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HELP- Am looking for good Acoustic Music with Social Conscience

Posted by acousticguitarist • 9/04/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: music with a heart

As stated above, I've decided to start blogging about Social Issues like save the Watermelon, Lonely Chickens, Two yoked eggs or other real serious stuff.

If you know of any musicians who write good quality acoustic guitar music which has a conscience (not political please), it would be great to hear of it

Thanks Tony

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9/04/09

HollytheHousewife

COREY SMITH!!!!!
F.... the po po's. Don't like the word but love his music

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9/04/09

timethief

Although I wouldn't say that her guitar skills are great, Lucy Kaplansky sings about the ties that bind us as families, citizens, and human beings. The recording The Red Thread was inspired by Kaplansky's marriage to fellow wordsmith Rick Litvin and their recent adoption of a baby girl from China. But the best songs on the record are the ones that move outside the nuclear family and explore the longer threads that connect us to society.

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9/04/09

timethief

I dislike the twang in the voice but the Flatlanders are quickly becoming more a band than a legend. In 2002, Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Butch Hancock returned to writing and recording as a unit for the first time in 30 years. Now Again was a watershed, but Wheels of Fortune feels even stronger, more organic, more lived-in.

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9/04/09

timethief

You may like Mary Flower. sure do. Her guitar playing is clean and she has a warm contralto voice. In Ragtime Gal Mary Flower finds the sweet spot between modern and rootsy in 12 tunes bred of back porches, parlors, street corners, juke joints, and country churches.
Mary Flower Fingerstyle Blues - La Grippe
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuNiKX4UNjA
Mary Flower's Terminal Rag
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ettzANdnX4I
Mary Flower: Keep Your Lamplight Trimmed & Burning
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhZYXSG-lYQ

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9/04/09

timethief

A fave of mine is played here by Steve Baugham.
Hard Times - Stephen Foster
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB7iohmRMYY

I also like Andy McKee - Rylynn
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsD6uEZsIsU

Check this out too.
Kelly Valleau - The Bull Run
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7ADMUukkNg&feature=SeriesPlayList&p=447B977301B3AB...

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9/04/09

timethief

Carrie Newcomer has sultry voice, literate songwriting chops, tireless social conscience.
Carrie Newcomer - Angels Unaware
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXpuoXYllek
Carrie Newcomer: One Woman and a Shovel
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwdPVWpQmDk&feature=related
Carrie Newcomer - There Is A Tree
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2lSYPAqF5k&feature=related

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9/04/09

acousticguitarist

Thanks TT and also Holly

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  timethief
  
  You're welcome.
9/04/09

celticmusicfan

Irish singer Christy Moore writes and sings about social commentary

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEBalM9F5Mw

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZqW-ya8yms

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  acousticguitarist
  
  thanks
9/04/09

polybore

Belle and Sebastian www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eJAbm-jkXs

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1. 9/04/09
  
  polybore
  
  Oh yeah. This Norwegian Duo do some political stuff Kings of Convenience. Great acoustic guitar and harmony vocals... very very mellow worth a listen www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBJnUT3XZTE
  
  Or Fleet Foxes wow www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrQRS40OKNE
2. 9/05/09
  
  timethief
  
  Belle and Sebastian are interesting. I'm giving the link to a friend who works with hearing challenged people.
9/04/09

timethief

Gary Fjellgaard's website www.fjellgaard.bc.ca/
Song samples www.fjellgaard.bc.ca/song-samples.php#15
"I Apologize" is dedicated to the First Nation’s victims and survivors of the cultural genocide which occurred in Canada for over a century. No apology can heal the wounds caused by the far reaching effects of the residential school system. I can only add my voice as a member of the generation who allowed this abuse to take place.

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9/04/09

timethief

Veda Hille is not exactly what you are looking for but I think she's great. vedahille.com/about/
Duplex! Worser.
At last, the new record from the laziest band in showbusiness. More rock songs for small people and their minders! Topics covered: noble gases, sandwich making, photosynthesis, same-sex divorce, dogs in sweaters.
vedahille.com/wp-content/themes/veda/music_player.html

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9/04/09

timethief

Are you aware of the music of Feist and Broken Social Scene?

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1. 9/04/09
  
  acousticguitarist
  
  nope
2. 9/04/09
  
  timethief
  
  They are Canadians.
9/05/09

Hayseed

Liquid Mind (Chuck Wild)

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