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Raymond Crooke

raymondcrooke

Style: Folk

Joined: 23 January 2007

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1001 Songs in 1001 Days?

My aim here is to share my love of folk music. My posts include original as well as traditional songs and covers of my favourite singer song-writers, such as Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie and Eric Bogle.

I have been singing folk songs for over 40 years, and play guitar (badly) and fiddle (even more badly).

I have produced 4 CDs:
Axis of Evil and other True Stories
Laws of Chance
Gospel Ship
Pigs Might Fly and other Politically Incorrect Ballads

I hope you enjoy my songs. All comments are appreciated, including constructive criticism. However, I may delete threats, and language that I consider unsuitable for any young people watching this channel.

Thank you to all those who have subscribed and/or commented.

I am married with two adult sons and two grandsons, one from each son.

I have a website about my folk music which you may like to visit. It is a wiki so you are welcome to contribute, add information or your own folk song page or links to your own site, or just use it to find lyrics and chords.

For my Featured Video - I will choose a video that has been generally overlooked. When it reaches 500 views I will change it for another one.

Record Label: My own
Label Type: Unsigned
Influences: Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Joan Baez, Malvina Reynolds, Burl Ives, Odetta, Eric Bogle, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Bela Bartok, Salvador Dali, William Faulkner, Groucho Marx, Luis Bunuel, John Cleese, Roger McGough, T. S. Eliot, Spike Milligan, Tom Lehrer, John Jacob Niles, ... How much room do I have??
Sounds Like: Myself. I don't try to sound like anybody else, but there are obvious influences depending on the song.
City: Hong Kong
Hometown: Melbourne
Country: Australia

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Website URL: http://raymondcrooke.com

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	JeanaDylan83 (5 days ago) Happy 4th. :) JeanaDylan83
	hultonclint (6 days ago) Hi Raymond. If you're taking requests now, I'd be interested to hear what you might make of "Queen of Argyll" by A. Stewart/Silly Wizard
	SUPERMEGADUARTE (1 week ago) Hi friend. Listen my new original Already choose you.
	SSPoseidon846 (1 week ago) You are more then welcome, you did and exellent job.
	JeanaDylan83 (1 week ago) Thank's for subing to my channel. :) JeanaDylan83
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51 videos

Child Ballads

Some of my favourite folk songs are the English and Scottish Ballads collected by Francis James Child. I will put them together in this playlist.

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Original Songs

The original songs I have posted so far.

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Woody Guthrie

One of the most important singers who carried on the folk tradition. In particular he was the inspiration for Bob Dylan. I will put my covers of his work in this playlist - just the songs he is believed to have written. Many of the songs he sang were traditional.

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