downloading folk music.

Subject: downloading folk music.
From: Fiddlin' Sid
Date: 10 Sep 04 - 02:50 PM

Anyone know any good websites to download folkey stuff ?

Subject: RE: downloading folk music.
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 10 Sep 04 - 03:14 PM

Websites? nope...

Kazaa-lite

Emule...

Good sources of downloads of all sorts

Subject: RE: downloading folk music.
From: s6k
Date: 10 Sep 04 - 04:29 PM

Emule is excellent. i got stuff off there that is almost impossible to find elsewhere.

For example, i got a 1.6gb Paco De Lucia discography, that contains ALL of his albums, in mp3 format at 192kbps
as i live in england, it is near impossible to get paco de lucia from shops etc, now i couldnt be happier, i have them all!!! (probably more than most people in spain!!!)

also i got Martin Carthy by martin carthy, and lots of other great stuff. give emule a go, its very good.

kazaa wasnt bad for folk stuff, i found a lot of christy moore stuff, however, there was almost no martin carthy, which was shocking.

www.suprnova.org (no E) is about the best download site, but perhaps not for folk stuff. you do get the odd thing though. if youre going to use Suprnova, you must first go to google, search "ABC Client" and download and install that, then you can get files from Suprnova.

i will track this thread and see if anyone else comes up with any good sites.

Subject: RE: downloading folk music.
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Sep 04 - 06:47 PM

The best place is newsgroups, if your ISP provides binary newsgroups. If not, you can subscribe to Giganews, or any of several others who specialize in hosting large files. For about $12 US you can get maybe 2 gigs a month. (I get one Gig free with my Comcast service)

here is one place that talks about it

Subject: RE: downloading folk music.
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Sep 04 - 06:48 PM

(you can, of course, go Google searches on "folk" and "MP3" and get random stuff)

Subject: RE: downloading folk music.
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 10 Sep 04 - 08:16 PM

A lot depends what you include in "Folky Stuff"
I have been intending to start a tread linking to a list of incredibly large amounts of music legally downloadable Start Here . Much of it is nOT "folk", but there is certainly a lot of bluegrass stuff included. This stuff is ALL with the permission of the people who performed it and includes famous bands such as the Grateful Dead, solo artistes such as Billy Bragg, also bands with interesting names (for instance "Moniska Lewinsky and the Clintones" - I haven't a clue what type of music.
The web address is a sub-section of the Internet Archive, which also contains "The Wayback Machine" which can be used to view websites as they existed on specific dates in the past.
As I say - I'm not sure what there is of interest, but it is worth investigating.
Quack!
Geoff the Duck.

Subject: RE: downloading folk music.
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 10 Sep 04 - 11:07 PM

I really prefer midis instead of mp3's and highly recommend Lesley Nelson-Burns' Contemplator site. http://www.contemplator.com

Subject: RE: downloading folk music.
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 11 Sep 04 - 11:16 PM

Try http://music.download.com/. You have to wade through quite a bit of dross, but there are some gems too.

Subject: RE: downloading folk music.
From: GUEST,Russ
Date: 11 Sep 04 - 11:24 PM

For the real thing:

Max Hunter Collection
www.smsu.edu/folksong/maxhunter/

Honking duck
www.honkingduck.com

Henry Reed Collection
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/hrhtml/hrhome.html

Subject: RE: downloading folk music.
From: Bill D
Date: 11 Sep 04 - 11:35 PM

and the John Quincy Wolf collection of Ozark folksongs....

Subject: RE: downloading folk music.
From: Chris Amos
Date: 12 Sep 04 - 03:04 AM

Then there is the Library of Congress here

There should be something this good for British folk song

Chris

Subject: RE: downloading folk music.
From: Teresa
Date: 12 Sep 04 - 03:51 AM

Real rhapsody

Well this is a "mainstream" service, and it has restrictions. The music has to be purchased to be downloaded, or there is a $9/month fee to stream it with broadband. And, because of copyright laws, it's only available in the States.

However, I found some neat Mike Seeger, Sweeney's Men, bunches of field recordings, etc. in addition to some of the "art rock" from the 70s that I like to listen to ... It's one solution for me, as physical space is a big issue.

Lots of neat possibilities up above here, so I'm going to check them out as well; thanks.

T

Subject: RE: downloading folk music.
From:
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 05:37 PM

Just checked out that John Quincy Wolf Collection of Ozark songs. Wonderful stuff there!

Subject: RE: downloading folk music.
From: GUEST,Nicholas Waller
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 05:52 PM

There's Woven Wheat Whispers, which is a download folk shop plus occasional free samples provided by artists, and a few compilation themed "albums".

You can make your own recordings available, for instance long-deleted vinyl albums... several acts appear to have done this.

Subject: RE: downloading folk music.
From: Arkie
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 06:42 PM

emusic.com has music from Smithsonian/Folkways, Pete Seeger, Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick, Rick Fielding, June Tabor, Maddy Prior, Steeleye Span, Old Crow Medicine Show,etc.

Subject: RE: downloading folk music.
From: Arkie
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 07:20 PM

emusic.com also has recordings by Jean Ritchie, Paul Clayton, Oscar Brand, Richard Thompson, Doc Watson, Norman & Nancy Blake, and Karan Casey.

Subject: RE: downloading folk music.
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 08:51 PM

there is quite a bit of free stuff on Amazon.com from pertty well-known people. mg

Subject: RE: downloading folk music.
From: eddie1
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 08:52 PM

Try a search engine called "Dogpile". Click on "Audio" then type neame of artist and search.
Use audacity or such to record.

Eddie