Folk Girls

I've been a folkie, listening to and playing all kinds of folk music since I was 10.  Lately I've been listening to some of my favorite artists-- these are ladies from a long time back -- and thought I'd post some here:

This is Joni Mitchell, Cass Elliot and Mary Travers singing a Dylan classic.

Here's Mary Travers again with Joan Baez singing this gorgeous song.

Now we have Joan Baez with her sister Mimi Farina (she married the ill-fated Richard Farina) singing one of Donovan Leitch's best songs.

Below are some covers of "The Water is Wide"

Carolyn Hester was the first choice to team up with Peter Yarrow and Noel Stookey but was beat out in the end by Mary Travers, giving us Peter, Paul and Mary.  It does have a better ring than Peter, Paul and Carolyn.

Mary Travers singing There is A Ship (The Water is Wide) with Yarrow and Stookey.

The Indigo Girls are probably my favorite artists. Here they do The Water is Wide with Joan Baez

and here with Jewel Kilcher and Sarah McLachlan

I think this is one of the best songs ever written.  The uber-talented Judy Collins recorded it to perfection.

Both Sides Now was written by Joni Mitchell, perhaps the best songsmith of the 20th century.
Here she sings her own song.

 Thank you for sharing this. 

I have a feeling you loved covering this song:

She is not responsible for spreading coronavirus 😁

She is our superwoman.  

If interested, you can read a bit more about Mary Travers (and other folkie things) here: https://www.chess.com/blog/batgirl/the-first-time

Thank you batgirl. I love discovering good music. Your melodic blogs are soothing in this sense. I especially like the sound in the first video, and also quite possibly the awkwardness of it all - slightly awkward, anyway. Perhaps that's just a telltale I don't see enough live performances.

how do i unfollow

"how do i unfollow"

By not following in the first place by making rude and pointless comments.

Maybe a Big Yellow Taxi will take him on out of here...

well they stuffed v3 and then they put up v4

with flairs, trophies, and awards for kids and more

don't it always seem to go,

that you don't know what you've got till its gone

these kids paved paradise and put up a parking lot

so it's not just the kids apparently... *sigh*

here's janis unplugged. @batgirl, if it's not folksy enough i'll remove it.

Here's my sort of mini-tribute to Seeger:  https://www.chess.com/blog/batgirl/wasnt-that-a-time  though  he pops up in several of my blogs.

I've got one hand in my pocket and the other one is hailing a taxi cab

 46  (though I look 21, no make that 18). 

Reputedly, Kristofferson hated her rendition of Bobby McGee.  Personally, I love Blues.

Believe me, 46 is just around the corner.  

Finally! Someone believes me! Unbelievable.

*sigh*