Folk music is wonderful because there’s bound to be a million versions of any song you love. Folk music is terrible because nobody will ever sing it right except the person who taught you the song.
Category: folk music
A Folk Song A Day
A Folk Song A Day:
Speaking of resources for learning about folk songs’ historical context: May I introduce you to Jon Boden’s 2010-11 ‘A Folk Song A Day’ project?
As the title suggests, the blog has 365 folk songs recorded by Jon Boden & supplied with introductions by Simon Holland. The comments are also excellent.
And if you’re wondering what ‘Mudcat’ and ‘Mainly Norfolk’ are - they’re two more excellent resources to start researching (British/English-language) folk music. Both record variations, artists who recorded the song in question, print editions of songs, and whether the song in question appears in one of the major song indexes (Roud, Child Ballads, etc.). Then there’s Oxford Broadside Ballads Online, and Wikipedia isn’t the worst place to start to look up individual songs, either.
A Folk Song A Day
A Folk Song A Day:
Speaking of resources for learning about folk songs’ historical context: May I introduce you to Jon Boden’s 2010-11 ‘A Folk Song A Day’ project?
As the title suggests, the blog has 365 folk songs recorded by Jon Boden & supplied with introductions by Simon Holland. The comments are also excellent.
And if you’re wondering what ‘Mudcat’ and ‘Mainly Norfolk’ are - they’re two more excellent resources to start researching (British/English-language) folk music. Both record variations, artists who recorded the song in question, print editions of songs, and whether the song in question appears in one of the major song indexes (Roud, Child Ballads, etc.). Then there’s Oxford Broadside Ballads Online, and Wikipedia isn’t the worst place to start to look up individual songs, either.