Member Since: 4/20/2007
Influences: Folk (traditional and bastardised): Hobart Smith, Sid Hemphill, Roscoe Holcomb, Joe and Odel Thompson, Dock Boggs, Dink Roberts, John Snipes, Lucius Smith, Homer Walker, Tommy Jarrel, John Fahey, Robbie Basho, Peter Lang, Bert Jansch and John Renbourn (separately and together), Isaac Guillory, Dave Murrell, Sandy Bull, Jack Rose, Clive Carroll, Stefan Grossman, Andy Irvine, Nic Jones, Bruce Molsky, Davey Graham, Pete Berryman, most pre-war American folk, Martin Carthy, Shirley Collins, The Stanley Brothers, The Carter Family, Monroe Brothers, Flatt and Scruggs, Clarence Ashley, Sol Hoopii, Roy Smeck, Sons of the Pioneers, Les Chauffeurs a Pieds, Lydia Mendoza, Francisco Molina, Incredible String Band, Forest, Magic Carpet, Dr. Strangely Strange, early Fairport Convention, Richard and Linda Thompson, Peter Bellamy, Paddy Tunney, The Copper Family, Linda Perhacs, The Trees, Anne Briggs. I'm getting into Klezmer and general Jewish folk music at the moment; it's probably the obvious ones: Naftule Brandwein, Josef Solinski, Max Leibovitz and Joseph Moskowitz mostly.
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Blues/Gospel (I know it's a kind of folk music and I know I've just dumped two seemingly disparate things together but...) : Bukka White, Henry Thomas, Peetie Wheatstraw, Tommy Johnson, Blind Boy Fuller, Sonny Terry, Washington Phillips, Blind Willie McTell, Son House, Charley Patton, Otha Turner, Sylvester Weaver, King Solomon Hill, Tampa Red, Robert Wilkins, Frank Stokes, Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Blake, Lonnie Johnson, Josh White, Skip James, Arthur Crudup, JB Lenoir, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Johnny Shines.
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Rock: Nick Drake, Jefferson Airplane (love Jorma Kaukonen), Love, Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service (mostly for John Cipollina), Tim Buckley,Country Joe and the Fish (mostly for Barry Melton), The Doors, Os Mutantes, (Eric Burdon and the) Animals, the Amazing Charlatans ('60s group), Stereolab, Sonic Youth, 13th Floor Elevators, The Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers, Neil Young, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Karen Dalton, Serge Gainsbourg, Fred Neil, Joni Mitchell, Buffy Saint-Marie, Beatles, Beach Boys, Elliott Smith, Captain Beefheart, The Velvet Underground, John Cale and Lou Reed, Nico, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, John Martyn, Donovan. I also quite like those collections of obscure psychedelic songs; I like having to filter out all the really rubbish tracks they put on to fill them out.
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Jazz: Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Miles Davis, Charlie Christian, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Jelly Roll Morton, Archie Shepp, Charles Mingus, Krzysztof Komeda, Zbigniew Namyslowski, Tomasz Stanko, Albert Ayler, Django Reinhardt, Art Blakey, Eric Dolphy, Herbie Mann, John McLaughlin (particularly Shakti and stuff with Miles), Kenny Burrell, Roland Kirk, Wayne Shorter, Giuseppi Logan, Grant Green, Barney Kessel, Sonny Rollins, Bill Evans, Gilad Atzmon, Duke Ellington, Wes Montgomery.
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Classical: Edvard Grieg, Bela Bartok, Frederic Chopin, Franz Liszt, Erik Satie, Grigoras Dinicu, Leos Janacek, John Dowland, William Byrd, Ralph Vaughan-Williams, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Camille Saint-Saens, JS Bach, Charles Ives, Iannis Xenakis.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None