Songs like something right up my alley!

Man music is great.

A little bit of traditional folk music from my lands:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_umlvybcac

I've been listening to Valet and the new Grouper record a lot recently, they might be worth checking out if you haven't done already. Both are quite strange and psychedelic sounding, although I'm not entirely sure where they draw their influences from.

Valet and Grouper are great!

He didn't hate folk music, he just didn't like most of the people playing it when it was super popular in the 60's, mostly because he felt that all that hippie stuff was mainstream posing, and lacked the historical perspective that he had come to expect from it.

Clive Plamer's C.O.B.

Absolutely check out Dom, and their album 'Edge of Time'. It's on the pscyh/acoustic/droney side of things, and excellent.

i guess the obvious are sunburned, nnck but you know about those already. what about bert jansh, pelt and jack rose?

Jack Rose = hell yes.

Fairport Convention (electric folk), John Fahey and Incredible String Band are excellent recommendations. I think so are Grateful Dead to a degree. Let's not forget Dylan, or The Band for that matter There's also the oldies like Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger (also The Weavers), Hank Williams, Sr., and The Kingston Trio. For a bluegrass tinge there's Flatt & Scruggs and THe Stanley Brothers that kind of stand out for me.
Then there's some of the stuff by Donovan, Neil Young (CSN&Y mostly), Leonard Cohen, Paul Simon (& Garfunkel), Marc Ribot (in his own and some of his playing w/Waits), Chris Spedding, Ry Cooder (w/Capt. Beefheart too), The Mamas & Papas, The Byrds, Gram Parsons, John Prine, Emmylou Harris, Pentangle, Fresh Maggots and Tim Buckley (both himself and Lee Underwood's playing).

Listen to "Hong Kong Bar" from Tim Buckley's uneven foray into L.A. Blues funk called "Greetings From L.A." The album is a bit odd, but the guitar on "Hong Kong Bar" is just remarkably nuts. Maybe pick up some quirky approaches from The Shaggs Philosophy of the World.

A bit more recent are Suzanne Vega and Richard Thompson.

"How can I be folk? I'm from the suburbs you know" - John Fahey. That's enough for me to not list him.

Anyway, if you guys do want some american primitive guitar (and related) suggestions, then I posted some near the bottom of this page: http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/showthread.php?t=12246

If you don't feel like reading or you want to keep it all on this thread or whatever, then here are some good suggestions of American primitive and fingerstyle/folky guitarists I like:
- Robbie Basho
- Max Ochs
- Bukka White
- Harry Taussig
- Peter Lang
- Loren Mazzacane Connors
- Jack Rose
- Leo Kottke
- Wooden Spoon
- Pat O'Connell
- Andrew Stranglen
- Terry Robb
- Dale Miller
- Tetsui Akiyama
- Michael Gulezian
- Sandy Bull
- James Blackshaw
- Sir Richard Bishop
- Gillian Welch
- Sean Smith
- Glenn Jones
- Harris Newman
- Six Organs of Admittance
- (some) M. Ward
- (some) Jim O'Rourke
- Triple Burner
- Steffen Basho-Junghans
- George Stavis
- Bob Hadley
- Wayne Lopes
- Bob Brozman (who played in many different styles but I think you'd dig if you like any of the above artists; a true slide guitar king)

Its funny because Fahey was on the same label as Basho and Kottke, I wonder if all on the tahoma roster shared the same sentiment.

Kottke probably did. Basho probably didn't care, he was too busy playing a 100 year old guitar and singing about vultures.

Takoma Records was amazing... I love "the psychadelic saxaphone of Charlie Nothing" record.

yeah charlie nothing was insane
oh and i recently bought james blackshaw's sunshrine. its an amazing album. highly recomended.
i was wondering what other albums of his to check out. did he release something this year? (something new, not areissue like sunshrine)

Supreme Dicks

awesome, thanks

Yeah I have sunshrine and one other one, can't remember the name of it.

He released one this year I'm pretty sure. It got good reviews if I remember correctly, not that that means anything. Haven't really sat down with it yet myself.

Accidentally, this board could really do with a healthy, happy, joyful and totally necessary thread about Cornwall folk bands that have been buried by more fashionable trends, which in turns could enrich people's lives in ways that they didn't even know about.

i finally got around to listen to the dom. and the cd is amazing. its like all the acoustic drone thats happening today, but 40 years earlier.
i also bought the cerberus shaol album chaiming the knoblesome a few weeks ago. and it is amazing. i constantly listen to it, simpy because there is so much going on in it. every lesten is rewarding and i discover new sounds and ideas.

i am folked out of it to be honest....

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to atsonicpark again.
Great list, I'm certainly going to check some of these out! A teacher at my old school worked with some of Triple Burner's production, so that's how I learned about him.