#Folk music

[copperbadge]

[ID: Three elderly vinyl record covers with library tags; the first is labeled Soviet Army Chorus and Band, featuring a photo of a large military band. The second shows the rolling Welsh countryside and is labeled Traditional Welsh Songs; the third is a blue and red cover with an hourglass motif, and reads The American Jewish Experience in Song.]

The Chicago Public Library system recently weeded nine thousand vinyl records from its collection and announced a three-day sale; all records $1, cash only. I didn't imagine that there'd be a lot of LPs I wanted, but I do have a turntable and a reputation as a hipster to maintain, so today on the first day of the sale I strolled down to the Harold Washington Library to check it out.

It was startlingly popular -- each group of roughly 30 people they let in was limited to 15 minutes, and even with the time limit it took me 40 minutes to get in. Worth it, though; I came away with a dozen records all told, mostly a mixture of British and Jewish folk music, with a few soundtracks and other oddities thrown in.

But the piece de resistance, the prize find, was Rome With Love by Jo Basile and his orchestra: an album of accordion covers of Italian folk songs from 1957.

I hope it's half as good as the album cover suggests.

[ID: A fourth album cover reading "Rome with Love" and below that "Roma con Amore", labeled "The Italian Accordion of Jo Basile and his orchestra". The cover features a man and a woman on a scooter with Roma plates, dressed in the height of fifties beach fashion.]

#chicago #chicago public library #music #folk music #studying for conversion

[izywizzy]

forest singers ☽. ⭒*.﹒

#hozier #florence and the machine #hozierandrewbyrne #florence welch #the last dinner party #abigail morris #forest #my fav genre is just forest that’s it #aesthetic #folk music #indie #i love hozier #hozier pls stop being so beautiful

[sixty-silver-wishes]

folk music: "I have faced generations of oppression and mourn my lost love and country, but my culture will persist and survive"

also folk music: "I am going to drink so much alcohol you don't understand. literally So much alcohol"

also folk music: "oops I killed my husband lol"

also folk music: "shit I should have married that girl. too bad she keeps ignoring me every time I try to break into her house"

also folk music: "I feel an unimaginable grief for a past I can never return to" also folk music: "fiddle dee doodle diddle deedle deedle dee"

#folk music #I love it all

[defleftist]

Thrilled to see someone carrying on the tradition of protest folk music. Keep fighting the good fight!

#jesse welles #war isn’t murder #music #folk music #protest music #leftist #leftblr #communist #socialist #communism #socialism #anti capitalist #anti capitalism #leftist politics #human rights #anti war #anti war protest #free palestine #free gaza

[luthienne]

learning about the coded folk songs created by palestinian women and remembering again why folk music has my whole heart

#all that is musical in us is memory #ph #folk music #free palestine

[boysnberryfan]

snoopy s&g hehehehe

#classic rock #60s #60s music #paul simon #simon and garfunkel #art garfunkel #folk music #folk rock #s&g #snoopy #peanuts #woodstock

[simpledesultoryphilippic]

#simon and garfunkel #paul simon #art garfunkel #folk rock #folk music #die

[jasofthehollow]

just came across this beautiful rendition of siúil a rúin by irish-palestinian artist roisin el cherif. this song has always been close to my heart, especially after it's use in the nightingale, a film that explores the (ongoing) colonial violence on the island that i call home.

i really love the way that she weaves the arabic language into this song, as well as the influences from both irish and palestinian styles of music.

all the proceeds of the release are being donated to the doctors without borders gaza emergency regional fund so if you love her rendition as much as i do i would really recommend purchasing it on band-camp (i've linked it above).

#folk music #free palestine #free gaza #siúil a rún #Bandcamp

[lyssaofthevalley]

"What would your life be like without music?"

Miserable. I'd rather bite the sidewalk and have someone stomp on my skull than not have music.

#girlblogging #just girly things #girlhood #music #spotify #lana del rey #mitski #ethel cain #bôa #the crane wives #metallica #system of a down #rob zombie #hozier #crawlers #destroy boys #rock #metal #indie #folk music #yuh #florence and the machine

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

let's feel what is exactly a 山歌shan'ge (mountain songs) without explain

#china #douyin #music #sound on #audio #shange #folk music #genshin impact #a friend asked me what is shange #she plays genshin and the new map of chenyu vale has a boatman NPC singing shange #the second part of the video is that NPC singing #also that landscape in the first part is real it's in guilin of guangxi province

[whumpster-fire]

Stan Rogers Songs Categorized By Status Of The Boat

Northwest Passage: The Boat(s) sank a long time ago.

Barrett's Privateers: The Boat sank. It was a terrible boat anyway.

The Flowers Of Bermuda: The Boat sank.

Rolling Down To Old Maui: The Boat didn't sink.

Take It From Day To Day: The Boat didn't sink.

Bluenose: The Boat didn't sink.

White Squall: The Boat didn't sink, but somebody fell off.

The Mary Ellen Carter: The Boat sank, but goddamnit we're gonna unsink it!

Man With Blue Dolphin: The Boat sank again. This poor fool is going to waste his money unsinking it again. What an idiot. This boat is a piece of junk.

The Last Watch: The Boat didn't sink, but it's being broken up for scrap.

The Wreck of the Athens Queen: The Boat sank! Hooray, free stuff for us! (Also we almost sank the boat we used to grab stuff off the boat that sank because we were all drunk)

The Idiot: There are no boats in Edmonton or wherever. This sucks.

#shitpost #folk music #Stan Rogers

[lisamarie-vee]

#odetta #otto hagel #1960s #b&w #folk music

[retconicregular]

Folk music is the most human creation to ever exist and I believe it is a form of magic

#folk #folk music #anthropology #glass speaks

[sanantoniorose]

Melanie Safka • 1960s and '70s

#melanie safka #melanie #1960s music #music #folk music #folk #1970s #vintage #1960s #1970s music #1960s vintage

[hairtusk]

Appalachian folk musician Jean Ritchie, known as the 'Mother of Folk' (1922-2015)

#I'm so obsessed with her rn #I've had her renditions of one morning in may and shady grove on repeat #jean ritchie #folk music #folk culture #american folk #appalachia

[starry-eyed-psychopomp]

WHO was going to tell me that the Ballad of Lucy Gray Baird is set to the tune of Streets of Laredo/The Unfortunate Rake??!?!!? And it’s WRITTEN LIKE THAT IN THE BOOK?!?!???!

Like the fact that it’s supposed to be her lamenting her own impending death?? And she chose the most famous folk song about someone lamenting their impending death??? Hello?!??

#this fuckin book makes my special interests go WILD #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #folk music #it’s the same tune! sing it to streets of Laredo it FITS #lucy gray baird #tbosas #babe wake up new unfortunate rake just dropped #it’s only been a hundred years