FolkBlog

David Stoddard – The First Thanksgiving

One of my favorite singer/songwriters, David Stoddard, has a great new live album out, entitled “Get Off My Lawn.”

Here is a video. It certainly adds some resonance to the question, “Where are all these people coming from?”

Folk duo Trout Fishing in America has a channel on Youtube where they post videos regularly. It can be found at http://www.youtube.com/MusicbyTroutFishing

Pierce Pettis plays and discusses his song “State of Grace.”

It’s Saint Patrick’s Day, so of course this week’s video is Irish. And who could represent Irish music better than the Chieftains? Performing here for some sort of benefit with The Corrs. Featuring some step dancing by people and a couple surreal costumed creatures. Slainte!

Eddi Reader, live with an all-star band (John McCusker, Michael McGoldrick and others) at the Cambridge Folk Festival, 2006, performing “Willie Stewart” from her album of Roberts Burns tunes.

This video is from Pete Seeger’s “Rainbow Quest” showon PBS in NYC, from 1965 and features Seeger and Tom Paxton duetting on “Ramblin’ Boy” and then discussing the art of songwriting. Enjoy!

This week’s folk video is a little more contemporary than the last two – The Kennedys have several really great videos up at youtube, and this is one of them from Half a Million Miles – “Time Ain’t Long.” Enjoy

This week’s folk video is The Weavers’ classic cover of “Goodnight Irene.” During the performance, they pay tribute to Hudie Ledbetter (Leadbelly). Enjoy!

Okay, everyone else is jumping on the YouTube bandwagon. Why not the FolkBlog? So, here it is, the first of many Folk Videos of the Week. And, who better to start with than the man himself, Woody Guthrie?

This clip, of Woody, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee is one of few surviving clips of Woody Guthrie performing. Enjoy!