Recommend: Folk music

[me003]

Hey all, I'm interested in finding some folk music and I don't know where to start. I like how personal folk music can be and am interested in drawing some inspiration from said music.
I came across this cuz I went back to listen to that one lil wayne song, and I think it's pretty unique.
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[silvertone]

pentangle is a cool band. here is a vid of them doing a cover of a traditional irish song
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[Commander Fuckass]

Of Monsters and Men
Fleet Foxes

[Boogus Epirus Aurelius]

pentangle is a cool band. here is a vid of them doing a cover of a traditional irish song
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Basket of light is a cool album.


I like Ed askew a bit, even though his lyrics can be fluffy as hell. His album "ask the unicorn" actually isn't bad.
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Sibylle Baier's Color Green is fantastic. Dreamy and melancholy. I'd really recommend looking into this one.
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Mark Fry's Dreaming of Alice is really awesome psych-folk from the early seventies. This is another one to check out for sure.
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Jackson C frank is another essential. He's something you'd expect to hear past ten pm, outside around a campfire when the talk gets to things that have already happened.

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[Geno]

The Neutral Milk Hotels.