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Two Forty Eight

Two Forty Eight is the third release by Folk rock musician Pat Robitaille, released in September 2008.


A Larum

A Larum is the first full-length album by London-based folk rock band Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit, although it was released under the name of Johnny Flynn alone.

Beans and Fatback

The music is similar to other of Wray's period recordings with distinctive "shack" sound and the same Americana blend of blues, country, gospel, and folk rock, but it is a slightly looser and harder-rocking set than Link Wray.

Casey Shea

--Please discuss the addition of any other genres on the talk page.-->Alternative, Classic Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Folk Rock, Indie Pop, Singer-Songwriter

Chaim Gutnick

Gutnick's grandson, Moshe Hecht, is a singer/songwriter and is the lead singer of the Jewish folk rock group Moshe Hecht Band.

Clonakilty Cowboys

Clonakilty Cowboys is the first album by the Irish folk rock band The Noel Redding Band.

Donna Simpson

Donna Simpson is an Australian guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter, a member of the Australian folk rock band The Waifs.

Dry the River

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Fight for Your Mind

Reviews were generally very positive, praising Harper's fusion of multiple genres, from folk ("Another Lonely Day"), folk rock ("Gold to Me"), Black Sabbath-style riffing heavy metal ("Ground on Down") and politically charged reggae ("Excuse Me Mr.").

Fleeting Days

Fleeting Days is a folk rock album released in 2003 by Dan Bern and the International Jewish Banking Conspiracy.

From Afar

The limited edition of the album includes a cover of Swedish folk rock group Nordman.

From Past Archives

From Past Archives is a live compilation CD by English folk rock band Fairport Convention originally issued in Italy in 1992 and reissued by Rough Trade in 1994.

Gaia Consort

Gaia Consort is the original incarnation of Seattle-based folk rock music-group Bone Poets Orchestra.

Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington

The 7th Duke was the maternal grandfather of the actor and musician Jeremy Clyde, who was one-half of the 1960s folk rock duo Chad & Jeremy during the 1960s.

Home for a Rest

The song is also frequently covered by other Canadian folk rock bands, including Mudmen and Enter the Haggis.

I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better

"I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better" is a song by the Los Angeles folk rock band The Byrds that was first released in June 1965 on the B-side of the band's second single, "All I Really Want to Do".

Ian Broudie

On 11 October 2004, Broudie released his debut solo effort, Tales Told, which was embraced by critics and fans alike — despite that fact that Tales Told saw Broudie move into folk rock territory and away from the chirpy pop tunes of The Lightning Seeds.

Judy Collins 3

He would later bring with him the acoustic arrangements of the Pete Seeger songs "Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season" and "The Bells of Rhymney" (as well as the notion of covering Dylan-material in an unusual fashion) when he went on to co-found the folk rock group The Byrds, where they would get a full electrified rock'n'roll-band treatment.

Live Hearts

Live Hearts is the only live album by the Irish folk rock band Moving Hearts, recorded in 1983 at the Dominion Theatre London by the Rolling Stones Mobile Unit.

Nancy Honeytree

Billed simply as "Honeytree" most of her career, the singer's folk rock-soprano style was influenced by mainstream artists such as Joni Mitchell, Carole King and Judy Collins, but her lyrics were largely dealing with one's personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

Ouyen

Australian folk rock band, Weddings Parties Anything, name-checks Ouyen in their 1987 song, "Hungry Years", from their debut album, Scorn of the Women.

Patty Parsons

Patty Parsons (born in West Virginia) is the former soulful lead singer of AnExchange, a Marin County, California-based folk rock group of the early 1970s.

Peter Lovšin

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, he organized several tours with folk rock musicians Vlado Kreslin and Zoran Predin.

Resia, Friuli

Many Slovenian folk and folk rock groups, such as Katalena and Terrafolk, have drawn their inspiration from the Resian folk tradition.

Rockport Music

Since the opening of the Shalin Liu Performance Center in 2010, Rockport Music has presented a great variety of artists year-round, including Midori, pianist Russell Sherman, Scottish-style fiddler Hanneke Cassel, jazz legend Dave Brubeck, folk-rocker Roger McGuinn, jazz-singer Kurt Elling, and Rockport’s own Paula Cole.

Room to Roam

Room to Roam is an album by The Waterboys; it continued the folk rock sound of 1988's Fisherman's Blues, but was less of a commercial success, reaching #180 on the Billboard Top 200 after its release in September 1990.

Set You Free This Time

"Set You Free This Time" is a song by the American folk rock band The Byrds, written by band member Gene Clark and first released in December 1965 on the group's Turn! Turn! Turn! album.

The Missing Album

The Missing Album is the third album by the Irish folk rock band, The Noel Redding Band, released in 1995 after their break up.

The Mooseheart Faith Stellar Groove Band

The Mooseheart Faith Stellar Groove Band, sometimes known as Mooseheart Faith, is a Los Angeles based rock band blending 1960s folk rock and psychedelia, 1970s space rock and progressive rock and a variety of influences from world music and jazz.

The Mystery Trend

Although they are categorized in the San Francisco Sound, they differed from other bands in the scene because they were not a folk rock group nor did they go psychedelic, but their sound was influenced more from the British rock and mod sound of The Kinks and The Who and the Motown sound writing of Holland-Dozier-Holland.

View from the Ground

View from the Ground is the tenth original studio album by American folk rock duo America, released by Capitol Records in July 1982.


see also

Aleka's Attic

Aleka's Attic were an alternative folk/rock band from Gainesville, Florida formed by River Phoenix and his sister Rain.

And if Venice Is Sinking

"And if Venice Is Sinking" is a song written by John Mann and Geoffrey Kelly for the Canadian folk-rock band Spirit of the West.

Andy Quin

In 1981, while he was studying for a degree in music and electronics at the University of Keele, he became the drummer in Jeff Kent's folk-rock band, The Witan, which released the single, Butcher's Tale/Annie, with the Dancing Eyes, the same year and the two-part environmental concept album, Tales from the Land of the Afterglow, in 1984 on Witan Records.

Ariel Rechtshaid

He is the former lead singer and guitarist of the ska/pop-punk band The Hippos, and the indie folk-rock group Foreign Born.

Artzi

Shlomo Artzi (born 1949), Israeli folk rock singer-songwriter and composer

Been Listening

Been Listening is the second full-length LP by London-based folk-rock band Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit.

Bob Masse

As folk became folk-rock, and Vancouver was visited by such bands as the Grateful Dead, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane and Steve Miller, Bob continued to produce memorable concert posters for these bands, and helped pioneer the emerging psychedelic art genre.

With the rise of folk-rock, Vancouver played host to concerts from the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and the Steve Miller Band, with Masse contributing increasingly psychedelicized artwork for their appearances; in 1966, he travelled to San Francisco, with a revelatory journey to the Haight-Ashbury district as well as direct contact with the poster art of the Fillmore and the Family Dog exerting a profound influence on his own subsequent work.

Bonny Hicks

Lim began his piece with a line from the famous folk/rock song Fire and Rain by James Taylor.

Break You

Raven performed an acoustic folk-rock version of Break You during her 2013 Songs from a Blackbird Norwegian tour.

Bridal Train

"Bridal Train" is a single by the Australian folk-rock band The Waifs, coming from their album A Brief History....

Children of Rain

Pam and Alan married in late 1967, forming the folk-rock group Ross Legacy and releasing Makes You Wanna Sigh, written by Pam’s brother and former Children of Rainer Denis, on the Philips label (40620) in 1969.

Choose Your Battles

The song was written and produced by Perry and by Canadian record producer Greg Wells, who were accompanied by American folk rock singer-songwriter Jonatha Brooke on the songwriting process.

Clare Island

The island features in a song by the Irish folk-rock band, the Saw Doctors from their 1996 album, Same Oul' Town.

Far right in Croatia

In the world of popular culture, the pop/folk/rock singer Marko Perković (Thompson) caused a scandal when the media obtained a copy song Jasenovac i Gradiška Stara allegedly sung by him.

Garboldisham

Of more contemporary note, the mother of pianist of folk rock band Moishe's Bagel Phil Alexander lives in the village.

Gino Santercole

The song is a cover of the folk-rock/protest song written by P.F. Sloan, 'Eve of Destruction' which became a hit when covered by Barry McGuire in 1966.

Golec uOrkiestra

Golec uOrkiestra is a Polish folk-rock group, founded in 1998 in southern village of Milówka near Żywiec by twin brothers Paweł and Łukasz Golec, after whom it is named.

Hand Sown ... Home Grown

Produced by Chip Douglas of the Turtles, the album saw Ronstadt take a decisive turn away from the folk rock of The Stone Poneys toward country and rock.

In Dublin

In Dublin is a folk/rock album by Alan Stivell, recorded live at the National Stadium, Dublin, on 26 and 27 November 1974, and originally released in 1975.

Kathleen Chalfant

They have a son, David Chalfant, who was the bass player for the folk-rock band, The Nields, and a daughter, Andromache, who is a set designer in New York.

Ledingham

Jonathan Kelly (born Jonathan Ledingham in 1947), an Irish folk rock singer-songwriter

Legong

Legong is mentioned in "I've Been To Bali Too", the single by Australian folk-rock band Redgum from their 1984 album Frontline.

Live at the Mineshaft Tavern

Live At The Mineshaft Tavern is the debut album released by the folk-rock band ThaMuseMeant in 1995.

Mandolinquents

The Mandolinquents was formed in the aftermath of The Mandolin All Stars (1995 - 1997) in which Simon Mayor and Hilary James were joined by Maartin Allcock (mandocello) and Chris Leslie (mandolin, violin), both of whom are variously associated with the British folk-rock bands Fairport Convention, Jethro Tull and The Albion Band.

Morcheeba

On this album, the Godfrey brothers emphasised their role as producers creating a set of instrumental tracks entirely sung by a roster of guest performers—cult folk-rock singer Judie Tzuke, Norwegian singer-songwriter and former Jaga Jazzist collaborator Thomas Dybdahl, blues singer/guitarist Bradley Burgess, Korean-American rapper Cool Calm Pete, and French singer Manda (Amanda Zamolo).

Motel Motel

Motel Motel is an indie folk/rock band based in Brooklyn, New York, with roots and influences from Denver, Colorado; Captain Cook, Hawaii; and Richmond, Virginia and elsewhere across the United States.

Music of Newfoundland and Labrador

Modern Newfoundland & Labrador musicians include: Hey Rosetta!, Harry Martin, as well as folk group The Flummies, Byron "Fiddler" Chaulk, rock musician David Penashue of Tipatchimun (who sings Innu language rock), Canadian folk-rock band Great Big Sea.

North of the Yellowhead

North of the Yellowhead is the sixth studio album by the Canadian folk rock band Captain Tractor.

On the Love Beach

On the Love Beach is the first album by Japanese psychedelic-folk rock duo Nagisa Ni te.

Petrus Brovka

Some of his later verses made their way into Soviet pop music when they were adapted by the Belarusian Soviet folk rock band Pesniary.

Robert Léger

Léger, along with Huet and Rivard, is attributed as one of the main talents of the folk-rock group, Beau Dommage, and has written a large number of the bands popular songs from their self-titled debut album, Beau Dommage.

Siege of Lathom House

The folk-rock band Steeleye Span memorialized the siege in the title song of their album They Called Her Babylon.

Soterios Johnson

Jonathan Coulton, a folk-rock artist also based in New York, wrote a song called "Dance, Soterios Johnson, Dance" that presents a fictionalized secret life of Johnson as a club-goer.

Têtes

Têtes Raides, French folk rock group blending French poetry, theater, visual arts and the Big Top circus antics

The Blue Things

The Blue Things (also known as The Bluethings) were a folk-rock and, later, psychedelic band from Hays, Kansas that existed from 1964 to 1968, recording one LP and several singles for RCA Records in '66 and '67.

The Essential Shawn Mullins

The Essential Shawn Mullins is a compilation album by Shawn Mullins which includes remastered songs mostly from his 2 previous folk-rock albums, Soul's Core and Beneath the Velvet Sun.

The Fiddler's Dream

The Fiddler's Dream is a folk / folk-rock album by Dransfield, a short-lived group principally comprising the Dransfield brothers, Robin and Barry.

The True World

The True World is the third release by Japanese psychedelic-folk rock duo Nagisa Ni te and their second studio album.

The Twin Atlas

The Twin Atlas is a folk-rock band, known for its atmospheric folk and pop songs, written and home-recorded by Sean Byrne with Lucas Zaleski, who began playing together when they met at the University of Delaware in the early 1990s and began releasing music as The Twin Atlas in 2000.

Thistlethwaite

Anthony Thistlethwaite (born 1955), British multi-instrumentalist best known as a member of the folk-rock group The Waterboys

Tom Sankey

The Golden Screw was a folk rock musical documenting the progress of a Bob Dylanesque folk singer.

Troll Bends Fir

In 2009 TBF released "1516/Order of the Holy Hop"LP (mastered at Finnvox Studios) that showed their tendency to switch from folk rock to folk metal.

Wintersmith

In 2013 folk-rock band Steeleye Span collaborated with Pratchett, a fan of the band, to produce a Wintersmith concept album, released in October 2013.

Woodworm Records

Woodworm Records was a record label created in 1979 to enable the British folk-rock band Fairport Convention to release their album Farewell Farewell.