Right we do have quite a bit of it, but much has been influenced by music that originated in other countries - especially scotland & Ireland and by native american music, or african music

in the 60s a lot of folk was influenced by Arlo and Woody Guthrie, Peter Paul and Mary, and groups like the righteous brothers

there is a little gospel influence in some of the songs as well as blues, like in Mary Chapin Carpenter's music that even has some Creole, or Alison Krauss who has a lot of Gospel influence

I like the way James Tayloe put it (who is definitely one of the best)

there is a young cowboy who lives on the range........because before the 50s & 60s... cowboy songs from the ranches were a lot of folk music that pretty much made the genre with the single vocalist strumming a guitar. Lyle Lovett still reminds me of that :) or cowboy copus

that's great Brian! The Doobie Bros were really popular in the 70s and somewhat still in the 80s. very talented. I was listening to a lot of jazz and folk at the time so I did not get into them that much but have always admired from afar.

Englanders like Paul M borrowed a great deal from American native blues and folk - Band On The Run is his best work in my opinion and also some of the best music to come from England during the rock n roll era

keep practicing so you can post ur stuff to us :)

please check out Harrison's All Things Must Pass

you;ll be amazed!

Thanks sweets :)

I think, whilst American folk music may be influenced by other nations, her folk music has definatley taken its own route, IE county music and as you mentioned, rythmn and blues, rap etc.

Scots and Irish folk music is very similar, i just collectivley call it Celtic. The Scottish, Irish, Welsh and even the Cornish English all share the Celtic connection.

English folk music in my mind is the likes of Greenfingers etc....to be honest I dont know many English folk songs...maybe someone can fill me in there..

a lot of our hillbilly folk ballads are based on english and scots songs brought over by immigrants from those countries. (pre 19th century, I believe) Settling then in the eastern Appalachins, the communities were very isolated (our mountain people). The ballads evolved with some very distinctive characteristics - including a unique yodel - to eventually become our mountain music and the basis for much traditional country & hillbilly music. most of the mountain music is based in old english/scots ballads; for example: Barbara Allen & Lonesome Dove

those are 2 english folk songs for you

Ed Sheeran, Mumford and Sons, James Blunt. Those groups seem to have quite soft guitar songs. I especially like 'Autumn' by Paolo Nutini. Ever since I heard it on his debut album, I still cry every time I listen to it ;)

I think that's to do with the fact that we're four sub-continents joining at the sea. I was born to an irish-italian mother, and a scottish-english father, so it's safe to say I'm definitely made of celtic blood :) Cornish-English, may only really apply to Cornwall and their farms I'm guessing, otherwise we just refer to them as english.

Geez. Have you heard me giving an education about the UK? Well I am. Well.I.Am. lol

Would love to actually be able to play a full set of guitar tunes one day, but when you have dyslexia, trying to memorize the music notes can be really awkward, so they go out of my mind as quickly as they came, so I colour-code my music notes, to make it easier.

I was on holiday near Boscastle one year and made a remark to a guy in the art shop there about how i like the small quaint villages that 'you English guys have south of the border' - he wasnt too pleased and told me he was Cornish....it was at this point I started noticing all the 'Kernow' black flags with the white cross.


oops, my mistake! Still im guessing he wasnt speaking for everyone in the west country lol

I not sure how guitar would work with dyslexia. Can you not just picture the chord shapes instead of trying to memorize them from a book? Or is it difficult that way too?

and my mothers side is Franco Scots and my fathers is apparently 'black Irish' - which i recently found out are people from Ireland of Spanish origin lol