Radio 6 Music
The readers of @FRUK have selected @Cocoslovers as the artist which best reflects the alternative side of folk music. Agree? #Folk6Music
Nathan Shipley @oneeyenonose
One word. Three letters. Three majestic musicians. @LAUmusic! #Folk6Music
The Khan Assembly @theKhanAssembly
The low anthem – to ohio. #Folk6Music
Kate Mortimer @Mortegg
@Valerie_E_Moss You can’t help dancing to such music… Great programme. :)) #folk6music
Sarah Howells @wispagirl
Discovering some lovely folk music on tonight’s #Folk6Music Thank you!!
Jane Caddick @LadyLillyJane
So many great suggestions – one programme is not enough – deserves a series. #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
Can’t beat harmony singing. Best done pissed in a bar. Loudly. #folk6music
Kate Lewis @_KateLewis
Jigging around the living room with @rogerdjeffery to Fairport Convention on #folk6music #properfolk
Folk Radio UK @FRUK
Well done @Cocoslovers #Folk6Music
j.d.s. @JigsDigsSwigs
@fayhield #Folk6Music if fay says its on and worth dancing to, I need to get it iplayered later., thanks fay
Amy Ryall @amy_ryall
@fayhield I concur #Folk6Music Bright Phoebus is amazing.
Anna Wilson Hall @AnnaWilsonHall
#Folk6Music anything by Dan Haywood’s New Hawks or Nancy Elizabeth would go down a treat!
Fay Hield @fayhield
Thank God I’m from Yorkshire (could you tell?) #folk6music
Bill Wood @Miasmalistic
@BBC6Music how about some newer folk @MerryHell_band have had 2 cracking albums so far. NWOBFM? #Folk6Music
Clare Tasker @ClareTasker
#folk6music A version of Cruel Sister would be good (being an eldest sister myself!) Pentangle or Rachel Unthank and the Winterset?
Jessica Pagram @JPagram
@BBC6Music absolutely loving #folk6music making me wish the festival season would hurry up
Sandy Marks @SandyinBruton
#folk6music Seize the Day! Wonderful festival band, very underrated contemporary folk music.
Will Riding @naughtystep
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music Rain by Martin Stephenson & the Daintees. From Boat to Bolivia. Priceless.
Neil Murray @NTS_Neil
Never mind Canadians how about a Scot? The late great Bard of Dundee, Michael Marra’s ‘Mother Glasgow’. #Folk6Music
Anne Groucott @AnneGroucott
#Folk6Music How about Durham Gaol by @MegsonMusic Jenny of the Moor @jimmoray or anything involving the amazing Mr Jon Boden @folksongaday
Lesley @EnglishFolkfan
@fayhield Sorry am recording Full English #folk6music as loyally listening live to my local @GenevieveTudor Sunday Folk on @BBCShropshire 🙂
Fay Hield @fayhield
Love listening to this. Amazing songwriter and singer. I’m dancing now anyway (not the morris). #folk6music
Glyn Everett @glynjamyn
#folk6music 😀 Thank you! Chelsea Morning accompanied many of my 16-yr-old dawn wonders.
Andrew McMINN @andrewmcminn
Will The Waterboys and A Bang On The Ear at 7½ minutes make #Folk6Music ?
The Craftwork Studio @potterylizzie
Oooooo…..
@folkiebird nice choices sister!
amy(chapman)mcinerny @Amzibeth78
can’t get more sunday than Joni 🙂 @6music, #Folk6Music – The Ultimate Folk Playlist bbc.in/1ebAVsa
Fay Hield @fayhield
@CapnSkulduggery yep messages, communication, community – about the core values of people. #folk6music
Juliet @byefornoww
@StephanieWatts1 6 music are playing tonnes of folk stuff this evening! 🙂 #Folk6Music
Leonora Thomson @leothomson
#folk6music OMG they really are playing Chelsea Morning. Can’t believe it….
Glyn Everett @glynjamyn
“@potterylizzie: I challenge 6 to include ANY Show of Hands track!
Though Cousin Jack would make me extra happy. #Folk6Music” Agreed 🙂
Lesley @EnglishFolkfan
.@forfolkssake @freshnet Recording, as loyally listening live locally to @GenevieveTudor Sunday Folk @BBCShropshire #folk6music
Elly Lucas @ellylucas
@BBC6Music (The exhibition starts with a @gibbandlucas gig at @cecilsharphouse in January. More info at a later date!) #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
So, what is folk to you? #folk6music
Alastair Tomlinson @agtomlinson
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music the wonder stuff did a great cover of Will The Circle Be Unbroken. Or their own Golden Green @mileshuntTWS
Glyn Everett @glynjamyn
HOW did I forget? WIZZ JONES! He is legendlegendlegend #folk6music
zorny @zorny
#folk6music surprise yourself with chumbawamba. ‘Voices, That’s All’ ?
The Craftwork Studio @potterylizzie
I challenge 6 to include ANY Show of Hands track!
Though Cousin Jack would make me extra happy. #Folk6Music
Jan Cole @pudlover
#Folk6Music This is like an interactive folk club when is it actually OK to talk when the music is playing. Loving it…thanks 6Music
Nathalie Clare @folkiebird
#Folk6Music Suzanne- Leonard Cohen, Neptune- Poozies, Scarborough Fair- S&G, I’ll Fly Away- Gillian Welch, All I Want- Joni Mitchell
Fay Hield @fayhield
@tomcbrown indeed tradition isn’t about the past but the future #folk6music
Angie H @Lowlandslady
Ooh, I know! Ewan McColl – Shoals of Herring. It’s a song about folk #Folk6Music
Lynne Davies @CapnSkulduggery
I think folk is not just based in protest it is based in story telling and taking news from one place to another #Folk6Music
john @leightonbouy
@BBC6Music @freshnet You must play somethimng off of Pentangle “Basket Of Light”, “Light Flight” would be perfect
Glyn Everett @glynjamyn
@fayhield #folk6music Eek! Yes, I can hear the thunderous roll of tweets coming your way now… hey ho! Each to their own 🙂
Andrew McMINN @andrewmcminn
For the rockier side to #Folk6Music – The Levellers and What a Beautiful Day?
Jan Cole @pudlover
#Folk6Music This is like an interactive folk club when is it actually OK to talk when the music is playing. Loving it…thanks 6Music
Grace Hewitt @gracehewitt
Marry Waterson’s version of her mothers song Fine Horseman is so haunting…or play Bright Phoebus (my fave all time song) #Folk6Music
Abi Gilmore @Abi_Gilmore
#folk6music Folk Music is our “Commons” – Eliza Carthy ‘Little Big Man’ or Jim Moray ‘All of the Pretty Girls’ please (for Ava Beatrix) x
Anne Groucott @AnneGroucott
#Folk6Music anything by @samsweeney123 and @Clogbox please
Mike Eslea @mikeeslea
RT @folkyvale: #Folk6Music
Tom’s own version of I Shall Be Released is pretty sweet. Play yourself Tom!
Fay Hield @fayhield
Shhh now #folk6music
Tom Brown @tomcbrown
Both those songs are originals (future standards?) whose collective sensibility chimes with what I love about good trad songs. #folk6music
Fay Hield @fayhield
What a singer, storytelling at its best (just take the drums and bass out, no?) @folksongaday loves this #folk6music
Kate Mortimer @Mortegg
So glad our house is secluded when I am prancing around the cutainless kitchen to Fairport Convention.#folk6music
Jan Cole @pudlover
#Folk6Music Loving Lucy Ward’s For The Dead Men at the moment. A great example of a song capturing the current mood.
Julian Hancock @julianhancock
#Folk6Music widdecombe fair show of hands; chris wood hollowpoint ; j tabor band played w /mathilda; norma waterson once lived in service
Duncan Wainscott @folkyvale
#Folk6Music
Folk has its roots in Protest, hence:
Ewan MacColl: The Manchester Rambler
Dylan: I Shall Be Released
Luke Kelly: Joe Hill
Fi Cooper @FiNutbrown
“@fayhield: Bright Phoebus project sounds amazing play some of that! #folk6music” yes please, saw it Friday, completely fantastic!!
nehebo @Nehebo
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music what about PJ Harvey’s White Chalk album? Sounds folk-inspired to me.
Angie H @Lowlandslady
It’s all a bit samey so far. Let’s have an early 60s “protest” song. eg Come all ye Gallant Drivers (Bob Davenport) #Folk6Music
emm @emmasbouzouki
Any song by David Gibb and Elly Lucas would be much appreciated #Folk6Music #brilliantmusic
The Khan Assembly @theKhanAssembly
Bill Fay – never ending happening #Folk6Music
Anne Groucott @AnneGroucott
#Folk6Music anything by @samsweeney123 and @Clogbox please
The Craftwork Studio @potterylizzie
@billybragg – Woody Guthrie
‘Way over yonder in the minor key.’
Mermaid Avenue.
Makes a grown woman blubLydia Glanville @lydiaglanville
@BBC6Music How about something by @OldDanceSchool @theUFQ or @boat_to_row #birmingham is where it’s at for folk music. #Folk6Music
Tom Brown @tomcbrown
Couple of slightly more realistic suggestions for #folk6music: The Longshot by @MegsonMusic, or The Cottager’s Reply by @ChrisWood_Music.
Folk Radio UK @FRUK
“@fayhield: Bright Phoebus project sounds amazing play some of that! #folk6music” totally. Would be great!
The kitten @KittyPlato
#Folk6Music
Joanna newsome – Emily
Fay Hield @fayhield
Argh folk rock – this hurts me deeply. Amazing musicians, song & singer. Why why why rock it up? I’ll not make friends there #folk6music
Leonora Thomson @leothomson
And yes please to some Bright Phoebus. RT @fayhield: Bright Phoebus project sounds amazing play some of that! #folk6music
Jane Greenstock @greenstocking25
Jigging in the kitchen to Matty Groves – thanks #folk6music!
Freddie McConnell @fred_dash
Folk is the present and the future. youtu.be/9TgmrfHbZkM #Folk6Music
Andrew McMINN @andrewmcminn
What is folk? A story or traditional story simply performed. #Folk6Music
The Khan Assembly @theKhanAssembly
Tunngs surprise me #Folk6Music
Bobdemob @bobdemob
@BBC6Music @fayhield #folk6music
Feeling Oblivion by Turin Brakes
Dominick St by Steve Earle & Sharon Shannon (instrumental)
Both ACE!
For Folk’s Sake @forfolkssake
Everyone listening to @freshnet’s Ultimate Folk Playlist on ? #folk6music
Paul Little @Dukeleto77
Cmon Tom, A Good Lighter, so say we all! #Folk6music
The Lone Groover @lonegrooves
#folk6music The Lone Groover. Folk music for city dwellers. youtube.com/watch?v=VTKy7D…
emm @emmasbouzouki
That last song was great! I really enjoyed it! #Folk6Music #thefullenglish ????????????
Leonora Thomson @leothomson
Don’t think it’s a trad or trash scenario on #folk6music. Folk permeates so much music. No boundaries…how about some Pentangle?!
BBC Radio 6 Music
Follow @fayhield and her Tweets as she’s commenting on everything #Folk6Music right now
Fi Cooper @FiNutbrown
Even the five year old is demanding Fairport Convention #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
Bright Phoebus project sounds amazing play some of that! #folk6music
George @mumblingwomble
The Wild Rover by #Thedubliners is a great folk (and drinking) song. #folk6music. Or Thousands are Sailing by #thepogues?
Fay Hield @fayhield
@lsherrington1 @tomwaitsripoff the question on everyone’s lips… #folk6music
Sarah Roberts @Gossipmistress
@fayhield Did he just say ‘Portrait of my Y front’??!! #Folk6Music
The Craftwork Studio @potterylizzie
#Folk6Music
@jimmoray ‘All you Pretty Girls.’
Total folkie festival foostamper.
Please.
And a pint of Hobgoblin would be nice.
Cheers.
Quentin Holden @fjellman2
Dan Arborise – Days Even Years? #Folk6Music
Dan Olner @DanOlner
“Move” by Martyn Bennett, from album “Grit”. Techno folk that works. #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
Bright Phoebus project sounds amazing play some of that! #folk6music
Lina & Tom @liquidphotocouk
#Folk6Music For us, you MUST include the genius of @orkestradelsol in this playlist, for foot-stomping-cider-swilling-howlatthemoon folk!
morden haiku @hermonhermit
@BBC6Music #folk6music Chris Wood & Hugh Lupton’s One in a Million is perfect closer – story song based on trad tales of lost ring in a fish
Charlotte Corday @theartyassassin
#Folk6Music suppose there’s no chance of the 20 minute version of Calvary Cross by Richard Thompson. Failing that anything by the genius.
Duncan Wainscott @folkyvale
#Folk6Music
From t’other side of the pond:
Dylan: It Ain’t Me Babe
Springsteen: The Ghost of Tom Joad
Peggy Seeger: I Want To Be An Engineer
The kitten @KittyPlato
#Folk6Music
Terry callier – Lazarus man
Fay Hield @fayhield
Sorry regular followers for totally spamming your feed – commenting on 6music for Full English themed show, tune in and join in #folk6music
Wendy @WendJL
#Folk6Music She Moved Through The Fair by All About Eve would be great to hear
Mat @here_comes_B
@freshnet #Folk6Music here’s a pic of @theleftoutsides from their gig w/ lovely @maryepworth pic.twitter.com/HteGSocUC5
Elly Lucas @ellylucas
Want to have your say about folk music on tonight? Tweet them your song suggestions now! #Folk6Music
betachronica @alphachronica
What is folk? The soundtrack to hundreds of aspirational twee adverts for smoothies, phones, supermarkets and oil rigs HATE IT #Folk6Music
BBC Radio 6 Music
Follow @fayhield and her Tweets as she’s commenting on everything #Folk6Music right now
Ali Brown ?? @AliAquarius
Hi Tom please play New England by Billy Bragg! I saw him at the Sage gateshead once & Seth Lakeman was support 🙂 #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
And he’s just had twins! Congrats Seth #folk6music
James Cook @jimi1805
‘I Ain’t Got No Home’ by @billybragg (Woody Guthrie Cover) #Folk6Music
Andrew Mills @millsboy
@BBC6Music Led Zeppelin #Folk6Music
Lord Gid @LordGid
@BBC6Music And if you want raucous folk (and who doesn’t?) then New York Girls by Bellowhead is a massive winner. #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
Took the project totally to heart – totally Seth but totally folk too – I like the sound anyway. What do you think? #folk6music
Paul Little @Dukeleto77
Awww is that Seth Lakeman?? He sounds even younger than @ChrisGPackham! #Folk6Music
For Folk’s Sake @forfolkssake
Everyone listening to @freshnet’s Ultimate Folk Playlist on ? #folk6music
Mr & Mrs Wolf @WolfClose
#Folk6Music got to get a bit of @sheelanagig Balkan mayhem going, catweasel’s craic perhaps?
Angie H @Lowlandslady
@FiNutbrown O ye of little faith. I shall switch off if they include any bloody Mumfords #Folk6Music
peter boughton @wingsoftoast
Roy Harper – forever, John Martyn – Solid Air – both not strictly folk I guess #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
And he’s just had twins! Congrats Seth #folk6music
Liam Gavin @Liamchew
Nina Gordon -Straight outta Compton @6music #Folk6Music
Vinyl and Vintage @vinylandvintage
Island Records 68 – 74 #cantgowrong #Folk6Music
John Sprackland @johnsprackland
Folk = song/tune now collectively ‘owned’ rather than principally identified with originating singer/writer? #Folk6Music
Sal @MirandaKitten
@judypayne Oo ! Mention on #Folk6Music 🙂
Claire Latham @guitar73girl
#Folk6Music Wizz Jones – Bentley and Craig, Happiness was Free, First Girl I Loved
Kes Meek @KesMeek
Donovan, made folkies think they could make money out of the music, for first time. Poor Cow please. #Folk6Music Jansch innovated Don sold.
Andrew McMINN @andrewmcminn
For #Folk6Music how about the excellent 1952 Vincent Black Lightning by Richard Thompson #UnbelievableGuitarPlaying
Fay Hield @fayhield
This backing = not folk #folk6music
Anne Groucott @AnneGroucott
@fayhield My Boy Jack @LadyMaisery Testimony of Patience Kershaw @TheUnthanksThe Reckoning @STilston Tom Padgett @spiersandboden #Folk6Music
Nathalie Clare @folkiebird
#folk6music suggestions for your wonderful show: @RachelSermanni, @sophie_j_music, @katerusby, @RoarButler, @JoniMitchellcom, @gibbandlucas
Lynne Davies @CapnSkulduggery
#Folk6Music I would also class people like Ayub Ogada and Geoffrey Oryema as folk singers. African Folk but folk none the less.
andrew jarman-norris @ditasplaything
@BBC6Music left field but the mission deliverance , circles of stones , faries , avalon, pure folk. #folk6music drew in Weymouth
Caroline Binnie @caroline_binnie
@BBC6Music This Land…is maybe the best known but Hard Travelin’ would be a good choice. Or what about some Carter Family? #folk6music
Heather Absalom @HevAbsalom
Josh Ritter-Folk Bloodbath. Beautiful lyrics, beautiful tune, ultimate folk! #Folk6Music
Claire Latham @guitar73girl
#Folk6Music Roy Bailey – New Bell Wake, Roy Harris – Captain Wedderburn, Anne Briggs – Blakwaterside, Pentangle – The Cuckoo
The kitten @KittyPlato
#Folk6Music
gan to the kye. Unthanks.
jo jones @jonsi58
#Folk6Music hope they play some Homeservice, Steeleye Span, but enjoying it so far, well done all involved!
Paul Little @Dukeleto77
Or ” a good lighter” from Battlestar Galactoca season 1 OST? #Folk6Music
Chris Wilson @Chriskattom
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music anything by Vin garbutt!!? Fantastic live!
Tom Brown @tomcbrown
About time sorted the trad from the trash on this #folk6music playlist. Martin Carthy, Famous Flower of Serving Men: I dare you!
Grace Cole @Gracelikesfood
#Folk6Music Blair Dunlop – Blight&Blossom
Lina & Tom @liquidphotocouk
Kitty Jay by Seth Lakeman on #Folk6music One our all time favs! Incredible live, bow shredding action!
Elanor Forster @HobbitEl
@SethLakemanNews they like you on #Folk6Music
jonathan carter @attacktrail
@BBC6Music the Clash – Lose This Skin with Tymone Dogg #Folk6Music
Glyn Everett @glynjamyn
If we’re allowed to go ‘merican, Old Man Luedecke is a seriously wonderful banjo player #folk6music
Average Blond Guy @averageblondguy
@BBC6Music for #Folk6Music I suggest the version of Crooked Jack by the great Dick Gaughan, would be great to hear him on the radio.
Sara @WessexGirl
#folk6music Please don’t miss out Fairport Convention! ‘Now be Thankful’?
David Smith @djxsmith
#Folk6Music jake Thackeray The Poor Sod or Old Molly Metcalfe. genius
Elly Lucas @ellylucas
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music One of my absolute favourite songs when I was little: “Close It Down” by Wolfstone. Even better on re-listening now!
Paul Little @Dukeleto77
Loving all this Seth Lakeman #Folk6Music how about Minstrel Boy, from the Black Hawk Down OST?
Jane Caddick @LadyLillyJane
Yes! Still Seth Lakeman’s finest. #Folk6Music
Tom Sadler @tsadler2
@fayhield Christy tells a story in his autobiography about finding the lyric sheets on the floor of a pub! #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
Ah, its our Seth. Folk boy at heart def. And such drive – he’s a cool guy, I like him lots #folk6music
andrew jarman-norris @ditasplaything
@BBC6Music please don’t forget the levellers #folk6music drew in Weymouth
Grace Cole @Gracelikesfood
#Folk6Music Jim Moray- Sweet England
Lord Gid @LordGid
@BBC6Music Challenge you to play Joanna Law “First Time Ever…” (by Ewan MacColl) but as imagined by Coldcut on Journeys by DJ #Folk6Music
Graeme Castles @graeme_castles
Johnny Flynn, The Box, outrageously talented, don’t know if it might be called nu-folk. Don’t care, I like it. #Folk6Music
Jan Norton @pollygarter
#Folk6Music Nick Cave of course.
Scott Lloyd @scottlloydmusic
If you’re into your folk/singer-songwriter stuff. You may like my EP. Have a listen here for free!- #Folk6Music soundcloud.com/scottlloydmusic
Andrew McMINN @andrewmcminn
For #Folk6Music how about the excellent 1952 Vincent Black Lightning by Richard Thompson #UnbelievableGuitarPlaying
Fay Hield @fayhield
@KatePahl @kerrfagan @concertinarob second this one – amazing music #folk6music
Leanne Cairns @Nippercheese
#Folk6Music what about some punk/folk from Chumbawumba with Bella Ciao, excellent tune
Hilary Burkitt @hilaryburkitt
@BBC6Music would love to hear some Jeffrey Lewis – Roll Bus Roll is a favourite #folk6music
David Smith @djxsmith
#Folk6Music jake Thackeray The Poor Sod or Old Molly Metcalfe. genius
BBC Radio 6 Music
How about some non-folk artists, but who’ve been influenced by the folk ethos? #Folk6Music
Average Blond Guy @averageblondguy
@BBC6Music for #Folk6Music I suggest the version of Crooked Jack by the great Dick Gaughan, would be great to hear him on the radio.
AnnieSphere @AnnieSphere
As a relatively new’ish folk fan, I’m loving discovering ‘new to me’ tracks on #Folk6Music
Rosamund Hine @RosamundHine
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music Matty Groves by Fairport Convention!!
Charlotte Corday @theartyassassin
#Folk6Music what initially got me into English folk music was the heavy metal ending of Alison Gross by Steeleye Span.
Neil Murray @NTS_Neil
John Martyn ‘Couldn’t Love You More’ and for more trad ‘The Minstrel Boy’ Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill. Sublime. #Folk6Music
Mike Eslea @mikeeslea
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music Let’s have Folk Song Oblivion by the Phantom Band
Leanne Cairns @Nippercheese
Where the wild Roses Grow-Nick Cave and TBS with Kylie,from Murder Ballads, total folk.#Folk6Music
MJB @Yorkrose
#folk6music ” Will Atkinson ” or anything else by Kathryn Tickell
The Teacups @The_Teacups
@BBC6Music are doing a 2hr special on Folk Music and want your say! What would you choose as your favourite folk track? #Folk6Music
Kate Pahl @KatePahl
I am obsessed with Three Galleys by @kerrfagan and @concertinarob methera.bandcamp.com/track/three-ga… #Folk6Music raw and earthy folk at its best
Elly Lucas @ellylucas
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music I absolutely adore @bensollee’s cello driven brand of songwriting / performance. “Only a Song” a definite fave!
Agent X @eurospace
@BBC6Music Sometimes Always by jamc+hope sandoval would be a great choice #Folk6Music – it makes me reach for my lassoo
Glyn Everett @glynjamyn
Oh & of course of course, anything from Bright Phoebus, if you happen to have a good version of it! #folk6music
KingDommy @KingDommy
folk is politics, people, community. Not too much folk so far #folk6music
James Cook @jimi1805
Wouldn’t be folk night without a classic! An influence to many & absolute folk legend! ‘Woody Guthrie – This Land Is Your Land’ #Folk6Music
Lauren Razavi @LaurenRazavi
I picked the right Sunday to stay in and work at the laptop. @freshnet on is playing folk tunes for two hours #Folk6Music
Eva Christie @panwithin
Definitely artists like the waterboys, sandy denny, nick drake, runrig, capercaillie & ross ainslie. More radio 2 than 6 music #Folk6Music
Mike Eslea @mikeeslea
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music Or how about Modern Folk Song by the Strange Death of Liberal England?
Fay Hield @fayhield
Couldn’t really morris dance to this one. #folk6music
Chorlton Art Market @popupshopsuk
@BBC6Music I’m sorry, controversial I know: Nick Drake = male Dido. #overrated #Folk6Music
MarkFromhold @MarkFromhold
An admirably inclusive view of folk from @fayhield (if you’ve been involved in REF writing, EFDSS must be a 4* Impact case !) #Folk6Music
Elle Scott @ellestolemyname
the wrote and the writ by johnny flynn is such a simple yet beautiful song #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
@Lowlandslady good point – the Full English def leans that way obv. Good to play some more English/British if poss… #folk6music
Richard Cutler @therichcutler
Billy Bragg’s World Turned Upside Down is folktastic! #Folk6Music
Folk Radio UK @FRUK
Perfect. Nick Drake – River Man…a legend #Folk6Music
Mat @here_comes_B
@BBC6Music @freshnet #Folk6Music shoutout to the @forfolkssake Christmas Charity records. Lots of fine moments to be found there…
George @mumblingwomble
The Wild Rover by #Thedubliners is a great folk (and drinking) song. #folk6music. Or Thousands are Sailing by #thepogues?
All Pinky, No Brain @AllPinkyNoBrain
How about some Kate Rusby while I slave away in the kitchen? That’d be lovely #Folk6Music
Julian Barker @julianbarker
“@Marlanuk: #Folk6Music how about Hollow Point by Chris Wood?” Seconded
Andy Deighton @AndyDeightonJLC
#Folk6Music seeing @katerusby @TheBathsHall but I live in Lincoln – how about ‘Game Of All Fours for “I’m going down to #Lincoln ..”?
Glyn Everett @glynjamyn
#folk6music Oh & I’m sure Martin Simpson has been mentioned a hundred times but what the hey, I’ll do it again. Folk genius.
Calli Snowdon @CalSno
Or how about fabulous local band @Blackbeards_TP with Fathom The Bowl. First saw them busking on the streets, highly recomend #Folk6Music
Sara @WessexGirl
#Folk6Music Some Richard Thompson obv; how about ‘She Moves Through the Fair’ or ‘Beeswing’?
Clare Tasker @ClareTasker
#folk6music – Oooh, some Janet Russell please! Secretary’s song or Women o’ Dundee, as my fella’s a Dundonian
Fay Hield @fayhield
I love a whistle #folk6music
Mike Eslea @mikeeslea
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music I would love to hear some Stornoway eg the BBC Oxford version of Fuel Up youtube.com/watch?v=5xBaFv…
Grace Cole @Gracelikesfood
#Folk6Music John Lennon McCullagh – North South Divide!!
Lee Louie Williams @leewilliamsjr68
@BBC6Music Tim buckley – once I was #Folk6Music
Sarah Scott @TalkingTable
Loving #Folk6Music would love to hear The Box by Johnny Flynn
Fay Hield @fayhield
Song of love – universal theme #folk6music
Marcus Lancastle @Marlanuk
#Folk6Music how about Hollow Point by Chris Wood?
Anne Groucott @AnneGroucott
#Folk6Music Country Life ShowofHands Scarecrow @gilmoreroberts The One @samcartermusic,Lakes of Ponchartrain @msimpsonian Torsa @LAUmusic
Leanne Cairns @Nippercheese
#Folk6Music how about some of The Imagined Village-Tam Lyn Retold with the great poet Benjamin Zephaniah, a wonderfull folk collaboration
Delilah Burke @Delilah_Folk
Has there been any Johnny Flynn yet? Surely the missing link between trad and contemporary folk #Folk6Music
Claire Latham @guitar73girl
#Folk6Music Pete Morton – Another Train, Reg Meuross – And Jesus Wept, The Young Uns – Stockton Town / Love Song, Jez Lowe – Father Mallory
Glyn Everett @glynjamyn
#folk6music I’d love to hear some Shelagh McDonald after the Experience piece in the Guardian yesterday.
Lynne Davies @CapnSkulduggery
@6music #folk6music Eddie Reader – Blacksmith. I love Eddies voice. Not sure if anyone else would consider it Folk but I do.
R2-Dee2 #16 @deemontague
@BBC6Music Perhaps @OshJones_ and @RogerPlater can recommend some Welsh Folk… #Folk6Music
Hannah Overton @hearhovertonher
Hey @WhatsOn6Music lets have some Sandy Denny please Who Knows Where The Time Goes or French version of Listen Listen pls #Folk6Music
MJB @Yorkrose
#folk6music Anything by Spiers and Boden esp Bold Sir Rylas – a singalong spectacular
Derek Austin @delinbc
Shirley Collins just as the tide was flowing _ folk+psychedelic phasing! #folk6music
reg tubby @regtubby
#Folk6Music without a doubt The Mekons fit the bill, would love to hear A Dancing Master Such as Mr Confess on
Steve @dreistreifenz
@BBC6Music How about some David Bowie “Memories of a free festival”. Nowt wrong with that! #Folk6Music
Julian Barker @julianbarker
#Folk6Music Henry (4) and Molly (7) would love to hear Lillibulero from Broadside at full volume please before they go to bed at 7.
Mat @here_comes_B
@theleftoutsides @Nebuchanezer *everyone* should listen to the Left Outsides #Folk6Music
John Sprackland @johnsprackland
Yes, @DanOlner but how about John Martyn’s version of a real folk song instead – Spencer the Rover! #Folk6Music
Alex Pickard @pickard_alex
Would like to suggest ‘Harvey Gypsies’ by Kris Drever – great tune! #folk6music
Simon Scott @SDScotty74
@BBC6Music Tom Robinson #Folk6Music Surely pioneers of folk rock #FairportConvention must get a look in? Now Be Thankful…
Andy White @AndyWhite001
#Folk6Music. Please play Poor Murdered Women by the legendary Shirley Collins & The Albion Band. An example how true event inspired a song.
Grace Hewitt @gracehewitt
#folk6music keep it mainly trad folk! As much as I love the likes of Mumford Damien Rice Angus & Julia Stone etc they regularly get air play
cyborghawk @cyborghawk
#Folk6Music please play seth lakeman races to be king
Jon Mullins @jonnymull99
#Folk6Music why I love 6 music
Jen Lea @j3nl3a
How about some non-English #Folk6Music? Pekka Streng ‘Gilgames’ or ‘Puutarhassa’?
tim shelley @whitewineglug
@BBC6Music. World Freak Show @the_levellers #Folk6Music British Folk Rock at it’s finest. Still going strong!
Beth Anderson @roseofwinter
Really love the #Folk6Music project. As a Northumbrian pipes player who now lives in London, folk music is part of my soul and my story.
Padstersdad @padstersdad
#folk6music. 2468 motorway – fairport convention plus some guest vocalist – cropredy 2013
andrew jarman-norris @ditasplaything
@BBC6Music bellowhead lillibelerow , skinny lister 40 pound wedding or zeptepi king of the balladiers. #folk6music drew in Weymouth
Katie Ledger @Whatkatiediddo
@BBC6Music Billy Bragg – Take Down the Union Jack, political please #folk6music
heather downes @hettied49
#Folk6Music great song Sweet Thames Flow Softly by Jon Boden and Sam Sweeney. How about it?
Folk Radio UK @FRUK
Tune in to between 6:00 – 8:00pm today to hear the Ultimate Folk Playlist #Folk6Music + we’ll introduce the track we chose.
thomasjirsa @thomasjirsa
The ultimate folk playlist on bbc’s 6music? Why not playing John Smith – Salty and Sweet #folk6music youtube.com/watch?v=zmc15V…
Kieron Moyles @KieronMoyles
Interested in folk music? Tune into @freshnet on for their Ultimate Folk Playlist. #Folk6Music
Glyn Everett @glynjamyn
For End-of-the-Road style Folkmericana, the Barr Brothers are well well well worth a look! #folk6music
Tom Sadler @tsadler2
Christy Moore’s version of Little Musgrave (Fairport’s Matty Groves with different name) is sublime #Folk6Music @fayhield
Fay Hield @fayhield
On #folk6music now!
Scott Lloyd @scottlloydmusic
@BBC6Music you can’t have a folk playlist without mentioning Neil Young! It’s gotta be ‘Tell Me Why’ from ‘After the Goldrush’ #Folk6Music
Jane Greenstock @greenstocking25
If we’re talking folk music- can’t not feature Liege and Leaf by Fairport Convention. My pick would be Matty Groves #folk6music
Katie Ledger @Whatkatiediddo
@BBC6Music Billy Bragg – Take Down the Union Jack, political please #folk6music
Alex Cumming @alexcumming
@BBC6Music are asking you for your views on folk music and your favourite tracks! Tweet and take part! 🙂 #Folk6Music
Christopher Reid @chris_reid_esq
@BBC6Music Or for a thoroughly modern option for #Folk6Music you could always go for a Mountain Man track – “How’m I doing” is brilliant…
Glyn Everett @glynjamyn
And Nic Jones is of course the legend & should *never* be forgotten! #folk6music
Calli Snowdon @CalSno
Ooh! We need some @Bellowhead most amazing live band, how about Whiskey is the life of man? #Folk6Music
Keith @keithbchurch
This #folk6music thing definitely needs Bugbears by Darren Hayman. 17th century folk song reinterpreted in a modern accent.
Christopher Reid @chris_reid_esq
@BBC6Music Or Calvary Cross by Richard Thompson… Another classic for #folk6music (can you tell I’m a bit of a folk nerd…)
Julian Barker @julianbarker
“@CalSno: “@Al__S: please no fucking Mumfords #folk6music” Amen” Amen
Katie Teasdale @KatieTeasdale
@BBC6Music Meet on the Ledge by Fairport Convention please #Folk6Music
Sal @MirandaKitten
Loving the #Nowplaying show on #Folk6Music – a great theme ! 🙂
Neil Edgson Pottery @EdgsonPots
#folk6music How about For What It’s Worth by The Byrds? All the elements: political, meaningful, propagandist & informative. #wellcool
Alex Cumming @alexcumming
#Folk6Music One of my favourite english bands at the moment are @MelroseQuartet, Death of Nelson by Melrose Quartet would be brilliant!
Claire Latham @guitar73girl
#Folk6Music Mary Chapin Carpenter – Jubilee, Cockersdale – Normandy Orchards, Iris DeMent – Let the Mystery Be, Gillian Welch – Caleb Meyer
Glyn Everett @glynjamyn
For a contemporary take on the traditional, Carthy Hardy Farrell & Young can’t be beaten #Folk6music
Beth Anderson @roseofwinter
. Would love to hear some Kathryn Tickell, maybe Felton Lonnen; one of my favourites to play. #Folk6Music
David Little @djlittle
Some Richard Thompson must be in order. What about Cavalry Cross? #folk6music.
Kieron Moyles @KieronMoyles
Maybe it’s best to abandon #Folk6Music to those who think its anyone with acoustic instruments Differentiate tween folk & traditional music
Lynn Burgess @lynnburgess99
#Folk6Music June tabor young Walters
Delilah Burke @Delilah_Folk
@freshnet I’d love to hear a tune by the folky yet genre-defiant Polly and the Billets Doux! #Folk6Music
Tufty Sylvestris @tuftythecat
@BBC6Music Seven Long Years by Jim Moray. Folk music for people who don’t like folk music. Utterly magical too. #Folk6Music
Calli Snowdon @CalSno
“@Al__S: please no fucking Mumfords #folk6music” Amen
Christopher Reid @chris_reid_esq
@BBC6Music Or for a thoroughly modern option for #Folk6Music you could always go for a Mountain Man track – “How’m I doing” is brilliant…
Elly Lucas @ellylucas
Want to have your say about folk music on tonight? Tweet them your song suggestions now! #Folk6Music
Dan Olner @DanOlner
“May u never” on old grey whistle test is on YouTube, can’t post link on phone, doh. Google it, it’s amazing! #Folk6Music
Al Storer @Al__S
please no fucking Mumfords #folk6music
Lucy @schokomilch_
Ooo i do like this one! #confession #Folk6Music
Huw Davies @huwptddavies
@BBC6Music Seven Long Years – Jim Moray #folk6music
Matt Stinchcombe @ra_ra_rasputin
@BBC6Music how about rubber band UN honor of Lal & mike waterson? #Folk6Music
Steve Bradbury @_arkroyal_
@BBC6Music Billy Bragg’s Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto would be, just ace! #Folk6Music
Graham Watson @hairyartdrummer
Got to have the mighty Bert Jansch & Nick Drake on #Folk6music playlist! How about the classic Angie by Mr Jansch & Saturday Sun by Mr Drake
Occasional Rain @occasionalrain
Nancy Elizabeth ‘Hey Son’ (Leaf) – beautiful contemporary folkiness #folk6music
Nathan Shipley @oneeyenonose
One word. Three letters. Three majestic musicians. @LAUmusic! #Folk6Music
Zachary Mooney @zachmooney
Angie – Davey Graham #Folk6Music (fantastic instrumentalist)
Kieron Moyles @KieronMoyles
Leading the witness on the question of what is folk there @freshnet.#Folk6Music
Angie H @Lowlandslady
Lots of American suggestions here – isn’t it supposed to be English Folk? #Folk6music
Al Storer @Al__S
please no fucking Mumfords #folk6music
Beth Anderson @roseofwinter
Really love the #Folk6Music project. As a Northumbrian pipes player who now lives in London, folk music is part of my soul and my story.
Chorlton Art Market @popupshopsuk
@BBC6Music Please play some Harvey Andrews – the unrecognised King of Folk. How about ‘First you lose the Rhyming’? #Folk6Music
Clare Tasker @ClareTasker
#Folk6Music something Bagpussy from Sandra Kerr and John Faulkner? (Please keep it relatively trad for my vote!!)
Caroline Binnie @caroline_binnie
@BBC6Music “This machine kills fascists” was the legend etched on his guitar. For that alone Woody Guthrie has to make the cut. #folk6music
Fay Hield @fayhield
On #folk6music now!
Kieron Moyles @KieronMoyles
Arguably Angels by Robbie Williams is now a folk song. It’s part of people’s lives, it’s sung at weddings, funerals, birthdays. #Folk6Music
Jonty Wobblecraft @hollyooo
My fave… Adieu Adieu by @elizacarthy; it’s amazing @6music #thefullenglish #6music @TheEFDSS: folk playlist #Folk6Music French title lol!
emm @emmasbouzoukiWill Oulton @williamoulton
If we’re having a debate about what IS folk music, shouldn’t we play Like A Rolling Stone by Dylan #electic #Judas #Folk6Music
Lucy @schokomilch_Zoe Wilson @zed192
Levi Stubbs’ Tears by Billy Bragg – just great lyrics. #Folk6Music
Dan Olner @DanOlner
40 yrs since John Martyn played May U Never on the old grey whistle test, still astounding #Folk6Music
Angie H @Lowlandslady
Martin Carthy – Lord Franklin #Folk6Music
Clare Tasker @ClareTasker
#folk6music…or Darling Annie the legend that is Peggy Seeger, version with Billy Bragg for her 70 bday concert is pretty amazing 😀
Scott Edgar @thesneakybandit
@BBC6Music The Pogues – And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda #Folk6Music
Kay Mitchell @fruit_kayke
Angus and Julia Stone definitely needs to be included in #Folk6Music please. Maybe something from a Book Like This
Tom Dyson @TommyDys
@BBC6Music seth lakeman’s kitty jay #Folk6Music
Fatea @Fatea_Magazine
@BBC6Music Richard Thompson. The Blackleg Miner #Folk6Music #Fatea
Jonathan Seymour @jp_seymour89
@BBC6Music John Martyn’s Fairytale Lullaby. A fine acoustic number from a great talent #Folk6Music
Will Riding @naughtystep
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music Dick Gaughan – World Turned Upside Down.
Social awareness songs sadly lacking in popular music these day…
Will Oulton @williamoulton
@BBC6Music can we have Fairport Convention’s The Deserter – It sounds more like Velvet Underground than Steeleye Span. #Folk6Music
Leanne Cairns @Nippercheese
#Folk6Music From the Wickerman film soundtrack- Willows Song, for folk music playlist and ideal as its 40years since movie was made.
Clare Tasker @ClareTasker
#folk6music Here’s the Tender Coming The Unthanks seen them few times now, but special performance in a pub Whitby folk fest 2012 so special
tomwaitsripoff @tomwaitsripoff
@BBC6Music Fairport Convention – Who Knows Where The Time Goes? #Folk6Music
Cat Howarth @catcathowarth
@BBC6Music Rebecca Jones ‘Free Love’ because you can hear her heart singing through her mouth #Folk6music
Flis Pitman @flistastic
@BBC6Music I’d say Strange Form of Life’ by Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billie. Beautiful and intelligent. #Folk6Music
Karen Kay @KxTwo
@BBC6Music One of mine: Nick Drake, “Place to Be” #Folk6Music
MrAbbit @tonyabbit
@BBC6Music Donovan/cosmic wheels #Folk6Music
Christopher Reid @chris_reid_esq
You can’t have a #Folk6Music playlist without Joan Baez playing The Boxer. When JB meets S&G its a trifecta of folk goodness…
tomwaitsripoff @tomwaitsripoff
@BBC6Music Shirley Collins and The Albion Band – Murder of Maria Marten #Folk6Music
George @mumblingwomble
RamblingMan by #LauraMarling is a great modern folk song. In fact, it’s just a great song. #folk6music.
BBC Radio 6 Music
Golden voiced Greenwich Village icon @TheJudyCollins on the meaning of Folk.
Now on @maryannehobbs. #Folk6Music pic.twitter.com/8upgUNukiZ
Dags Kehoe @DagsKehoe
@BBC6Music A Track by Will Varley would be good ! A superb folk singer on Smugglers Records #Folk6Music
Effandineffable @effandineffable
@BBC6Music Please please please play some @LoweJez #Folk6Music
David Owen @Nebuchanezer
@here_comes_B @theleftoutsides #Folk6Music seconded
Calli Snowdon @CalSno
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music The Unthanks Blue Bleezin’ Blind Drunk has to be on there so passionate, desolate and beautiful
Kieron Moyles @KieronMoyles
Interested in folk music? Tune into @freshnet on for their Ultimate Folk Playlist. #Folk6Music
Garry @GarryInnit
@BBC6Music Arlo Guthrie – Alice’s Restaurant Massacree #Folk6Music
BBC Radio 6 Music
@HobbitEl well what do you recommend Elanor? #Folk6Music
Mat @here_comes_B
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music I’d like a bit of @theleftoutsides. Some lovely folky, psychy moments to be discovered….
More Than Human @FCat
May I proffer ‘Matty Groves’, ‘Tam Lin’, ‘Springtime Promises’ or ‘Souling Song’ #Folk6Music
Ginger Nugget @Ryker5
@BBC6Music don’t know much about folk so this should be good #folk6music
Elanor Forster @HobbitEl
@BBC6Music you should include something with Maddy Prior – you’ve started off well in #Folk6Music !
tomwaitsripoff @tomwaitsripoff
@BBC6Music Richard and Linda Thompson – I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight #Folk6music
BBC Radio 6 Music
Tonight on Now Playing we’re looking for tracks for the Ultimate Folk Playlist. What should we include? #Folk6Music pic.twitter.com/kie3kfLdC3
James Cook @jimi1805
Get tuned to for a truly exquisite evening of #Folk6Music to enjoy
Trevor Pake @trevorpake
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music Nirvana seem unlikely folkies but their version (based on Lead Belly’s) of Where Did You Sleep Last Night is a belter
morden haiku @hermonhermit
@BBC6Music #folk6music Chris Wood “One in a Million”/Lau “Torsa”/RM Hubbert “Car Song”/ King Creosote & Jon Hopkins “Bats in the Attic”
The EFDSS @TheEFDSS
Don’t miss “Now Playing @6music” at 6pm. This episode that a #thefullenglish theme! efdss.org/news/40-octobe… #Folk6Music ^S
The Baracas @TheBaracas
@BBC6Music Has to be the stunning version of ‘Acre of Land’ by @FaustusFolk #Folk6Music
GregR&CiaranA @GregRCiaranA
#Folk6Music King of Birds-Karine Polwart and King of Bohemia-Richard Thompson
Claire Simmons @Clarice007
Should not be having 2 hours of #folk6music *every* week? Any reason why not?
Rosamund Dove @rosamunddove
Vamm – Prospect Road; Waterson:Carthy – Black Muddy River; Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar – Two Magicians #Folk6Music #miscellaneous
Rosamund Dove @rosamunddove
Anais Mitchell – Shepherd; Gillian Welch – Dark Turn Of Mind; Crooked Still – Ain’t No Grave #Folk6Music #acrossthepond
Rosamund Dove @rosamunddove
Chris Wood – England In Ribbons; Bellowhead – Death & the Lady; Sam Carter – Pheasant; Faustus – Og’s Eye Man #Folk6Music #southoftheborder
Rosamund Dove @rosamunddove
Now Westlin’ Winds – Dick Gaughan; Hinba – Lau; Dirty Old Town – Easy Club; Daisy – Karine Polwart #Folk6Music #northoftheborder
Anne Dunn @annie_dunn
@FRUK also would be lovely to hear my favourite tune from @spiersandboden Old Tom of Oxford #Folk6Music
Anne Dunn @annie_dunn
@FRUK please can you play Black Horse off the new CD by @LisaKnappMusic written by wonderful Lal Waterson thanks #Folk6Music
Argyll Acoustic @ArgyllAcoustic
Songs that stop you in your tracks. Dick Gaughan ‘As I Walked On The Road’. Nic Jones ‘Icarus’. Chris Wood ‘One In A Million’ #folk6music
The Baracas @TheBaracas
@BBC6Music Has to be the stunning version of ‘Acre of Land’ by @FaustusFolk #Folk6Music
Folk Radio UK @FRUK
Tune in to between 6:00 – 8:00pm today to hear the Ultimate Folk Playlist #Folk6Music + we’ll introduce the track we chose.
Julian Hancock @julianhancock
#Folk6Music spencer the rover copper family. Scarecrow Mike waterson.
GregR&CiaranA @GregRCiaranA
#Folk6Music King of Birds-Karine Polwart and King of Bohemia-Richard Thompson
Helen C @girlyguider
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music Patience Kershaw by @TheUnthanks
Tells the story of real life, just like a true folk song should do
GregR&CiaranA @GregRCiaranA
Radio 6 Music are having a whole show dedicated to great folk tracks at 6pm. Use the hashtag #Folk6Music to vote for your favourites!
Sarah Roberts @Gossipmistress
@FaustusFolk Og’s Eye Man by Faustus #Folk6Music #crackinglyricsgromit
sally hart @salad1968
#folk6music seth lakeman kitty Jay absolutely stonking track
Faustus @FaustusFolk
We’re not suggesting that you ask for us on ‘s ultimate playlist by using this: #Folk6Music. Oh no. But if you did, which track?
The EFDSS @TheEFDSS
What song do you think must be included in ‘s Ultimate Folk Playlist? efdss.org/news/40-octobe… #Folk6Music #thefullenglish ^S
Juliet @byefornoww
#Folk6Music Faustus – Og’s Eye Man
The EFDSS @TheEFDSS
Tune into “Now Playing @6music” at 6pm & see if your folk playlist suggestions have made the cut! efdss.org/news/40-octobe… #Folk6Music ^S
The Unthanks @TheUnthanks
6 Music looking for Ultimate Folk Playlist. Use #Folk6Music to send suggestions. Gaughan, No Gods? @elizacarthy In London So Fair?
madeeha rehman @1Madeeha
#Folk6Music or this m.soundcloud.com/saadfollows/ka…
Matthew Claridge @Aristeia80
@fayhield your Kemp Owen should def be included. It’s an epic poem! Also @spiersandboden – Cheshire Waltz. My fave folk tune. #Folk6Music
Eliza Carthy @elizacarthy
@BBC6Music #folk6music Julie murphy ‘our captain cried’,Peter B & watersons ‘when I die’,Paul Brady ‘I am a youth that’s inclined 2 ramble’
Alex Bingham @Alex_Bingham1
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music Ok, last ones! @elizacarthy – In London so Fair / The Watersons – Brave Wolfe
Peter Rowe @Sadpad21
#Folk6Music Ivor Cutler ‘Goozeberries & Bilberries’ (1974).
Alex Bingham @Alex_Bingham1
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music Ok, last ones! @elizacarthy – In London so Fair / The Watersons – Brave Wolfe
Sarah Roberts @Gossipmistress
@FaustusFolk Og’s Eye Man by Faustus #Folk6Music #crackinglyricsgromit
Alex Bingham @Alex_Bingham1
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music Chris Wood – The Cottager’s Reply / Robin Williamson – Lights of Sweet St Anne’s / Phoebe Smith – Yellow Handkerchief
Sophia Linehan @teapartytimes
@r0b_shaw ah, was @BarbicanCentre on Fri. Couldn’t go but have heard was smashing. Enjoy! Have you made a #Folk6Music recommendation?!
Alex Bingham @Alex_Bingham1
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music Sandy Denny – Bruton Town /Mike Waterson – Tam Lyn (all 11 minutes of it) /Dick Gaughan – Snows they Melt the Soonest
Kellie Redmond @KellieRedmond
So, yesterday was all about #CrikeyDM bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03…
Today it’s all about #Folk6Music bbc.co.uk/blogs/nowplayi… #RandomWorldOfRedmond
Alex Bingham @Alex_Bingham1
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music Anne Briggs – Willie o Winsbury/ June Tabor – Strange Affair / Margaret Barry – My Lagan Love or The Factory Girl
Barbara Scrivens @ScrivensB
@FaustusFolk #Folk6Music ‘Og’s Eye Man!!
Fay Hield @fayhield
I’m talking and tweeting through show dedicated to folk at 6pm. Tell them what to have in their Ultimate Playlist #folk6music
BBC Radio 6 Music
Blow away the morning dew,
How sweet the winds do blow.
Wake with @TheJudyCollins + @maryannehobbs from 7. #Folk6Music
madeeha rehman @1Madeeha
#Folk6Music m.soundcloud.com/saadfollows/mo… (please play?)
BBC Radio 6 Music
Golden voiced Greenwich Village icon @TheJudyCollins on the meaning of Folk.
Now on @maryannehobbs. #Folk6Music pic.twitter.com/8upgUNukiZ
Chloe Wooles @ChloeWooles
@BBC6Music @maryannehobbs @TheJudyCollins #Folk6Music my 2 1/2 year old has just asked for this to be turned up 🙂
BBC Radio 6 Music
Sunday mantra #2: It’s life’s illusions I recall.
@maryannehobbs @TheJudyCollins #Folk6Music
BBC Radio 6 Music
Sunday mantra #2: It’s life’s illusions I recall.
@maryannehobbs @TheJudyCollins #Folk6Music
Folk Radio UK @FRUK
To Celebrate The Full English launch by @efdss help us select an artist for #Folk6Music goo.gl/I1P2Go
The EFDSS @TheEFDSS
Help Tom Robinson pick the Ultimate Folk Playlist for “Now Playing @6music” #Folk6Music #thefullenglish efdss.org/news/40-octobe… ^S
Kieron Moyles @KieronMoyles
#Folk6Music The Young Tradition: Wyke Wake Dirge spooky tale of the journey of the dead.The Watersons: Hal An Tow the 1st family of folk.
Kieron Moyles @KieronMoyles
#Folk6Music Now don’t think I’m obsessed but folk music has such a rich heritage that you could fill a whole day at least. Here’s some more
Kieron Moyles @KieronMoyles
#Folk6Music Instrumentals: Dubliners – Mason’s Apron exhilarating banjo & fiddle duel. Bothy Band – The Kesh Jig is like a DC10 taking off.
Kieron Moyles @KieronMoyles
#Folk6Music Now don’t think I’m obsessed but folk music has such a rich heritage that you could fill a whole day at least. Here’s some more
BBC Radio 6 Music
Blow away the morning dew,
How sweet the winds do blow.
Wake with @TheJudyCollins + @maryannehobbs from 7. #Folk6Music
Sarah Godwin @sarah_godwin
The late, great Michael Marra’s Green Grow the Rashes oh #folk6music
Jack Stow @jackstow
Some @vammband & @IngeThomson pls, then whatever @HardingMike says #Folk6Music #fullenglish
Kat Brown @KatBrown9
#Folk6Music if I had to select a track it would be ‘Give Her The Day’ written by Jaki Whitren and telling a true story-fantastic folk c.1973
Kieron Moyles @KieronMoyles
#Folk6Music Perhaps The Pogues Thousands Are Sailing would be appropriate in memory of Philip Chevron. A song that will always be relevant.
Kieron Moyles @KieronMoyles
#Folk6Music The Pogues my first love, reconciled Dad’s rock n roll 78’s & Mum’s Dubliners LPs. Electrified Irish Music with poetry & passion
Kieron Moyles @KieronMoyles
Such a powerful singer, Anne Briggs RT @spiderstacy: @KieronMoyles #Folk6music ..and this: m.youtube.com/watch?v=3dyUsX…
Kathryn Tickell @kathryntickell
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music Dick Gaughan Snow it melts the soonest. Or Westlin Wind. Or Both Sides the Tweed.
Faustus @FaustusFolk
We’re not suggesting that you ask for us on ‘s ultimate playlist by using this: #Folk6Music. Oh no. But if you did, which track?
Spider Stacy @spiderstacy
@KieronMoyles #Folk6music ..and this: m.youtube.com/watch?v=3dyUsX…
Duncan Wainscott @folkyvale
#Folk6Music
Ewan MacColl: Dirty Old Town
Ralph McTell: Streets of London
Chris Wood: The Cottager’s Reply
Luke Kelly: Joe Hill
???? @mplantyoko
BBC?????????????????????????????????????????LAU “TORSA” please! #Folk6Music – help pick the Ultimate Folk Playlist bbc.in/1abnuEc
Kieron Moyles @KieronMoyles
#Folk6Music Anne Briggs influenced & inspired @bert_jansch, Sandy Denny, Jimmy Page, Richard Thompson, JuneTabor etc. Try Willie O Winsbury
Kieron Moyles @KieronMoyles
#Folk6Music The embodiment of living tradition The Copper Family, a store of songs passed on for over 100 years. Hard Times In Old England.
Kat Brown @KatBrown9
#Folk6Music The truly great Jaki Whitren whose album Raw But Tender(1973) made when she was 19, is shiversome- she plays the guitar too
Graham Birch @glbirch
#Folk6music. Suggestions for playlist:
1 Unthanks – Heres The Tender Coming
2 Staves – Facing West
3 Bellowhead – London Town
Mike Liddle @mikeliddle
@elizacarthy – Whispers of Summer, @katerusby – Sir Eglamore, Fairport/Sandy Denny – Who Knows Where The Time Goes #Folk6Music
Kieron Moyles @KieronMoyles
#Folk6Music How about some folk source recordings: Walter Pardon an astonishing singer from Norfolk. ‘The Lawyer’ – A World Without Horses.
Derek MacDonald @derekmacd18
#Folk6Music I would go with Torsa by Lau or Black Water by Kris Drever please!
That Folk Fest Bloke @folkfestbloke
SURELY some Chas & Dave? #Folk6Music
Urban Folk Quartet @theUFQ
A vast and elcectic list of suggestions for the ultimate folk playlist coming up over at #Folk6Music @6music – get involved tweeps! UFQ x
Urban Folk Quartet @theUFQ
A vast and elcectic list of suggestions for the ultimate folk playlist coming up over at #Folk6Music @6music – get involved tweeps! UFQ x
The Unthanks @TheUnthanks
6 Music looking for Ultimate Folk Playlist. Use #Folk6Music to send suggestions. Gaughan, No Gods? @elizacarthy In London So Fair?
Propermusic.com @propermusic1
BBC Radio 6 Music – Now Playing @6music, #Folk6Music – The Ultimate Folk Playlist bbc.in/1ebAVsa
dandelion101 @dandelion101
RT @forfolkssake: Folk fans! Who’s the most exciting new artists around? #folk6music > @LadyMaisery of course!
Lydia Glanville @lydiaglanville
#Folk6Music Ode to Work a Day by @boat_to_row contemporary folk song drawing on traditional forms.
Kathryn Shaw @perspicaciousam
#Folk6Music Lau Torsa for the Ultimate Folk Playlist please
Boo Collins @collins_boo
#Folk6Music Adam Holmes, anything from the new album Heirs and Graces.
Juliet @byefornoww
#Folk6Music Hannah James & Sam Sweeney, Jon Boden, James Findlay, Fay Hield…
Sarah Greenwood @Sarah_Greenwood
#Folk6Music plus – Jim Eldon (the Bridlington Fiddler) – excellent trad singer -Poor Old Horse and quirky covers Bat out of Hell stands out
Sarah Greenwood @Sarah_Greenwood
#Folk6Music Dr James, @gilmoreroberts; Danger Sign, @gerrymcneice; Song for David, Ray Hearne; Jailhouse, Harry Bird & the Rubber Wellies
Alice Bondi @AYomTov
#Folk6Music Nominating Torsa by Lau – they are the BEST!!
Harriet Bartlett @harrietbartlett
#Folk6Music Pick @LAUmusic ‘s track ‘Torsa’
Malcolm Purvis @malcolm_purvis
Posted a new song: “Shift” reverbnation.com/c./poni/232933… … #newmusic #folk6music #newfolk
Error Variance @ErrorVariance
Three Drunken Maidens by the Askew Sisters and Lock The Door Larriston by Maddy Prior Trio #Folk6Music
dandelion101 @dandelion101
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music Canny Shepherd Laddies or Will Atkinson (Song) on Kathryn Tickell Northumberland Voices
H Blomfield @CardiacTheatre
The ultimate folk playlist would have to include the vastly underrated McDermott’s Two Hours #Folk6Music
BBC Radio 6 Music
What do you think must be included in the Ultimate Folk Playlist? Let Now Playing know by Tweeting using #Folk6Music owl.li/pFg1B
Neil Parker @_NeilParker
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music Hug air a’ Bhonaid Mhoir – Julie Fowlis, Bellowhead – New York Girls, Light Flight – Pentangle
Aidan O’Rourke @obanfiddle
#Folk6Music Or Paul Brady (@hoobadooba) and Andy Irvine’s Mary and the Soldier. #classic
Tom Sadler @tsadler2
Lakes of Shilin by Nic Jones has to be up there #Folk6Music
Chris Pentney @chrisguess
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music June Tabor and @Oysterband1: Finesterre from Freedom and Rain.
Seahorse Promotions @Seahorse_Music
Who do you think should be on the BBC 6 Musuc Ultimate Folk Playlist this Sunday? Tweet your suggestions using the hashtag #Folk6Music
Ewan McLennan @ewanmclennan
Dick Gaughan’s beautiful version of Craigie Hill must be up there. #Folk6Music
Ewan McLennan @ewanmclennan
Dick Gaughan’s beautiful version of Craigie Hill must be up there. #Folk6Music
The EFDSS @TheEFDSS
Help Tom Robinson pick the Ultimate Folk Playlist for “Now Playing @6music” #Folk6Music #thefullenglish efdss.org/news/40-octobe… ^S
Stuart Barkworth @stuartba
#Folk6Music
Beeswing – Roy Bailey
Slipjigs and Reels – Steve Tilston
Another Train – Pete Morton
Grace Hewitt @gracehewitt
#Folk6Music also tongue-tied by Emily Portman
Grace Hewitt @gracehewitt
#Folk6Music bright phoebus has to be included either the original mike and lal version or the blue murder one
John Pulman @jplumbum
#Folk6Music
Never Any Good @msimpsonian
Hollow Point @ChrisWood_Music
Ruby Dave Rawlings Machinge @aconyrecords @gillianwelch
John Pulman @jplumbum
#Folk6Music
Never Any Good @msimpsonian
Hollow Point @ChrisWood_Music
Ruby Dave Rawlings Machinge @aconyrecords @gillianwelch
Hollow Point Music @HollowPointUSA
#Folk6Music @AdamHolmesBand I Can’t Be Right from album Heirs and Graces. Features Kris Drever.
Claire Latham @guitar73girl
#Folk6Music My Eldorado – Ian Bruce Horumerye – The Wilsons Sea Coal – The Wilsons
Claire Latham @guitar73girl
#Folk6Music Steve Tilston – Salty Dog, Road when I was young, Pretty Penny
Angela Broad @angebroad
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music Bellowhead – Across the Line
Claire Latham @guitar73girl
#Folk6Music Richard Shindell – Reunion Hill, Fleur de Lis, Arrowhead.
Martyn Wylde @MartynWylde
My response to “what must be included…” is Show of Hands #Folk6Music
consequently @intriguingme
#Folk6Music Meet on the Ledge…Fairport Convention…Thomas the Rhymer..Steeleye Span
Rosamund Dove @rosamunddove
Canadee-I-O by Nic Jones #Folk6Music
Alex Monaghan @AlexMonaghanUK
#Folk6Music Alasdair Fraser: Skye Dance. Lunasa: Last Pint. Blowzabella: Spaghetti Panic. Wolfstone: Zeto. Moving Hearts: The Storm
listen, ts important
Lottie @Lotts2u
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music owl.li/pFg1B definitely got 2 include youtube.com/watch?v=XSVzBc… Real #talent #music #listen @philkingsings
Lesley Follington @Folly49
#Folk6Music Roll the Woodpile Down by @Bellowhead
Skylark Song @skylarksongfolk
Ultimate folk play list Sandy Denny, Nick Drake, John Martyn #Folk6Music
Alex Monaghan @AlexMonaghanUK
#Folk6Music Any chance instrumental music will be properly represented? If so, I have several suggestions
Lottie @Lotts2u
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music owl.li/pFg1B definitely got 2 include youtube.com/watch?v=XSVzBc… Real #talent #music #listen @philkingsings
Aidan O’Rourke @obanfiddle
#Folk6Music Or Paul Brady (@hoobadooba) and Andy Irvine’s Mary and the Soldier. #classic
Phil Aitman @philaitman
@BBC6Music #folk6music Lau – Hinba, Unthanks version of Testimony of Patience Kershaw, Chris Wood – Spitfires,
Aidan O’Rourke @obanfiddle
#Folk6Music Dick Gaughan’s ‘Now Westlin Winds’ Epic!
Philip Passmore @phildahill
#Folk6Music gotta be Sloe Gin by @Bellowhead , what a great dance tune!
To The Point: Music @totheptmusic
#Folk6Music If You Asked Me, Carrivicks; Good Man’s Wife, Bella Hardy; Song One, Holly Taymar & Christopher Bilton; (just for starters!)
To The Point: Music @totheptmusic
#Folk6Music Silver Screen, Gilmore & Roberts; Star of Munster, Emma Sweeney; Goodbye to the Plough Horse, Gibb & Lucas; Pett Level, KCC..
To The Point: Music @totheptmusic
#Folk6Music Craigie Hill, Old Dance School; Leaving of Liverpool, Maz O’Connor; Homemade Heartache, Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker…
To The Point: Music @totheptmusic
#Folk6Music Lord Douglas, Jim Moray; Billy in the Lowground, Blair Dunlop; Golden Glove, Hannah James & Sam Sweeney; Jack Hall, Sam Carter..
Duncan Wainscott @folkyvale
@willboyes Lovely On The Water and One Hand On The Radio are superb #Folk6Music
Rachael Fisher @Rjfisher71
@BBC6Music Any @SethLakemanNews track. #Folk6Music
dandelion101 @dandelion101
RT @forfolkssake: Folk fans! Who’s the most exciting new artists around? #folk6music > @LadyMaisery of course!
Will Boyes @willboyes
Should definitely include some Coope, Boyes & Simpson (not biased, obviously…) #Folk6Music
KayStanding @kaystanding
And Chris Wood, Albion, Show of Hands arrogance, ignorance greed, roots or country life #Folk6Music so much to choose
KayStanding @kaystanding
@maw @LucyWardSings great song – be good to see new young artists on there #Folk6Music
KayStanding @kaystanding
New York Girls Bellowhead, Ride On Christy Moore, Kitty Jay Seth Lakeman #Folk6Music
JHahn @shroommuse
#Folk6Music can’t have an ultimate folk list without @MaddyPriorFolk and The Hare
Matthew Walton @maw
#Folk6Music “Crazy Man Michael” by Fairport Convention, of course, must be included.
Matthew Walton @maw
#Folk6Music “Torsa” by Lau @LAUmusic
Fi Cooper @FiNutbrown
@Annatheforager we could send hundreds of tweets of what to play, eh? #Folk6Music
Matthew Walton @maw
#Folk6Music new song I’m sure will stand the test of time “I Cannot Say I Will Not Speak” by Lucy Ward @LucyWardSings
Paul Rawcliffe @PaulRawcliffe
Hey #Folk6Music I think you should have ‘Lillibulero’ by @Bellowhead #folk
Fairport Fee @Fairport_Fee
@BBC6Music #folk6music Shoals of Herring -Ewan MacColl .Jock O Hazeldean Dick Gaughan .Child Amounst the weeds Mick &Lal Waterson
Matthew Reed @ThatMatthewReed
The @SkinnyLister guys HAVE to be on the list! So difficult to choose one track, but try “If The Gaff Don’t Let Us Down”. #Folk6Music
Hannah Gordon @huggyhannah80
Hmm what to add to the playlist? @PeterGraystone have you seen #Folk6Music ? ‘New York Girls’ @Bellowhead or ‘10,000 miles away’ my faves
Sparkles @mzsparklepaws
I Just voted: Which of these 6 artists best reflects the alt side of #Folk Music? poll.fm/tp/4fzyv #Folk6Music @FRUK
SimonAdlington @simonadlington
#Folk6Music Nick Burbridge. Anything from his band McDermott’s 2 Hours to his work with @the_levellers. A ‘hidden gem’ of the folk scene.
Karen Kay @KxTwo
Definitely @GregoryAIsakov #Folk6Music
For Folk’s Sake @forfolkssake
Folk fans! We need your help to pick a tune for 6 Music’s ultimate folk playlist. Who’s the most exciting new artists around? #folk6music
RadcliffeMaconieShow @BBCRadMac
That last tune was Harvest Gypsies by @KrisDrever. Use #Folk6Music to join in with this Sunday’s Ultimate Folk Playlist
Duncan Wainscott @folkyvale
#Folk6Music
The Watersons: Chickens In The Garden
Will Varley: Down The Well
Bert Jansch: Needle Of Death
Steeleye Span: Gaudete.
Jacqui Milnes @Jacqui_Milnes
#folk6music can you include @MegsonMusic – The Longshot. The most beautiful song ever to feature football. Loathe football, love this song.
Jacqui Milnes @Jacqui_Milnes
#folk6music can you include @MegsonMusic – The Longshot. The most beautiful song ever to feature football. Loathe football, love this song.
Anja Beinroth @AnjaBeinroth
I agree + There Were Roses – Tommy Sands RT @HotspurHurly61: #folk6music Ordinary Man by Christy Moore & Thousands Are Sailing by The Pogues
RadcliffeMaconieShow @BBCRadMac
That last tune was Harvest Gypsies by @KrisDrever. Use #Folk6Music to join in with this Sunday’s Ultimate Folk Playlist
Annetta Slade @grumpkings
@6music for my money @Bellowhead and @TheUnthanks both have moved folk music on and into the hearts of a whole new audience #Folk6Music
Peter Edwards @oldfirehazard
@BBC6Music Playlist @jimmoray Lord Douglas @SethLakemanNews Kitty Jay @penguineggs CanadeeIO @poguesofficial Streams of Whiskey #Folk6Music
Gaynor Madoc Leonard @MadocLeonard
#Folk6Music “She Moved Through the Fair” – it’s a lovely song.
Fairport Fee @Fairport_Fee
@littletrev57 @folktalkinfolk @barlowsgirl BBC6 are complaining “the ultimate Folk Playlist” #folk6music What would you add guys?
Fairport Fee @Fairport_Fee
@littletrev57 @folktalkinfolk @barlowsgirl BBC6 are complaining “the ultimate Folk Playlist” #folk6music What would you add guys?
Fairport Fee @Fairport_Fee
@BBC6Music #folk6music Low Lands Away – Anne Briggs The Quiet Joy of Brotherhood – Sandy Denny Rattling Roaring Willie – Sweeney’s Men
Phil Bryer @philbryer
#Folk6Music In My Arms by Songs from the Blue House
Fairport Fee @Fairport_Fee
@BBC6Music #folk6music Handsome meadow Boy – Dransfield. Come ye Or Fra France – @steeleye_span Matty Groves – Fairport Convention
Opinionated bastard @HarryNCrane
#Folk6music The colliers- Seth lakeman New York girls- Bellowhead Our town- Kate Rusby Put out the lights- Oysterband
Bellowhead @Bellowhead
Help us help pick a track for their ‘Ultimate Folk Playlist’ – Any ideas? Let them know using #Folk6Music
Fay Hield @fayhield
I’m talking and tweeting through show dedicated to folk on Sunday. Tell them what to have in their Ultimate Playlist #folk6music
Properganda @ProperBlog
What songs would you include on your Ultimate Folk Playlist? BBC 6 Music’s Folk Special is this Sunday.. propergandaonline.com/bbc-6-music-fo… #Folk6Music
The EFDSS @TheEFDSS
What song do you think must be included in ‘s Ultimate Folk Playlist? efdss.org/news/40-octobe… #Folk6Music #thefullenglish ^S
Bella Todd @bellatodd1
Which artist best reflects alternative side of folk music? Impossible question (happily) tinyurl.com/mqe92fw #Folk6Music @FRUK @freshnet
The Dirty Beggars @TheDirtyBeggars
anything by @AdamHolmesBand from new album Heirs & Graces for the Ultimate Folk Playlist on #Folk6Music
Dylan Smith @JayDillinger123
#Folk6Music #LucyWard #ForTheDeadMen
Frohockphoto @Frohockphoto
Last one of Sara Spade @behindthebussto for tonight. #Folk6Music #music #NorthantsHour pic.twitter.com/NFl0ZA4l6g
Frohockphoto @Frohockphoto
Last one of Sara Spade @behindthebussto for tonight. #Folk6Music #music #NorthantsHour pic.twitter.com/NFl0ZA4l6g
Big Gull @BigbigGull
@BBC6Music Can’t have an Ultimate Folk Playlist w/out #Fairport’s ‘Matty Groves’. Sex, violence – ultimate trad. arr. Soap Opera #Folk6Music
Rob Shaw @r0b_shaw
My word, this looks great ->southbankcentre.co.uk/whatson/a-cele… #folk6music @southbankcentre
The EFDSS @TheEFDSS
@georgiaruth good suggestions Georgia #Folk6Music ^S
Folk Radio UK @FRUK
Help us select an artist for #Folk6Music for their Ultimate Folk Playlist on Sunday. Read about it here goo.gl/I1P2Go
Peter Edwards @oldfirehazard
@FRUK Bloomin’ hard choice, but it’s just impossible to vote against @LisaKnappMusic right now. #Folk6Music
The EFDSS @TheEFDSS
What song do you think must be included in the Ultimate Folk Playlist? efdss.org/news/40-octobe… #Folk6Music #thefullenglish ^S
Folk Radio UK @FRUK
Re our contribution to #Folk6Music for the Ultimate Folk Playlist remember comments matter as much as the votes goo.gl/I1P2Go
John Sprackland @johnsprackland
I’m surprising myself:
John Barleycorn – @TinManIcon
The Maid & the Palmer – Brass Monkey
for #Folk6Music playlist choices! @TopicRecords
John Sprackland @johnsprackland
@charamaroo I’m a bit purist & think of ‘folk’ as traditional music… But don’t ask me to define trad! #Folk6Music
John Waterworth @jwaterworth
Bitter Boy by @katerusby for ultimate folk song list. Truly beautiful ballad. #Folk6Music
Peter Edwards @oldfirehazard
@FRUK Bloomin’ hard choice, but it’s just impossible to vote against @LisaKnappMusic right now. #Folk6Music
paul2point0 @paul2point0
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The EFDSS @TheEFDSS
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Ian NTNOTW Edmondson @VonTollbooth
#Folk6Music Dick Gaughan – Freedom Come Aa Ye; Shirley Collins – Sweet Primeroses; The Albion Band – Hopping Down in Kent
John Sprackland @johnsprackland
@charamaroo I love all the tracks you’ve suggested, Charlotte (@GreenManFest?) but I wouldn’t call any of them folk! #Folk6Music
Ellie @unevendays
Lucy Ward, or better yet Cupola: Ward; something from the Wicker Man soundtrack; The Imagined Village; Dizraeli & the Small Gods #Folk6Music
Folk Radio UK @FRUK
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Topic Records @TopicRecords
Help pick the Ultimate Folk Playlist for the BBC 6music Folk special by tweeting your suggestions using the hashtag #Folk6Music
Folk Radio UK @FRUK
Help us select an artist for #Folk6Music for their Ultimate Folk Playlist on Sunday. Read about it here goo.gl/I1P2Go
charlotte @charamaroo
hugely inspired to have a folky day thank you #folk6music
charlotte @charamaroo
@BBC6Music #folk6music Cat Stevens-Here Comes My Baby, Joanna Newsome-Sprout &The Bean,
Andy Perrey @AndyPerrey
@BBC6Music #folk6music For influence: @penguineggs ‘Little Pot Stove’, Bert Jansch ‘Needle Of Death’, Anne Briggs ‘Blackwater Side’
charlotte @charamaroo
@BBC6Music #folk6music Magnet- Where Happiness Lives, Simon And Garfunkel- The Boxer
charlotte @charamaroo
@BBC6Music #folk6music Tim Buckley- Dolphins, Kings Of Convienience- I Don’t Know What I Can Save You From, Midlake-Head Home
Ben Holland @BenBenHolland
@BBC6Music Bob Dylan – North country blues #folk6music
Alexander Woods @ALJWoods
#Folk6Music Rory McLeod – Farewell Welfare youtube.com/watch?v=RO_xCv…; Imagined Village – Tam Lyn (retold) youtube.com/watch?v=7bIvFg…
Andrew Martin @FilthyPlucker
#Folk6Music Pete Seeger’s ‘talking union’ simply because the BBC need to play it at this time.
Ez @MissP78
@BBC6Music Gordon Lightfoot’s Song for a Winter’s Night #folk6music #cancon
The Amateur @amateur_the
@BBC6Music Vashti Bunyan – Rose Hip November – youtube.com/watch?v=6en1BT… #folk6music
Rob Shaw @r0b_shaw
@BBC6Music Canadee-I-O by Nic Jones. Bright Phoebus by Mike & Lal Waterson. #folk6music
RREPORTAGE @rrreportage
@BBC6Music Joni Mitchell- California #folk6music
Rory Foster @RoryFosterr
@BBC6Music @fionnregan needs some love here, one of the best artists of recent years, and The End of History is a masterpiece #Folk6Music
Adam @music_radar
@BBC6Music and because I can not stop myself to propose to #Folk6Music Kristofer Åström – “The Wild”
@kristoferastrom
Seán Hurl @HotspurHurly61
#folk6music Ordinary Man by Christy Moore & Thousands Are Sailing by The Pogues #RIPPhilChevron
Duchess @duchessness
Not the ‘folkiest’ Fairport, but if the word ‘must’ is to be bandied about… youtube.com/watch?v=n2xODj… #Folk6Music
RREPORTAGE @rrreportage
@BBC6Music joan baez – east virginia #Folk6music
Adam @music_radar
@BBC6Music #Folk6Music agree with Jared Q Pope, definatelly Fleet Foxes -“Mykonos”, propose also Half Moon Run-“Call Me in the Afternoon”
Alexander Woods @ALJWoods
#Folk6Music Nic Jones, Canadee-I-O; Last Night’s Fun, Whisky in the jar; Chris Wood, Lord Bateman & Our captain calls; Dick Gaughan
Brendan @Brendan_Surrey
@BBC6Music Surely Woody Guthrie has to feature, This Land is Your Land. As true today as it was then #Folk6Music
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Lesley @EnglishFolkfan
.@emst Something Folky for next Sunday 13oct2013 at 18.00 to 20.00 on BBC 6 radio
What do you think must be included in the Ultimate Folk Playlist between now and 8pm on Now Playing @6Music. We want your suggestions and your reasons – so let us know by commenting below, Tweet using #Folk6Music or check out our blog for more inspiration – http://bbc.in/17gtrij
CHRIS SUTTON Matty Groves sung by Fairport Convention. A classic folk tale.
PAUL MEAGHER Woody Guthrie – Jesus Christ
Leadbelly – midnight special
Bob Dylan – Masters of War
Luke Kelly – Raglan Road
Tommy Makem & The Clancy Brother foggy dew…See More
LYNNE ALDRIDGE Who Knows Where The Time Goes by Fairport Convention. A song that has autumn running through its veins.
ROY MØLLER Who Knows Where The Time Goes by Fairport Convention .
DAMIEN SMITH Nick Drake – Northern Sky
JANET SEYMOUR Meet on the ledge. fairport convention
DUNCAN ELLIOTT I’m tempted to print this topic and explore every idea suggested! Reckon there could be worse places to start…
GRYMM GRYMMSSON Men They Couldn’t Hang, tell me you’re going to include some MTCH! Smuggler’s for a trad style, Cable Street or Shirt of Blue for ‘a li’l bit o’ politics’. #folk6music
Jethro Tull For pioneers of modern folk, you cannot ignore the oyster band. Combined with the honey dripping voice of June tabor and you can’t really get much genuinely folkier. That said bit of folky Tull always goes don’t well from ‘the woods’
GEORGE MASON Vagabonds. New Model Army
JOHNNY SOLSTICE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO_xCvYGtxY or this
RORY MCLEOD Farewell Welfare
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RORY MCLEOD Farewell Welfare From Alter Image Produced by Jane Thorburn 1987
JIMMY WELSH Would Mazzy Star ‘Fade into You’ count?
CATHRYN ILIFFE penguin eggs by nic jones best folk album ever
LYNNE WALLACE What about Kate Rusby? Anything would do , Awk’ard Annie. loving the programme
TOM TYLER I think you should play the Mumfords just to annoy the people who are being so snotty about them.
JESSICA GRIEVE Belle & Sebastian have to be in there somewhere
RUTH FORTUNE Little Musgrave by Planxty please, all 10 glorious minutes of it
WILLIAM OULTON Can you play some Fairport Convention. I get put off some folk music, especially the backward looking Hey-Nonny-No variety, but I’ve recently discovered Fairport and Richard Thompson’s solo work. Can you play The Deserter as a fantastic example of how to adapt a traditional song without sounding too old fashioned. In fact, it sounds more like the Velvet Underground than Steeleye Span. Plus Sandy Denny’s voice would make a statue cry.
Johnny Solstice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO_xCvYGtxY
RORY MCLEOD Farewell Welfare
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RORY MCLEOD Farewell Welfare From Alter Image Produced by Jane Thorburn 1987
DONNACHA DELONG The Pogues – Ned of the Hill.
BETH WALSH Lady Eleanor by Lindisfarne is another that makes me tingle. Or Pentangle’s Cruel Sister, classic tragic folk!
TOM CONNIFFE I cannot believe that you’ve not played any Irish folk music yet. Black Velvet Band by the Dubliners? Ride On by Christy Moore? C’mon…!
BETH WALSH First Aid Kit – The lion’s roar please. And some Bob Dylan, maybe It’s alright Ma.
BETH WALSH Matty Groves Matty Groves Matty Groves Matty Groves!
DEARBHAIL CONNON planxty.. west coast of clare
NICK BOWYER The Pogues C’mon rum sodomy and the lash ANY TRACK
RUTH MORGAN Something by Kate Rusby and/or Lau has got to be in there somewhere. I am going to see both of these soon !!!!
ANTHONY SAVAGE This https://soundcloud.com/antsavage/a
Ant savage and Hannah birch (Ruby sun) free download.
Final version of my new song “Ruby sun” with the lovely Hannah birch on backing vocals https://soundcloud.com/hannah-birch https://sound…
ANDY GOULDING Oh and don’t play Mumford please
ALEX WILD Can I suggest something by the Unthanks?
VALERIE MOSS Put M&sons on I dare ya!
PAUL LLOYD Tipping it up to Nancy by Christy Moore.
ELAINE SOUTHALL Lucy Ward, all the Dead Men, it’s new, follows the tradition of folks association with social commentary and is bloody beautiful
JOHN NICHOLLS WOODY GUTHRIE – Tom Joad
TIM JONES Billy Bragg – The World Turned Upside Down. Tells the history of some ordinary people. Doesn’t get much more folk than that.
KLAUS HARVEY The Lakes of Ponchartrain by Paul Brady please. No other version will do. A classic.
CATHERINE LOUISE ALLEN Bees wing but the christy Moore version. Or just anything by christy Moore come to that
JOHNNY SOLSTICE why?..because he’s a national treasure
JOHNNY SOLSTICE Rory McLeod Handing the Pain Down
PAUL MEAGHER Woodrow Guthrie – hard talking blues
PAUL MEAGHER Bob Lind – O babe take me home
PAUL MEAGHER Jack O Diamonds – Terry Calier
PAUL MEAGHER Talking Union – Pete Seeger
AARON PEPPER This https://soundcloud.com/antsavage/a
Ant savage and Hannah birch (Ruby sun) free download.
Final version of my new song “Ruby sun” with the lovely Hannah birch on backing vocals https://soundcloud.com/hannah-birch https://sound…
SUSAN CAREY Got to have some Martin Simpson
BETH WALSH Those First Aid Kit women know their stuff. They got me all excited about folk again.
KENDRA MCLEOD John Barleycorn by The Knights of the Occasional Table
BETH WALSH Thank you
JACK VERVOORT Fisherman’s Blues – Waterboys
SUSAN CABELL Meet Me On The Corner by Lindisfarne.
NEIL SIMPSON Anne Briggs – Black Water Side for its depth of emotion and integrity.
DARAN CROOK In goth we trust-hmhb, corries-Dumbarton drums, barrel o’ baddies-all for me grog, pogues-London your a lady, bothy band- the butterfly, dubliners-raglan road, Billy bragg-milkman, Christy moore- missing you, nick cave & the bad seeds-stagger lee, the popes-rising of the moon, are there’s loads!
NEIL ADAMSON whole lotta rosie
JOE CUNIO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPP308kGDiY maybe not the best , but new and just vocals !!!! go listen pleeeeeeease
BOTYOV1791
seven cans of stella
SUMMER DEAN Peggy Seeger – doggon, occupation is on.
GEMMA FOWLIE Sally Free and Easy by the Corries is a perfect miserable heartbreak song – the very soul of folk!
ANDY ROWE Thanks for playing Shipbuilding, 10 times better than Wyatt and Costello’s versions, I’ve had it on loads over the last few weeks, the whole of ‘songs from the shipyards’ is fantastic…
LAURA MCKEE Nic Jones Canadee-i-o
LEAFY TREES-Greene UNTHANKS Please. Thank you
JOE HSUB Come All Ye (Fairport Convention) , please!
ETTIE SHATTOCK tallest man on earth – dreamer, Johnny Cash – I hung my head
2 songs that got me into folk, new & old!
ALICIA GOODIER The current ‘Young Folk Musicians of the Year’ Greg Russell and Ciaran Algar …. ‘The New Railroad’ is my fave…..please :O)
CLARE ATKIN Ghost narrative by emily barker,vagabonds by new model army,the boatman by the levellers.
PETER JOHNSON dylan’s , blowin in the wind
MATT LINAKER http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJznHP-G3Ss
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – The Southside of the World
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JOAD RAYMOND Woody Guthrie – has to be Ballad of Tom Joad. Also: surely The Incredible String Band need to appear somewhere. Perhaps My Name is Death or the Hedgehog Song?
JOHAN VAN SCH Fairport : Come All Ye (Rolling Minstrels) because it still gives me chicken skin
Dirty Old Town
Whiskey in the jar
ANGIE HARMS Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit…maybe Fol-de-Rol? The themes in that seem especially folky to me…
TRISH O’HARA https://www.facebook.com/photo.php…
Kim Lowings and the Greenwood Sept 2013
With Trish O’Hara and 5 others at Lost Horizons Folk and Acoustic Club.
huge support from Jim Fodder Will Arthur O’Donoghue Louis Joel Gilman James O’Hara-Knight Robert Thebob Munton Steve O’Donoghue and Glyn Shipman
By: Lost Horizons Folk and Acoustic Club
NICK BOWYER One world john martyn A genius and he beat Sid viscous up for heckling. A man who fought for his convictions true folk.
HANNAH STEPHENSON Would love to hear Raggle Taggle Gypsy – ideally sung by my mum, but I’ll accept the Waterboys version.
FI STIMPSON My dad has suggested Jethro Tull. I concur.
FRAN DUGGAN The Houghton Weavers- poverty Knocks… Or Blackpool Belle..proper northern folk
KLAUS HARVEY How about the astounding ‘Rip the Calico’ by The Bothy Band. It’s a jig and five reels.
ANDY GOULDING Iris dement wasteland of the free
WILL RIDING Don’t like Mumfords but let’s not be snobby, eh?
HELEN CASTLEY Love the show. Please play Mumford and Sons. I reckon there’s a few fans out there!
ELLA PATTINSON The water boys, a man is in love. X
MARK STIG STURGEON If you don’t include something by the Big Nosed B@stard from Barking, aka Billy Bragg, there is no justice. Milkman, or his Woody Guthrie ‘Way over yonder’. And what about Costello/Wyatt ‘Shipbuilding’?
ADAM REES Anything by Nic Jones.
FIONA STAFFORD Perhaps not the epitome of folk for some, but you should definitely play Karine Polwart – We’re All Leaving. People need to hear this song.
STEPHEN MAGUIRE I could pick a few hundred thousand good folk songs. Tim buckley song for you, is a beauty!
JOHN MCMILESOFSMILES You’ve got to play some Shirley Collins – no other figure spans the full breadth of what people are discussing above as ‘folk’ – personally and professionally she connects the second great UK revival (Ewan MacColl/Peggy Seeger’s Holborn scene), the US roots reawakening (relationship & Southern States collecting tour with Alan Lomax), the 60s psych folk new wave (married to Fairport Convention’s Ashley Hutchings), and all this before remembering they she’s THE key English traditional singer of the 20th Century. These days Shirley’s influence extends to artists on both sides odd the Atlantic, and as disparate as Kate Rusby/Bellowhead and Devandra Banhart/Joanna Newsom! Add to that her current presidency of EFDSS and most recent recorded work with Current 93, and well… What more needs to be said?
Shirley & Dolly Collins – Just As The Tide Was A’Flowing (Live)
Live in London 1979
PETER LEESON Tom, recently seen on introducing a wee band from Keswick – you might like “Musical Musical Priest” by Stooshie also on Facebook! Musical Priest, by Stooshie
ZIYAD SAID-WARDELL The times they are changin’ – bob dylan
JOHN NICHOLLS Also, anything by THE DUBLINERS
JOHN NICHOLLS BERT JANSCH – Running from Home. Or anything of LA Turnaround. Real Folk music.
ADRIAN FOSS Chris Wood – Hollow Point. Modern classic.
KENT HARRIS The Windmills of Norfolk by Matt Deighton from The Villager album – perfect, modern pastoral English folk
JULIE REYNOLDS Another vote for the truly stunning ‘Who knows where the time goes?’ by Fairport Convention. Sandy Denny’s voice on it is sublime.
ANDI SERCOMBE “Bed of Straw”. Duncan McFarlane Band please
KIRSTY GLOVER Show of Hands MUST NOT be overlooked! ‘Folk’ music should be all about social commentary at its grass-roots level, and Messrs Knightley and Beer are prime exponents. ‘Arrogance, Ignorance and Greed’ or ‘The Napoli’ are great examples. You know it makes sense, Tom!
RUSTY CODPIECE I Want To See The Brights Lights Tonight by Richard & Linda Thompson.
RUSTY CODPIECE Calvary Cross by Richard Thompson.
IAIN SKEG SEYMOUR Bees wing by i think richard thompson but i may be wrong, it was best covered by Mad Dog Mcrea such a beautiful song!!
JENNY LEE Anything by Show of Hands, surely?
DAVID QUINN Matty Groves, obviously
ANDY MILLS Martin Carthy, Al O’Donnel, or Planxty. I can’t pick one song out from all they’ve done, but any would do. So fine they all are.
JOHN DAVIES Raggle Taggle Gypsy by the Waterboys
SHARON BROWN Fotheringay – The Sea & Nick Drake – River Man
BRÓNA UÍ LOING Jim Mc Cann Matt Hyland
NICOLA IRVING Matty John Chyzek by Woodpigeon
NICOLA IRVING Johnathon Ashworth Rollercoaster by Woodpigeon
MATTHEW MORGAN Gregor Kerr A sailor’s life by Fairport. The story, the performance, the emotions…
TONY MACKLIN Bit too late to suggest “Flowers of the Forest” then?
NEIL MURRAY As far as I can tell, not a single song by a Celtic musician. Almost entirely English with a smattering of North America. BBC6Music clearly forgot they are a UK wide station. Frankly, given the strength and heritage of folk music from those countries, it is an outrage. I love 6 Music but they have seriously pissed off a lot of people tonight.
ELLY MAY “Our Town” by Kate Rusby
DAVE TONY BLACKBEARD RICHARDS Neil adamson I didn’t know ac/dc were folk ?
DAVE TONY BLACKBEARD RICHARDS Kevin Young any ideas?
AMANDA CROSS loved matty groves !!!!
ANDREW PARKIN Bit of Horslips anyone?!…
STEVE O’SHEA Laura marling!!!
RICHARD BRIDGE Well, that programme was very disappointing and some of the stuff played total dogshit.
SARAH O’BRIEN did you just censor that pogues track??? tell me you didn’t!
NICK BOWYER Thank you mr Robinson. x
MATTHIAS WESTON Anything by Martyn Bennett
LISA BURROWS FLK mix of Emily Portman, Sticks and Stones… Oh Please!
SAM ROBERT JOHNSTON Dave Evans – Beauty Queen
REP TILE The AMERICANS are a MUST for any folk broadcast!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9LSY9S_eEA
The Americans, David Letterman Show on 2/20/13
Patrick Ferris: Vocals/Guitar, Jake Faulkner: Bass, Zac Sokolow: Banjo, Tim Case: Percussion, Drums.
VICTORIA BUCHAN Spiers and Boden – Rochdale Coconut Dance, because there’s been nothing else like it so far!!
TARA NOLTY Caledonia…Dougie McLean
ANGUS ELLIS Over the Lancashire hills….Simon Nicol
IAIN TED MACKENZIE Incredible String Band… pleeeaze!! Painting Box?
ROB STEPHENSON I feel ignored!! Please can we have Mumford and Sons hopeless wanderer!! they are a must in all folk playlists
CHRISTOPHER PARKIN Play some Sam Carter. He’s one of the new breed of great singer songwriters and a fantastic guitar play to boot!
EMILY VON KIRCHNER This Is Not The End by Claire Maguire is a little unexpected gem – OK so it has the strings in the background to mellow the ears of the more commercially orientated, but I find it a most moving and tender rendition. Her voice lends herself well, I wish she would do more like this…
PHIL DORAGH I quite like Eden Burning’s version of Matty Groves.
ALISTAIR LITTLEJOHN Would be good to hear some Nic Jones. The BBC 4 documentary the other week was quite amazing.
MATT LINAKER http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbK_Ie3_kdU
Old Man Luedecke- Roustabout
RICHARD BRIDGE And how about the Copper Family “Sweep”? And the Watersons “Bellman”. And the Young Tradition “Ramble Away”. And the current high priest of traditional, Brian Peters – maybe “3 Ravens”.
NIGEL CARDEN Woody Guthrie – hard travellin’ would be great, but anything by him is fine by me!
DAVY SMITH The times they are a changing ..bob Dylan
CHRIS HEDDON Woody – ” what are we waiting on” brilliant lyrics as always
PISSED PAT mary chappin carptener : 10,000 mile cos its so dam good is why
GREG BLACKMAN I think you should take out a copy of “There’s Only One Way Of Life And That’s Your Own” by The Levellers. Then set it on fire and kick it off a cliff into the sea where it belongs.
LAURENS BIEZEMANS About the Woodie Guthrie track: City of new orleans!
Sewing Sally http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2yiem65Z74
John Langan Band – I’m Alive Mama – Live (Arena Sessions)
John Langan Band – I’m Alive Mama – Live (Arena Sessions) trad adapted by John L…See More
ANDY CAPIE Anything from Billy Bragg’s natural successor, Sean McGowan (not Shane!)or Lisa Knapp?5 minutes ago
MARK STIG STURGEON This land… Has to be.
PEARL FOK Shawn Colvin, Joni Mitchell
TRISH O’HARA Great show – and here is a pic from our folk club that shows folk in its glory – the mixture of people sharing song Trish O’Hara our history books are filled the lives of the aristocracy or religious leaders – folk is the lives of ordinary people – telling their story. The documentary and social commentary of the lives of people like me
ROBBIE WATT Johnny Flynn or at a push two gallants
KEITH JAVEZ Folk music bellowhead blasting from the radio will clear the six music airwaves. Why…because the live sound of folk music eclipses all the pre recorded material. Folk music should be experienced live in the pub, on the street, in the club’s because folk music is our heritage and our future comment on society and culture.
FI STIMPSON My choice is anything from Anaïs Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer’s Child Ballads.
ANDY GOULDING Jolie holland mad tom of bedlam
STEVE STOTT fab programme dont miss Michael Chapman Winter in Memphis contemporary and relevant
MARK STIG STURGEON I saw Ahab at Shoreham a few nights ago. Blinkin’ brilliant. ‘Fathers eyes’?
ANDY ROWE The best description of ‘what is Folk’ music for me was Stuart Maconies speech at the 2011 folk award’s. Really wish I had that recording, wonderful stuff..
CHRIS HEDDON How adout new york girls by bellowhead, the 22 legged groove machine cannot be ignored.
DUNCAN TODD How about Battlefeild Band With ‘Wee room underneath the stairs’. Was bought up on them as my mother ran the local folk club back home.
TOM FERROUR David Rovics is my favourite song writer. Are you allowed to play this though? http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=2706103
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MATT LINAKER http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFf4Dk3Hi_w
Matthew and the Atlas – Within the Rose
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HENRY BATES “Apple Carts” by Damon Albarn from his 2012 “Pastoral Folk Opera” Dr Dee. Magick!
MATT LINAKER http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FY2EO9wjiw
This Is The Kit – Two Wooden Spoons
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BARRY MEAKIN The Imagined Villages treatment of ‘My Son John’ brings a traditional folk song right into the contemporary world of folk music.
PETER MARKS The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald – Loudain Wainwright. A ripping yarn!
RICHARD BRIDGE Oh – and “What is Folk” was answered once and for all by the 1954 Maud Karpeles definition.
RICHARD BRIDGE I’ve been late turning on, but have you played the God – Martin Carthy (preferably “King Knapperty”) or the Goddess June Tabor (preferably “Hughie Graeme”) or Nic Jones (preferably “Sir Patrick Spens”) or Jon Loomes (preferably “Avram Bailey” or “Fine Flowers in the Valley”). And how about a mention for Kent band Larskpur (CD just released) or my own unrecorded band “Roger the Chorister (don’t ask).
LESTER BRENNER Christie Moore – Whacker Humphries
ANDY GOULDING Jeffery Lewis punk is dead
ANDREW PEARSON The deserter, fairport convention.
LAURENS BIEZEMANS An ultimate list wouldn’t also be complete without a song sung by Judy Dyble! I still think she has a better voice then Sandy… As a suggestion: (Syd Barrett haters gonna hate :-p) but she once recorded an electronic cover version of See emily play wich is awesome.
MARCUS LANCASTLE Yes lets have a folk show every week on BBC 6 music..maybe Andy Kershaw could present it! Please play Hollow Point by Chris Wood.
ALEX GOUDIE John Martyn – Stormbringer
EMILY JOYFUL DURRANT Natalie Merchant, Crazy Man Michael …… oh and Moonlight Shadow, Mike Oldfield ft. Maggie Reilly
JON TILTMAN Lyke Wake Dirge sung by the Young Tradition – that’s proper three part harmony acapella folk. It’s a standard but YT did it best.
NATASHA SEPHTON Please play anything by a) The Penguin Café Orchestra and b) Rory McLeod. Please please please!
MIKE MCCAFFREY Dadford and Daughters.
JOSHUA FLOWER No mumford
LUCY JAY Ewan Mc Coll, Paddy works on the railway. A tune, a story and it’s just about possible to sing along to it badly.
JOSHUA FLOWER Paul Brady, the lakes of ponchartrain
LYNDA COCHRANE Jan & Lorraine- gypsy people. A beautiful record by a duo shrouded in mystery- love it
MATT LINAKER http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lVdITMzTSU
Old Man Luedecke – Joy of Cooking
Hinterland.
LESTER BRENNER How about something by the Unthanks – I particularly like Tar Barrel in Dale
JOHN WALKER I always believe that a folk song must tell me a story
MATT LINAKER ‘The joy of cooking’ by Old Man Luedecke
JOHN WALKER Chris Wood – Hollow Point.
POLLY SHEPHERD Anything by Coope. Boyes and Simpson but I do love The Hill of Little Shoes and (for a good giggle) The Emperor’s New Clothes..please!
JOHN WALKER Folk surely is a song about life that usually includes references to love, death and alcohol.
JOHN WALKER Must must must play Hollow Point. A new Folk Classic
JOAD RAYMOND Essential on any folk playlist: Hard Love by Martin Simpson, Weeping Willow Revisited by Steve Tilston, Bottle Caps are Cool by Peter Stampfel and the Chelsea Hotel Oral Sex Song by Jefferey Lewis.
GARETH MCGAHAN Poor girl by the mountain firework company…..
JO MCMULLEN ‘Read about Love’ by Richard Thompson at the T&C club 1994, for Dave
RACHEL SOKAL …or this lady’s truly magnificent voice http://rioghnachconnolly.bandcamp.com/album/black-lung
Black Lung, by Ríoghnach Connolly
13 track album
DAVID SIDEBOTHAM Please play “winter wine” Caravan – from the album “In the land of grey and pink”. Many thanks David Sidebotham now living in Copenhagen Denmark.
JOHN SLADE Pentangle – Lord Franklin
LIZ FOY The Sparrowhawks – “living mans disease” -because it represents new up & coming folk musicians! x
SCOTT BRICABRACBOY Mcanally Excellent band and that track got put on the BBC Introducing Mixtape back in March – http://www.bbc.co.uk/…
STEPHEN MAGUIRE Eric Bogle, The band played waltzing Matilda. It is the greatest anti war song ever written, it is poignant, beautiful, brilliantly written, and heart breaking all at the same time. I couldn’t tell you the last time it was played on radio.
JEREMY PEARCE pentangle cruel sister
JASON PARKES I’d have picked: 1. The Trees Grow High by The Pentangle ; 2. Graveyard by Forest; 3. Dark Haired Lady by Dr Strangely Strange; 4. The Bite by Comus; 5 Glow Worms by Vashti Bunyan; 6. The House Carpenter by Mr Fox; 7 Black Jack Davey by Bob Dylan; 8 A Sailor’ s Life by Fairport Convention; 9 Sandman’ s Song by Anne Briggs; 10. The Old Main Drag by The Pogues….
HENRY BATES “Toy Balloon” by Bert Jansch. Please. A beautiful song for a windy day. Great show Tom and i can’t wait to browse the wonderful archive. Huge thanks to the archivists and song/story enthusiasts.
PETER ESSON The Men They Couldn’t Hang..Green Fields Of France
LEE BENNETT How about the jon hopkins and king creosote collaberation. Anything of diamond mine.. ta
LOUSIE CLARK punch brothers-rye whiskey,old crow medicien show-wagen wheel or the carter family-wildwood flowers
Robin Mortlock http://youtu.be/bcoN_n5q-qQ
Joni Mitchell – The Way It Is
CBC-TV The Way It Is January 21, 1968 This Is flatout beautiful!
EMMA MØLLER I’d like to hear Liz’s Song by Shelagh McDonald. The first line always stops me in my tracks: “Liz took a train going north, didn’t say she’d be coming back.” Or Jackie Oates’ version of Junk by McCartney, which is on her Lullabies album. It’s not a lullaby, but that didn’t put her off, so give it a whirl.
ROB STEPHENSON Please can you play Hopeless Wanderer by Mumford and Sons, I am 14 years old and live just out side sherborne Dorset and really love this track!
SHELLEY DE ROSSI A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall- Bob Dylan.
DAMIAN KELLY Planxty Little Musgrave
JILL HOLMEN Sandy Denny’s version of Blackwaterside. It was one of the first songs of hers that I was played by a friend at Uni. And it really opened my mind to folk music. Blew away all the clichéd ‘ bearded, finger-in-the-ear’ prejudice.
STEVE BRIGHT How about Bill Jones – Blood and Gold
RACHEL SOKAL I’d recommend The Ballina Whalers – a fresh take on traditional sea shanties www.theballinawhalers.com
the-ballina-whalers
www.theballinawhalers.com
CHRIS HEDDON How about white riot by the bad shepherds?
ELLIE ROSE SCOTT Cold Bread by Johnny Flynn just because its a really good song, and hes mentioned in the past how he was inspired by folk music
ANDY ROWE The Bert Jansch version of October song from Crimson Moon, I’m loving ‘Black Trade’ from the new Unthanks album, songs about the working men and women, that’s what folk music is for me..
KENT HARRIS Emily Smith – the title track from her album Traveller’s Joy – delicious, delicate contemporary vocal Gaelic joy
GEMMA STURGES Diamond Day by Vashti Bunyan would be quite lovely. A wonderful influence on many of the contemporary folk artists of today. Don’t let the “the Godmother of Freak Folk” tag put you off
JENNY MAIRI JOHNSTON The Chair-Folky Gibbon
MARTIN RIGBY Its alright ma im only bleeding by dylan…amazing words great tune
CHRIS HEDDON Mr magnifico by eliza carthy please
JAMES MCKEOWN Also anything from Starless & Bible Black’s ‘The Shape of the Shape’ album
SEAN BECHHOFER Nothing says folk more than folk dance, so how about some dance tunes? if I might be so bold, you could play a set from our band Albireo’s debut album…. http://albireo.bandcamp.com/
Northern Cross, by albireo
14 track album
MICHAEL CRAWFORD October song – The Incredible String Band
JAMES MCKEOWN How about this contemporary feedback drenched cover of the Third Ear Band’s ‘Fleance’ by Hi-Fiction Science http://hifictionscience.bandcamp.com/track/fleance
Fleance, by Hi-Fiction Science
Fleance by Hi-Fiction Science, released 16 April 2011
MATTHEW BENNETT Natalie merchant- tell yourself bordering on folk
ARAN MACDERMOTT Please checkout
The Grapes of WrathJim Woodland
STEVE ANDREWS Place called England June Tabor. Not sure it’s the best folk song ever but it’s a favourite of mine at the moment.
DAMIEN SMITH Obi – Somewhere nicer.
HELEN JARVIS Hello Tom, Great Show!! Can you please play some June Tabor & The Oysterband especially there version of Love Will Tear Us apart as it is brilliant or alternatively Fayhield & The Hurricane Party’s The Weavers Daughter. Thank You
ROGER SHUFFLEBOTTOM OK – specifically ‘Swift as the Wind’ from ‘The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter’.
ANDY GOLDING Villager by Matt Deighton.
ANDY GOLDING Anything by Nick Drake apart from Northern Sky. Road or Things Behind The Sun or Cello Song.
DARIO FISHER Midlake – Roscoe has to be played! The groove armada version is especially brilliant
CISCO JONES This Land is Our Land – Woody Guthrie Gives you a mixed bag of emotions all in one song
STUART MACFARLANE My love is like a red red rose by Eddi Reader
JOE REESE Come Here by Kath Bloom, please.
ZIYAD SAID-WARDELL Over Jordan – papa m
ESTHER CLARK Jenny of the Moore – jim moray
CIARA MCSMALL Mexican Mavis by Boy&Bear (saw them supporting Laura Marling, they were brill!!) folky fabulousness
SARAH HUDSPITH More folk rock but Janis Joplin Mercedes Benz is a contender.
ANDY PEARSON Any Barclay James Harvest.
KAREN WALKER A Place Called England by Maggie Holland (not the June Tabor cover, marvellous as she is)
ANDREW WISHART Cherish The Lonesome by Roy Harper, not a folk artist but a wonderful song in that ilk.
SAM SANDILLA JR. Can’t stand folk,
ANDY BASSETT-SCOTT or Kate Rusby ‘Yorkshire Couple’
ANDY BASSETT-SCOTT Or Mike Harding ‘Strangeways Hotel’
ANDY BASSETT-SCOTT Mumford & Son ‘Babel’
GRANNIE ANNIE ANNIE Burt Jansch has to be in there somewhere and so does Jethro Tull. But if you’re looking for a newer band then (and he’s just put it ‘pon the turntable) Bellowhead or The Unthanks.
Tom Robinson
London-based broadcaster & songwriter, born 1950. His best known songs are 2-4-6-8 Motorway, Glad To Be Gay and War Baby; he has also co-written songs with Peter Gabriel, Elton John, Dan Hartman and Manu Katché. Read More...