The Chemical Brothers - Swoon - YouTube
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Some dark, sparse Americana from Gillian Welch.
David Rawlings is a magician on that ancient Gibson.
http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nugXkgd_-84
She may not be a red head but I met and fell in love with this lady in Edinburgh a few years back.... and watch her whenever i can. Incredibly sexy Irish girl.
Camille O'Sullivan In These Shoes Later with Jools Holland - YouTube
And here is an acquired taste. I acquired it when i lived in Manchester.... the punk poet supreme.
John Cooper Clarke. I saw him at the london Palladium a couple of nights ago.
BEASLEY STREET - JOHN COOPER CLARKE - YouTube
The opening track from arguably the most seminal folk-rock album of them all, Liege and Lief, with the incomparable Sandy Denny on lead vocal.
http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id-uy--H8tQ
Incomparable? I always compared her to Captain Beefheart. But the comparison was fatuous.
Pah. Here's Sandy again, this time with her musing on the fate of Mary Queen of Scots.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbnLVvAJrec
Meet on The Ledge... one of my favourite Fairport songs.
Fairport Convention ~ Meet On The Ledge - YouTube
And while I'm on a Fairport roll, here's Richard Thompson with his best known song. How's this for acoustic guitar work? I was about 15 feet from the stage!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgxbCnqCyKA