The Beard Presents… AO2 – Boistorous Blues, Freaky Folk
AO2 – Boisterous Blues, Freaky Folk from The_Beard4904 on 8tracks Radio.
In honor of the publication’s return to existence, I’ve unearthed, reconfigured, and tweaked the quintessential mix of oddness and acceptability. These original AO tunes are the original reason I started courting whiskely warriors way back in the forgotten past of ’07.
This reinvigorated take on my original Freaky Folk comp (a fave of both genial and gentle souls) dips in and out of the UK folk underground, while simultaneously tapping some of blues’ most overlooked bad boys (not to mention long-forgotten obscurities). To say this baby has been retooled is something of an understatement — I pretty much completely redid it in honor of the ocassion. Oddities abound, but, generally this baby is primed for fall laments, chilly afternoons, and long walks through the freak-folk forest.
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01. Harry Taussig “Water Verses”
02. Meic Stevens “It Takes a Country Boy to Sing a Country Song”
03. Jackson C. Frank “Blues Run the Game”
04. Sweet Pie “Red neck Blues”
05. Skip James “Crow Jane”
06. David Van Ronk “Cocaine Blues”
07. Bert Jansch “Needle of Death”
08. Linda Perhacs “Hey, Who Really Cares?”
09. Judee Sill “There’s a Rugged Road”
10. Vashti Bunyan “Jog Along Bess”
11. Dillard & Clark “Out On The Side”
12. Annie Briggs “Step Right Up”
13. Bridget St. John “To B With Out A Hitch”
14. Trees “Glasgerion”
15. Ed Askew “Love Is Everyone”
16. Tyrannosaurus Rex “Chariots of Silk”
17. Incredible String Band “No Sleep Blues”
18. Paul Giovanni “Gently Johnny”
19. The Groundhogs “Thank Christ For The Bomb”
20. John Jacob Niles “The Frog Went Courting”