Thanks everyone.
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Originally Posted by Man like Monkey
Welcome. Nice intro.
What English folk music do you like? I've been meaning to check it myself.
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Mainly just any decent covers I can find of old child ballads. (like The House Carpenter/The Daemon Lover and Tam Lin, though those are Scottish ones I think). Which are just very old, traditional folk songs with countless variations, and they all typically have a rather grim (or tragic) subject matter. Like 'The Well Below the Valley' which is about infanticide. I highly recommend the Pol McAdam version. But generally you can find halfway decent stuff by just typing in "traditional English folk" into youtube.
And of course Joan Baez.. I'm much more familiar with American folk, though. Alan Lomax's field recordings are wonderful.
Sorry, I'm a bit long-winded.