Any folk-blues fans?

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I'm quit new music for a while and developed more of an appreciation for crucial blues and folk. List your favorites. Some recommendations:

Leadbelly
Woody Guthrie
Mississippi John Hurt
Robert Johnson
Muddy Waters
Dave Van Ronk (more folk, one of Dylan's biggest influences, i believe he wrote House of the Rising Sun)
Pete Seeger (related to above)
 
thanks man thats pretty good stuff. have you listened to any old crow medicine show?
http://www.crowmedicine.com/
theyre an appalachian bluegrass band. I suggest getting their self-titled. their takes on traditional 'tell it to me' and 'wagon wheel' are incredible.
 
Check out Blind Willie Johnson. Much of his stuff is kind of gospely but he's a good blues singer. I think he recorded most of his stuff back in the 30's.
 
I don't really know if you could classify Ryan Adams as a blues singer, i guess he's a Blues/Rock singer, but Have any of you heard of him? I love his music, and his earlier stuff with Whiskeytown is phenominal as well. check him out!
 
OMG, so in.

I'll mention specific tracks to get, good old stuff, particularly the 1920/30s delta blues:
Son House: Death Letter Blues, John the Revelator
Leadbelly: Gallis Pole, Goodnight Irene, Midnight Special
R.L. Burnside: Poor Black Mattie
Memphis Minnie: When the Levee Breaks
Robert Johnson: Ramblin' on My Mind, Stones In My Passway, Sweet Home Chicago
Muddy Waters: Got My Mojo Working
Blind Willie Johnson: Dark Was the Night - Cold Was the Ground, It's Nobody's Fault But Mine, God Don't Never Change
Blind Willie McTell: Southern Can Is Mine
Skip James: Cypress Grove Blues, Devil Got My Woman
Howlin' Wolf: Spoonful, Smokestack Lightning, Back Door Man, Rockin' Daddy, Hidden Charms, Killing Floor
John Lee Hooker: Boogie Chillun
Junior Wells: Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
Koko Taylor: Wang Dang Doodle
 
I have to say I'm not really into folk. unless your talking about folk metal (celtic metal, pagan metal etc) but I've always kinda liked this band Steeleye Span, its sorta folk\rock more heavy on the folk than the rock though. anybody heard of em?
 
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