U.S. Folk Rock: From the coffee houses of New York’s Greenwich Village to the coffee shops of London’s Soho-the singer songwriter boom of the early sixties to today.
BRITISH FOLK ROCK : From my own experience the singers of the Folk Rock scene in the sixties in Britain. See also the page on The Incredible String Band here.
This one above starts with Lavinia Blackwall singing a song that Sandy Denny made a classic version of. The Richard Farina song Quiet Joys. She is backed by the now deceased ex Fairport Convention fiddler Dave Swarbrick playing his unique lonesome reel. On to Fairport themselves with Sandy singing a pleasant song with Ian Mathews (he of Southern Comfort). Vashti Bunyan a very unique wisp of a voice followed by Traffic. John Renbourn singing about the famous floating folk club on the Thames called The Barge. Ends with Sandy doing a song not too long before she too sadly passed on.
Below: The Incredible String Band
Some choice cuts from their first albums.
BELOW: Leonard Cohen songs sung by other singers.