Three Tune Tuesday・Folk!
Greetings and salutations Hivers. Today let's go into another Three Tune Tuesday post.
As always, thanks to @ablaze for making this series. Lots of people participate in it! Follow the tags to find a ton of good music recommendation.
Well I'm a day late. All of you who kindly keep up with my posts know I'm behind due to a nasty headache I had over the weekend. But thanks to the magic of time zones, it's still tuesday somewhere in the world, so this post still counts!
Today I have another mix of different genres. Trying to keep switching things up to stay interesting.
Harry McClintock - Big Rock Candy Mountain
This is a fun song about a hobo's idea of paradise. McClintock actually did some hoboing when he was younger, using the hobo name "Haywire Mac", so he had some experience here in the view and desires the song lists. It's been a popular song since release, though most versions these days clean it up, making it more child friendly.
Woodie Guthrie - Do Re Mi
Now when mention of Guthrie comes up you probably think two things, Bob Dylan (who idolized Guthrie) or This Land is Your Land. The latter of those is probably what he is most famous for these days. The original was written as a response to "God Bless America" and was much more biting and critical of the country than the sanitized version we have today, which has been remade into a kid's song with all critical lyrics striped out.
Anyway, I'm not going with that, instead I'll go with this classic ode, warning folks who are migrating from the East to go back home, cause their aren't enough jobs out West for them.
By the way, did you know Guthrie wasn't a big fan of Trump's pop? Read up on that here.
Suzuki Tsunekichi - Omoide
Folk singer Suzuki based this on the traditional Irish ballad A Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow but changed the lyrics to evoke nostalgia, sorrow, and the transience of life. It was a fairly popular hit for him, then was picked as the opening song for Shinya Shokudō ("Midnight Diner"), a popular TV show, and it became much more popular.
Even if you can't understand the lyrics, I think you can probably enjoy his singing. (But here is a translation if you want to read them.)
So what's your favorite?
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Great stuff here. I used to go to a folk music festival here in Michigan every late summer. They had all kinds of good music there. Folk music has always been heavy on social commentary, but you kind of know what you are getting going in!
That'd be fun to go to every year!
It was a blast back in the day. I am not sure I could handle the three straight days of partying at my current age!
I'm certainly familiar with the first two. We used to go to some country folk festivals here for a while and Big Rock Candy Mountain was always covered. And Guthrie was one of the records Dad had (amongst a plethora of others of course). I do love that old world folk.
Here's a tune that comes to mind when I think of those festivals.
I'll try to come bacck and listen to the third one - I'm in class supervising at the moment so I can't listen right now!
It's a unique sound isn't it? Not quite like anything else. And the social commentary is always there too, of course.
That's a great song you posted!
Nice finds for your TTT! I am familiar with the first two, but the last one was completely new but good. I haven't heard McClintock or Guthrie for literally years. Sad how quick some great music can be so easily forgotten. I guess in time most of it will be forgotten, there were a lot of composers in the time of Mozart, but who do we remember?
Fantastic songs today, I enjoyed those!
Too true. It disappears fast and only the top guys and only their top hits survive. At the same time, I think music does go through fads. Folk hasn't really been popular for a long time. I can imagine there will be some social event in the future that brings this style back to the forefront, and some of these classic tunes will come with it.
Glad you enjoyed!
Wasn't what I was expecting when I saw Folk music mentioned, but then I do have UK folk as my baseline lol, but it is always nice hearing country, Appalachia or bluegrass since they do have their links back to home for me
I guess I should have specified. When I think folk I usually think Guthrie, early Dylan, that kind of sound, which always does have that bluegrass feel and seems like a banjo wouldn't be out of place.
Do love a good bit of Banjo'ing 😃
Which reminds me, this came up on Apple Country Radio the other day and just have to share!
Has an original album Mumfords style of performance, which is good to me
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