Folk Off! Pastoral Perfection for Pixie People by 
Jimmy Dread 
A very personal ping-pong affair around folk in all its many wonderful guises - from trad to the folkiest of folk-rock, to folk-prog and a little American Primitivism, to what some bright spark decided to coin 'New Weird America'. Don't start splitting hairs about which of the listed is folk and which isn't (simple answer - it all is), although you might notice a slightly more trad-folk flavour to this list than in something like Norm's wonderful "Normlore" chart, to which this is a distant cousin separated by a mere 19 miles of water between Dover and Calais. Bon voyage, mes amies. Jimmy, May 2019
- Chart updated: 06/14/2019 06:45
- (Created: 05/11/2014 19:54).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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PERFECT FOR... A trip to the remotest part of America you can imagine, surrounded by trees with branches that droop down to your knees and whose pine needles turn to icicles with the slightest touch.
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PERFECT FOR... singing with the locals whilst sitting slumped in the corner of a pub in the Cotswolds drinking Real Ale.
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PERFECT FOR... A whole number of Pagan rituals, but nothing too elaborate. Something like a Tarot reading done at a village fete in Herefordshire, that kind of thing.
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PERFECT FOR... a family reunion with the foul-mouthed yet irresistibly twee Irish cousins you never realised you had.
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PERFECT FOR... the accompaniment to your journey in a time machine back to the 1960s to watch an episode of Jackanory whilst all the while tripping on mushrooms
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PERFECT FOR... A spiritual retreat somewhere
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PERFECT FOR... trying out a gorgeous new Martin guitar in a Market Harborough music shop and wowing passers-by with your stunning finger-picked rendition of Anji
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PERFECT FOR... Practicing your finger-picking with your faithful hound by your side as neither of you can be bothered to run to the door to see what the mailman's dropped through your letterbox
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PERFECT FOR... cratedigging in the flea market in Lewes, where every November 5th they have a massive bonfire (which should if there were any justice involve the ceremonial burning of every copy of Paul Young’s ‘No Parlez’)
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PERFECT FOR... gently waking you from your slumber on a beautiful midsummer's morning, as you unzip your tent and suddenly realise that you're at the Cambridge Folk Festival and totally missed Eliza Carthy last night as you overdid it at the Cider tent.
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Folk Off! Pastoral Perfection for Pixie People composition
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85/100  | 10/07/2022 05:10 | mianfei | | 61/100 |
100/100 | 07/27/2022 20:49 | Soencer | | 100/100 |
70/100 | 12/14/2020 14:18 | Guigou | | 76/100 |
100/100 | 05/11/2020 06:11 | pctrooper | | 88/100 |
95/100 | 03/06/2020 21:34 |  PinkZeppelin | | 96/100 |
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ForegroundNoise 01/10/2019 13:03
ForegroundNoise 01/10/2019 13:03
Absolutely fantastic chart brimming with some personal favourite of mine; I ran a folk radio show (named What the Folk??: Ballads From A Thin Man) at my uni last year and used this chart as for recommendations. The 'perfect for' descriptors is a lovely touch too ... great stuff!
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95/100
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LedZep 04/29/2018 15:30
LedZep 04/29/2018 15:30
@Jimmy Dread lol I even ctrl+f-ed it, guess I misspelt. Fantastic LP. Another thing just came to my mind, Willard Grant Conspiracy's Let It Roll, it's more like americana/folk stuff but great nonetheless. Check it if you haven't already.
I'll say it once again though, great idea and chart :)
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From Jimmy Dread 04/28/2018 07:02
Jimmy Dread 04/28/2018 07:02
@LedZep Forest’s S/T is already in there pal - lovely LP.
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80/100
From panapsal 04/27/2018 14:41
superb folk world & country selections..... !!
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85/100
From Johnnyo 04/27/2018 11:31
Really nice chart
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95/100
From LedZep 04/27/2018 11:28
LedZep 04/27/2018 11:28
Effing cool. Very personal and honest and eccentric. I’d recommend Forest by a band called Forest, it’s what I imagine “Pixie people” would listen to lol
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90/100
From Ulf 04/27/2018 08:14
Very interesting chart mate
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70/100
From platus 12/22/2016 13:02
Interesting
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100/100
From 
jhuik 06/02/2016 11:09
jhuik 06/02/2016 11:09
Great title. And you've got Jose Gonzalez in there. I'll have to check out some of the many I've never heard of. Thanks.
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90/100
From newjlp 05/24/2016 23:39
Some great picks! Thanks for introducing me to Pererin, Folque.
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